Krishna – The Supreme personality of Godhead

Who is GOD? 

In the Brahma-sutra there is a definition for God as, "God is He from whom everything comes, emanates."

What is the nature of God? Is it a dead stone or a living being? This is explained in Srimad Bhagavatam: Sloka[SB 1.1.1]. "That God is fully cognizant of everything, directly and indirectly." Unless He is fully cognizant of everything, directly and indirectly, He is not God, indicating thus that God is the Supreme Person.

Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is thus defined by Parashara Muni as, one who is full of six opulences. Namely - strength, fame, wealth, knowledge, beauty, and renunciation.

Srimad Bhagavatam,  Vyasadev lists of various incarnations and finally concludes:

“All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted herewith are either plenary expansions or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme Godhead, but Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.”

When Lord Krishna had descended on this planet, he displayed all the six opulences unlimitedly. We have seen many rich persons, many powerful persons, many famous persons, many beautiful persons, many learned and scholarly persons, and persons in the renounced order of life unattached to material possessions. But we have never seen any one person who is unlimitedly and simultaneously wealthy, powerful, famous, beautiful, wise and unattached, like Krishna in the history of humanity. Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a historical person who appeared on this earth 5,000 years ago. He stayed on this earth for 125 years and played exactly like a human being, but His activities were unparalleled. From the very moment of His appearance to the moment of His disappearance, every one of His activities is unparalleled in the history of the world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to the Godhead, and no one is greater than Him. That is the import of the familiar saying “God is great.”

Lord Brahma explains in Brahma samhita(Bs 5.1) as follows:

"Krishna, who is known as Govinda, is the supreme controller. He has an eternal, blissful, spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, for He is the prime cause of all causes."

CC Madhya 8.136

“The transcendental body of Sri Krishna is eternal and full of bliss and knowledge. He is the son of Nanda Maharaja. He is full of all opulences and potencies as well as all spiritual mellows.

In the Sama-veda Upanishad, it is stated that Lord Sri Krishna is the divine son of Devaki. Therefore Lord Sri Krishna is the primeval Lord, and if any transcendental nomenclature is to be understood as belonging to the Absolute Personality of Godhead, it must be the name indicated by the word Krishna, which means the all-attractive. In the Padma Purana, it is also stated that out of the innumerable names of the Lord, the name of Krishna is the principal one.

In Bhagavad-gita 10.12-13 Arjuna declares Krishna as the Supreme Lord:

“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala, and Vyasa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.”

In Bhagavad-gita, the Lord asserts Himself to be the original Personality of Godhead

In Bg 10.8 Lord Krishna says:

“I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.”

In Bg 15.19 Lord Krishna says

“Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without doubting, is to be understood as the knower of everything, and he therefore engages himself in full devotional service, O son of Bharata.”