Kiśora-gopāla—Kṛṣṇa as a young boy.

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Kisora-gopala-Krsna as a young boy.

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Previous: Kirtana-glorification of the Supreme Lord. Narrating or singing the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His Holy Names; the devotional process of chanting the names and glories of the Supreme Lord; A related Sanskrit word is kirti (fame). Hence, kirtana means to glorify, and sahkirtana means to glorify congregationally, the fame of the Supreme Lord. Sahkirtana is the yuga-dharma, or the main occupation and attribute of the present age (Kali-yuga). See Bhakti, Hare Krsna Maha-mantra, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sahkirtana; Krsna Literally, the all-attractive Lord; the main Sanskrit name of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sri Krsna is the source of all incarnations, and no one is equal to Him or greater than Him. The Vedas glorify His partial incarnations (which include the demigods), His impersonal Brahman effulgence, His almighty Narayana feature with four hands, and at last His superexcellent pastimes as the most sublime youth who herds millions of cows in the forest of Vrndavana and dances with millions of cowherd girls (gopis). There is nothing to compare with this, the two-armed form of the Lord, blackish like a rain cloud, with reddish lotus eyes and a world-enchanting smile. In the material world the owner of the body is called the soul, and the body is called a material designation. In the spiritual Vaikuntha world, however, there is no such distinction. The owner of the body is not different from the body, for both are pure spirit. The divine body of Lord Krsna in Vaikuntha is the first and the cynosure of all spiritual forms. He is eternal, and His appearance within the material world as an avatara is perpetual. Krsna is personally Bhagavan, the possessor of six opulences in unlimited fullness: wealth, strength, beauty, knowledge, fame and renunciation. Semi-personally and impersonally, Krsna is represented by the Supersoul and the brahma-jyoti Besides all-attractive, the name Krsna also means the whole of existence and He who stops birth and death. Krsna has unlimited other names like Govinda, Gopala, Mukunda and Hari. These holy names are nondifferent from Him and indicate the forms He displays in His various pleasure pastimes. See Avatara, Bhagavan, Bhakti, Brahmajyoti, Brahman, Deity, ISKCON, Īsvara, Lila, Radharani, Supersoul, Spiritual world, Visnu. Next: Kitava-a great cheater.