What Makes An Object

"Any object is known by its four characteristic features:  name, form, qualities and activities.  Lord Krishna is the Supreme Object; thus He is knowable in terms of His unlimited and eternal name, form, qualities, and pastimes.  The absence of these four features in anything denies its status as object.  For example, impersonal Brahman is formless; hence it is not an object unto itself, but simply a distinctive trait of the Supreme Lord."  (Harinama-Cintamani)