CC Madhya 8.134

Madhya-līlā, Chapter 8, Text 134

পরম ঈশ্বর কৃষ্ণ — স্বয়ং ভগবান্ ।
সর্ব-অবতারী, সর্বকারণ-প্রধান ॥ ১৩৪ ॥

parama īśvara kṛṣṇa — svayaṁ bhagavān
sarva-avatārī, sarva-kāraṇa-pradhāna

Word by word

parama — supreme; īśvara — controller; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; svayam — personally; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sarva-avatārī — the source of all incarnations; sarva-kāraṇa-pradhāna — the supreme cause of all causes.

Translation

Rāmānanda Rāya then began to speak on kṛṣṇa-tattva. “Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,” he said. “He is personally the original Godhead, the source of all incarnations and the cause of all causes.”