yÄvad vatsapa-vatsakÄlpaka-vapur yÄvat karÄá¹…ghry-Ädikaá¹
yÄvad yaá¹£á¹i-viá¹£Äṇa-veṇu-dala-Å›ig yÄvad vibhÅ«á¹£Ämbaram
yÄvac chÄ«la-guṇÄbhidhÄká¹›ti-vayo yÄvad vihÄrÄdikaá¹
sarvaṠviṣṇumayaṠgiro 'ṅga-vad ajaḥ sarva-svarūpo babhau
yÄvat vatsapa - exactly like the cowherd boys; vatsaka-alpaka-vapuḥ - and exactly like the tender bodies of the calves; yÄvat kara-aá¹…ghri-Ädikam - exactly to the measurement of their particular varieties of legs and hands; yÄvat yaá¹£á¹i-viá¹£Äṇa-veṇu-dala-Å›ik - not only like their bodies but exactly like their bugles, flutes, sticks, lunch bags and so on; yÄvat vibhÅ«á¹£Ä-ambaram - exactly like their ornaments and dress in all their varied particulars; yÄvat śīla-guṇa-abhidhÄ-Äká¹›ti-vayaḥ - their exact character, habits, features, attributes and explicit bodily features; yÄvat vihÄra-Ädikam - exactly according to their tastes or amusements; sarvam - everything in detail; viṣṇu-mayam - expansions of VÄsudeva, Viṣṇu; giraḥ aá¹…ga-vat - voices exactly like theirs; ajaḥ - Kṛṣṇa; sarva-svarÅ«paḥ babhau - created everything in detail as Himself, without any change.
By His VÄsudeva feature, Kṛṣṇa simultaneously expanded Himself into the exact number of missing cowherd boys and calves, with their exact bodily features, their particular types of hands, legs and other limbs, their sticks, bugles and flutes, their lunch bags, their particular types of dress and ornaments placed in various ways, their names, ages and forms, and their special activities and characteristics. By expanding Himself in this way, beautiful Kṛṣṇa proved the statement samagra-jagad viṣṇumayam: “Lord Viṣṇu is all-pervading.â€
As stated in the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.33):
advaitam acyutam anÄdim ananta-rÅ«pam
Ädyaá¹ purÄṇa-puruá¹£aá¹ nava-yauvanaá¹ ca
Kṛṣṇa, paraá¹ brahma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is Ädyam, the beginning of everything; He is Ädi-puruá¹£am, the ever-youthful original person. He can expand Himself in more forms than one can imagine, yet He does not fall down from His original form as Kṛṣṇa; therefore He is called Acyuta. This is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sarvaá¹ viṣṇumayaá¹ jagat. Sarvaá¹ khalv idaá¹ brahma. Kṛṣṇa thus proved that He is everything, that He can become everything, but that still He is personally different from everything (mat-sthÄni sarva-bhÅ«tÄni na cÄhaá¹ teá¹£v avasthitaḥ). This is Kṛṣṇa, who is understood by acintya-bhedÄbheda-tattva philosophy. PÅ«rṇasya pÅ«rṇam ÄdÄya pÅ«rṇam evÄvaÅ›iá¹£yate: Kṛṣṇa is always complete, and although He can create millions of universes, all of them full in all opulences, He remains as opulent as ever, without any change (advaitam). This is explained by different Vaiṣṇava ÄcÄryas through philosophies such as viÅ›uddhÄdvaita, viÅ›iá¹£á¹Ädvaita and dvaitÄdvaita. Therefore one must learn about Kṛṣṇa from the ÄcÄryas. Ä€cÄryavÄn puruá¹£o veda: one who follows the path of the ÄcÄryas knows things as they are. Such a person can know Kṛṣṇa as He is, at least to some extent, and as soon as one understands Kṛṣṇa (janma karma ca me divyam evaá¹ yo vetti tattvataḥ), one is liberated from material bondage (tyaktvÄ dehaá¹ punar janma naiti mÄm eti so ’rjuna).
