Category:God's Carrying
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category focuses on the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the ultimate sustainer who carries the entire cosmic manifestation, as well as the specific burdens of His pure devotees. Material scientists attribute the floating of planets to an unconscious "law of gravitation," but the Vedic literatures reveal that Lord Ananta personally carries the innumerable planets upon His hoods. Whenever the universe is in danger, the Lord incarnates to carry massive burdens—such as the Boar incarnation carrying the earth, or the Tortoise incarnation carrying Mandara Mountain. The Lord is also recognized by what He carries in His hands: Lord Viṣṇu carries the conchshell, disc, club, and lotus; Lord Balarāma carries a plow; and Lord Kṛṣṇa carries a flute. While nondevotees arrogant demand that God carry out their personal orders, a pure devotee simply carries out the orders of the Lord. In loving reciprocation, the Lord makes an infallible promise (yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham): He personally carries to His devotees whatever they lack and preserves whatever they have.
- The True Force of Gravity: The planets do not float independently by physical laws. They are actively carried on the hoods of Lord Ananta (Śeṣa Nāga), who sustains the universe by His inconceivable energy.
- Incarnations of Protection: The Lord accepts gigantic forms to carry unimaginable weights for the protection of the cosmos, such as the gigantic Boar carrying the earth, and the Tortoise carrying a mountain.
- Divine Paraphernalia: The Supreme Lord is identified by the specific items He carries. He carries weapons like the disc and club to vanquish demons, and items like the flute and plow to perform His transcendental pastimes.
- Carrying the Devotee's Needs: Instead of expecting God to serve as a cosmic order-supplier, a pure devotee dedicates his life to carrying out the Lord's instructions. In return, the Lord personally carries everything the devotee needs.
- Omnipotent Execution: The Supreme Lord does not need to physically labor. Everything in the material and spiritual worlds is carried out effortlessly by His multifarious, omnipotent energies.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Carrying - The Supreme Maintainer of the Cosmos.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "God's Carrying"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- According to our sastra the planets are held on the hood of Ananta. He is carrying. But they say they are staying on account of law of gravitation
- As mentioned in this verse (SB 4.16.21, tad-yasah), Prthu Maharaja was actually carrying with him the reputation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he was actually reigning over the world in that capacity
- At a particular moment when the child has to be removed from that place, he is also carried by the will of the Supreme, even if the child or the father does not wish to be separated from the happy relation
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- He (God) is not required to do anything personally, but everything in the material world is carried out by His wishes and direction; the entire material manifestation is situated in Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- He wore a sacred thread and a garland of rudraksa beads. He carried a rod and a waterpot, and He was a brahmacari
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- In Satya-yuga the Lord wore a sacred thread and a garland of rudraksa beads. He carried a rod and a waterpot, and He was a brahmacari
- It is the duty of the pure devotee to be fixed in the discharge of the duty entrusted to him by the Lord or the Lord's bona fide representative, the spiritual master. The rest is carried on by the Lord without a break
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- Lord Jagannatha is the maintainer of the whole universe. Who can carry Him from one place to another? The Lord moves by His personal will just to perform His pastimes
- Lord Sesa in the spiritual world of Vaikuntha and, in the material world, Lord Ananta, who carries innumerable planets on His hoods, are two primary empowered incarnations. There is no need to count the others, for they are unlimited
- Lord Visnu was sitting on Garuda, a big aquiline bird, and was carrying in His hand a disc, Brahma was sitting on a swan and had in his hand kusa grass, and Lord Siva was sitting on a bull and carrying in his hand a small drum called a damaru
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- May Lord Narayana, who is equipped with all potencies, protect me in the third part of the day, and may Lord Visnu, who carries a disc to kill His enemies, protect me in the fourth part of the day
- May the SPG, who bears the Srivatsa on His chest, protect me after midnight until the sky becomes pinkish. May Lord Janardana, who carries a sword in His hand, protect me at the end of night (during the last four ghatikas of night)
- My dear boy, the Lord, who carries the wheel of a chariot, is represented by the monarchical regime, and when this regime is abolished the whole world becomes filled with thieves, who then at once vanquish the unprotected subjects like scattered lambs
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- The gopis, following the proper system, protected Krsna, their child, with this mantra: May Cakri protect You from the front; may Sri Hari, Gadadhari, the carrier of the club, protect You from the back - SB 10.6.22-23
- The gopis, following the proper system, protected Krsna, their child, with this mantra: May Lord Urugaya, the carrier of the conchshell, protect You from all corners - SB 10.6.22-23
- The Lord is bedecked with flower garlands, His neck is decorated with the Kaustubha gem, and He carries with Him the goddess of fortune and His personal weapons, like His disc and club
- The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.22): For those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, I carry to them what they lack and preserve what they have
- The modern creators of the many cheap incarnations may take note of the factual incarnation of God as the gigantic boar with a suitable snout to carry the planet earth
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is all-pervasive. Not only does He carry the three worlds by His inconceivable energy, but He maintains them also
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, appearing in His incarnation as a tortoise, dove deep into the ocean to carry Mandara Mountain on His back
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- When the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, who carries in His hands a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower, is worshiped, certainly all other demigods are worshiped automatically because Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is all-pervading
- While wandering in the forest, where He accepted a life of hardship, carrying His invincible bow and arrows in His hand, Lord Ramacandra deformed Ravana's sister, who was polluted with lusty desires, by cutting off her nose and ears