64 qualities of Krsna.

Only Krsna has 64 qualities in full because He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

The Visnu-tattva (Visnu/Narayana) expansions of Krsna, who are also God, have only 60 of Krsna's 64 attributes or 93.75% of Krsna's qualities.

Some Vedic scholars and modern-day Hindu academics can not understand why Krsna has 4 more qualities than Visnu/Narayana and why Krsna IS the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

They cannot understand that Visnu/Narayana are expansions of Krsna and not the other way around, that Krsna originates from Visnu as many Hindus today wrongly believe.

Even the word Hindu is not found in Vedic texts because it is an alien word introduced by primitive European and  Islamic invaders to the Indian sub-continent around 15 hundred years ago. 

Krsna is not an expansion of Visnu either as many Hindus wrongly believe today.

The fact is Krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes from who all Visnu forms originate from.

The 4 qualities or attributes Visnu or Narayana do not have in full are as follows-

(61) Krsna is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) Krsna is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) Krsna can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) Krsna has a wonderful excellence of beauty which can not be rivalled anywhere in the creation.

These four qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes are important to understand because, as said, not even Visnu/Narayana forms of God have them in full, only sometimes exhibited partially.

All expansions of Krsna are-

1 - Visnu-tattva have 60 qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes, which is 93.75 of Krsna's total qualities.

2 - Visnu-sakti- tattvas (this category of "sakti" potency or energy means Srimati Radharani, who also has 60 qualities of Krsna's 64 qualities or 93.75 of Krsna's qualities.

3 - Siva-tattva have 55 qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes or 85.938% of Krsna's qualities.

4 - Jiva-tattva souls have 50 qualities of Krsna's 64 attributes, which is 78.125% of Krsna's qualities.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krsna has all sixty-four transcendental qualities in full.

So, the difference between Krsna (64 qualities) and Visnu/Narayana (60 qualities) are the four extra qualities that only Krsna has in full.

The full extent of Krsna's wonderful qualities or attributes is inconceivable.

Here are Krsna's 64 qualities or attributes-

(1) Beautiful features of the entire body

(2) Marked with all auspicious characteristics

(3) Extremely pleasing

(4) Effulgent

(5) Strong

(6) Ever youthful

(7) Wonderful linguist

(8) Truthful

(9) Talks pleasingly

(10) Fluent

(11) Highly learned

(12) Highly intelligent

(13) Genius

(14) Artistic

(15) Extremely clever

(16) Expert

(17) Grateful

(18) Firmly determined

(19) An expert judge of time and circumstances

(20) Sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas (scriptures)

(21) Pure

(22) Self-controlled

(23) Steadfast

(24) Forbearing

(25) Forgiving

(26) Grave

(27) Self-satisfied

(28) Possessing equilibrium

(29) Magnanimous

(30) Religious

(31) Heroic

(32) Compassionate

(33) Respectful

(34) Gentle

(35) Liberal

(36) Shy

(37) The protector of surrendered souls

(38) Happy

(39) The well-wisher of devotees

(40) Controlled by love

(41) all-auspicious

(42) Most powerful

(43) all-famous

(44) Popular

(45) Partial to devotees

(46) Very attractive to all women

(47) all-worship able

(48) all-opulent

(49) all-honourable

(50) The supreme controller.

(51) Changeless

(52) all-cognizant

(53) Ever fresh

(54) sat-cit-ananda-vigraha which means eternity, knowledge, bliss and form.  Kṛṣṇa always has an eternal "bodily 2 armed form."

(55) Possessing all mystic perfections.

(56) He has inconceivable potency.

(57) Uncountable universes generate from His body.

(58) He is the original source of all incarnations.

(59) He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.

(60) He is the attractor of liberated souls.

As explained  above, besides these sixty transcendental qualities, Krsna has four more not manifested even in the Visnu/Narayana form of Godhead, what to speak of the demigods or living entities.

They are as follows-

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty that can not be rivalled anywhere in the creation.

The Absolute Truth Lord Krsna is anandamaya (desiring to increase His joy), hence, from Krsna's original form, He expands and becomes many.

These emanations from the Supreme Person are of two categories: full expansions and partially manifested expansions.

The Lord's various full and partial expansions and the Lord Himself simultaneously co-exist, only appearing to manifest under the influence of time.

These expansions of Krsna are known as Visnu-tattva Forms of God, and they are also the Supreme Absolute Truth such as-

Balarama, 

Pradyumna, 

Ramachandra, 

Narsingadeva,  

Narayana, 

Visnu,

Maha Visnu, 

Garbhodakashayi Visnu, etc

And then there is Visnu-"sakti"-tattvas like Radharani and many other inhabitants including many gopis and gopas who are technically Krsna Himself playing a role in His own Vrindavana pastimes alongside the jiva-souls.

All Visnu-tattva and Visnu-sakti-tattva accept their own role in the mood of Servitor to the "original" Supreme Being Lord Krsna.

For example, Visnu and Narayana Forms are known by many different names on their particular Vaikuntha Planet in the Spiritual sky.

This relationship is the foundation of Vedic monotheism, which encompasses the inconceivable, absolute personal nature of the original Godhead.

As explained above, Lord Krsna possesses two other expansive qualities known as Siva-tattva and jiva-tattva (jiva-souls). 

Together with Visnu-tattva and Visnu-sakti-tattvas, these four personalities are representative of the Absolute Person's (Krsna's) internal, external, and marginal energies.

The Lord expands Himself as Lord Siva and Lord Brahma, and the marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are also expansions.

Like us, Lord Brahma is also jiva-tattva (78.125%)

Lord Siva is between Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva (84.375%)

Lord Visnu/Narayana is Visnu-tattva (93.75%)

And Radharani is Visnu-sakti-tattva (93.75%), which only means she does not always exhibit Krsna's four extra qualities always in full.

When Krsna desired to experience loving affection and exchanges with a woman, He expanded Himself as Srimati Radharani, who is none different than Krsna.

Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva are different categories of living entities but are all expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krsna.

Therefore, as a reminder, we can summarize as follows-

Lord Krsna has all His 64 qualities (100%)

Visnu-tattva has 60 qualities of Krsna's 64 attributes (93.75%)

Visnu-sakti-tattvas also has 60 of Krsna's 64 attributes (93.75%)

Siva-tattva has 55 qualities of Krsna's 64 attributes (85.938%)

Jiva-tattva (jiva-souls) has 50 qualities of Krsna's 64 attributes (78.125%)

This is the reason why Krsna is called Param Purushottam, Purnavatar or Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. 

Srila Prabhupada - "Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Krsna to have sixty-four principal attributes.

All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Sri Krsna is the possessor of the attributes cent percent.

His personal expansions such as svayam-prakasa, tad-ekatma up to the categories of the avataras who are all visnu-tattva, possess up to 93.75% of these transcendental attributes." (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.29)

Lord Siva is neither avatara nor avesa, nor in between them; he possesses 84.375% of Krsna's attributes (having 55 qualities out of Krsna's 64 qualities).

The jiva-souls or the individual marginal living entities, possess up to the limit of 78.125% of Krsns's attributes.

The jiva-souls can never be Siva-tattva or Visnu tattva.

In the conditioned state of material existence, the marginal living entities (jiva-souls) exhibit up to 50 of these attributes in very minute quantity in the material creation, varying in terms of the pious and impious life of the living being.

Only in the spiritual world are the jiva-soul's full potential fully experienced.

The most perfect of living beings in this material universe is Brahma, the supreme administrator of each material universe deep inside their surrounding Brahmanda greater universe.

Lord Brahma, who is also jiva-tattva, possesses 78.125% per cent of Krsna's 100% attributes, he cannot possess anymore than.

All the demigods (except Siva) have only 78.125% attributes or have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities also. 

All jiva-souls trapped within the 8 million 400 thousand species of material life, eternally possess these 50 attributes in their full potential in the Spiritual worlds but presently are covered by material energy.

The standard of perfection for a human being is to develop their full potential of up to 78.125% in full. 

A living being or marginal living entity (jiva-souls) can become godly by developing their full potential of 78.125% of their attributes but can never become a God like Krsna or Visnu (93.75%) or Siva (85.938%).

Although, as said, he can become a Brahma in due course.

The godly living beings who are all residents of the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky are eternal associates of Visnu in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhama and Mahesa-dhama.

However, the abode of Lord Krsna Goloka Vrindavana is above all the Vaikuntha planets and is called Krsnaloka or Goloka Vrndavana.

The marginal living entity (jiva-soul) can develop 78.125% of the above attributes in full, which is their full potential; they can never become Krsna or Visnu.

By reaching their full potential of 78.125%, the jiva-souls can again enter the planet of Krsna-loka (Goloka-Vrindavana) and the Vaikuntha planets after leaving their present decaying material bodily vessel in the material creation.

The marginal living entities or jiva-souls can never possess attributes like Siva, Visnu, Radharani, Balarama or Lord Krsna.

Bhagavad Purana (Srimad Bhagavatam) Canto I Ch 3 text 28

TEXT 28

ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ

kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam

indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ

mṛḍayanti yuge yuge

Translation

All of the incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists. 

Purport by Srila Prabhupada 

Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Kṛṣṇa to have sixty-four principal attributes. 

All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the possessor of the attributes cent percent. 

And His personal expansions such as svayam-prakāśa, tad-ekātmā up to the categories of the avatāras who are all viṣṇu-tattva, possess up to ninety-three percent of these transcendental attributes. 

Lord Śiva, who is neither avatāra nor āveśa nor in between them, possesses almost eighty-four percent of the attributes.

But the jīvas, or the individual living beings in different statuses of life, possess up to the limit of seventy-eight percent of the attributes. In the conditioned state of material existence, the living being possesses these attributes in very minute quantity, varying in terms of the pious life of the living being. 

The most perfect of living beings is Brahmā, the supreme administrator of one universe. He possesses seventy-eight percent of the attributes in full. 

All other demigods have the same attributes in less quantity, whereas human beings possess the attributes in very minute quantity. The standard of perfection for a human being is to develop the attributes up to seventy-eight percent in full.

The living being can never possess attributes like Śiva, Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa. A living being can become godly by developing the seventy-eight-percent transcendental attributes in fullness, but he can never become a God like Śiva, Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa. He can become a Brahmā in due course.

The godly living beings who are all residents of the planets in the spiritual sky are eternal associates of God in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhāma and Maheśa-dhāma. 

The abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa above all spiritual planets is called Kṛṣṇaloka or Goloka Vṛndāvana, and the perfected living being, by developing seventy-eight percent of the above attributes in fullness, can enter the planet of Kṛṣṇaloka after leaving the present material body."**