God appears everywhere in every moment; only purified devotional consciousness can recognize and see Him directly.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.29 — October 4, 1972, Los Angeles 721004SB-LOS ANGELES [43:00 Minutes] SB-01.03.29_721004SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.
Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto One, Chapter 3, text 29.
[leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] janma guhyaṁ bhagavato ya etat prayato naraḥ sāyaṁ prātar gṛṇan bhaktyā duḥkha-grāmād vimucyate [SB 1.3.29] Prabhupāda: Ladies. Anyone else? Word meaning? Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] janma—birth; guhyam—mysterious; bhagavataḥ—of the Lord; yaḥ—one; etat—all these; prayataḥ—carefully; naraḥ—man; sāyam—evening; prātaḥ—morning; gṛṇan—recites; bhaktyā—with devotion; duḥkha-grāmāt—from all miseries; vimucyate—gets relief from.
You cannot sit down and count how many waves are flowing. As it is not possible, similarly, you cannot also count how many incarnations are there, how they are coming out. But the most important of them are described. And the conclusion is made that Kṛṣṇa is the origin, as it is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ: "I am the origin of everything, even the incarnations." Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg. 10.8]. Everyone—all incarnations, all demigods, all living entities, all energies.
The Vedānta-sūtra also confirms, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]: the Absolute Truth is that which is the original source of everything. So sometimes we mistake that Kṛṣṇa is also incarnation. No. He is not incarnation. He is the source of incarnation.
Therefore in the last verse it has been clearly..., ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]. Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. They are from Kṛṣṇa, not Kṛṣṇa is from them. Sometimes they argue that Kṛṣṇa is the incarnation of Viṣṇu, but that is not the fact.
Viṣṇu is incarnation of Kṛṣṇa. Now, there is no use arguing, because there is no difference between incarnation and the source of incarnation. The example is given: just like dīpārcir eva hi daśāntaram abhyupetya dīpāyate [Bs. 5.46]. Just like you have got one thousand candles here. So first you light on one candle, then the second, the third, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh—you go on increasing.