Category:God's Bodily Effulgence
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category clarifies the true nature of the impersonal Brahman, or brahmajyoti, revealing it to be nothing more than the spiritual bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently uses the analogy of the sun to explain this profound truth: just as the localized sun planet emits sunshine that illuminates and sustains the solar system, the localized Supreme Lord in Goloka Vṛndāvana emits a dazzling spiritual luster that sustains the entire cosmic manifestation. All life, planets, and universes are generated from and rest upon the rays of this bodily effulgence. Furthermore, the material light of the sun and moon are merely reflections of this supreme spiritual light. The category also highlights the danger of impersonal realization. While jñānīs and mundane philosophers may achieve liberation by merging into this bodily effulgence through mental speculation, it is only a partial realization of the Absolute Truth. Because the soul naturally requires loving service, those who merely merge into the effulgence eventually fall down to the material world. True perfection lies in seeing past the dazzling light to worship the Supreme Person who is its source.
- The Sun Analogy: The brahmajyoti is compared to sunshine. Just as sunshine emanates from the sun planet, the impersonal Brahman effulgence emanates from the personal body of the Supreme Lord.
- The Origin of Creation: The unlimited, all-pervasive bodily effulgence of the Lord is the ultimate cause of creation. Countless universes and millions of planets rest upon and are generated from these spiritual rays.
- Reflected Light: The material universe is inherently dark. The illuminating power of the sun, moon, and stars is not independent; they simply reflect the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Lord.
- Partial Realization: Realizing the Absolute Truth merely as the impersonal Brahman effulgence is incomplete. It is a lower stage of realization compared to understanding the localized Paramātmā and the ultimate Supreme Person, Bhagavān.
- The Risk of Merging: While merging into the Lord's bodily effulgence is a form of liberation, it is an unstable position. Without engaging in the active, loving service of the Lord, semi-liberated souls eventually fall back into the material world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Bodily Effulgence - The Source of the Brahmajyoti.
Subcategories
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Pages in category "God's Bodily Effulgence"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- Actually this dark universe is illuminated by the sun, but the sun and moon simply reflect the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Lord. In BG (BG 7.8) the Lord says, prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh: "I am the illuminating energy of both the sun and the moon."
- As sunshine dissipates the darkness of this material world, the effulgence emanating from the body of the Lord immediately dries up the darkness in the heart of the conditioned soul
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- Because of the sun there are trees, green foliage, fruits, and flowers. Similarly, whatever we see in creation is all due to Krsna's bodily effulgence
- Being illuminated by the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything is freed from all darkness
- Brahman is His transcendental bodily effulgence, and Paramatma is His partial representation. As such, Brahman or Paramatma realization of the Absolute Truth is but a partial realization
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- Impersonal Brahman is not the greatest, although it appears to be so. Impersonal Brahman is only the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Impersonal realization of the effulgence of the Lord's body is not the highest perfectional stage, nor is the stage of Paramatma realization
- It is the misconception of the impersonalists that one can worship any imaginary form of the Lord, or Brahman, and at the end merge in the Brahman effulgence. Of course, to merge into the bodily effulgence (Brahman) of the Supreme Lord is also liberation
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- Simply by seeing the form of the Lord as He presents Himself by His own internal potency as Krsna or Rama or Kapila, one can directly see the brahmajyoti, because the brahmajyoti is no more than the effulgence of His bodily luster
- Sun planet is one of the material creation of Krsna. But as the moon planet reflects the sun planet, similarly the sun planet also reflects brahma-jyoti, and the brahma-jyoti comes out of the bodily effulgence of Krsna
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- That brahmajyoti (the effulgence of the SPG's transcendental body), which is unlimited, unfathomed and all-pervasive, is the cause of the creation of unlimited numbers of planets with varieties of climates and specific conditions of life - BS 5.40
- The absolute truth and His bodily effulgence are in the same way simultaneously one and different. Kamsa and Sisupala attained to the absolute truth, but they were not allowed to enter into the Goloka Vrndavana abode
- The bodily effulgence of Krsna generates millions of universes. In this solar system the sun produces many planets, and because of sunshine the planets are warm and the seasons change
- The Brahma-samhita (Bs 5.38) states: Due to the rays of the Lord’s bodily effulgence, millions of universes are created, just as planets are created from the sun
- The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is also confirmed in Brahma-samhita: yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti - BS 5.40
- The impersonal Brahman, or bodily effulgence of the Supreme Lord, is known as Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka
- The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, and His bodily effulgence is known as the brahmajyoti, Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka
- The spiritual bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is called the brahmajyoti, and in that brahmajyoti there are countless planets
- The Vaikunthalokas are variegated spiritual planets situated in the Lord’s impersonal bodily effulgence, known as the brahmajyoti
- Those who are dull materialists, their brain is congested with so much rubbish thing, they cannot understand that it is through the bodily effulgence of the Lord the potential manifestation is this cosmic manifestation. They will think that like Dr. Frog
- Those who are jnanis, those who are trying to approach the Absolute Truth by mental speculation, by dint of their teeny knowledge, they can, utmost, approach to this brahma-jyoti. But that brahma-jyoti is only emanation of the bodily effulgence of Krsna
- Those who are trying to find the Supreme Godhead by mental speculation may approach the bodily effulgence, or the impersonal Brahman