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Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also known as the KRSNA Book, is a summary and commentary on the Tenth Canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, [1] founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). It was published in 1970 by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
Krishna is the main deity worshipped by the followers of Madhvacharya. Rūpa Gosvāmī has described the svayaṁ-rūpa in his Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta: [45] "The form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that does not depend on other forms is called svayaṁ-rūpa, the original form." [42] [46]
The earliest text containing detailed descriptions of Krishna as a personality is the epic ... centered either on Vishnu or an avatar such as Krishna as supreme.
In particular Krishnaism incorporated more or less superficially the Vedic supreme deity Vishnu, who appears in the Rigveda. [note 3] Krishnaism further becomes associated with bhakti yoga in the Medieval period. Vāsudeva-Krishna on a coin of Agathocles of Bactria, circa 190–180 BCE. [9] [10] This is "the earliest unambiguous image" of the ...
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and so in Prabhupada’s teachings, Krishna is seen as the original and supreme manifestation of Bhagavan [147] – in Sanskrit, svayam-bhagavan, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead himself. [155] No one is equal to or greater than Krishna. [156] Brahman and Paramatma are partial realizations of Krishna. [156]
ISKCON describes Krishna as the original source of all the avatars of the Almighty God. [12] Registered members worship Krishna as the highest form of God, svayam bhagavan, and often refer to him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in their published writing, which was a phrase coined by Prabhupada in his books on the subject.
Krishna assumes the role of Arjuna's chariot driver and aids him in the battle and reveals to Arjuna several divine truths about human existence in the material plane, the true nature of the supreme personality of God, and the method of eternal progression and release from the earthly cycles of death and rebirth through the practice of bhakti yoga.
In traditions that emphasize the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom everything else emanates. Gaudiya Vaishnavas worship Krishna as Svayam Bhagavan, or source of the incarnations.