Category:God's Agitating
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category contrasts the supreme, unagitated nature of the Personality of Godhead with His unique capacity to agitate both the material cosmos and the hearts of His devotees. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the material creation begins only when the Supreme Lord glances over the dormant total material energy (mahat-tattva), agitating it with His time potency (kāla-śakti). Without this divine agitation, space and the universal form (virāṭ-puruṣa) could never manifest. While the Lord agitates the three modes of nature to generate the universe—and even agitates the minds of great demigods like Lord Śiva or the ocean's inhabitants to exhibit His pastimes—He Himself remains entirely transcendental and unagitated by ignorance, pride, or material modes. Consequently, one who wishes to become completely peaceful (dhīra) must take shelter of Him. On the spiritual platform, the Lord lovingly agitates the consciousness of His pure devotees, awakening intense symptoms of ecstatic love and testing their spiritual tolerance.
- Agitating the Cosmic Energy: The material world does not evolve independently. Creation takes place only when the Supreme Lord casts His glance over the dormant material energy, agitating the three modes of nature through His time potency.
- The Unagitated Supreme: Although the Lord agitates the entire cosmos, His own transcendental form is full of knowledge and is never agitated by material qualities, ignorance, or pride.
- Agitating the Demigods and Elements: To display His supreme authority and pastimes, the Lord can agitate the most powerful entities. He agitated the mighty ocean and its inhabitants with His anger, and He agitated the mind of Lord Śiva with His Mohinī-mūrti form.
- The Agitation of Ecstatic Love: In the realm of pure devotion, the Lord's presence, or even news of His arrival, profoundly agitates the senses and consciousness of His devotees with spiritual ecstasy.
- Testing the Devotees: The Lord sometimes deliberately attempts to agitate His devotees to test their spiritual steadiness, glorifying their ability to tolerate provocations without anger.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Agitating - The Glance That Awakens the Cosmos.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "God's Agitating"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- The glancing power of the Lord agitates the entire cosmic energy, and thus its actions begin at once
- The living force, being agitated by the virat-purusa, generated hunger and thirst, and when He desired to drink and eat, the mouth opened
- The mind is by nature very restless, and one should not make friends with it. If we place full confidence in the mind, it may cheat us at any moment. Even Lord Siva became agitated upon seeing the Mohini form of Lord Krsna
- The Supreme Lord Himself does the real creation by agitating His material energy, and then, by His order, Brahma, the first living creature in the universe, attempts to create the different planetary systems and their inhabitants
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being always in a transcendental position, is never agitated by anything. Therefore someone who wants to become dhira must take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord
- This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your body. This total lump of matter is agitated by Your potent energy known as kala-sakti, and thus the three modes of material nature are manifested
- This material nature is working under My (Krsna's) direction, O son of Kunti, and producing all moving & unmoving beings. The Supreme Lord casts His glance over material energy, and His glance agitates the three modes of nature. Creation then takes place
- This material world does not develop unless agitated by the Supreme Lord as the virat-purusa. Yasmad udatisthad asau virat: by His agitation, space was created, and the universal form of the Lord also manifested therein
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- Western philosophers sometimes think that the original cause of creation was a chunk that exploded. If one thinks of this chunk as the total material energy, the mahat-tattva, one can understand that the chunk was agitated by the glance of the Lord
- When Sri Gopala fainted, Advaita Acarya hastily took him upon His lap. Seeing that he was not breathing, He became very much agitated
- When the ocean did not come, the Lord exhibited His pastimes of anger, and simply by His glancing over the ocean, all the living entities within it, including the crocodiles and sharks, were agitated by fear