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Prabhupada:

By expansion of Krsna, that is being described by Lord Caitanya. They are described in different Vedic literatures, and we are getting the information in one place from Lord Caitanya. So that is the advantage, to be in the disciplic succession. To find out in different information from different scriptures, it is very difficult, but if we become in the line of disciplic succession, all the experience is at once achieved. If you want to fight in the law court and if you want to find out all the law sections from the law book, it is very difficult for you. Better to go to a lawyer who knows the law section and take help, and it is all right. Similarly, there are different kinds of descriptions of the Supreme Lord. The experienced spiritual master gives us the information in one place.

So about the expansion of Lord Krsna, in Brahma-samhita, Isopanisad, there are various Vedic literatures... They are all, I mean to say, taken together, calculated and presented by Lord Caitanya. He says,

Svayam-rupa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, He is called svayam-rupa, His personal feature. Then tad-ekatma. So tad-ekatma-rupa means not exactly the same person, but almost the same. Tad-ekatma. And avesa. Avesa means that empowered.

There is always difference between the individual soul and the Supreme Absolute Soul. When the individual soul is specially empowered by the Supreme Soul, that is called avesa. He can act almost like God. We accept, according to this avesa, avesa-avatara incarnation, authorized incarnation, we accept, my Guru Maharaja accepted Lord Jesus Christ and Hazrat Muhammad, this avesa incarnation, almost the same powerful.

Now, in the first instance the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, and tad-ekatma, His next expansion with the same features, and avesa, a powerful incarnation or powerful living entity...

Svayam-rupa, the supreme personal feature, and svayam-prakasa... His immediate expansion is called svayam-prakasa.

So in His svayam-rupa, in His personal feature, He always remains at Vrndavana, and He is just like a cowherd boy. That is His real feature, Krsna. The Krsna in the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, that is not the real feature of Krsna. Just like a person, high-court judge, where you will find his real feature? His real feature you will find at his home, not on the bench. In the bench, even his father comes, the high-court judge's father, he will have to address the judge, "My lord." That is the court. The same person at home and same person in the court is different, although the same person.

Similarly, the real Personality of Godhead, Krsna, He never goes out of Vrndavana. He remains always a cowherd boy. That's all.