Category:God's Consciousness
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category draws a clear distinction between the limited consciousness of the individual living entity and the unlimited, supreme consciousness of the Personality of Godhead. While both the soul and the Supersoul are eternal, blissful, and conscious, the individual soul's consciousness is restricted to the jurisdiction of its own particular body. In contrast, the Supreme Lord is conscious of all bodies, simultaneously knowing the past, present, and future, as well as the intricate psychic movements of every individual. This absolute consciousness pervades the entire cosmic manifestation. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphatically defeats the atheistic concept of blind physical laws by explaining that the intricate beauty and design of the universe—such as the unfolding of a rose—are explicitly directed by the complete consciousness of the Lord (abhijña). Furthermore, the category addresses the limitations of Māyāvāda philosophy, which merely recognizes the Absolute Truth as a conscious entity but fails to explain how He dynamically acts through His energies. True Kṛṣṇa consciousness means dovetailing one's limited awareness with the active, supreme consciousness of the Lord.
- Limited vs. Unlimited Consciousness: The individual soul is conscious only of its own bodily pains and pleasures. The Supreme Lord, however, is conscious of everyone's body, mind, and existence simultaneously.
- The Omniscient Supersoul: Residing within the heart of every living being as the Paramātmā, the Lord is fully aware of all psychic movements and past desires of the conditioned souls.
- The Supreme Director of Creation: The material universe does not operate on blind physical laws. The creation, maintenance, and intricate designs of nature are direct evidence of the Supreme Lord's active, all-pervading consciousness.
- Defeating Impersonalism: Recognizing that God is a conscious entity is not enough. The Upaniṣads confirm that He is an eternally conscious person who acts dynamically. The defect of Māyāvāda philosophy is its failure to understand the activities of the Supreme Conscious Person.
- The Perfection of Surrender: A living entity cannot artificially expand their consciousness to become God. The perfection of life is to harmonize one's limited consciousness with the supreme consciousness through the process of devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Consciousness - Complete, Active, and Unlimited.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "God's Consciousness"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- Because He (the Lord) lives in the heart of every living being, He is conscious of the psychic movements of the particular jivas. We should not forget this. BG 1972 Introduction
- Both God and the living entity are fully conscious. As living entities, we are conscious of our bodily existence. Similarly, the Lord is conscious of the gigantic cosmic manifestation. This is confirmed in the Vedas
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- He (God) knows everything. In the Bhagavad-gita also He says that, "I know past, present, future everywhere." So consciousness is there. One is the supreme consciousness, and the other is this limited consciousness
- He is eternally void of all disturbances and fearless. He is complete consciousness as opposed to matter. Uncontaminated and without distinctions, He is the principle primeval cause of all causes and effects
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- Many verses can be quoted from the Upanisads and Vedas which prove that the Supreme Godhead is not impersonal. In the Katha Upanisad (2.2.13) it is also said: He is the supreme eternally conscious person, who maintains all other living entities
- Mayavada philosophy simply informs us of the consciousness of the Absolute Truth but does not give us information of how He acts with His consciousness. That is the defect of that philosophy
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- The consciousness of the Lord is not materially affected. BG 1972 Introduction
- The difference (between the soul and the Supersoul) is that the individual soul is conscious within the limited jurisdiction of the body, whereas the Supersoul is conscious of all bodies. BG 1972 purports
- The individual soul's consciousness cannot act in superconsciousness. This superconsciousness can be achieved, however, by dovetailing individual consciousness with the consciousness of the Supreme. This process is called surrender or Krsna consciousness
- The living entities, like the Lord, are full of consciousness, and they are after happiness. BG 1972 Introduction
- The Lord is conscious of all of His previous appearances and disappearances, but a common living entity forgets everything about his past body as soon as he gets another body. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord is ksetra-jnah, conscious, as is the living being, but the living being is conscious of his particular body, whereas the Lord is conscious of all bodies. BG 1972 Introduction
- The Lord lives within the core of heart in every living being, therefore He is conscious of the psychic movements, activities, of the particular jiva. We should not forget
- The rose in the garden gradually takes its shape and color to become beautiful and sweet not by a blind physical law, although it appears like that. Behind that physical law is the direction of the complete consciousness of the Supreme Lord
- The similar characteristics of the soul and Supersoul are that they are both conscious, eternal and blissful. BG 1972 purports
- The soul is existing, spreading its influence all over the body, just like the sun is existing, spreading the sunshine all over the universe. Similarly, God is existing, spreading His consciousness all over the universe, all over the creation
- The Supersoul, or Paramatma, however, being present everywhere & within everyone, is also conscious of everyone's existence. The theory that the soul & the Supersoul are one is not acceptable because it is not confirmed by authoritative Vedic literature
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead knows very well how to do everything perfectly. He is abhijna, always fully conscious
- The supreme source is abhijna. He is not a stone or a void. How could He be? The creation itself is evidence of the consciousness of the Supreme. Everyone can appreciate the cosmic manifestation and how nicely it is working
- To understand that Brahman, the Supreme, is conscious is not sufficient. One must know how He consciously acts through His different energies
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- We have got limited power to expand . . . yena sarvam idam tatam (BG 2.17), and become immediately expanded throughout My body. And He is unlimitedly big. So how much His consciousness is distributed all over the universe, sarva-jna
- When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu regained His external consciousness, He saw that many Mayavadi sannyasis and other people were gathered there. He therefore suspended His dancing for the time being
- When the Lord was coming out of the water, taking the earth in His arms to deliver it, the demon derided Him with insulting words, but the Lord did not care because He was very conscious of His duty