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The Transcendental Appearance Of The Lord

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From Previous Acharyas

The Transcendental Appearance Of The Lord
His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
An actor changes dress to play different parts, but is always the same man. Similarly, as de¬scribed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.33, 39), the Lord assumes many thousands and millions of forms (advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣam). He is always present with innumerable incarnations (rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhu-vaneṣu kintu). Nonetheless, although He appears in various incarnations, they are not different from one another. He is the same person, with the same potency, the same eternity and the same spiritual existence, but He can simultaneously assume various forms. For example, when Vamanadeva appeared from the womb of His mother, He ap¬peared in the form of Narayana, His four hands equipped with the necessary symbolic weapons, and then immediately transformed Himself into a brahmacārī (vaṭu). This means that His body is not material. One who thinks that the Supreme Lord assumes a material body is not intelligent. He has to learn more about the Lord’s position. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (4.9), janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ. One has to understand the transcendental appearance of the Lord in His original transcendental body, natural¬ly full of knowledge and bliss (sac-cid-ānanda-vi¬graha [Bs. 5.1]).
– Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) > Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic Creation > Chapter 18: Lord Vamanadeva, the Dwarf Incarnation, Verses: 13, Purport.
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