Krishna- The Supreme Personality of Godhead (On Hold)

Preface

nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād

bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt

ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt

pumān virajyeta vinā paśu-ghnāt

(Srimad-Bhagavatam)

In Western countries, when someone sees the cover of a book like Krishna, he immediately asks, "Who is Krishna? Who is the girl with Krishna?" etc.

The immediate answer is that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How is that? Because he confirms in exact detail the descriptions of the Supreme Being, the Godhead. In other words, Krishna is the Godhead because he is all attractive (we can also say center of attraction). Outside the principle of all-attraction, there is no meaning to the word "Godhead". How can one be all-attractive? Firstly, if one is very wealthy, if he has great riches (resources or treasures) he becomes attractive to people in general. Similarly, if someone is very powerful, he also becomes attractive; if someone is famous, he becomes attractive; if someone is beautiful or wise or unattached to all kinds of possessions, he also becomes attractive. So, practically we can observe that one is attractive due to: 

1)Wealth

2)Power

3)Fame

4)Beauty

5)Wisdom and

6)Renunciation (sacrificing, sacrifice, discarded, abandon).

One who is in possession of all six of these key points at the same time, who possesses them to an unlimited degree (or depth), is understood to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These opulence's of the Godhead are delineated (describe or portray) by Parasara Muni (sage) a great Vedic authority.

We have seen many wealthy people, powerful people, famous people, beautiful people, many learned and scholarly people, and people in the renounced order of life unattached to material possessions. But we have never seen anyone who is unlimitedly and simultaneously wealthy, powerful, famous, beautiful, wise and unattached, like Krishna in the history of humanity. Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a historical person who appeared on this earth 5,000 years ago. He stayed on this earth for 125 years and played exactly like a human being, but his activities are unparalleled (exceptional, unique or unsurpassable). From the very moment of His appearance to His disappearance, every moment of His activities is unparalleled in the history of world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to God or no one is greater than Him. That is the significance of the familiar saying "God is great."

There are numerous humans in the world who speak of God in different ways, but regarding the Vedic literatures and regarding to the great acharyas (teacher, master in Sanskrit), the authorized persons versed in the knowledge of God in all ages, like acharayas  Śaṅkara, Ramanuja, Madhava, Viṣṇu Svāmī, Lord Caitanya and all their followers by disciples' succession, all unanimously agree that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As far as we, the followers of Vedic civilization (Or the person who is interested in studying Vedic civilization), are concerned, we accept the Vedic history of the whole universe, which consists of different planetary systems called Svargaloka (heaven) or the higher planetary system, Martyalok (earth or mortal world) or the intermediary planetary system and Patalaloka (hell) or the lower planetary system. The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago and the anthropologists (experts who study anthropology) says that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories such as the Purāṇas and Mahābhārata, relate human histories, which extend millions and billions of the years into the past.