JAI SRIMANNARAYANA!
THE DESCRIPTION YOU HAVE SEEN, MUST BE FROM ISCON BOOKS. THEY FEEL THAT KRISHNA IS THE ORIGIN TO ALL THE INCARNATIONS. FROM HIM ONLY EVERYTHING CAME. WE ACCEPT IT THOUGH, FOR LORD KRISHNA IS NONE ELSE THAN LORD NARAYANA HIMSELF, YET, HE IS ONLY ONE AVATHA:RA AMONG MANY. THAT HAS BEEN VERY CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN SRIMAD
BHAGAVATHAM. THE DIFFERENCE IS, IN OTHER AVATHA:RAS, LORD CHOSE ONLY A FEW QUALITIES FOR HIS ACTIVITIES, WHEREAS IN KRISHNA AVATHA:RA, HE APPEARED WITH MANY OF HIS DIVINE QUALITIES. AND ALSO, THE QUALITIES OF ALL AVATHA:RAS ARE SEEN THERE. THAT IS WHY, KRISHNA AVATHA:RA IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE “PARIPU:RNA AVATHA:RA”.
THE LORD SUPREME IS NO DOUBT NAMED AFTER ‘VA:SUDE:VA’ ALSO. THERE ARE MANY OTHER NAMES IN THOUSANDS TO THE LORD SUPREME. ACCORDING TO VEDAS THE NAME GIVEN TO HIM IS ‘SRIMAN NARAYANA’ OR ‘VISHNU’ OR ‘PARAMAM PADAM’
THE NAME ‘VA:SUDE:VA’ GIVEN TO KRISHNA BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF ‘VASUDE:VA’.
LORD SUPREME, HAVING THE NAME AS ‘VA:SUDE:VA’ IS VERY MEANINGFUL AND ALSO FIXED ON HIM. VAS=EXISTS, DIV=SHINES. ONE WHO EXISTS EVERYWHERE AND EFFULGENT, IN OTHER WORDS, OMNI-PRESENT WITH HIS GRACE IS ‘VA:SUDE:VA’. THIS NAME IS ALSO SEEN WITH 1)THE LORD IN HIS PRIMERY ABODE, THE PARAMAPADAM, & 2)THE FIRST ONE AMONG
THE FOUR PLANNING ABODES, THE FOUR VYU:HAS.
PARAMAPADAM, VYU:HAM AND KRISHNA AVATHA:RA, ALL THESE 3 ARE VYAKTHA RU:PAS OF VA:SUDE:VA, i.e., FORMS THAT ARE VISIBLE. BUT THE NAME ‘VA:SUDE:VA’ THE ALL PERVASIVE, EVER EFFULGENT IS THERE WITH THE FORM OF THE LORD THAT CANNOT BE SEEN BY ANYBODY ‘AVYAKTHA’. THIS FORM ALSO WAS SHOWN TO ARJUNA IN HIM VISWA RU:PA
SANDARSANA IN 11 TH CHAPTER OF BHAGAVAD GITHA. NO BEGINNING NOR ENDING TO THAT FORM.
THAT NAME, IF AT ALL GIVEN TO THE SUPREME SHOULD BE LIKE ‘NA:RA:YANA’. THAT IS WHAT MENTIONED IN PURA:NAS AND UPANISHADS.
=Chinnajeeyar=
I strongly wont agree with this. As ISKON is not creating their own stories as you think. They just follow Bagavadgeeta. In Bagavadgeeta Krishna has clearly said that He is the ultimate truth. Above him no 1 is there. People who think he is just an avtaar are foolish people as he own has descended from Golok planets. People are unaware of the permanent form of his, This was said by Lord Krishna himself. He also said that he knows everyone but no 1 knows him. If he was Vishnu, this statement wont hold good as every1 knows Vishnu. So whatever the people of ISKON are saying are from Geeta itself. Remember one thing. By reading Vedas we cannot attain Lord Krishna as Geeta is above Vedas too. This too was said by Lord Krishna himself.