These are: (1) the fish incarnation (Matsya) (2) the gigantic, transcendental tortoise (Kurma) (3) the boar incarnation (Varaha) (4) the terrifying form as half-man and half-lion (Nrsinghadeva) (5) the dwarf incarnation (Vamana) (6) Parasurama, the invincible warrior (7) Lord Ramacandra, the great king (8) Baladeva, who is the complete form of all spiritual masters (9) Buddha (10) Kalki, who rides a white horse and destroys the miscreants at the end of the Iron Age. For instance, the scriptures tell us about the ten primary incarnations. The Supreme Lord is so merciful that He sometimes descends in this world to bestow His mercy on the conditioned souls who inhabit it. It is only through bhakti-yoga that we can realise the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How can they attain the eternal and transcendental stage? They have to practise bhakti-yoga from the beginning stages, and develop progressively and regularly from the stage of faith through steadiness, taste, transcendental attachment, and transcendental ecstasy. Conditioned souls are always unhappy, because they are suffering in the chain of birth and death. They are only qualified to serve bodies, which are made of matter, not spirit. Conditioned souls are materially bound, and covered by maya or illusion. There, he is served with the most perfect moods of transcendental love and affection. Within Vaikuntha is Krishna’ s supreme abode, which is called Goloka-Vrndavana. The liberated souls serve Krishna eternally in the pure and transcendental realm of Vaikuntha. There are many categories of transcendental love and affection, or prema. This love and affection is called bhakti-yoga. Two pure souls (that is, the individual soul and theSupreme Soul, Krishna) can only come together through the medium of love and affection. Krishna is eternally the one Supersoul, and the innumerable individual souls are also eternal. In order to appreciate what bhakti is, we must first know that the soul and Supersoul exist eternally. We can not realise anything transcendental otherwise. We must practise bhakti-yoga in order to understand and realise the Absolute Truth. There are twelve cantos in Srimad-Bhagavatam, and its most important instructions are contained in the Tenth Canto. We should trust this disciplic succession and try our best to follow it.“What is God’s transcendental nature? What can we know of his omnipotence and mercy? What relationship do we have with Him, and how can we realise this relationship and serve Him eternally?“ These topics have been elaborately described and explained in the great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, which contains the essence of all Vedic literature. This processof disciplic succession’ established a body of transcendental knowledge that has descended to us from the perfect source. Brahma then gave it to Narada, Narada gave it to Vyasa, and Vyasa gave it to Sukadeva. He personally imparted this transcendental knowledge to Brahma (the creator of the material universe). However, the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Himself transmits transcendental knowledge through an unbroken succession of spiritual masters and disciples. We can never imagine or realise transcendental relationships with the Supreme Personality of Godhead through our imperfect material senses and knowledge. They have also discovered God within and without, and through research into the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they have even discovered and realised different relationships with God. The Vedic culture of India is steeped in esoteric knowledge, and has developed to such a degree that the sages in this culture have discovered the soul. Excerpt from Chapter One of the Book, Krishna: The Butter Thiefīy Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaja
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