In His svayam-rupa, in His personal feature, He always remains at Vrndavana, and He is just like a cowherd boy. That is His real feature, Krsna. The Krsna in the battlefield of Kuruksetra, that is not the real feature of Krsna

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"in His svayaṁ-rūpa, in His personal feature, He always remains at Vṛndāvana, and He is just like a cowherd boy. That is His real feature, Kṛṣṇa. The Kṛṣṇa in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, that is not the real feature of Kṛṣṇa"

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Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

In His svayaṁ-rūpa, in His personal feature, He always remains at Vṛndāvana, and He is just like a cowherd boy. That is His real feature, Kṛṣṇa. The Kṛṣṇa in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra, that is not the real feature of Kṛṣṇa. Just like a person, high-court judge, where you will find his real feature? His real feature you will find at his home, not on the bench.

661213 - Lecture CC Madhya 20.164-173 - New York:

So about the expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, in Brahma-saṁhitā, Īśopaniṣad, there are various Vedic literatures . . . they are all, I mean to say, taken together, calculated and presented by Lord Caitanya. He says:

svayaṁ-rūpa tad-ekātma-rūpa, āveśa—nāma

prathamei tina-rūpe rahena bhagavān

(CC Madhya 20.165)

Svayaṁ-rūpa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, He is called svayaṁ-rūpa, His personal feature. Then tad-ekātmā. So tad-ekātma-rūpa means not exactly the same person, but almost the same. Tad-ekātma. And āveśa. Āveśa means that empowered.

There is always difference between the individual soul and the Supreme Absolute Soul. When the individual soul is specially empowered by the Supreme Soul, that is called āveśa. He can act almost like God. We accept, according to this āveśa, āveśa-avatāra incarnation, authorized incarnation, we accept, my Guru Mahārāja accepted Lord Jesus Christ and Hazrat Muhammad, this āveśa incarnation, almost the same powerful.

svayaṁ-rūpa tad-ekātma-rūpa, āveśa—nāma

prathamei tina-rūpe rahena bhagavān

(CC Madhya 20.165)

Now, in the first instance the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, and tad-ekātmā, His next expansion with the same features, and āveśa, a powerful incarnation or powerful living entity . . .

'svayaṁ-rūpa' 'svayaṁ-prakāśa'—dui rūpe sphūrti

svayaṁ-rūpe—eka 'kṛṣṇa' vraje gopa-mūrti

(CC Madhya 20.166)

Svayaṁ-rūpa, the supreme personal feature, and svayaṁ-prakāśa . . . His immediate expansion is called svayaṁ-prakāśa.

So in His svayaṁ-rūpa, in His personal feature, He always remains at Vṛndāvana, and He is just like a cowherd boy. That is His real feature, Kṛṣṇa. The Kṛṣṇa in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, that is not the real feature of Kṛṣṇa. Just like a person, high-court judge, where you will find his real feature? His real feature you will find at his home, not on the bench. In the bench, even his father comes, the high-court judge's father, he will have to address the judge, "My lord." That is the court. The same person at home and same person in the court is different, although the same person.

Similarly, the real Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, He never goes out of Vṛndāvana. He remains always a cowherd boy. That's all.

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-

lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam

(Bs 5.29)

Surabhī means transcendental cows. He is engaged in that pastime. So svayaṁ-rūpa eka kṛṣṇa vraje gopa-mūrti. Gopa-mūrti means cowherd boy.