Category:Agitation of a Devotee of God
Theme Analysis
A devotee's agitation must be understood according to its source: material disturbance is overcome, while spiritual emotion is purified and intensified in relation to Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that devotees remain steady amid reverses, passion, ignorance, wealth, and danger because their shelter is the Supreme Lord. Yet when the heart is moved by ecstatic love, humility, separation, or Kṛṣṇa's sweetness, agitation becomes a symptom of devotion rather than bondage.
- Steady in Reverses: A devotee should not be materially agitated under any circumstances. Like a high mountain struck by rain, he remains humble and steady because his consciousness rests in the Lord.
- Free From Passion: Attachment, hatred, wealth, and the modes of passion and ignorance do not control a mature devotee. Such steadiness comes from intelligence, shelter, and freedom from selfish agitation.
- Ecstatic Emotion: Devotional agitation may appear as loud crying, laughter, humility, or intense absorption. When centered on Kṛṣṇa, such agitation is not weakness but the movement of love in the heart.
- Kṛṣṇa's Sweetness: Kṛṣṇa can agitate the minds of His devotees through His flute, beauty, pastimes, and intimate dealings. This spiritual agitation deepens the relationship between the Lord and His devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Agitation of a Devotee of God Becomes Ecstatic When Centered on Kṛṣṇa.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "Agitation of a Devotee of God"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- In SB the devotees are described as nipuna-buddhayah, which means that they are the most intelligent class of men. Uninfluenced by attachment or hatred, the devotee lives very peacefully and is not agitated by the influence of passion and ignorance
- It is also stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 6.22): yasmin sthito na duhkhena gurunapi vicalyate. Even if he suffers some reversals in life, a devotee is never agitated. Whoever takes shelter of a great soul or a great devotee becomes pacified
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- Lord Caitanya and all His devotees, naturally enthusiastic although agitated, must have made a great noise with their loud cries
- Lord Siva's desiring to see Lord Visnu reveal the most attractive and beautiful form of a woman (Mohini-murti) was certainly a joking affair. Lord Siva knew that he could not be agitated by any so-called beautiful woman
- Lord Visnu told Lord Siva, "I will show you My form as a woman (Mohini-murti), and if you become agitated by lusty desires, do not blame Me"
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- The cowherd men were very much agitated because the child Krsna, after all, had been standing between the two (fallen yamala-arjuna) trees, and if by chance the trees had fallen upon Him, He would have been smashed
- The Kaliyanaga's wives addressed Krsna, "My dear cowherd boy, we are all only young wives of the Kaliyanaga, so why do you agitate our minds by sounding Your flute"
- The Lord replied to Haridasa Thakura, "Please check your humility. Just the sight of your humility very much agitates My mind"
- These considerations (who had done all this? and how could these events have happened in such a wonderful way?) were some of the reasons they (the cowherd men) were agitated and bewildered - by seeing two trees fallen beside Krsna without smashed Him
- Thinking that on that day Lord Visnu was not willing to accept his (the brahmana's) food and that he was therefore ordained to fast, the brahmana became greatly agitated and cried aloud, haya haya: "What has been done! What has been done!"