Category:God's Allowing
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category addresses the interplay between the Supreme Lord's absolute control and the minute free will of the living entities, categorized by what God is "allowing." Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that because the living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, they possess a minute quantity of independence. When a soul desires to imitate the Lord and enjoy the material world, God does not interfere; He allows the soul to enter the cosmic creation and play out their desires, even if those desires lead to a hellish life or the body of a pig. He also allows powerful demons to display their magical feats before vanquishing them. For impersonalists and the killed enemies of the Lord, He allows them to merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti. However, the Lord is extremely protective of His pure devotees. He does not allow them to engage in degrading sense gratification, but He may allow them to enjoy material opulence—like Prahlāda Mahārāja or Bali Mahārāja—because they remain completely unattached. Ultimately, only through pure devotional service is a soul allowed to enter the spiritual planets of Vaikuṇṭha and associate directly with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Concession of Free Will: God does not force obedience. If a living entity wants to go to hell or develop the mentality of a pig, the Lord allows him to do so without interference, providing the appropriate material body.
- Creation as a Playground: The creation and annihilation of the material world are regular actions of the Lord meant specifically to allow the conditioned souls to play out their independent desires.
- Destination of Impersonalists: Both the out-and-out enemies of the Lord (demons) and the impersonalist philosophers are allowed to enter the spiritual sky, but they are restricted to the impersonal brahmajyoti; they are not allowed into the Vaikuṇṭha planets.
- Protection from Sense Gratification: While the Lord allows materialists to exploit nature, He does not allow His pure devotees or assistants to be entangled in mundane sense gratification or illicit activities.
- Entering the Supreme Abode: After many births of frustration, when a soul finally surrenders, they are trained in devotional service and are exclusively allowed to enter the direct, personal association of the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Allowing - The Concession of Free Will and Material Desire.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "God's Allowing"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- Because Prahlada Maharaja was a devotee, the Lord allowed him to enjoy material opulence as the king of the materialists
- By development of pure devotional service one can factually know the Lord as He is and thus be trained in the bona fide service of the Lord and be allowed to enter into the direct association of the Lord in so many capacities
- By the grace of God one is allowed to enjoy this material world, but when one is disgusted with material enjoyment and is frustrated, and when one surrenders unto the lotus feet of the Lord, then the Lord is so kind that He frees one from entanglement
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- If a living being wants to go to hell, the Lord allows him to do so without interference, and if he wants to go back home, back to Godhead, the Lord helps him
- Impersonalists and the enemies of the Lord are, because of attraction to God, allowed to enter into His kingdom, but they are not allowed to enter into the Vaikuntha planets or the Goloka Vrndavana planet of the Supreme Lord
- It does not take even a moment for the Lord to kill any powerful demon, including Hiranyaksa. The Lord could have killed him long before, but He allowed the demon to display the full extent of his magical feats
- It is not God's desire that a human being become a pig, but he develops such mentality to eat everything. So God allows him to do everything, to eat everything up to stool in the body of a pig. That is God's concession
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- The creation and annihilation of the material worlds is a regular action of God just to allow the conditioned souls to play and create their own fate of being differently created again in terms of their independent desires at the time of annihilation
- The impersonalist philosophers are in one sense like the enemies of the Lord because the out-and-out enemies of the Lord and the impersonalists are both allowed to enter only into the impersonal effulgence of the brahma-jyoti
- The living entities are also differentiated expansions of the Lord's Self & because some of them desire to be lords & imitate the SL He allows them to enter into the cosmic creation with the option to fully utilize their propensity to lord it over nature
- The Supreme Lord bestows upon His pure devotee the inconceivable power that allows him to stay aloof from all mundane circumstances and reside eternally in the spiritual world
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead did not ask Bali Maharaja to separate from his family; instead, the Lord allowed him to stay with his family members - jnatibhih parivaritah
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow any of His devotees or assistants to be engaged in sense gratification
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow anyone to act against the stringent laws of material nature; therefore illicit sex is punished life after life
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead thought it wise to catch hold of the dangerous part of the snake and allow the demons to hold the tail, which was not dangerous, but with a competitive desire, the demons thought it wise to hold the snake near the mouth
- The water (from Paramananda Puri's well) was bitter, and therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu prayed to Lord Jagannatha to allow Ganges water to come into the well to make it sweet
- Those fortunate living entities who catch the truth and surrender unto the lotus feet of Vasudeva after many, many births in the material world join the eternally liberated souls and thus are allowed to enter into the kingdom of Godhead
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- We are thinking falsely that we are free. We are not free. Krsna is taking care of us. He has allowed us, - All right, you have come here. Try to satisfy yourself. But there are certain rules and regulation
- When the living entity is bewildered in his desires, the Lord allows him to fulfill those desires, but the Lord is never responsible for the actions and reactions of the particular situation which may be desired. BG 1972 purports