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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.23
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 23
- ekonaviṁśe viṁśatime
- vṛṣṇiṣu prāpya janmanī
- rāma-kṛṣṇāv iti bhuvo
- bhagavān aharad bharam
ekonaviṁśein the nineteenth — in the nineteenth; viṁśatimein the twentieth also — in the twentieth also; vṛṣṇiṣuin the Vṛṣṇi dynasty — in the Vṛṣṇi dynasty; prāpyahaving obtained — having obtained; janmanībirths — births; rāmaBalarāma — Balarāma; kṛṣṇauŚrī Kṛṣṇa — Śrī Kṛṣṇa; itithus — thus; bhuvaḥof the world — of the world; bhagavānthe Personality of Godhead — the Personality of Godhead; aharatremoved — removed; bharamburden — burden.
In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the family of Vṛṣṇi [the Yadu dynasty], and by so doing He removed the burden of the world.
The specific mention of the word bhagavān in this text indicates that Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa are original forms of the Lord. This will be further explained later. Lord Kṛṣṇa is not an incarnation of the puruṣa, as we learned from the beginning of this chapter. He is directly the original Personality of Godhead, and Balarāma is the first plenary manifestation of the Lord. From Baladeva the first phalanx of plenary expansions, Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha and Pradyumna, expands. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is Vāsudeva, and Baladeva is Saṅkarṣaṇa.