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The | The path of spiritual realization requires a firm acceptance of the Absolute Truth as He is. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that while empiricists and mental speculators struggle with the infinite nature of the Lord, a devotee accepts the Supreme Personality of Godhead's authority without reservation. This acceptance is not merely intellectual but includes embracing the Lord's inconceivable potencies and His specific dealings with His devotees. By accepting Kṛṣṇa as the root of all existence and the supreme well-wisher, the devotee transcends the duality of happiness and distress. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that this acceptance is the gateway to the higher rasas of friendship and parental affection. | ||
* '''The | * '''The Personality of Godhead:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that unlike the impersonalists, devotees accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Person, even when He appears in a human-like form. | ||
* ''' | * '''Inconceivable Potency:''' A devotee accepts that the Lord's actions are beyond mundane logic; Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that devotees do not doubt the Lord's ability to lift hills or control the infinite. | ||
* ''' | * '''Divine Benevolence in All Circumstances:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that devotees accept even hindrances as the mercy of the Lord, seeing them as opportunities for purification rather than accidents. | ||
* ''' | * '''Intimate Relationships:''' The highest stage of acceptance involves viewing the Lord not just as a master, but as a friend or son; Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights this as the perfection of the Gauḍīya-sampradāya. | ||
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Theme Analysis
The path of spiritual realization requires a firm acceptance of the Absolute Truth as He is. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that while empiricists and mental speculators struggle with the infinite nature of the Lord, a devotee accepts the Supreme Personality of Godhead's authority without reservation. This acceptance is not merely intellectual but includes embracing the Lord's inconceivable potencies and His specific dealings with His devotees. By accepting Kṛṣṇa as the root of all existence and the supreme well-wisher, the devotee transcends the duality of happiness and distress. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that this acceptance is the gateway to the higher rasas of friendship and parental affection.
- The Personality of Godhead: Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that unlike the impersonalists, devotees accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Person, even when He appears in a human-like form.
- Inconceivable Potency: A devotee accepts that the Lord's actions are beyond mundane logic; Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that devotees do not doubt the Lord's ability to lift hills or control the infinite.
- Divine Benevolence in All Circumstances: Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that devotees accept even hindrances as the mercy of the Lord, seeing them as opportunities for purification rather than accidents.
- Intimate Relationships: The highest stage of acceptance involves viewing the Lord not just as a master, but as a friend or son; Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights this as the perfection of the Gauḍīya-sampradāya.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Absolute Truths Accepted by Devotees of God.
Pages in category "Accepted By Devotees of God"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- All devotees in the Gaudiya-sampradaya accept the activities of Lord Ananta related in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as authentic, and they are thus benefited by going back home, back to Godhead
- All the cowherd boys used to play with Krsna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for devotees who have accepted eternal servitorship, and who for ordinary persons is but another ordinary child - SB 10.12.7-11
- Although the foolish cannot imagine how Krsna, who appears just like a human being, can control the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
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- Tat te 'nukampam (SB 10.14.8) Devotees endure hindrances, accepting them to be caused by Supreme Personality of Godhead & regarding them as benedictions. Demons, being unable to understand the supreme controller, regard such hindrances as accidental
- The conclusion is that the time influence cannot act upon devotees who have accepted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as everything
- The demigods, the devotees, would immediately accept this incident, knowing that the Lord can lift anything, however heavy it might be
- The devotee is expected to accept all nine processes of devotional service, but even if only one process is properly executed, he can still attain the highest position (paramahamsa) and go back home, back to Godhead
- The example of an uprooted tree mentioned here by the demon is very significant. Devotees accept that God is the root of everything
- The inability (to find God) is due to the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord. Devotees, therefore, accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is and remain happy simply by chanting the glories of the Lord
- The lowest of men (mudhas), because of sinful activities, cannot understand this (Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead), but devotees can accept it without a doubt. Thus the position of a devotee is different from that of a nondevotee
- The word "friend" is specifically used to indicate intense love. Friendship is better than servitude. In the stage above dasya-rasa, the devotee accepts the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a friend
- These symptoms (of ecstasy) only mark the beginning of devotional service. That is accepted by learned devotees
- They (The devotees) accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the dearmost friend, the dearmost relative, the dearmost son, the dearmost preceptor, the dearmost well-wisher or the dearmost Deity