partial emanations of the Lord, integral parts of his person. They are so many different manifestations of the One Absolute and without a second, the Sovereign Lord, Krishna.

The vilas manifestations of the form prabhava (four arms), these twenty-four forms are named differently according to the arrangement of their symbols: the mass, the disk, the lotus and the conch. Among these twenty-four forms, we also find vilas and vaibhava forms. Those called Pradyoumna, Trivikram, Vamana, Hari and Krishna, among others, all have different features. Then come the prabhava-vilas - Vasudev, Shankarshan, Pradyumna and Aniruddha - for a total of twenty other variations. All these forms reign on various Vaikountha planets of the spiritual world, which occupy eight different directions. Although eternally present in the spiritual realm, some of them are also manifest in the material cosmos.

In the spiritual world, all the planets where Narayan reigns (Krishna Plenary Emanation) are eternal. But the highest planet remains Krishnaloka, which is divided into three regions: Gokoula or Goloka, Mathoura and Dvaraka. At Mathura lies eternally Keshava, who is also represented on our planet, in India, where his material representation is worshiped, precisely in Mathura. In the same way, the form of Purushottama reigns at Jagannath Pouri, in Orissa. In Anandaranya resides the form of Vishnu, and at Mayapur, birthplace of Lord Chaitanya, is that of Hari. Many other forms of Krishna are also present in various regions of the Earth. And this is not so in our universe (our galaxy), but in all the universes (galaxies) of Creation.

It is furthermore said that the Earth is divided into seven islands (continents) and it is understood that on each of them there are similar forms, although at the time of writing, they are only found in India. Although the Vedic writings allow us to understand that there are other forms of the Divine in other parts of the world, we currently have no information as to their exact location.

The different forms of Krishna are thus present in our universe (galaxy) and in all the others for the pleasure of its devotees. Indeed, these do not take birth in India, but in all parts of the world. Even when they have forgotten their real identity, these forms are incarnated for their satisfaction as well as for restoring devotional service and performing other activities of vital importance to the Lord God. Some of these forms are Avatars mentioned in the Scriptures, such as Vishnu, Trivikram, Nrishingha, Vamana ... The Siddharta-samhita gives a description of the twenty-four forms of Vishnu, named differently according to the arrangement of the symbols they hold. in their four hands. The enumeration of these symbols begins with the lower right hand, followed by the upper right, the upper left and the lower left. Thus Vasudev is described as holding in this order the mass, the conch, the disk, and the lotus. Shankarshane, Him, holds first the mass, then the conch, the lotus and the disk. Pradyumna holds, as for him, the disc, the conch, the mass and the lotus, while in the case of Aniruddha, it is the disc, the mass, the conch and the lotus.