Everything in God’s creation is perfect! There is such a consistency in his design, whether it is an atom or universe! Yet, there is so much variety in his creation. When the all-powerful God has weaved the magic of variety everywhere, isn’t it evident for it to manifest in his forms as well? Shreemad Bhāgvatam clarifies different manifestations of God thus:

vadanti tattattva vidastattva  yajgyānamadvayamṁ
brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavāniti śhabdyate

“The Supreme Lord manifests in this world in three ways: Brahman, Paramātma, and Bhagavān.” 

They are not three different Gods; rather they are three manifestations of the same one God.   However, their qualities are different, just as water, steam, and ice are the same substance, but their physical qualities are different. Brahman is the omnipresent aspect of God, in which he does not manifest his forms. Paramātma is the aspect of God, in which he is seated in all our hearts. Bhagavān is the aspect of God in which he manifests all the sweetness of his names, forms, abodes, pastimes, and associates. Various forms of God represent his various moods. 

Just as the supremely loving God has given us so many choices everywhere in the world, He has graced us in so many forms, just for us to attach and purify our mind. Shouldn’t it be our primary goal to open our lives to His causeless grace and strive to reach Him?

When a child longed for fatherly love,
With four arms, you came, to embrace!
To save another from wrath, oh Lord,
Your love, adorned a lion’s face!
In what we see, we smell, we taste,
Strands of variety interlace!
Isn’t it but natural, you have infinite forms,
Each one, an ocean of grace!