Krsna's expansions are both His personality (plenary),
and His energies (separated)
SB 1.11.31 Purport    

Lord Krsna' s Entrance into Dvaraka 
  
It is confirmed by the Sruti-mantra that the Absolute is one alone, and yet He becomes many as soon as He so desires. These manifold expansions of the Supreme Lord are manifested as plenary and separated portions.
 
The separated portions are representations of His energy, and the plenary portions are manifestations of His Personality. Thus the Personality of Godhead manifested Himself in 16,108 plenary expansions and simultaneously entered into each and every one of the palaces of the queens. This is called vaibhava, or the transcendental potency of the Lord. And because He can do so, He is also known as Yogesvara. Ordinarily, a yogi or mystic living being is able to expand himself at utmost to tenfold expansions of his body, but the Lord can do so to the extent of as many thousands or infinitely, as He likes.

How vedic wives act with their husbands
SB 1.11.31 Purport  

Lord Krsna' s Entrance into Dvaraka  
 
According to Yajnavalkya's religious injunctions, a woman whose husband is away from home should not take part in any social functions, should not decorate
her body, should not laugh and should not go to any relative's house in any circumstance. This is the vow of the ladies whose husbands are away from home.  At the same time, it is also enjoined that a wife should never present herself before the husband in an
unclean state.  She must decorate herself with ornaments and good dress and should always be present before the husband in a happy and joyous mood. 

The queens of Lord Krsna were all in meditation,
thinking of the Lord's absence, and were always meditating upon Him. The Lord's devotees cannot live for a moment without meditating on the Lord, and what to speak of the queens, who were all goddesses of fortune incarnated as queens in the pastimes of
the Lord at Dvaraka. They can never be separated from the Lord,

How to become a wife of Krsna - tapasya
SB 1.11.35 Purport   

Lord Krsna' s Entrance into Dvaraka 
  
The women who became the wives of the Lord are      
certainly not ordinary women, because to get the Lord as one's husband is the result of many, many millions of births' tapasya (austerity).  When the Lord appears on different lokas, or planets, or on this planet of human beings, He displays His transcendental pastimes just to attract the conditioned souls to become His eternal servitors, friends, parents and lovers respectively in the transcendental world, where the Lord eternally reciprocates such exchanges of service.

God is exactly like us-only much greater
SB 1.11.36 S    

Lord Krsna' s Entrance into Dvaraka  
 
He is exactly like us, and He has all the propensities of an individual living being in fullness. He marries exactly like us, but His marriage is neither mundane nor limited by our experience in the conditioned state. His wives, therefore, appear like mundane women, but factually they are all transcendental liberated souls,
perfect manifestations of internal energy.

Partial service to livings beings AFTER service to Krsna - is completion
SB 1.12.5 

Birth of Emperor Pariksit  
      
As an ideal king, he had no personal ambition, and there was no place for sense gratification because all his senses at all times were engaged in the loving service of the Supreme Lord, which includes the partial service to the living beings, who form the parts and
parcels of the complete whole. Those who are busy rendering service to the parts and parcels, leaving aside the whole, only spoil time and energy, as one does when watering the leaves of a tree without watering the root. If water is poured on the root,
the leaves are enlivened perfectly and automatically, but if water is poured on the leaves only, the whole energy is spoiled.

Maharaja Yudhisthira, therefore, was constantly engaged in the service of the Lord, and thus the parts and parcels of the Lord, the living beings under his careful administration, were perfectly attended with all comforts in this life and all progress in the next. That is the way of perfect management of state administration.

Hunger-- is actually lack of spiritual satisfaction - The Hare Krsna Society should satisfy these demands
SB 1.12.6 Purport

Birth of Emperor Pariksit  
      
The whole material world is full of hungry living beings.  The hunger is not for good food, shelter or sense gratification. The hunger is for the spiritual atmosphere.  Due to ignorance only they think that the world is dissatisfied because there is not sufficient food, shelter, defense and objects of sense gratification. This is called illusion. 

When the living being is hungry for spiritual satisfaction, he is misrepresented by material hunger. But the foolish leaders cannot see that even the people who are most sumptuously materially satisfied are still hungry.  And what is their hunger and poverty?  This hunger is actually for spiritual food, spiritual shelter, spiritual defense and spiritual sense gratification. These can be obtained in the association of the Supreme Spirit, Lord Sri Krsna, and therefore one who has them cannot be attracted by the so-called food, shelter, defense and sense gratification of the material world, even if they are relished by the denizens of the heavenly planets.

Therefore, in the -Bhagavad-gita (8.16) it is said by the Lord that even in the topmost planet of the universe, namely the Brahmaloka, where the duration of life is multiplied by millions of years by earth calculation, one cannot satisfy his hunger. Such hunger can be satisfied only when the living being is situated in immortality, which is attained in the spiritual sky, far, far above the Brahmaloka, in the association of Lord Mukunda, the Lord who awards His devotees the transcendental pleasure of liberation.

Arca vigraha accepts service from His incapable (conditioned) devotees
SB 1.12.9 Purport

Birth of Emperor Pariksit  
      
He accepts the form of arca-vigraha (worshipable
Deity) just to accept service from His different incapable
devotees. By the mercy of the arca-vigraha, the form of the Lord in material elements, the devotees who are in the material world can easily approach the Lord, although He is not conceivable by the material senses. The arca-vigraha is therefore an all-spiritual form of the Lord to be perceived by the material devotees; such an arca-vigraha of the Lord is never to be considered material. There is no difference between matter and
spirit for the Lord, although there is a gulf of difference
between the two in the case of the conditioned living being. For the Lord there is nothing but spiritual existence, and similarly there is nothing except spiritual existence for the pure devotee of the Lord in his intimate relation with the Lord.

God is ALWAYS present EVERYWHERE - even after He disappears
SB 1.12.12      

Birth of Emperor Pariksit  
     
He is present everywhere and can appear and disappear at His will from everywhere and anywhere. His disappearance from the sight of the child Pariksit does not mean that He appeared on the spot from any other place. He was present there, and even after His disappearance He was there, although invisible to the eyes of the child. This material covering of the effulgent firmament is also something like a womb of the mother nature, and we are all put into the womb by the Lord, the father of all living beings.  He is present everywhere, even in this material womb of mother Durga, and those who are deserving can see the Lord.

Every human bodily part is influenced by the stars
SB 1.12.12 Purport 

Birth of Emperor Pariksit

Thus we are awarded bodies according to our activities. The law of nature is so subtle that every part of our body is influenced by the respective stars, and a living being obtains his working body to fulfill his terms of imprisonment by the manipulation of such astronomical influence.  A man's destiny is therefore ascertained by the birth-time constellation of stars, and a factual horoscope is made by a learned astrologer.  It is a great science, and misuse of a science does not make it useless.

Jayanti refers only to Gods appearance

SB 1.12.12 Purport        

Birth of Emperor Pariksit  
    
The most auspicious constellation of stars takes place during the appearance of the Lord in this material world, and it is specifically called jayanti, a word not to be abused for any other purposes.

Krsna is only seen by one who is finished with this material world...
SB 1.8.26

Prayers by Queen Kunti

My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted.  One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling.

PURPORT

Being materially advanced means taking birth in an aristocratic family and possessing great wealth, an education and attractive personal beauty.  All materialistic men are mad after possessing all these material opulences, and this is known as the advancement of material civilization. But the result is that by possessing all these material assets one becomes artificially puffed up, intoxicated by such temporary possessions. Consequently, such materially puffed up persons are incapable of uttering the holy name of the Lord by addressing Him feelingly,

 "O Govinda, O Krsna." 

It is said in the sastras that by once uttering the holy name of the Lord, the sinner gets rid of a quantity of sins that he is unable to commit. Such is the power of uttering the holy name of the Lord. There is not the least exaggeration in this statement.  Actually the Lord's holy name has such powerful potency.  But there is a quality to such utterances also. It depends on the quality of feeling. A helpless man can feelingly utter the holy name of the Lord, whereas a man who utters the same holy name in great material satisfaction cannot be so sincere.  A materially puffed up person may utter the holy name of the Lord occasionally, but he is incapable of uttering the name in quality.

Therefore, the four principles of material advancement, namely 
(1)high parentage, 
(2) good wealth, 
(3) high education and 
(4) attractive beauty, are, so to speak, disqualifications for progress on the path of spiritual advancement. The material covering of the pure spirit soul is an external feature, as much as fever is an external feature of the unhealthy body. The general process is to decrease the degree of the fever and not to aggravate it by maltreatment.  Sometimes it is seen that spiritually advanced persons become materially impoverished. 

This is no discouragement. On the other hand, such impoverishment is a good sign as much as the falling of temperature is a good sign.  The principle of life should be to decrease the degree of material intoxication which leads one to be more and more illusioned about the aim of life.  Grossly illusioned persons are quite unfit for entrance into the kingdom of God.

Krsna really is impartial to all
SB 1.8.29

O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and are so misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy.  People only imagine that You are partial.

Purport

The Lord's mercy upon the fallen souls is equally distributed.  He has no one as the specific object of hostility. The very conception of the Personality of Godhead as a human being is misleading. His pastimes appear to be exactly like a human being's, but actually they are transcendental and without any tinge of material contamination.  He is undoubtedly known as partial to His pure devotees, but in fact He is never partial, as much as the sun is never partial to anyone.

By utilizing the sun rays, sometimes even the stones become valuable, whereas a blind man cannot see the sun, although there are enough sun rays before him. Darkness and light are two opposite conceptions, but this does not mean that the sun is partial in distributing its rays. The sun rays are open to everyone, but the capacities of the receptacles differ. Foolish people think that devotional service is flattering the Lord to get special mercy. Factually the pure devotees who are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are not a mercantile community. A mercantile house renders service to someone in exchange for values. The pure devotee does not render service unto the Lord for such exchange, and therefore the full mercy of the Lord is open for him.

Suffering and needy men, inquisitive persons or philosophers make temporary connections with the Lord to serve a particular purpose. When the purpose is served, there is no more relation with the Lord.  A suffering man, if he is pious at all, prays to the Lord for his recovery. But as soon as the recovery is over, in most cases the suffering man no longer cares to keep any connection with the Lord.  The mercy of the Lord is open for him, but he is reluctant to receive it. That is the difference between a pure devotee and a mixed devotee. Those who are completely against the service of the Lord are considered to be in abject darkness, those who ask for the Lord's favor only at the time of necessity are partial recipients of the mercy of the Lord, and those who are cent percent engaged in the service of the Lord are full recipients of the mercy of the Lord.  Such partiality in receiving the Lord's mercy is relative to the recipient, and it is not due to the partiality of the all-merciful Lord.
  
When the Lord descends on this material world by His all-merciful energy, He plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to His devotees only, but that is not a fact. Despite such apparent manifestation of partiality, His mercy is equally distributed. In the Battlefield of Kuruksetra all persons who died in the fight before the presence of the Lord got salvation without the necessary qualifications because death before the presence of the Lord purifies the passing soul from the effects of all sins, and therefore the dying man gets a place
somewhere in the transcendental abode. Somehow or other if someone puts himself open in the sun rays, he is sure to get the requisite benefit both by heat and by ultraviolet rays. Therefore, the conclusion is that the Lord is never partial. It is wrong for the people in general to think of Him as partial.

Aim of life is to follow the brahmanas, vaisnavas and religious principles.
SB 1.9.14

Everything, therefore, is controlled by the supreme kala, a forceful representative of the Lord within the material world. Thus Yudhisthira should not be sorry for the inconceivable action of time.  Everyone has to bear the actions and reactions of time as long as one is within the conditions of the material world. Yudhisthira should not think that he had committed sins in his previous birth and is suffering the consequence. Even the most pious has to suffer the condition of material nature.  But a pious man is faithful to the Lord, for he is guided by the bona fide brahmana and Vaisnava following the religious principles. These three guiding principles should be the aim of life.  One should not be disturbed by the tricks of eternal time.  Even the great controller of the universe, Brahmaji, is also under the control of that time; therefore, one should not grudge being thus controlled by time despite being a true follower of religious principles.

                                Absolutely no one knows what God will do
SB 1.9.16

O King, no one can know the plan of the Lord [Sri Krsna]. Even though great philosophers inquire exhaustively, they are bewildered.

PURPORT

The bewilderment of Maharaja Yudhisthira over his past sinful acts and the resultant sufferings, etc., is completely negated by the great authority Bhisma (one of the twelve authorized persons). Bhisma wanted to impress upon Maharaja Yudhisthira that since time immemorial no one, including such demigods as Siva and Brahma, could ascertain the real plan of the Lord. So what can we understand about it?

It is useless also to inquire about it.  Even the exhaustive philosophical inquiries of sages cannot ascertain the plan of the Lord. The best policy is simply to abide by the orders of the Lord without argument. The sufferings of the Pandavas were never due to their past deeds. The Lord had to execute the plan of establishing the kingdom of virtue, and therefore His own devotees suffered temporarily in order to
establish the conquest of virtue. Bhismadeva was certainly satisfied by seeing the triumph of virtue, and he was glad to see King Yudhisthira on the throne, although he himself fought against him.  Even a great fighter like Bhisma could not win the Battle of Kuruksetra because the Lord wanted to show that vice cannot conquer virtue, regardless of who tries to execute it. 

Bhismadeva was a great devotee of the Lord, but he chose to fight against the Pandavas by the will of the Lord because the Lord wanted to show that a fighter like Bhisma cannot win on the wrong side. 

A devotee accepts tribulations as favors from Krsna
SB 1.9.18

The popular saying is that a housewife teaches the daughter-in-law by teaching the daughter. Similarly, the Lord teaches the world by teaching the devotee. The devotee does not have to learn anything new from the Lord because the Lord teaches the sincere devotee always from within.  Whenever, therefore, a show is made to teach the devotee, as in the case of the teachings of Bhagavad-gita, it is for teaching the less intelligent men.  A devotee's duty, therefore, is to ungrudgingly accept tribulations from the Lord as a benediction. The Pandavas were advised by
Bhismadeva to accept the responsibility of administration without hesitation. The poor subjects were without protection due to the Battle of Kuruksetra, and they were awaiting the assumption of power by Maharaja Yudhisthira.  A pure devotee of the Lord accepts tribulations as favors from the Lord.  Since the Lord is absolute, there is no mundane difference between the two.

To fully depend upon Krsna is how to make oneself most happy
SB 1.9.22

Yet, despite His being equally kind to everyone, He has
graciously come before me while I am ending my life, for I am His unflinching servitor.

 PURPORT

The Supreme Lord, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, although equal to everyone, is still more inclined to His unflinching devotee who is completely surrendered and knows no one else as his protector and master.  Having unflinching faith in the
Supreme Lord as one's protector, friend and master is the natural condition of eternal life.  A living entity is so made by the will of the Almighty that he is most happy when placing himself in a condition of absolute dependence.
  
The opposite tendency is the cause of falldown. The living entity has this tendency of falling down by dint of misidentifying himself as fully independent to lord it over the material world.  The root cause of all troubles is there in false egotism. One must draw towards the Lord in all circumstances.

Each ashram learns how to give its energy to Krsna
SB 1.9.27

To give charity is one of the householder's main functions, and he should be prepared to give in charity at least fifty percent of his hard-earned money.  A brahmacari, or student, should perform sacrifices, a householder should give charity, and a person in the
retired life or in the renounced order should practice penances and austerities. Those are the general functions of all the asramas, or orders of life on the path of self-realization. 

In the brahmacari life the training is sufficiently imparted so that one may understand that the world as property belongs to the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead.  No one, therefore, can claim to be the proprietor of anything in the world.  Therefore, in the life of a householder, which is a sort of license for sex enjoyment, one must give in charity for the service of the Lord. Everyone's energy is generated or borrowed from the reservoir of energy of the Lord; therefore, the resultant actions of such energy must be given to the Lord in the shape of transcendental loving service
for Him.  As the rivers draw water from the sea through the clouds and again go down to the sea, similarly our energy is borrowed from the supreme source, the Lord's energy, and it must return to the Lord.  That is the perfection of our energy. The Lord, therefore, in the Bhagavad-gita (9.27) says that whatever we do,
whatever we undergo as penance, whatever we sacrifice, whatever we eat or whatever we give in charity must be offered to Him (the Lord). That is the way of utilizing our borrowed energy. When our
energy is utilized in that way, our energy is purified from the contamination of material inebrieties, and thus we become fit for our original natural life of service to the Lord.

Raja-dharma is a great science, unlike modern diplomacy for political supremacy. The kings were trained systematically to become munificent and not merely be tax collectors.

Sastric stories are from 3 dimensions-other universes...
SB 1.9.29

Puranas, Mahabharata and Ramayana are factual historical narrations that took place sometime in the past, although not in any chronological order. Such historical facts, being instructive for ordinary men, were assorted without chronological reference.

Besides that, they happen on different planets, nay, in different universes, and thus the description of the narrations is sometimes measured by three dimensions. We are simply concerned with the instructive lessons of such incidents, even though they are not in order by our limited range of understanding. Bhismadeva described such narrations before Maharaja Yudhisthira in reply to his different questions.


9) Bhishmas arrows were like the love bites of the gopis upon Krsnas body

SB 1.9.34
  Therefore Bhismadeva's piercing of the body of Lord Krsna is a 
sort of bewildering problem for the nondevotee atheist, but those 
who are devotees, or liberated souls, are not bewildered.         
  Bhismadeva appreciated the all-merciful attitude of the Lord 
because He did not leave Arjuna alone, although He was disturbed 
by the sharpened arrows of Bhismadeva, nor was He reluctant to  
come before Bhisma's deathbed, even though He was ill-treated by him on the battlefield.  Bhisma's repentance and the Lord's    
merciful attitude are both unique in this picture.     
         
  Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, a great acarya and devotee 
in the humor of conjugal love with the Lord, remarks very   
saliently in this regard. He says that the wounds created on the 
body of the Lord by the sharpened arrows of Bhismadeva were as  
pleasing to the Lord as the biting of a fiancee who bites the body
of the Lord directed by a strong sense of sex desire. Such biting 
by the opposite sex is never taken as a sign of enmity, even if  
there is a wound on the body.  Therefore, the fighting as an 
exchange of transcendental pleasure between the Lord and His pure devotee, Sri Bhismadeva, was not at all mundane. Besides that, since the Lord's body and the Lord are identical, there was no possibility of wounds in the absolute body. The apparent wounds caused by the sharpened arrows are misleading to the common man, but one who has a little absolute knowledge can understand thetranscendental exchange in the chivalrous relation. The Lord was perfectly happy with the wounds caused by the sharpened arrows of Bhismadeva. The word vibhidyamana is significant because the Lord's skin is not different from the Lord. Because our skin is different from our soul, in our case the word vibhidyamana, or being bruised and cut, would have been quite suitable.

Transcendental bliss is of different varieties, and the variety of activities in the mundane world is but a perverted reflection of transcendental bliss. Because everything in the mundane world is qualitatively mundane, it is full of inebrieties, whereas in the absolute realm, because everything is of the same absolute nature, there are varieties of enjoyment without inebriety. The Lord enjoyed the wounds created by His great devotee Bhismadeva, and because Bhismadeva is a devotee in the chivalrous relation, he fixes up his mind on Krsna in that wounded condition.

10) Krsnas killing Arjunas enemies was a supreme favor for them all....

SB 1.9.36  

  
  The Lord diminished the duration of life of the opposite party by His merciful glance. It is said that all the fighters who assembled on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra attained salvation by personally seeing the Lord at the time of death. Therefore, His diminishing the duration of life of Arjuna's enemy does not mean that He was partial to the cause of Arjuna. Factually He was merciful to the opposite party because they would not have attained salvation by dying at home in the ordinary course of life. Here was a chance to see the Lord at the time of death and thus attain salvation from material life. Therefore, the Lord is all good, and whatever He does is for everyone's good. Apparently it was for the victory of Arjuna, His intimate friend, but factually it was for the good of Arjuna's enemies. Such are the transcendental activities of the Lord, and whoever understands this also gets salvation after quitting this material body. The Lord does no wrong in any circumstance because He is absolute, all good at all times.

11) Arjuna's intelligence was never polluted being a constant companion of the Lord

SB 1.9.37

His intelligence could not be polluted at any time because he was a devotee and constant companion of the Lord, as is clear in the Fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita. Apparently Arjuna's intelligence became polluted because otherwise there would not have been a chance to deliver the teachings of Bhagavad-gita for the good of all polluted conditioned souls engaged in material bondage by the conception of the false material body. The Bhagavad-gita was delivered to the conditioned souls of the world to deliver them from the wrong conception of identifying the body with the soul and to reestablish the soul's eternal relation with the Supreme Lord.  Atma-vidya, or transcendental knowledge of Himself, was primarily spoken by the Lord for the benefit of all concerned in all parts of the un