Now, we have been discussing about incarnations. These incarnations are concerned so far the maintenance of the material world is required. In the spiritual world there is no incarnation. There is a permanent situation of the spiritual planets, and in different planets, He, Krsna, has different expansions under different symbolic representation, and they are differently named. There is no change. But in the material world, when we speak of incarnation, that is in relationship with this material world. In this... For the material world these incarnations are expanded. And what are they? First the purusavatara; then lilavatara; then gunavatara, three; then manvantaravatara, four; then yugavatara, five; and then saktyavesavatara. Saktyavesavatara.

There is a system. In the process of this material world there is a system. Just like for maintenance of your state, United States, there is system of government, and there is an aim. Just like your government does not like that..., there should be no Communistic persons, and you write that "We trust in God." It is better to trust in God. You have got a system. Similarly, the maintenance of the whole material world, there is a system. It is not blind. Foolish creatures, they think that everything has come out of nothing, and it is being managed by nature. No. Behind nature there is God. In the Bhagavad-gita you have learned, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram: [Bg. 9.10] "Under My superintendence the material nature is working." Material nature is not blind. Just like foolish person, because he cannot see President Johnson and the governmental personalities, they think, "It is going on. Nobody is there behind this government, and it is going on." So similarly, persons who have no knowledge in the affairs of this material world, they think that "This material nature is working, and automatically, by magic, the sun is coming out, the moon is coming out, and the season is changing, and everything is going on just like magic, and we are the master of everything." Never think..., these foolish persons never think that they are not masters, they are servant, servant of the material nature.

"Now, in this age of Kali-yuga, there will be avatara, incarnation, who is Krsna, but His color of the body is not black." That is Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya was very fair complexion, nice looking. So krsna-varnam tvisa. Tvisa, by complexion, He is not Krsna, but He is Krsna. Krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam and sango 'pangastra-parsadam. And He is associated by His confidential, I mean to say, devotees. You'll find Lord Caitanya always crowded by His devotees, always. His dancing moodyou have seen the picture. Special associates, that Advaita, Gadadhara, Nityananda. So that incarnation, who is Krsna, but His color, His complexion, is not black, but He is associated with devotees... And the process of worshiping that incarnation is to chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare.

And when Krsna personally comes, He can be seen in two features, balya, pauganda: His childhood and boyhood, up to sixteenth year. That is the real feature of Krsna, kisora. And further features, that is expansion of Krsna, Vasudeva. Vasudevah sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19].

Now, He is concluding about the topics of incarnation, that "There are innumerable incarnations of Krsna. Nobody can count." He is giving the example: just like nobody can count how many waves are flowing in the river or in the ocean, similarly, it is impossible to count how many incarnation are there.

Now, the first avatara, first incarnation, is the purusavatara. He divides Himself into three. This is stated in the Visnu Purana:

Tani jnatva vimucyate. Now, in the Bhagavad-gita you have read that,

Anyone who understands about the appearance and disappearance of God or His incarnation, simply by understanding this, one is liberated. And that person who understands, after quitting this material body, no more he comes here, but he goes back to Godhead to become one of His associates. Such persons who knows about the incarnations, they are not impersonalists. Therefore they do not merge in the impersonal Brahman feature, but they go to the different spiritual planets.

Now, Krsna has immense potencies, which are divided into three. What is that? Iccha-sakti, kriya-sakti, jnana-sakti. Iccha-sakti means His potency, whatever He wishes, that can be done, iccha. Kriya-sakti: then activity, kriya-sakti. And jnana-sakti, knowledge, knowledge. In the Vedic literature it is said, parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Just like one potency is working, producing flowers, producing flowers. We are seeing that a flower is being produced automatically, so nicely scented, so nicely colored. But because we are fools, therefore we think it is being produced automatically. No. It is produced by the kriya-sakti, by the active potency of God, kriya-sakti. Jnana-sakti: and there is such perfect knowledge that nobody can see any defect. You see a butterfly, how it is nicely painted. You just see duplicate in both the wings. Just like an artist paint nicely, it is painted. So we think it is coming out of nothing. This is our foolishness. Here is, that it is coming out of the jnana-sakti. But His jnana is so wide that simply by His desire, simply by His will, it can be executed. These are the things to be studied. Because we cannot see something before our eyes, that does not mean there is no existence. There is existence, but we do not know how one is working, how one is working. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya.

Now, out of these three different potencies, then Krsna expands Himself also to conduct or to control or to act on these three potential power. The iccha-sakti, willing potency, that is being controlled by His expansion which is known as Vasudeva. Iccha-jnana vina na haya srjana. Without desire and without knowledge, nothing can be created, nothing. Suppose we are manufacturing so many things. Now, the manufacturer is first of all thinking, willing, that "This sort of thing, if we manufacture, it will be very nicely sold in the market." That is iccha-sakti. Then he acts, acts on it. That is called jnana-sakti. Without jnana, without willing, nothing is produced. So whenever you find something produced, you must know, behind that production there is that will, the supreme will, the supreme knowledge. This is study. Iccha-sakti-jnana...

So this iccha-sakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world.

And the potential activity, that is being done by the expansion of Sankarsana, either in this material world or in the spiritual world. So parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyat [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]e. In this way the Lord is working in so many ways, and because we have no knowledge, we think that "There is no brain behind it. There is no knowledge behind it. Everything is coming out automatically, and we are the master of everything." That is called illusion. So by Krsna consciousness, you will be free from this illusion, and you will know how God is working by His different potential power.