Verse 2.4.241

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.241:

साक्षाद् भगवतस् तस्य श्री-कृष्णस्यावतारिणः ।
उपासना-विशेषेण सर्वं यद्यपि लभ्यते ॥ २४१ ॥

sākṣād bhagavatas tasya śrī-kṛṣṇasyāvatāriṇaḥ |
upāsanā-viśeṣeṇa sarvaṃ yadyapi labhyate || 241 ||

sākṣāt–directly; bhagavataḥ–of the Supreme Lord; tasya–Him; śrī-kṛṣṇasya–Śrī Kṛṣṇa; avatāriṇaḥ–the origin of all incarnations; upāsanā–worship; viśeṣeṇa–special; sarvam–everything; yadi api–although; labhyate–is attained.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa is avatārī, the source of incarnations, and directly Bhagavān. Everything can be obtained by rendering special devotional service to Him.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

In two verses, beginning here with sākṣāt, Śrī Nārada removes Śrī Gopa-kumāra’s worry that he will instruct him on some other specific means for going to Ayodhyā. Śrī Nārada herein explains that everything, including the lotus feet of Śrī Raghunātha, can be obtained by the special worship of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is directly Bhagavān and the Lord of Goloka. That special worship means taking shelter of Śrī Madana-gopāla’s ten-syllable mantra, the king of all mantras. The reason for this is that Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the source, the seed, of all incarnations. He is directly Bhagavān and is therefore endowed with unlimited opulences.

In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.28), Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī states:

एते चांश-कलाः पुंसः कृष्णस् तु भगवान् स्वयम्

ete cāṃśa-kalāḥ puṃsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam

Among all the incarnations of Bhagavān whom I have described, some are His plenary portions (aṃśas) and some are portions of the plenary portions (kalās). However, Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original form of Godhead.