64 Qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, after consulting various scriptures, has enumerated the transcendental qualities of the Lord as follows:
(1) beautiful features of the entire body;
(2) marked with all auspicious characteristics;
(3) extremely pleasing;
(4) effulgent;
(5) strong;
(6) ever youthful;
(7) wonderful linguist;
(8) truthful;
(9) talks pleasingly;
(10) fluent;
(11) highly learned;
(12) highly intelligent;
(13) a genius;
(14) artistic;
(15) extremely clever;
(16) expert;
(17) grateful;
(18) firmly determined;
(19) an expert judge of time and circumstances;
(20) sees and speaks on the authority of the Vedas, or scriptures;
(21) pure;
(22) self-controlled;
(23) steadfast;
(24) forbearing;
(25) forgiving;
(26) grave;
(27) self-satisfied;
(28) possessing equilibrium;
(29) magnanimous;
(30) religious;
(31) heroic;
(32) compassionate;
(33) respectful;
(34) gentle;
(35) liberal;
(36) shy;
(37) the protector of surrendered souls;
(38) happy;
(39) the well-wisher of devotees;
(40) controlled by love;
(41) all-auspicious;
(42) most powerful;
(43) all-famous;
(44) popular;
(45) partial to devotees;
(46) very attractive to all women;
(47) all-worshipable;
(48) all-opulent;
(49) all-honorable;
(50) the supreme controller.
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Besides all of the above-mentioned fifty qualities, Lord Kṛṣṇa possesses five more, which are sometimes partially manifested in the persons of Lord Brahmā or Lord Śiva. These transcendental qualities are as follows:
(51) changeless;
(52) all-cognizant;
(53) ever fresh;
(54) sac-cid-ānanda (possessing an eternal blissful body);
(55) possessing all mystic perfections.Kṛṣṇa also possesses five other qualities, which are manifest in the body of Nārāyaṇa, and they are listed as follows:
(56) He has inconceivable potency.
(57) Uncountable universes generate from His body.
(58) He is the original source of all incarnations.
(59) He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.
(60) He is the attractor of liberated souls.
All these transcendental qualities are manifest wonderfully in the personal feature of Lord Kṛṣṇa.Besides these sixty transcendental qualities, Kṛṣṇa has four more, which are not manifest even in the Nārāyaṇa form of Godhead, what to speak of the demigods or living entities. They are as follows.
(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).
(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.
(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.
(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty that cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.
Quoted from: Nectar of Devotion
The following is the same list, quoted from, Madhya-lila, chapter 23, entitled: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead, from the Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, spoken by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to Srila Sanatana Gosvami.
(1) “ ‘Kṛṣṇa, the supreme hero, has the most beautiful transcendental body.
(2) This body possesses all good features.
(3) It is radiant and
(4) very pleasing to the eyes.
(5) His body is powerful, strong and
(6) youthful.
(7) “ ‘Kṛṣṇa is the linguist of all wonderful languages.
(8) He is a truthful and
(9) very pleasing speaker.
(10) He is expert in speaking, and
(11) [12] He is a very wise,
(12) [11] learned scholar and
(13) a genius.
(14) “ ‘Kṛṣṇa is very expert in artistic enjoyment.
(15) He is highly cunning,
(16) expert,
(17) grateful and
(18) firmly determined in His vows.
(19) He knows how to deal according to time, person and country, and
(20) He sees through the scriptures and authoritative books.
(21) He is very clean and
(22) self-controlled.
(23) “ ‘Lord Kṛṣṇa is steady,
(24) His senses are controlled, and
(25) He is forgiving,
(26) grave and
(27) calm.
(28) He is also equal to all.
(29) Moreover, He is magnanimous,
(30) religious,
(31) chivalrous and
(32) kind.
(33) He is always respectful to respectable people.
(34) “ ‘Kṛṣṇa is very simple and
(35) liberal,
(36) He is humble and bashful, and
(37) He is the protector of the surrendered souls.
(38) He is very happy, and
(39) He is always the well-wisher of His devotees.
(40) [41] He is all-auspicious, and
(41) [40] He is submissive to love.
(42) “ ‘Kṛṣṇa is very influential and
(43) famous, and
(44) He is the object of attachment for everyone.
(45) He is the shelter of the good and the virtuous.
(46) He is attractive to the minds of women, and
(47) He is worshiped by everyone.
(48) He is very, very rich.
(49) [50] “ ‘Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme, and
(50) [49] He is always glorified as the Supreme Lord and controller.
Thus all the previously mentioned transcendental qualities are in Him. The fifty qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead mentioned above are as deep as an ocean. In other words, they are difficult to fully comprehend.
Text 77: “ ‘These qualities are sometimes very minutely exhibited in living beings, but they are fully manifested in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.’Text 78: “ ‘Apart from these fifty qualities, there are five other qualities found in the Supreme Personality of Godhead that are partially present in demigods like Śiva.
Texts 79-81: “ ‘These qualities are
(1) the Lord is always situated in His original position,
(2) He is omniscient,
(3) He is always fresh and youthful,
(4) He is the concentrated form of eternity, knowledge and bliss, and
(5) He is the possessor of all mystic perfection.
There are another five qualities, which exist in the Vaikuṇṭha planets in Nārāyaṇa, the Lord of Lakṣmī. These qualities are also present in Kṛṣṇa, but they are not present in demigods like Lord Śiva or in other living entities. These are
(1) the Lord possesses inconceivable supreme power,
(2) He generates innumerable universes from His body,
(3) He is the original source of all incarnations,
(4) He bestows salvation upon enemies He kills, and
(5) He has the ability to attract exalted persons who are satisfied in themselves. Although these qualities are present in Nārāyaṇa, the dominating Deity of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, they are even more wonderfully present in Kṛṣṇa.
Texts 82-83: “ ‘Apart from these sixty transcendental qualities, Kṛṣṇa has an additional four transcendental qualities, which are not manifested even in the personality of Nārāyaṇa. These are:
(1) Kṛṣṇa is like an ocean filled with waves of pastimes that evoke wonder within everyone in the three worlds.
(2) In His activities of conjugal love, He is always surrounded by His dear devotees who possess unequaled love for Him.
(3) He attracts the minds of all three worlds with the melodious vibration of His flute.
(4) His personal beauty and opulence are beyond compare. No one is equal to Him, and no one is greater than Him. Thus the Personality of Godhead astonishes all living entities, both moving and nonmoving, within the three worlds. He is so beautiful that He is called Kṛṣṇa.
Texts 84-85: “ ‘Above Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa has four specific transcendental qualities — His wonderful pastimes, an abundance of wonderful associates who are very dear to Him [like the gopīs], His wonderful beauty and the wonderful vibration of His flute. Lord Kṛṣṇa is more exalted than ordinary living beings and demigods like Lord Śiva. He is even more exalted than His personal expansion Nārāyaṇa. In all, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has sixty-four transcendental qualities in full.’
Quoted from: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta
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