parama īśvara kṛṣṇa — svayaṁ bhagavān
sarva-avatārī, sarva-kāraṇa-pradhāna

 parama - supreme; īśvara - controller; kṛṣṇa - Lord Kṛṣṇa; svayam - personally; bhagavān - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sarva-avatārī - the source of all incarnations; sarva-kāraṇa-pradhāna - the supreme cause of all causes.


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Rāmānanda Rāya then began to speak on kṛṣṇa-tattva. “Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,” he said. “He is personally the original Godhead, the source of all incarnations and the cause of all causes.

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