Verse 10·37

वृष्णीनां वासुदेवोऽस्मि पाण्डवानां धनञ्जयः ।मुनीनामप्यहं व्यासः कवीनामुशना कविः ॥

vṛṣṇīnāṃ vāsudevo’smi pāṇḍavānāṃ dhanañjayaḥmunīnāmapyahaṃ vyāsaḥ kavīnāmuśanā kaviḥ

The Avatar is at the same time the Vibhuti. This Krishna who in his divine inner being is the Godhead in a human form, is in his outer human being the leader of his age, the great man of the Vrishnis. This is from the point of view of the Nature, not of the soul. The Divine manifests himself through infinite qualities of his nature and the intensity of the manifestation is measured by their power and their achievement. The vibhūtī of the Divine is therefore, impersonally, the manifest power of his quality, it is his outflowing, in whatever form, of Knowledge, Energy, Love, Strength and the rest; personally, it is the mental form and the animate being in whom this power is achieved and does its great works. A pre-eminence in this inner and outer achievement, a greater power of divine quality, an effective energy is always the sign. The human vibhūtī is the hero of the race’s struggle towards divine achievement,… the first in each category, the greatest of each group, the most powerfully representative of the qualities and works in which its characteristic soul-power manifests itself. This heightening of the powers of the being is a very necessary step in the progress of the divine manifestation. Every great man who rises above our average level, raises by that very fact our common humanity; he is a living assurance of our divine possibilities, a promise of the Godhead, a glow of the divine Light and a breath of the divine Power.