aiswarasya samägrasya viryasya yasasah sriyah
jnäna vairägyayos caiva sannam bhaga itingana … Visnu Purana 6.5.47
The Supreme Personality who possesses all aiswarya or riches, all virya or strength, all yasa or fame, all sri or beauty, all jnana or knowledge and all vairagya or renunciation is called Bhagavan.
There are many persons who are very rich, very powerful, very beautiful, very famous, very learned and very much detached, but no one can claim that he possesses all riches, all strength etc. entirely. Only Lord Krishna can claim this because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No living entity, including Brahma, Lord Shiva or Narayana, can possess all opulences as fully as Krishna.
It is concluded in the Brahma-samhita by Lord Brahma himself that Lord Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to or above Him. He is the primeval Lord, or Bhagavan, known as Govinda, and He is the supreme cause of all causes.
In the Srimad Bhagavatam also there is a list of many incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but Lord Krishna is described as the original Personality of Godhead, from whom many, many incarnations and Personalities of Godhead expand.
Acaryas including Adi Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Madhavacarya and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself have accepted Lord Krishna or Govinda as the Supreme Personality of Godhead or Bhagavan.
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