- beautiful features of the entire body
- marked with all auspicious characteristics
- extremely pleasing
- effulgent
- strong
- ever youthful
- wonderful linguist
- truthful
- talks pleasingly
- fluent
- highly learned
- highly intelligent
- a genius
- artistic
- extremely clever
- expert
- grateful
- firmly determined
- an expert judge of time and circumstances
- sees and speaks on the authority of the scriptures--the Veda
- pure
- self-controlled
- steadfast
- forbearing
- forgiving
- grave
- self-satisfied
- possessing equilibrium
- magnanimous
- religious
- heroic
- compassionate
- respectful
- gentle
- liberal
- shy
- protector of surrendered souls
- happy
- well-wisher of devotees
- controlled by love
- all-auspicious
- most powerful
- all-famous
- popular
- partial to devotees
- very attractive to all women
- all-worshipable
- all-opulent
- all-honorable
- the Supreme controller
These fifty qualities, however, may also be found in varying degrees in some of the jivas or common living entities in this universe. But they are found in Lord Krishna to an unlimited degree. But besides these 50 qualities, there are five more which may also be manifested at times in the forms of Lord Brahma and Shiva. These are:
- changeless
- all-cognizant
- ever-fresh
- sat-cid-ananda-vigraha--possessing a transcendental form of eternity, full of knowledge and absolute bliss
- possessing all mystic perfection.
Beyond the above mentioned qualities, which may be seen in other forms of Divinity such as the demigods, Lord Krishna has the following exceptional qualities which are also manifested in the form of Narayana or Vishnu, His form as the Lord of Vaikuntha. These are:
- inconceivable potency
- uncountable universes are generated from His body
- the original source of all incarnations
- the giver of salvation to the enemies He kills
- the attractor of liberated souls
Besides the above-mentioned traits, Lord Krishna has four more qualities that are found only in Him, and not even in His forms of Vishnu, not to mention any of the demigods. These are:
- the performer of wonderful pastimes (especially his childhood pastimes)
- surrounded by devotees endowed with unsurpassed love of Godhead
- the attractor of all living entities in all universes through the expert playing of His flute
- possessor of unexcelled beauty without rival
All of these qualities are those of someone who has a highly developed form and personality.
Even the Bible verifies that God has a most beautiful form and is not formless, as is shown in the next few verses that are very similar to the Vedic description of God’s form: “My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers; his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl; his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold; his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.” (Song of Solomon 5.10-16)
Obviously, there is no more elevated truth or higher bliss than the personal form of the Supreme. As Sri Krishna says: “O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth superior to Me.” (Bg.7.7) Many great transcendental scholars have accepted this fact, including Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Vallabhacharya, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Baladeva, as well as Lord Brahma, who, after performing many austerities for spiritual purification, became perfectly self-realized and, getting a glimpse of the Lord’s spiritual nature, composed the Brahma-samhita many thousands of years ago and described what were his confidential realizations. One such verse is the following: “Krishna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.” (Brahma-samhita 5.1)
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