Category:God Is The Original Cause
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa or Nārāyaṇa, is the original cause of all causes (sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while atheistic philosophers wrongly conclude that inert material nature is the cause of the cosmic manifestation, the Vedic literatures declare that matter cannot create without the touch of spirit. Material nature acts only as the immediate or efficient cause, while the Supreme Lord, expanding as Mahā-Viṣṇu in the Causal Ocean, remains the remote and original cause. Recognizing that Bhagavān is the root of both the spiritual and material energies is the culmination of perfect knowledge. A wise person who understands that Vāsudeva is the origin of everything naturally abandons all other pursuits and engages fully in unalloyed devotional service.
- The Cause of All Causes: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam. Nothing caused Him; He is the primeval, uncreated root of all existence.
- Immediate vs. Original Cause: While the material energy (prakṛti) may appear to be the immediate cause of the cosmic manifestation, the Supreme Lord is the ultimate, original cause behind nature.
- The Role of Mahā-Viṣṇu: To manifest the material universes, the Lord expands as Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies in the Causal Ocean and serves as the original cause of the material creation.
- Refuting Atheism: Atheists mistakenly believe that the universe moves by the random interaction of material elements. True intelligence recognizes that without the spiritual contact of the Supreme Lord, matter cannot create anything.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Original Cause - The Supreme Cause of All Causes.
Pages in category "God Is The Original Cause"
The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
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- According to real intelligence, the real cause of the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Lord. Janmady asya yatah: (SB 1.1.1) He is the original cause of all creation
- According to Viraraghava Acarya: The original cause of the cosmic manifestation must be the oldest person and must be beyond material transformations. He is the enjoyer of all auspicious activities and is the cause of conditional life and also liberation
- Actually the original cause is Lord Visnu, but out of ignorance people think that matter is the cause of everything
- Although prakrti and purusa superficially appear to be the causes of the material manifestation, both are emanations of different energies of the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Supreme Lord is the cause of prakrti and purusa. He is the original cause
- Although the expansion of the Lord's energies is the original cause, one should not think that the Lord Himself has expanded in different ways
- Although the Supreme Person is the original cause of all causes, His impersonal effulgence, known as Brahman, is the immediate cause of the material manifestation
- Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of all causes, He is not responsible for anyone's material sufferings or enjoyment. There is no such partiality on the part of the Supreme Lord
- Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of the total cosmic manifestation, He is unaffected by the material existence
- Among these expansions (Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha), Vasudeva is considered the origin of the material nature. Therefore Sankaracarya says that Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha must be creations of that original cause
- As the creator or original cause of innumerable universes, or the first purusa, who is lying on the Causal Ocean, He is called Maha-Visnu. The three purusas direct the affairs of the material world
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- Being extremely subtle, He is beyond the reach of my senses and transcendental to all external realization. He is unlimited, He is the original cause, and He is completely full in everything. I offer my obeisances unto Him
- Brahman, the Absolute Truth, is the original cause and that the living entities (jivas) and the cosmic manifestation are effects of this cause
- Brahman, the impersonal Absolute Truth, is all-pervading, and Paramatma is locally situated in everyone's heart, but Bhagavan, who is worshipable by the devotees, is the original cause of all causes
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- Knowing this (that God is the original cause of everything), everyone should directly engage in His devotional service
- Krsna is the cause of all causes, and the effects are permeated by the original cause. The entire cosmic manifestation should be understood as the expanded energy of the Supreme Lord
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- Let me (Yasoda) surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offer my obeisances unto Him, who is the original cause of this cosmic manifestation, by whom the entire cosmos is maintained, and by whom we can conceive of its existence - SB 10.8.41
- Lord Kapila is explaining to His mother the relationship between the SP of Godhead and material nature. He is informing her how the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of the living entities who are conditioned by material nature
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- Maha-visnu is the original cause of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and from Him comes the lotus flower from which Lord Brahma is manifested. Thus the original cause of everything is Visnu, and consequently the cosmic manifestation is not different from Visnu
- Material nature is the immediate cause of the cosmic manifestation, but the original cause is Narayana, Krsna
- My dear Lord, by Your own potencies You are the original cause of the material elements, as well as the performing instruments (the senses), the workers of the senses (the controlling demigods), the intelligence and the ego, as well as everything else
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- Spirit and matter, which combine to manifest this gigantic universal form, are originally two energies of the Lord, and consequently the Lord is the original cause of everything
- Spirit and matter, which combine together to manifest this gigantic universal form, are originally two energies of the Lord, and consequently the Lord is the original cause of everything. BG 1972 purports
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- That original Personality of Godhead, named Sankarsana, first lies down in the river Viraja, which serves as a border between the material and the spiritual world. As Karanodakasayi Visnu, He is the original cause of the material creation
- The "material" only exists for those who have forgotten that Nārāyaṇa is the original cause
- The atheistic philosophers, who do not agree to accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the original cause of creation, think that the material world moves by the action and reaction of different material elements
- The body is just like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit and move according to his desire. The Lord is the original cause of the material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy
- The complete cosmic situation, both in the material and in the spiritual manifestations of the energies of the Lord, is working and moving first as the cause and then as the effect. But the original cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The entire world is suffering for want of this knowledge. People should know that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of everything
- The knowledge of those who are not interested in knowing the original cause of all emanations is never perfect knowledge
- The Lord is the cause of all causes. In other words, since there is nothing that caused Him, He is the original cause. Consequently He enjoys His own Self by manifesting His own internal potency
- The Lord is the root of everything. Aham adir hi devanam: (BG 10.2) He is the original cause of all the devas, or demigods. Aham sarvasya prabhavah: (BG 10.8) everything emanates from Him
- The Lord's glance is the original cause of material creation
- The original cause for the material energy and spiritual energy is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The original cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as verified herein (SB 4.24.63) -tvam eka adyah purusah. This is also confirmed in Brahma-samhita
- The original cause of everything is the SPG, and after being annihilated, everything enters into Him (prakrtim yanti mamikam). Thus the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead - Lord Ramacandra or Lord Krsna - is the original cause of everything
- The Supreme Lord is the original cause of all natural events. Therefore He is described as sarva-karana-karanam (BS 5.1), the cause of all causes
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, is therefore said to be the original cause of all causes. Thus the spiritual abode of Visnu is eternal without a doubt, and it is also the abode of Maha-Visnu, the origin of all manifestations
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, is ascertained to be the original cause of creation. Sridhara Svami, in his commentary Bhavartha-dipika, replies to the idea that prakrti and purusa are the causes of the cosmic manifestation
- They are (sky, air, fire, water and earth) all mutually the cause and effect of one another, but the original cause is the Lord Himself in plenary portion, as Maha-Visnu lying in the causal water of the mahat-tattva
- This (that Visnu is the original cause of everything) is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 10.8), wherein Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me."
- This is only a general description. Please try to understand another meaning of tryadhisa. The three purusa incarnations of Visnu are the original cause of the material creation
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- We hear, vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah: (BG 7.19) if one knows that Vasudeva is the original cause of all causes, he becomes a perfect mahatma
- Whatever happens, the original cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sarva-karana-karanam - BS 5.1
- Without spiritual contact, matter cannot create. Those who are seeking the original cause of the material creation should know that the creation takes place when the spirit soul is present