Category:Controlled by God
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the fundamental reality of existence is the distinction between the controller (īśvara) and the controlled (jīva). This category of quotes systematically dismantles the illusion of independence. Whether one admits it or not, everyone is controlled by the stringent laws of material nature and time. The only choice the living entity has is how to be controlled: either by the loving internal energy of Kṛṣṇa or by the punishing external energy of māyā.
- The Universal Controller: From the highest demigods like Brahmā and Indra to the smallest ant, everyone is under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even time (kāla) and material nature (prakṛti) work under His direction (mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ).
- The Illusion of Independence: The conditioned soul falsely thinks they are the proprietor and enjoyer. Śrīla Prabhupāda compares scientists and atheists to "imitation gods" who futilely try to overcome the laws of nature, ignoring the supreme power behind them.
- Direct vs. Indirect Control: The living entity is always controlled. If one refuses to be controlled by God directly through devotional service, they are automatically controlled by māyā. Surrender means voluntarily accepting the Lord's direct control.
- The Source of Strength: All energies—material, spiritual, and marginal—are wielded by the Supreme Person. Nothing exists or functions without His sanction.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Living Entities (Jīvas) are Controlled by God.
Pages in category "Controlled by God"
The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
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- According to the Vedic rites, even in the worship of some demigods like Indra, Brahma, Sarasvati and Ganesa, the system is that in all circumstances the representation of Visnu must be there as yajnesvara, or the controlling power of such sacrifices
- After describing the universal form of the Lord, Lord Brahma explained that his position and Lord Siva’s position are controlled by Lord Visnu
- All living entities are controlled by the supreme energy of the Lord, and sometimes they remember and sometimes they forget their constitutional position
- All of these (the supreme controller, the controlled living entities, the cosmic manifestation, eternal time, and karma) taken completely form the complete whole, and the complete whole is called the Supreme Absolute Truth. BG 1972 Introduction
- All the universes and the innumerable planets within them are similar to such rockets, and they are all controlled by the Personality of Godhead
- All the universes with innumerable stars and planets are controlled by the intelligence of the Personality of Godhead
- All these creative elements and the creation itself are but potential manifestations of the Supreme Lord; nothing is independent of the control of the Supreme Being
- Although Kesava Kasmiri was proud of being favored by the goddess of learning, he did not know that she is controlled by Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Apart from these (eight material energies) is the living force, or the antimaterial principle, which is described as the superior energy. These are called "energies" because they are wielded and controlled by the supreme living being, the PG - Krsna
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- Energies are always controlled by the energetic, and therefore living entities are always controlled by the Lord - they have no independant existence. They are never equally powerful, as unintelligent men think. BG 1972 purports
- Every living being is controlled by the supreme living being, Paramatma, who resides within everyone's heart. He is the purusa, the purusa-avatara, who creates this material world
- Everyone is controlled. Either you are controlled directly by God, or you are controlled by His agency, maya. Being controlled by maya, you spoil your life; you remain in material existence one birth after another, changing your bodies
- Everyone is under the full control of the Lord. He is quite correct in His action when He desires something to be done by someone, irrespective of the consideration of the particular case
- Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled & owned by the Lord
- Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord
- Everything is changed and transformed by the time factor, or by the indirect control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Everything is controlled by the supreme kala, a forceful representative of the Lord within the material world. Thus Yudhisthira should not be sorry for the inconceivable action of time
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- If the living entity is accepted as a minute part & parcel of the Supreme Lord he automatically becomes controlled by a supreme energy or power. The latter is his actual constitutional position, & if he remains in this position he can attain full freedom
- If you choose to be controlled by God, then after this body, you go back home, back to Godhead. Then your life is successful
- In human society, if one kills a man he has to be hanged. That is the law of the state. Because of ignorance, people do not perceive that there is a complete state controlled by the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports
- In the Bhagavad-gita the subject matter deals with the isvara, the supreme controller, and the jivas, the controlled living entities. BG 1972 Introduction
- In the material world the devatas and asuras are always contending, and the devatas are always saved from the hands of the asuras by the Lord. Both of them are under the control of the Lord
- In the SB (10.87.30) the personified Vedas pray to God, "O supreme eternal, if the living entities were equal with You and thus all-pervading and all-powerful like You, there would be no possibility of their being controlled by Your external energy, maya
- In the Visnu Purana where it is said (while describing God's energies) that the living being is equal in quality to the internal potency, whereas the external potency is indirectly controlled by the chief cause of all causes
- Indeed, everything is under the control of time, and time is controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Supreme Lord has no fear of the onslaughts of time
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- Material nature is also controlled by the Lord, as He has claimed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.10). Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sacaracaram: "Under My direction only is material nature working, and thus are all things moving
- Material opulences are controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His different potencies and specifically the goddess of fortune. Therefore, those who are after material opulences seek the pleasure or mercy of the goddess of fortune
- Medicine and a physician cannot save one from death, nor can a boat or similar means of protection save a person drowning in the water, for everything is controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- The external energy is controlled by the Lord, and the living entities are controlled by the external energy - by the will of the Lord
- The gross material elements are earth, water, fire, air and ether, and the subtle material elements are mind, intelligence and ego. All of them are controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha
- The intelligent grown-up sons of the Lord know well that all the acts of material nature are controlled by the Lord, just as a maidservant is under the control of the master, the father of the undeveloped children
- The material nature is working under the control of the Lord. All of them, under the agency of material nature and under the control of the Lord, are thus repeatedly created and annihilated by the will of the Lord
- The personified Vedas continued, "Both the Lord and the living entities are called nitya, eternal, and so are qualitatively one, yet the singular nitya, or the Supreme Lord, is the controller, whereas the plural nityas are controlled"
- The subtle laws of karma, which are controlled by the Supreme, cannot be understood by ordinary conditioned souls
- The Supreme Lord Krsna is the only controller, and all living entities are controlled by Him. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead can do anything and everything He likes, because He is not under the control of the material nature; indeed, material nature is controlled by Him
- The surrendered rulers and the pure devotees are always strictly under the control of the Lord, and they are never disobedient to the desires of the Lord. The Lord is therefore always attentive to them
- The whole material creation is conducted by the three purusas in successive stages under the external energy of the Lord, and thus material nature is controlled by Him
- The whole thing (system of creation) is controlled ultimately by the Supreme Lord, and there is no independence either of the material nature or of the living entity
- There are two kinds of activity - auspicious and inauspicious - and both are controlled by Lord Visnu. Inauspicious activities are said to be behind Lord Visnu, whereas auspicious activities stand before Him
- There is a gulf of difference between the living entity (atma) and the controlling Lord (Paramatma), the soul and the Supersoul. Paramatma is the controller, and the atma is the controlled; therefore they are in different categories
- There is isvara, which means controller, and there are jivas, the living entities which are controlled. BG 1972 Introduction
- These philosophers theorizing so many "I believe." So these things will not do. These things will not do. That is useless, simply waste of time. You must know there is God. How we can deny it? There is supreme power. I am being controlled every moment
- This awakening of knowledge is under the full control of the Lord, and we find in the practical world different grades of knowledge in different persons. This awakening of knowledge is neither an automatic nor a material interaction
- Time factor is also controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram (BG 9.10)). Prakrti, the cosmic manifestation, is under the control of time
- Trying to be the masters of material nature, they (the scientists) are imitation gods who declare to the public that scientific advancement will one day be able to avoid the so-called control of God
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- We have already discussed many times that the material energy is controlled by the Lord. The Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.10) confirms this controlling power of the Lord over the material nature
- Without Him, no one can get any strength. Whether moving or not moving, superior or inferior, everyone, including Lord Brahma, is controlled by the strength of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- You are completely under the control of the laws of nature, & nature is being controlled by God. How you can say that you're independent of God? Therefore it's not very good business that people are pushing on a type of civilization, Godless civilization
- You cannot manufacture a process of happiness by tackling this material energy. That is not possible because the material energy is not under your control. It is controlled by the Supreme
- You may be god, but you are controlled god. But the God who is not controlled, He is Godhead. That is Krsna. That's all right
- You must always know that "He's the supreme controller and I am also controlled. So if I can please God by my service, then He'll reveal to me." That is the process of knowing God