Krishna has 100% attributes incarnations have 92% attributes then how both of them are same? Shiva with 88% attributes is called demigod and Shiva is also called guna avatar of Krishna then incarnations should also be demigods?
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The Nature of Krishna and His incarnations are same. Conider this ; A judge in court has certain powers and when the same judge who comes home is a father to his children. There his display of powers is transformed. He is the same person. Thus Rama and Krishna are the same only the display of Godhood is different!! However if the judge has a son who has is genetically connected with the Judge ; he is not the same as the judge ; he is qualified but he cannot be a judge ; this is an allegory to demigods like Shiva
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Hare Krsna Prabhu,
In Brahma Samhita Verse 19, it is said that:
diparchir eva hi dashantaram abhyupetya
dipayate vivrita-hetu-samana-dharma
yas tadrig eva hi cha vishnu-taya vibhati
govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami
Translation:
The light of one candle being communicated to other candles, although it burns separately in them,
is the same in its quality. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda who exhibits Himself equally in the
same mobile manner in His various manifestations.
So all the incarnations of Krsna are same in quality with him, all his qualities are present in all his incarnations, but he chooses to hold back some qualities by his own will in order to reciprocate with jivas according to their desire.
The difference between demigods(or jivas) and Krsna's expansions is that, jivas can choose to be either controlled by the Lord's internal(bhakti) or external(maya) potency, but the Lord's expansions never come under the control of his external energy, rather they award the power to overcome his external potency.
Lord Siva is a special type of demigod, he is neither fully jiva nor fully Bhagavan, but is a transformation of Krsna. Once again we refer to
Brahma Samhita Verse 18:
kshiram yatha dadhi vikara-vishesha-yogat
sanjayate na hi tatah prithag asti hetoho
yah shambhutam api tatha samupaiti karyad
govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami
Translation:
Just as milk is transformed into curd by the action of acids, but yet the effect curd is neither same
as, nor different from, its cause, viz., milk, so I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whom the state
of Sambhu is a transformation for the performance of the work of destruction.
-HariBol