Category:Worshiper of the Demigods
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda strictly evaluates the position of demigod worshipers based on the conclusions of the Bhagavad-gītā. He explains that individuals who worship various demigods are driven by deep-rooted material desires and are described by Lord Kṛṣṇa as being bereft of intelligence. This is because the demigods are merely universal administrators whose power is sanctioned by the Supreme Lord, and the benedictions they award are temporary and perishable. While demigod worshipers may be elevated to higher material planets, they cannot achieve true liberation or enter the spiritual kingdom. Therefore, the highest and only perfect path is to abandon the worship of demigods and render unalloyed devotional service directly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa.
- The Root of Material Desires: People are generally attached to the worship of demigods because their minds are distorted by lust and they want immediate material benefits to satisfy their senses.
- Temporary Benedictions: Because the demigods, their planets, and their worshipers are all parts of the perishable material world, any boon received from them is flickering and ultimately vanishes.
- Ignorance of the Supreme Root: Worshipers of the demigods lack the intelligence to understand that the demigods are merely parts of the universal body of Viṣṇu, and that one cannot nourish the body by feeding the ears or eyes instead of the stomach.
- The Ultimate Destination: A person achieves the destination of their worship; thus, demigod worshipers remain trapped in the material universe, while the pure devotees go back home, back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Why the Worshiper of the Demigods is Less Intelligent.
Pages in category "Worshiper of the Demigods"
The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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- According to the Vedic principles, when a worshiper worships a particular demigod, he also conducts some ritual for Narayana, Yajnesvara
- All of these worshipers, although they appear to be very good devotees of the demigods, are still considered to be nondevotees. They cannot be accepted as devotees
- Anyone who is a devotee of Lord Krsna is called a deva, and others, even though they may be devotees of demigods, are called asuras
- As it is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita, the demigods cannot fulfill the desires of their worshipers without the sanction of Narayana, or Krsna
- As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20), kamais tais: when one worships demigods, this is certainly because of deep-rooted desires he wants fulfilled by the mercy of those demigods. People are generally attached to the worship of demigods for some motive
- As we can understand from the Bhagavad-gita (9.34 and 18.65), the Supreme Personality of Godhead wants everyone to think of Him always (man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah). Everyone should become His devotee, not the devotee of a demigod
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- Because the pure devotee engaged in Krsna consciousness in devotional service of the Supreme Lord achieves eternal blissful existence that is full of knowledge, his achievements and those of the common worshiper of the demigods are different. BG 1972 pur
- BST remarks in this connection (worshiping Krsna or Caitanya without worshiping the other) that atheist smartas, or worshipers of the five kinds of demigods, worship Lord Visnu for a little satisfaction in material success but have no respect for LCM
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- Generally Mayavadi sannyasis and worshipers of Lord Siva live in Varanasi, but how is it that Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who took the part of a Vaisnava sannyasi, also visited the Visvesvara temple
- Govinda Kaviraja was the brother of Ramacandra Kaviraja and youngest son of Ciranjiva of Srikhanda. Although at first a sakta, or worshiper of goddess Durga, he was later initiated by Srinivasa Acarya Prabhu
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- If the Supreme Lord were to withdraw the powers of the demigods, the demigods would no longer be able to offer benedictions to their worshipers
- In BG it is confirmed that one who worships the demigods is in fact only worshiping Krsna because the demigods are but different parts of the body of Visnu, or Krsna. That such worship of demigods is irregular is also stated in BG 7.20-23, BG 9.23
- In India (Bharata-varsa), there are many worshipers of the demigods, the various officials appointed by the Supreme Lord, such as Indra, Candra and Surya, all of whom are worshiped differently
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that the worshipers of the demigods have lost their intelligence
- In the Vedas the worship of different demigods and the performance of sacrifice are certainly, mentioned, but such worship is inferior because the worshipers do not know that the ultimate goal is Visnu
- In their ignorance they (worshipers of the demigods) believe that each and every demigod is a separate God and a competitor of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports
- It is clear that as long as a living entity is a worshiper of a particular demigod, he cannot get direct liberation, or entrance into the kingdom of God, nor can he merge into the impersonal effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- It is clear that as long as a living entity is a worshiper of a particular demigod, his consciousness is absorbed in thoughts of that demigod, and therefore he cannot get direct liberation, or entrance into the kingdom of God
- It is clearly stated that not only the worshipers of the demigods are less intelligent, but those nondevotees who are engaged in Vedanta & speculation on Vedic literature without any tinge of true Krsna consciousness are also less intelligent. BG 1972 p
- It is clearly stated that the worshipers of demigods go to different planets in the material world, but the devotee of the Supreme Lord goes directly to the supreme planet of the Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
- It is stated that the worshipers of the demigods go to the different planets of the demigods, and those who are devotees of Lord Krsna go to the Krsnaloka planet. BG 1972 purports
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- Some commentators on the Gita say that one who worships a demigod can reach the Supreme Lord, but here it is clearly stated that the worshipers of demigods go to the different planetary systems where various demigods are situated. BG 1972 purports
- Sometimes, after flowing down from the mountains during the rainy season, small rivers fail to reach the sea; some reach the sea and some do not. Similarly, the worshipers of the demigods may or may not reach You
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- The Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.25) says, The worshipers of the demigods will be promoted to the respective planets of the demigods, but devotees of the Supreme Lord will go back home, back to Godhead
- The Bhagavad-gita says that the worshipers of the demigods are bereft of intelligence; their process of worship is very difficult, and at the same time the result obtained is flickering and temporary
- The boons of the demigods are material and temporary. Both the material worlds and their inhabitants, including the demigods, and their worshipers, are bubbles in the cosmic ocean. BG 1972 purports
- The demigods can award the worshipers some temporary benefit only, and not the ultimate one
- The demigods, to keep their prestigious positions, bestow upon their worshipers whatever benedictions the worshipers want
- The devotees of Krsna do not envy the demigods or their worshipers but peacefully render devotional service to the incarnations of Narayana instead
- The devotees of the Lord may not perform any sacrifice or may not please the demigods as per Vedic injunctions, and still the devotees are on a higher level than the fruitive workers or the worshipers of different demigods
- The intelligent person is in KC, & he has no need to worship the paltry demigods for some immediate, temporary benefit. The demigods of this material world, as well as their worshipers, will vanish with the annihilation of this material world. BG 1972 p
- The Krsna consciousness movement can very easily point out such foolish persons (persons who take shelter of the demigods), for they have been indicated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.15)
- The Lord, situated within everyone's heart, fulfills the desires of the demigod-worshipers - but in the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that such demigod-worshipers are of small intelligence - alpa-medhasah
- The results achieved by the demigods' benedictions are perishable because within this material world the planets, the demigods and their worshipers are all perishable. BG 1972 purports
- The second class includes the worshipers of the demigods, those who by imagination consider any form to be the form of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports
- The worship of the demigods is not very difficult, but becoming a devotee of Lord Vasudeva, Krsna, is not so easy
- The worshipers of different demigods are certainly purified of the contamination of the lower qualities of nature and are thereby elevated to the higher planetary system or heavenly planets known as Maharloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka, etc. BG 1972 purports
- There are worshipers of other demigods, but they have been described in the Bhagavad-gita as hrta-jnanah. Hrta-jnanah. Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments, nasta buddhayah, "one who has lost his intelligence." These are the verdict of the sastra
- Those who are worshipers of demigods have been described as less intelligent persons, and here (BG 7.24) the impersonalists are similarly described. BG 1972 purports
- Those whose minds are distorted by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures
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- We may try to satisfy Mother Durga by worshiping her or by giving her some bribe, but Durga is not so easily bribed
- Worshipers of the demigods are less intelligent because they don't know to what part of the body food must be supplied. Some of them are so foolish that they claim that there are many parts & many ways to supply food. This isn't very sanguine. BG 1972 p