Category:God's Prowess
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda glorifies the absolute and incomparable nature of God's prowess. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is eternally illuminated by His own transcendental power, which is entirely independent and self-sufficient. His prowess is inconceivable to the mundane mind—whether He is expanding His footsteps across the universe as Lord Vāmanadeva, bearing a colossal mountain on His back as Lord Kūrma, or effortlessly vanquishing the illusions and armies of demons. Demigods like Lord Indra derive whatever power they have entirely from the Lord's supreme prowess. A pure devotee finds endless joy in hearing about and glorifying these marvelous acts, while those who ignore the Lord's transcendental prowess are described as having ears like snake holes.
- The Independent Source: The Supreme Lord exists eternally by His own independent prowess, and from this infinite reservoir, all other potencies and demigods are generated.
- Inconceivable Displays: The Lord manifests His prowess through miraculous, inconceivable pastimes, such as occupying the entire universe with His footsteps or carrying a great mountain on His back.
- Vanquishing the Demons: No demonic weapon, illusion, or physical strength can surpass the transcendental prowess of the Supreme Lord, who effortlessly protects His devotees.
- The Importance of Hearing: A human being who refuses to hear the glorious messages and songs about the Lord's marvelous prowess is spiritually deaf, possessing ears no better than the holes of snakes.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Glorifying the Transcendental Acts of God's Prowess.
Pages in category "God's Prowess"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- Although He (Lord Vamanadeva) pretended to be an ordinary human child, He actually wanted the land comprising the upper, middle and lower planetary systems. This was just to show the prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Arjuna said, "My name is Arjuna, and I carry the bow known as Gandiva. You cannot insult me, for I have satisfied even Lord Siva by my prowess when we were both hunting in the forest"
- As people generally say, God is all-powerful. That prowess is represented by Mahā-Lakṣmī, the reservoir of all energies, who is situated on the bosom of the transcendental form of the Lord
- As the dangers of a dream cease when the dreamer awakens, the illusions created by the jugglery of the demons were vanquished by the transcendental prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as soon as He entered the battlefield
- As the Lord exists by His own independent prowess, by the grace of the Lord the devotees also exist for His service
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- Each of these members (Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha) is identical with the Supreme Lord in knowledge, opulence, energy, influence, prowess and potencies
- Even if one is able to count such atomic particles (contained in the whole universe) or is able to roll up the sky like one's bedding, even then one is unable to estimate the extent of the prowess and energy of the Supreme Lord
I
- It is said (kuta-sthaya) that He (God) is always peaceful and devoid of agitation because of His prowess, which is described herein (SB 4.24.34) as sva-rocise, indicating that He is illuminated by His own transcendental position
- It is useless for a demon to beat the transcendental body of the Lord with a powerful mace, for no one can surpass His prowess
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- Lord Brahma prayed: My Lord, You are unlimited, and You possess unending potencies. No one can estimate or calculate Your prowess and wonderful influence, for Your actions are never polluted by the material energy
- Lord Brahma said: My dear boy Narada, being merciful to all (including me) you have asked all these questions because I have been inspired to see into the prowess of the Almighty Personality of Godhead
O
- O Indra, King of heaven, the thunderbolt you carry to kill me has been empowered by the prowess of Lord Visnu and the strength of Dadhici's austerities
- O my Lord, because You are endowed with causeless mercy, all opulences, all prowess and all glories, strength and transcendental qualities, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of everyone
- O my Lord, O supreme controller, without knowledge of Your unlimited prowess I have offended Your most dear devotee. Very kindly save me from the reaction of this offense
- One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord is to be considered to possess earholes like the holes of snakes
- One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the PG and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord should be considered to possess ears like the holes of snakes and a tongue like that of a frog
- Originally the Lord is full of all opulences, all prowess, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation
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- Sukadeva Gosvami said: After Lord Brahma had thus spoken, glorifying the Supreme Lord's activities and prowess, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never subject to death like an ordinary living being, appeared from the womb of Aditi
- Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, the person who bore the great mountain on His back for the churning of the ocean of milk is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead, known as Sarnga-dhanva. I have now described to you His prowess
T
- The prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead always contains six basic opulences, one of which is renunciation
- The prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, certainly controls all living entities, so much so that the living entities have forgotten the aim of life
- The sudras, who are outside of Vedic knowledge, come from His feet. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full in prowess, be pleased with us
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable prowess, can occupy the entire universe, including the upper, lower and middle planetary systems, by the unlimited measurement of His footsteps
- They are not interested in the Supreme Personality's pastimes, which are worth hearing because of His transcendental prowess
Y
- You (King Prthu) are glorified by your own prowess, and thus you are maintaining the entire world by introducing brahminical culture and protecting everyone in your line of duty as a ksatriya
- Your materialistic ideas and anxieties that have arisen from your association with the demons and Danavas will immediately be vanquished because there you will see My supreme prowess