Category:Absolute Controller
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes a profound and practical philosophical distinction between the conditioned living entities and the Supreme Lord. Everyone in the material world is a relative controller. A person may control their family or their subordinates at the office, but they are simultaneously controlled by something higher, such as the laws of nature, their own superiors, or public opinion. Nobody is the absolute controller. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the title of absolute controller belongs exclusively to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who controls everyone and is controlled by no one. By observing this hierarchy, one can easily understand that the ultimate controller must be a Supreme Person, just as a government is ultimately led by a president.
- The Illusion of Independence: We must first ascertain whether we are the absolute controller or if we are controlled by higher forces like the stringent laws of nature.
- The Relative Controller: Every living entity is dualistic in nature; they possess a little power to control, but they are always controlled by someone or something else.
- Controlled by Nature: Despite our false ego, our tiny fraction of controlling power is constantly superseded by the powerful modes of material nature.
- The Personal Nature of God: The absolute controller cannot be an impersonal force; there is always a Supreme Person behind the cosmic manifestation.
- The Supreme Truth: Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate source of all control. Because He is not controlled by anyone, He is the Absolute Truth and the supreme absolute controller.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Kṛṣṇa - The Absolute Controller.
Pages in category "Absolute Controller"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- I am controller of my disciples within the Krsna conscious society, but I cannot control the whole world. You are controller in your home but you are also controlled. You are not the absolute controller. Therefore Bhagavan means the absolute controller
- I may control my disciples, but I am controlled by somebody else, by my spiritual master. So nobody can say that "I am the absolute controller"
- If the popular votes are against him (a president), he cannot control any more. So here, you just analyze anyone; he may be controller, but at the same time he is controlled. Not that absolute controller
- In our experience we see that one controller is controlled by another controller. Nobody is absolute controller. Therefore nobody is Absolute Truth
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- The absolute controller cannot be impersonal. By our practical life we see - government. "Government" is an impersonal word, but at the end of the government, there is a governor or president, a person
- The Lord says mohitam nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam: (BG 7.13) bewildered by such modes of material nature, they (scientists) cannot understand that beyond these manifestations is a Supreme Person who is the absolute controller of everything
- The supreme controller is Krsna. Here the so-called controller is controlled by somebody else. I may control my disciples, but I am controlled by somebody else, by my spiritual master. So nobody can say that, "I am the absolute controller." No
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- We are not absolute controller. We are relative controller. But about Krsna it is said, isvarah paramah krsnah (Bs. 5.1). Paramah means supreme. He controls everyone or everything, but He is not controlled by anyone
- We are not supreme controller. We are controller of some entities, but we are controlled also by something superior. Therefore we are not absolute controller. We are relative controller
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- You (Lord Kamadeva) show Your real mercy to Your devotees, not to me (Laksmidevi). Of course, You are the supreme absolute controller, and no one can understand Your motives
- You are controller in your home, of your wife, children, servants. But you are also controlled. You are not the absolute controller. Therefore Bhagavan means the absolute controller
- You are not absolutely controller. You are both controlled and controller. That everyone is. Just like you are controller in your family, but you are controlled in the office. Similarly, everyone is dualistic: he's controller and controlled