Category:Controlling God
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that nothing in the universe happens automatically; behind every action and every sense organ, there is a controlling personality known as the adhidaiva or controlling deity. This category explores the intricate relationship between our physical senses and these cosmic administrators.
- Hierarchy of Control: The material world is not a machine running on its own. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that just as a state is run by various departmental heads under a king, the universe is managed by demigods who control elements like fire, water, and light, as well as our bodily functions.
- The Adhidaiva Principle: The individual body (adhyātma) and the physical elements (adhibhūta) function only because of the controlling deities (adhidaiva). For example, the eye is the instrument, color is the object, but the sun-god is the controller who makes sight possible.
- Specific Correspondences: The quotes provide detailed correspondences: the sun-god controls sight, the moon-god controls the mind, Varuṇa controls the tongue and taste, the Dig-devatās control hearing, and so on.
- Ultimate Controller: While these deities control various functions, they are all ultimately manifestations of the Lord's universal form and act under His supreme will. They are empowered parts and parcels, not independent Gods.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Mystery of Controlling God through Love.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Controlling God"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- A devotee can control the Supreme Controller. Why they shall become one with God? They'll be God's father, God's controller. This is bhakti-marga
- As chaste women bring their gentle husbands under control by service, the pure devotees, who are equal to everyone and completely attached to Me in the core of the heart, bring Me under their full control
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- Of the three principal agents controlling the three modes of material nature, Visnu is the Almighty; even though He is within material nature for the purpose of maintenance, He is not controlled by the laws of material nature
- Only a devotee can understand that to become one with God is not a sublime idea. In Vrndavana the devotees want to become the father or mother of God - to control God with love. This fact the Mayavadis, or Advaitavadis, cannot understand
- Only pure devotees can understand these things - to become the father or mother of God - to control God with love
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- The living being, unable to control the rulings of God, is forced to associate with the prostitute of polluted intelligence and accept various material bodies
- The Lord likes to be under the control of His devotees
- There are philosophers who do not believe in the Lord's incarnation and who ask - Why should the Supreme Lord come? But the answer is - Why should He not come? Why should He be controlled by the desire of the living entity
- They can keep You under their control because You are causelessly merciful to devotees who desire no material profit from You. Indeed, You give Yourself to them, and because of this You also have full control over Your devotees