Verse Text
bahuvidha-guṇa-kriyāṇām āspada-bhūtasya padmanābhasya |
tat-tal-līlā-bhedād virudhyate na hi catur-vidhāḥ ||225||
Translation
Classifying Kṛṣṇa into four different types is not a contradiction, because of respective differences in pastimes of the Lord, who is the abode of many types of qualities and activities.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
“If one is a dhīra-śānta he cannot be a dhīra-lalita.” Though this rule applies to other people, it does not apply to Kṛṣṇa. That is because at different times He displays these different types.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
If one asks how a personality can be beheld in four quite opposing ways, the answer is that the Lord is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities and activities. Therefore, His different aspects can be analyzed according to the exhibition of His limitless variety of pastimes, and as such there is no contradiction.