शङ्खचक्रगदापद्मैरभिव्यक्तचतुर्भुजम् ॥४७॥
Å›rÄ«vatsÄá¹…kaá¹ ghana-Å›yÄmaá¹
puruá¹£aá¹ vana-mÄlinam
Å›aá¹…kha-cakra-gadÄ-padmair
abhivyakta-caturbhujam
Å›rÄ«vatsa-aá¹…kam - the mark of ÅšrÄ«vatsa on the chest of the Lord; ghana-Å›yÄmam - deeply bluish; puruá¹£am - the Supreme Person; vana-mÄlinam - with a garland of flowers; Å›aá¹…kha - conchshell; cakra - wheel; gadÄ - club; padmaiḥ - lotus flower; abhivyakta - manifested; catuḥ-bhujam - four handed.
The Lord is further described as having the mark of Śrīvatsa, or the sitting place of the goddess of fortune, and His bodily hue is deep bluish. The Lord is a person, He wears a garland of flowers, and He is eternally manifest with four hands, which hold [beginning from the lower left hand] a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower.
Here in this verse the word puruá¹£am is very significant. The Lord is never female. He is always male (puruá¹£a). Therefore the impersonalist who imagines the Lord’s form as that of a woman is mistaken. The Lord appears in female form if necessary, but His perpetual form is puruá¹£a because He is originally male. The feminine feature of the Lord is displayed by goddesses of fortune — Laká¹£mÄ«, RÄdhÄrÄṇī, SÄ«tÄ, etc. All these goddesses of fortune are servitors of the Lord; they are not the Supreme, as falsely imagined by the impersonalist. Lord Kṛṣṇa in His NÄrÄyaṇa feature is always four handed. On the Battlefield of Kuruká¹£etra, when Arjuna wanted to see His universal form, He showed this feature of four-handed NÄrÄyaṇa. Some devotees are of the opinion that Kṛṣṇa is an incarnation of NÄrÄyaṇa, but the BhÄgavata school says that NÄrÄyaṇa is a manifestation of Kṛṣṇa.
