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* '''Sanctifying the Material World:''' Through the installation of the Deity and the presence of pure devotees, any ordinary location can be transformed into a first-class place of worship and spiritual perfection. | * '''Sanctifying the Material World:''' Through the installation of the Deity and the presence of pure devotees, any ordinary location can be transformed into a first-class place of worship and spiritual perfection. | ||
* '''Returning to the Supreme Abode:''' Conditioned souls are originally from God's place, and the ultimate goal of human life is to cease trying to enjoy independently and return back home, back to Godhead. | * '''Returning to the Supreme Abode:''' Conditioned souls are originally from God's place, and the ultimate goal of human life is to cease trying to enjoy independently and return back home, back to Godhead. | ||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:The Eternal Reality of God's Place|The Eternal Reality of God's Place.]] | * Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:The Eternal Reality of God's Place|The Eternal Reality of God's Place.]] | ||
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Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has His own eternal, spiritual abode, which is completely distinct from the material world. While God's supreme place is situated in the highest spiritual realm (Vaikuṇṭha or Goloka Vṛndāvana), He also makes Himself available within the material world in specific, purified locations. Any place where the Lord's Deity is worshiped, where His pure devotees reside, or where He performs His transcendental pastimes is non-different from His supreme abode. Even though conditioned souls have foolishly left God's place to suffer in the material world, they can be transferred back to His eternal, blissful realm by taking up the process of pure devotional service.
- The Eternal Kingdom of God: The Supreme Lord resides in His own transcendental abode, far beyond the material universes, where He eternally enjoys pastimes with His associates.
- The Sacred Places of His Pastimes: Holy places like Mathurā, Vṛndāvana, and Badarikāśrama are directly sanctified by the Lord's supreme presence and are non-different from the spiritual world.
- Sanctifying the Material World: Through the installation of the Deity and the presence of pure devotees, any ordinary location can be transformed into a first-class place of worship and spiritual perfection.
- Returning to the Supreme Abode: Conditioned souls are originally from God's place, and the ultimate goal of human life is to cease trying to enjoy independently and return back home, back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Eternal Reality of God's Place.
Pages in category "God's Place"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- According to the time and circumstances, He (Krsna) spoke as follows, "You are the subject of the King of the Bhojas, and you live in the jungle. We are also indirectly his subjects, and We try to please him as far as possible"
- As Hiranyakasipu moved his limbs here, there & all around, very much afflicted at being captured, Nrsimhadeva placed the demon on His lap, supporting him with His thighs, & in the doorway of the assembly hall the Lord very easily tore the demon to pieces
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- For fifteen days the Lord had remained in a secluded place with the supreme goddess of fortune and had performed His pastimes with her
- From there (the upper planetary system, where pious people reside), if his (a pure devotee's) devotional service is complete, such a devotee is transferred to the place where the Lord's pastimes are going on
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- If a devotee can sanctify the place and family of his birth so extraordinarily, then what to speak of how completely the Lord can sanctify the place and family in which He chooses to take His birth
- In the Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda, there is a full description of the yoga-pitha, or the particular place where the Lord is in audience to His eternal devotees
- In these verses (SB 7.14.30-33) and in verse twenty-nine, stress is given to one point: harer arcasritas ca ye or harer arca. In other words, any place where the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is worshiped by devotees is most significant
- In this verse (SB 4.31.16) the word padam indicates the place where the Supreme Personality of Godhead resides. As confirmed in Isopanisad 1, isavasyam idam sarvam
- India became divided, Pakistan and Hindustan. Actually India was one, but we see now it is Pakistan. And some day another "stan" will be divided. So this is going on. So sarva-loka, in all planets, all the planets, actually that is God's place
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- That is mentioned (in sastra), "This Kalki avatara incarnation will come. He will appear in a place whose name is Sambhalapur." That is still in India. - And his father's name will be Visnu-yasi
- The Caitanya-bhagavata states that Paramesvara dasa, known sometimes as Paramesvari dasa, was the life and soul of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. The body of Paramesvara dasa was the place of Lord Nityananda's pastimes
- The dress for the Deity should be first class, the food offered to Him must be first class, and the place where He is situated in the temple must be first class or even more than first class. Furthermore, the temple should always be as clean as glass
- The Lord could understand that the quarrel between the doormen (Jaya and Vijaya) and the sages (four Kumaras) was taking a different turn, and therefore He instantly came out of His place and went to the spot to stop further aggravation
- The man who worships the Lord, the Lord Himself who is worshiped, the cause for which the Lord is worshiped, the source of supply, the place where such worship is done, etc. - everything is benefited by such an action
- The SPG has appeared in the form of Nara-Narayana in the land of Bharata-varsa, at the place known as Badarikasrama, to favor His devotees by teaching them religion, knowledge, renunciation, spiritual power, sense control and freedom from false ego
- The waves of a river flow incessantly, and no one can count how many waves there are. Similarly, no one can calculate when and how the different incarnations of the Lord appear according to the necessities of time, place and candidates
- There are other doorkeepers also (in Vaikuntha), named Kumuda, Kumudaksa, Pundarika, Vamana, Sankukarna, Sarvanetra, Sumukha, etc. The Lord's palace is well decorated and protected by the above-mentioned doorkeepers
- They do not believe in God, and what to speak of His name, fame, His place, His activities, His form, His quality. How we can know? There is no educational system about the science of God
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- We are sons of God, part and parcels of God, and God means almighty. So we have got almighty father, and leaving His place, I have come to this material world to enjoy independently. That is criminality. And we are suffering
- When Krsna and Balarama, with the strength of Their legs, crawled in the muddy places created in Vraja by cow dung and cow urine, Their crawling resembled the crawling of serpents, and the sound of Their ankle bells was very charming - SB 10.8.22