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Saṅkarṣaṇa and in incarnation... Saṅkarṣaṇa, from Saṅkarṣaṇa, there are three expansion. They are called Viṣṇu—Mahā-Viṣṇu..., Mahā-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣirodakaśāyī …

That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has a planet within this universe near the polestar. And from that Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the expansion Paramātmā …

[Bg 18.61].

That Viṣṇu-mūrti is expanded from the Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu within this material world. The Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is also within this material …

[Bs 5.48]

From Maha-Viṣṇu, all these universes are being generated, niśyaika-kāla, when He, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is lying in the Causal Ocean, and from …

And Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu... These pictures are there. You have seen. And from Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu... From Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu there is expansion …

Then His incarnation. The incarnation, that is also innumerable. Principally the incarnations are avatāra haya kṛṣṇa ṣaḍ-vidha prakāra. Generally, the …

First, puruṣāvatāra. Purusāvatāra, these Viṣṇus, three Viṣṇu—Mahā-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu—They are called puruṣāvatāra. Then līlāvatāra. God sometimes manifests …

There are three qualities in the material world. Brahmā is the incarnation of the passion, mode of passion, and Viṣṇu …

So one may say that "If three of them are incarnation of the Supreme, why particularly to Viṣṇu? Why not …

Similarly, this Viṣṇu and Śiva and Brahmā... From, I mean to say, gross earth the wood is produced like tree, …

This material goodness is contaminated. Sometimes goodness is affected by ignorance and passion in the material... So when you are …

So there are three incarnation of guṇāvatāra, then manvantarāvatāra. Manvantarāvatāra means... There is seventy-one yugas. One yuga means about 4,300,000's …

Then yuga avatāra. Yuga avatāra... In each yuga, during that 4,300,000's of years, there are yuga avatāra. They are the …

So God's kingdom is not vacant. Just like we are thinking that except this earthly planet, all planets are vacant. …

Thank you very much. [end]

Prabhupāda:

[Cc Madhya 20.172]

So Kṛṣṇa has innumerable expansions. So far potency of the Lord is concerned, in those expansions there is no difference …