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* '''Wholly Spiritual Identity of the Lord:''' God consists wholly of spiritual energy, unlike the material body or the mixed condition of the living being. Understanding this distinction helps one appreciate Kṛṣṇa's absolute nature and the spiritual reality beyond matter. | * '''Wholly Spiritual Identity of the Lord:''' God consists wholly of spiritual energy, unlike the material body or the mixed condition of the living being. Understanding this distinction helps one appreciate Kṛṣṇa's absolute nature and the spiritual reality beyond matter. | ||
* '''Material Absorption Is Misused Wholeness:''' A person may become wholly engaged in bodily maintenance, corrupted by sense enjoyment, or dependent on artificial modern facilities. Such absorption binds the living being unless it is transformed into wholehearted Kṛṣṇa consciousness. | * '''Material Absorption Is Misused Wholeness:''' A person may become wholly engaged in bodily maintenance, corrupted by sense enjoyment, or dependent on artificial modern facilities. Such absorption binds the living being unless it is transformed into wholehearted Kṛṣṇa consciousness. | ||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Wholly Dependent on the Supreme Lord|Wholly Dependent on the Supreme Lord.]] | * Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Wholly Dependent on the Supreme Lord|Wholly Dependent on the Supreme Lord.]] | ||
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Theme Analysis
The category Wholly reveals the spiritual force of complete dependence, full dedication, and undivided application in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śrīla Prabhupāda uses the word to show that surrender cannot remain partial if one wants the highest perfection; the living being must depend wholly on the Supreme Lord and use life, knowledge, energy, and talent in His service. The quotes also contrast this spiritual wholeness with material absorption, where people become wholly engaged in maintaining the body, dependent on artificial civilization, or corrupted by sense enjoyment. Real wholeness is not material completeness but the soul's complete alignment with Kṛṣṇa through service, remembrance, and surrender. When one's mind, endeavor, and knowledge are wholly directed toward the Lord, life becomes purified and connected with Vaikuṇṭha consciousness.
- Complete Dependence on the Lord: Devotees such as Mahārāja Ambarīṣa depend solely and wholly on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This dependence is not weakness but the highest spiritual strength, because it places the soul under the Lord's protection.
- All Knowledge for Divine Service: Art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology, and every branch of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord. Knowledge becomes complete when it is used to glorify and serve Kṛṣṇa.
- Wholly Spiritual Identity of the Lord: God consists wholly of spiritual energy, unlike the material body or the mixed condition of the living being. Understanding this distinction helps one appreciate Kṛṣṇa's absolute nature and the spiritual reality beyond matter.
- Material Absorption Is Misused Wholeness: A person may become wholly engaged in bodily maintenance, corrupted by sense enjoyment, or dependent on artificial modern facilities. Such absorption binds the living being unless it is transformed into wholehearted Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Wholly Dependent on the Supreme Lord.
Pages in category "Wholly"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- A person may appear to be irreligious, but if he has the qualifications of Krsna consciousness wholly and fully, he is to be understood to be a sadhu. BG 1972 purports
- After accepting the sannyasa order, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu decided to go to Vrndavana and engage Himself wholly and solely in the service of Mukunda in a solitary place
- All the sages and devotees of the Lord have recommended that the subject matter of art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology and all other branches of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord
- As Paramatma, or Supersoul, He (the Lord) is situated in everyone's heart, always giving everyone the chance of good counsel. Thus everyone should take the opportunity and render transcendental loving service to Him wholly and solely
- At the present moment there is a great necessity for brahmanas, because almost everyone is a sudra, for almost everyone is wholly engaged in maintaining the body, eating, sleeping, mating and defending - all symptoms of animals and sudras
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- He (a liberated soul) is wholly freed from all kinds of material desires, yet still he is irresistibly attracted by the desire to hear and understand the pastimes of the Lord
- He (the materialist) certainly never thought of using the dictaphone in God's service, but we are using this dictaphone to write Krsna conscious literature. Of course, the manufacture of the dictaphone is wholly within the energy of Krsna
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- If human society unlawfully claims that the property of the universe, either partially or wholly, belongs to mankind, all of human society will be cursed as a society of thieves and will be punished by the laws of nature
- If you become so much dependent on the bodily necessities of life, then you cannot become fully and wholly for the benefit of the mass of people. Our Gandhi, he imitated this. For the mass of people... But that was to a certain extent successful
- In the later age also there have been many mahatmas of this type, and they also gave up all karma-kandiya conceptions of life' solely and wholly depending on the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna
- In the spiritual world this religious principle of Krsna consciousness is maintained in harmony, and therefore that world is called Vaikuntha. If the same principles can be adopted here, wholly or partially, then it is also Vaikuntha
- In this connection, Sukadeva Gosvami speaks in the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2nd Chapter, 17th verse, about the story of Ajamila, who began life as a fine and dutiful brahmana but in his young manhood became wholly corrupted by a prostitute
- In this verse (CC Adi 2.17) from SB (11.6.47), vata-vasanah refers to mendicants who don't care about anything material, including clothing, but who depend wholly on nature. Such sages do not cover their bodies even in severe winter or scorching sunshine
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- The atomic energy works wholly on total combustibility, and so the brahmastra also acts. It creates an intolerable heat similar to atomic radiation
- The brahmastra is similar to the modern nuclear weapon manipulated by atomic energy. The atomic energy works wholly on total combustibility, and so the brahmastra also acts
- The modern life of civilization depends wholly on electricity and petrol and both of them are artificial for man
- The proof is that when Durvasa Muni created a demon to kill Maharaja Ambarisa, the King stayed fixed in his place, praying to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and depending solely and wholly on Him
- The subject matter of art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology and all other branches of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord
- This point should be emphasized: because of His (Krsna's) absolute position, His hearing is wholly identical with His eating and tasting. BG 1972 purports
- This teaching is imparted by the Lord Himself in the pages of the Bhagavad-gita, in which it is clearly described that the Lord (Sri Krsna) is everything, and that to surrender unto Him solely and wholly makes one the most perfectly pious man