Thus we find various words of the Lord applying to different plenary emanations or emanations of plenary emanations of his Person:
Whenever in some place of the universe, spirituality sees a decline, and irreligion rises, I descend in person.
I appear from age to age, in order to deliver My devotees, to annihilate the disbelievers, and to restore the principles of spirituality.
If I abstained from acting, all the galaxies would sink into desolation. Because of Me, man would beget unwanted offspring. Thus, I would disturb the peace of all beings.
No matter what a great man does, the mass of people always follows in his footsteps. The whole world follows the standard which he sets by his example.
These words of the Lord apply to the various full emanations of his Person, such as Sankarsana, Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Narayana. They are all, Himself in different spiritual and absolute forms. However, Krishna, the Lord in his primordial form, eternally engages in sublime exchanges with various degrees of holy beings and He appears in this form once a day from Brahma, the first created being and ruler of our galaxy, and this in each of the material galaxies, where He then unveils His spiritual and absolute entertainments, in an endless cycle. The roles taken by the Lord, sometimes as Krishna, sometimes as Vasudeva, and so on, are too complex in their sequence to be elucidated by the common man. For, if there is no difference between the Person of the Lord and his spiritual body, his emanations nonetheless fulfill different functions. And when the Lord appears in his original form, as Krishna, all his plenary emanations join with Him by the inconceivable power of his internal power. Thus, the Krishna of Vrindavana differs from that of Mathura or Dvaraka.
The Lord is all powerful, there is for Him no difference between material and spiritual, for both are created by Him. By the fact of its inconceivable power, all its activities are at the same time identical and distinct. Verily, the Lord never leaves his spiritual body, for there is no difference between his spiritual body and his Soul, since they are one. When the holy scriptures claim that the Lord left his body, it means that he has again let his full emanations go into their respective spiritual abode.
In the material universe, souls conditioned by matter strive to satisfy their senses in various ways, but all of them meet with failure in their endeavor, for it is not possible to obtain satisfaction in this way. The spiritual soul can know happiness only through contact with the Supreme Being, the Sovereign Person, and nowhere else. By his causeless and infinite grace, the Lord possesses innumerable spiritual planets in the expanse of the spiritual world, and there exists in this sublime universe an unlimited number of possibilities for the equally unlimited pleasure of the beings who live there.