God eternally seeks to reclaim His children through infinite incarnations across all species and worlds.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.34 — November 13, 1972, Vṛndāvana 721113SB-VRNDAVAN [37:29 Minutes] SB-01.02.34_721113SB-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] bhāvayaty eṣa sattvena lokān vai loka-bhāvanaḥ līlāvatārānurato deva-tiryaṭ-narādiṣu [SB 1.2.34] Prabhupāda: Another verse. Another verse? This is the last? Pradyumna: This is the last we have in this chapter.
[leads chanting of synonyms] bhāvayati—maintains; eṣaḥ—all these; sattvena—in the mode of goodness; lokān—all over the universe; vai—generally; loka-bhāvanaḥ—the master of all the universes; līlā—pastimes; avatāra—incarnation; anurataḥ—assuming the role; deva—the demigods; tiryak—lower animals; nara-ādiṣu—in the midst of human beings. [01:37] Translation: "Thus the Lord of the universes maintains all planets inhabited by demigods, men and lower animals, and in His play He assumes the roles of incarnations to reclaim those in the mode of pure goodness." Prabhupāda: bhāvayaty eṣa sattvena lokān vai loka-bhāvanaḥ līlāvatārānurato deva-tiryaṭ-narādiṣu [SB 1.2.34] So the Supreme Personality of Godhead, līlāvatāra, incarnates in many forms, not only in the human society, but in the demigod society, or lower than human society, the animal society also, tree society. Because as we have forgotten our relationship with Kṛṣṇa, He's always anxious to get us back to home, back to Godhead, so He incarnates Himself in so many forms. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33].
He has got ananta-rūpa, unlimited forms. Advaitam acyutam anādi. But all those forms are in essence one. Advaita.
That is not different. Just like rāmādi-mūrtiṣu. The Lord appears as Lord Rāmacandra or as Lord Kṛṣṇa or as Lord Varāha. They are not different. In the material sense a varāha, a hog, is different from the man.
Or the man is..., one man is different from another man. But the incarnations of Kṛṣṇa, they are not different. The same thing. Just like Kṛṣṇa, when He appeared, He, He's Kṛṣṇa when He was so-called three months old, and He was Kṛṣṇa when He was twenty years old. The same Kṛṣṇa.
As we find difference that a..., the same man, when he's three months old, he's different from the twenty years old. When his age is twenty years, he's different from his age when his age is three months. The modern fashion is that they want to become God by meditation, by advancement of mystic power. But that kind of God is not Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa does not become God; He's God always.
Others, they try to become God by mystic power. We have heard so many so-called Gods, that "He attained such perfection of mystic power. Now he has become God." That is also another māyā. Nobody can become God.