Supreme Narayana controls all creation while eternally dwelling in His own transcendent abode through inconceivable spiritual potency.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī yaśodā-nandana, braja-jana-rañjana, yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī jaya oṁ viṣṇu-pāda paramahaṁsa parivrājakācārya aṣṭottara-śata śrī śrīmad bhaktisiddhānta sarasvatī gosvāmī prabhupāda ki jaya. ananta-koṭi vaiṣṇava-vṛnda ki jaya. nāmācārya śrīla haridāsa ṭhākura kī jaya. premse kaho śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda kī jaya. śrī śrī rādhā-kṛṣṇa gopa-gopīnātha śyāma-kuṇḍa rādhā-kuṇḍa giri-govardhana kī jaya. vṛndāvana-dhāma kī jaya. navadvīpa-dhāma kī jaya. gaṅgāmayī kī jaya. yamunāmayī kī jaya. tulasīdevī kī jaya. bhaktidevī kī jaya. new dvārakā dhāma kī jaya. samavetā-bhakta-vṛndā kī jaya. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much. Pradyumna: [leads devotees in chanting] Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Devotees repeat] yena sva-dhāmny... [break] "...activities; rūpair—and with forms; vibhāvyante..." [break] [05:06] Translation: "The supreme cause of all causes, Nārāyaṇa, is situated in His own abode in the spiritual world, but nevertheless He controls the entire cosmic manifestation according to the three modes of material nature—sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa. In this way all living entities are awarded different qualities, different names, such as brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya, different duties according to the varṇāśrama institution, and different forms.
Thus Nārāyaṇa is the cause of the entire cosmic manifestation." Prabhupāda: yena sva-dhāmny amī bhāvā rajaḥ-sattva-tamomayāḥ guṇa-nāma-kriyā-rūpair vibhāvyante yathā-tatham [SB 6.1.41] So supreme controller is Nārāyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa also explains... Here in the śāstra, we understand that Nārāyaṇa is the supreme controller. In many other places the same thing is explained. īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam [Bs 5.1] So Kṛṣṇa explains in the Bhagavad-gītā, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg 10.8].
So Nārāyaṇa... In the Vedic mantra also, the same thing: eko nārāyaṇa āsīt. In the beginning, Nārāyaṇa was there. So Nārāyaṇa is not alone.
When you say the king is coming, it does not mean that king is coming alone. King is coming with his ministers, with his secretaries, with his military forces, bodyguards, many thousands. Similarly, when we speak eko nārāyaṇa āsīt, [Nārāyaṇa Upaniṣad 4] nārāyaṇa paraḥ avyaktāt, [Śaṅkarācārya] it does not mean that Nārāyaṇa is alone. Nārāyaṇa is always...
If the king can be surrounded by so many officers and ministers, and Nārāyaṇa is the supreme king, so how He is surrounded by paraphernalia we can just think over. So Nārāyaṇa-dhāma, the Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma... There are millions and millions of Vaikuṇṭha-dhāmas in the spiritual world. As we see in this material world... And in each planet Nārāyaṇa is there in different forms.
That is described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Different forms means Nārāyaṇa has the same form, four hands with four symbolic weapons, simply changing—śaṅkha, cakra, gadā, padma; gadā, cakra, śaṅkha, padma—like that. These things are explained in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. So in the Vaikuṇṭha, the spiritual world, Nārāyaṇa is there.