In the spiritual world, the manifestations of Narayane are twenty: Hrishikesh (conch, disc, lotus and mass), Narayan (conch, lotus, mass and disc), Shri Madhava (mass, discus, conch, lotus), Shri Govinda (disc, mass, lotus, conch), Vishnu Mourti (mass, lotus, conch, disc), Madhousoudane (disc, conch, lotus, mass), Trivikram (lotus, mass, disc, conch), Shridhar (lotus, discus , mass, conch), Padmanabhe (conch, lotus, disc, mass), Damodar (lotus, disc, mass, conch), Pouroushottama (disc, lotus, conch, mass), Shri Achyuta (mass, lotus, disc, conch) , Shri Nrishingha (disc, lotus, mass, conch), Janardane (lotus, disc, conch, mass), Shri Hari (conch, disc, lotus, mass), Shri Krishna (conch, mass, lotus, disc), Adhokshaja ( lotus, mass, conch, disc) and Oupendra (conch, mass, disc, lotus).

There are sixteen forms whose names vary according to the arrangement of the disc and the mass in their hands.

Krishna is God, the Supreme and Original Person. Called Lila Pouroushottama, He resides mainly in Vrindavane as the Son of Nanda. The Hayashirsha Pancharatra also teaches us that nine forms protect each of the two Puri, respectively called Mathoura Pouri and Dvaraka Pouri: the four Forms that are embodied by Vasudev, Shankarshan, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, then those of Narayane, Nrishingha, Hayagriva, Varaha and Brahma. So much for the different manifestations of the prakash and vilas forms of Lord Krishna.

Shri Chaitanya informs us of the different forms of svamsha, divided into two categories: that of Shankarshane and that of the Avatars. From the first category come the three Purusha-Avatars: Karanodakashayi Vishnu, Garbhodakashayi Vishnu, and Kshirodakashayi Vishnu; from the second emanate the Lila-Avatars, whose incarnations of the Lord in the form of a fish, a tortoise, a boar, a horse, etc.

There are six varieties of Avatars: 1) Purusha-Avatars, 2) Lila-Avatars, 3) Gouna-Avatars, 4) Manu-Avatars, 5) Youga-Avatars, and 6) Shaktyavesha-Avatars. The six vilas manifestations of Krishna are divided into two divisions related to his age, respectively named balya and pauganda. As the son of Nanda Maharaj, Krishna, in his original Form, tastes the ecstasy of this double aspect of his childhood.

There is no limit to the emanations as to the incarnations of Krishna. The divine emanations and incarnations are innumerable, as are the waves of the ocean.

Krishna first incarnates in the form of the three Purusha-Avatars: Karanodakashayi or Maha-Vishnu, Garbhodakashayi Vishnu and Kshirodakashayi Vishnu. Krishna energies can also be divided into three categories: the energy of thought, the energy of feeling, and the energy of action. He manifests the first as Supreme God, the second as Vasudev and the third, as Shankarshane Balaram. Creation can not exist without thought, feeling and action. Although we can not speak of creation with regard to the spiritual world, the material universe is indeed created. Be that as it may, the spiritual world and the material universe are both manifestations of Krishna's energy of