Category:Desiring from God
Theme Analysis
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate source of all maintenance and the fulfiller of all desires. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently compares Lord Kṛṣṇa to a transcendental desire tree that effortlessly supplies whatever the living entity requests. Because the Lord is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, He knows the past, present, and future desires of every individual and grants facilities according to their minute independence. He is entirely equal to everyone, having no partiality, but He perfectly reciprocates with the desires and qualifications of the worshiper.
However, approaching the Supreme Lord for material profit is a symptom of gross ignorance. People often worship the Lord or the demigods to obtain temporary material benefits, such as a good spouse, a powerful son, or general sense gratification. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He will award the exact material body and facilities required to enjoy these desires. Yet, as Śrīla Prabhupāda notes, because material desires can never bring lasting satisfaction, those who ask for mundane benedictions ultimately end up frustrated and broken-hearted.
The turning point occurs when a living entity actually perceives the supreme beauty and majesty of the Lord. Great devotees like Dhruva Mahārāja initially approached God with intense material ambitions, but upon seeing His transcendental form, they immediately regretted their foolishness, realizing they were seeking broken glass instead of diamonds. Pure devotees like Prahlāda Mahārāja refuse to ask for anything in return for their service, desiring only to remain eternally engaged in the Lord's devotional service. Ultimately, the Bhagavad-gītā confirms that the Lord grants spiritual perfection in exact proportion to the devotee's surrender.
- The Desire Tree: Lord Kṛṣṇa acts as a transcendental desire tree, perfectly responding to the prayers and desires of every living entity.
- The Trap of Material Desires: Approaching God for material sense gratification or mundane benedictions is foolish and inevitably leads to frustration.
- The Devotee's Epiphany: Upon directly experiencing the Supreme Lord, pure devotees like Dhruva and Prahlāda completely lose all desire for material profit.
- Proportional Reciprocation: The Lord flawlessly reciprocates with the living entity's desires, granting spiritual perfection in proportion to their degree of surrender.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Desiring from God - The Supreme Desire Tree.
Pages in category "Desiring from God"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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- Being pleased with Banasura, he (Siva) said, "Whatever you desire you can have from me, for I am very much pleased with you." Banasura replied, "My dear lord, if you please, you can remain in my city just to protect me from the hands of my enemies"
- Bhagavad-gita declares the Supreme Lord is responsive in proportion to the devotional service rendered by the devotee. Akrura thought that Krsna was like the desire tree in the heavenly planets, which gives fruit according to the desire of the worshiper
- Brahma is the trustworthy representative of the Supreme Lord. Therefore when he again asked for the treasure of Vedic knowledge, the Lord fulfilled his desire
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- If a woman worships Your (Lord Kamadeva's) lotus feet for a particular purpose, You also quickly fulfill her desires, but in the end she becomes broken-hearted and laments. Therefore one need not worship Your lotus feet for some material benefit
- If anyone desires the Lord to become one's husband, the Lord fulfills such desires in full
- If you forget, you go down to the cats and dogs and ants and germs and so many things, become a worm of the stool. He will give you all facilities. This is called karma-cakra, cycle of work. As you desire, so God gives you facility
- In spite of having You (God), who are like a desire tree and are the cause of liberation from birth and death, foolish persons, such as me (Dhruva), desire benedictions from You for sense gratification
- In this way (by pranayama yoga, and by eating only air and dry leaves fallen from the trees cleansed your minds from all dirty things), desiring a benediction from Me (Krsna), you (Devaki and Vasudeva) worshiped Me with peaceful minds - SB 10.3.34-35
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- Lord Narayana, expanding His opulence, resides upon this mountain (Lokaloka mountain). The area beyond Lokaloka Mountain is called Aloka-varsa, and beyond Aloka-varsa is the pure destination of persons who desire liberation
- Lord offers the worshipers the benedictions they desire even if they worship only part of His transcendental body because the He is complete
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- Maharaj Dhruva says "My dear Lord, I have practiced austerities and penances because I was desiring to receive something from You, but in exchange You have allowed me to see You, who are never visible even to the great sages and saintly persons"
- Man can attain the highest perfection of life by worshiping God & by performing sacrifice for the sake of the Supreme Lord, who is all-pervading and by whose control every living being acquires his desired facilities, according to his personal propensity
- Man proposes; God disposes. God is very kind. Whatever you desire, He will fulfill. Although He says that "This kind of material desires will never satisfy you," but we want. Therefore God supplies us, Krsna, different types of body
- My (Laksmidevi's) dear Lord, You (Lord Kamadeva) automatically fulfill all the desires of a woman who worships Your lotus feet in pure love
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- O Lord of lords, so fierce of form, please tell me who You are. I offer my obeisances unto You; please be gracious to me. I do not know what Your mission is, and I desire to hear of it. BG 11.31 - 1972
- O most exalted and worshipable Lord, best of those who bestow benediction, You can fulfill the desires of everyone, and therefore those who are sober, for their own welfare, worship the dust of Your lotus feet
- O my lord, O best of the givers of benediction, if you will kindly grant me the benediction I desire, please let me not meet death from any of the living entities created by you
- O Visnudatta, Pariksit Maharaja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was pleased by the great sages at that sacrifice. Consequently the Lord decided to personally exhibit the method of executing religious principles and also satisfy Maharaja Nabhi's desire
- Only due to gross lack of knowledge does one worship the Lord for material profit or for sense gratification. The Lord is like a desire tree. Anyone can have whatever he desires from the Lord
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- Since the Lord is very kind to everyone, the impersonalists, who accept bhakti as the means of merging in the existence of the Lord in His impersonal brahma-jyotir, are also awarded their desired destination
- Students' prayers 24 hours a day to listen to the political talks and desiring the war should stop is useless. God cannot be their order supplier
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- The attainment of spiritual perfection by different spiritualists is explained in the Bhagavad-gita, wherein the Lord says that He grants the perfection the devotee desires in proportion to the devotee's surrender unto Him
- The demigods are not pure devotees. Although without difficulty one can get anything he desires if the Lord is pleased, the demigods aspire for material profit by pleasing the Lord
- The Lord certainly fulfills all desires in regard to transcendental loving service, but He cannot fulfill the whims of nondevotees, even when such casual devotees offer Him the best of prayers
- The Lord fulfilled all Dhruva Maharaja's desires
- The Lord is like a desire tree. Anyone can have whatever he desires from the Lord, but people in general do not know what kind of benediction they should ask from Him
- The minute freedom of the living entity can be fully utilized, and the Lord is so kind that He will award the living entity the same type of body he desires
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is undoubtedly equal to everyone. He has no friend and no enemy, but as one desires benefits from the Lord, the Lord is very pleased to award them
- The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (8) sagarbha-yogaruruksu, a yogi meditating upon the four-handed Visnu form and desiring yogic perfection
- They (the sages) touched the lotus feet of the Lord, which are worshiped with various paraphernalia by the daughters of the serpent-king when they desire good husbands