Category:God's Describing
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the ultimate authority and source of all knowledge. Factually, only the Lord Himself can perfectly describe His own unlimited glories, potencies, and pastimes. Even Lord Śeṣanāga, an incarnation possessing thousands of mouths, has been continuously describing the Lord's pastimes since time immemorial without ever reaching an end. Throughout the Vedic literatures, the Lord personally describes the deepest spiritual truths to enlighten the conditioned souls. In the Bhagavad-gītā, Lord Kṛṣṇa describes the body, the soul, the supreme religious system of surrender (sarva-dharmān parityajya), and the sublime affection He holds for His pure devotees. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Lord incarnates as Kapila Muni to describe the authentic Sāṅkhya philosophy—an analytical description of the material elements and spirit, ultimately culminating in bhakti-yoga. At the request of His mother, Devahūti, Kapiladeva also describes the agonizing process of birth and death to generate detachment from material existence. Because the Lord Himself is describing these truths, this knowledge is perfect, sublime, and free from the speculative interpretations of impersonalists and atheists.
- The Unlimited Glories: The glories, potencies, and pastimes of the Supreme Lord are infinite. Even Lord Anantadeva (Śeṣa), with His thousands of mouths, cannot reach the end of describing them. Therefore, only the Lord can truly describe Himself.
- Descriptions in the Bhagavad-gītā: The Lord personally describes the fundamental truths of existence in the Bhagavad-gītā. He details the nature of the body, the soul, the knower of the field, and the ultimate religious system: absolute surrender to Him.
- Kapila Muni's Sāṅkhya Philosophy: Lord Kapiladeva descends specifically to describe the true Sāṅkhya philosophy. Unlike atheistic versions, this Sāṅkhya is an analytical description of matter and spirit that culminates in pure devotional service (bhakti-yoga).
- Cultivating Detachment: To help conditioned souls break free from material entanglement, the Lord describes the grim reality of material life. Devahūti specifically requests Kapiladeva to describe the continual, miserable process of birth and death to foster detachment.
- The Pure Devotee: Throughout His teachings, the Lord meticulously describes the qualifications and the exalted position of the pure devotee, confirming that devotional service is the most auspicious path (śivatamam) and the highest perfectional stage.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Describing - The Absolute Knowledge Spoken by the Lord.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "God's Describing"
The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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- According to Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, in this verse (SB 4.20.7) Lord Visnu is describing Himself, or the Paramatma
- Although Lord Anantadeva is always describing the pastimes of the Lord with His thousands of mouths, He cannot reach the end of even one of the Lord's pastimes
- Ananta, a direct incarnation of the Lord, has unlimited mouths, and with each mouth He has been trying to describe the glories of the Lord for an unlimited span of time, yet the glories of the Lord remain unlimited, and He therefore never finishes
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- Devahuti continued: My dear Lord, please also describe in detail, both for me and for people in general, the continual process of birth and death, for by hearing of such calamities we may become detached from the activities of this material world
- Devahuti inquired: My dear Lord, You have already very scientifically described the symptoms of the total material nature and the characteristics of the spirit according to the Sankhya system of philosophy
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- I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have briefly described only some of the followers and devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. Even the thousand-mouthed Sesa Naga cannot describe all of these unlimited devotees
- I shall also describe this sublime knowledge, which is the door to spiritual life, to My mother, so that she also can attain perfection and self-realization, ending all reactions to fruitive activities. Thus she also will be freed from all material fear
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.25.21), Kapiladeva describes the symptoms of great personalities: titiksavah karunikah suhrdah sarva-dehinam
- In the above statement by Kapiladeva from the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the actual position of a pure devotee is described, and the primary characteristics of devotional service are also defined
- In the Bhagavad-gita (9.29) the Lord very nicely describes His sublime and transcendental affection for His devotees
- In the Bhagavad-gita God describes Himself. He says, "My appearance of taking birth just like an ordinary human being is actually transcendental."
- In these verses (SB 3.25.39-40), Kapiladeva is describing the devotee's acceptance of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the most dear to us
- It should be noted that the glories of the brahmana described in this chapter by the Lord Himself refer to His devotee-brahmana, or the Vaisnava
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- Millions of universes emanate from the breathing of the Maha-Visnu. In the Tenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita (BG 10.42), Krsna gives Arjuna some indication of His infinite glory, and He concludes His descriptions with the following statement
- My dear Vidura, I (Maitreya) have told you everything you wanted to know about the conversation between Narada and the Pracetas, the conversation describing the glories of the Lord. I have related this as far as possible
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- One just has to understand this Bhagavad-gita directly from the description given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all this will be clarified. BG 1972 purports
- One should be very careful not to commit offenses at the lotus feet of Vaisnavas, of whom Lord Siva is the best. While instructing Srila Rupa Gosvami, Caitanya Mahaprabhu described an offense at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava as hati mata, a mad elephant
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- Parasurama described to his father and brothers his activities in killing Kartaviryarjuna. Upon hearing of these deeds, Jamadagni spoke to his son as follows
- Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your (Kapila's) form and by whose influence people in general engage in the performance of pious activities
- Please also describe the fruitive results of charity and penance and of digging reservoirs of water. Please describe the situation of persons who are away from home and also the duty of a man in an awkward position
- Please also describe the imperfections and contradictions of the faithless atheists, the situation of crossbreeding, and the movements of the living entities in various species of life according to their particular modes of nature and work
- Please describe how many dissolutions there are for the elements of material nature and who survives after the dissolutions to serve the Lord while He is asleep
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- The cream of Srimad-Bhagavatam in the foregoing four slokas is sometimes squeezed out by the impersonalist for different interpretations in their favor, but it should be carefully noted that the four slokas were first described by the Lord Himself
- The Lord describes for Arjuna how one can achieve the highest perfectional stage simply by being engaged in his occupational duty, performing that duty for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord has described in summary the body, knowledge and the knowable. This knowledge is of three things: the knower, the knowable and the process of knowing. Combined, these are called vijnanam, or the science of knowledge. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord has described various kinds of knowledge, knowledge of the different types of orders and statuses of social life, knowledge of the renounced order of life, knowledge of nonattachment, sense and mind control, meditation, etc. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord has described various kinds of knowledge, processes of religion, knowledge of the Supreme Brahman, knowledge of the Supersoul, etc. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord is described here (in SB 3.29.5) as yoga-bhaskara, the sun of the system of all yoga. Devahuti has already requested her glorious son (Kapiladeva) to describe bhakti-yoga, and the Lord has described bhakti-yoga as the ultimate yoga system
- The Lord is described in all scriptures as lila-purusottama, or the Personality of Godhead, who is by His own nature always engaged in transcendental pastimes. In the Vedanta-sutra He is also described as anandamayo 'bhyasat - Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12
- The Lord is describing the field of activities and the knower of the field of activities in their constitutional positions. BG 1972 purports
- The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute Truth, knowing which any person can be released from the influence of the modes of material nature
- The Personality of Godhead, speaking to Brahma, uses aham while describing His own transcendental form
- The potential expansions can never be calculated by anyone because even the Personality of God Himself, as the incarnation of Sesa, cannot estimate the potencies, although He has been describing them continuously with His one thousand faces
- The real religious system is described by the Supreme Personality of Godhead: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66). The real religious system is that of surrender to the lotus feet of the Lord
- The substance is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and both the body and the soul are energies of the Supreme Godhead, as described by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gita - BG 7.4-5
- The superior form of energy of the Personality of Godhead is described in the Bhagavad-gita as para prakrti
- The word sivatamam is very significant. Sivatamam means "the most auspicious." The devotional path is so auspicious that a devotee cannot be lost under any circumstances. This is described in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself
- This verse (SB 3.25.44) marks the conclusion of bhakti-yoga, as described by Lord Kapiladeva to His mother. Bhakti-yoga is the business of one advanced in jnana-vairagya, knowledge and renunciation
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- Whatever you (Vyasadeva) desire to describe that is separate in vision from the Lord simply reacts, with different forms, names and results, to agitate the mind as the wind agitates a boat which has no resting place
- When Nityananda Prabhu described all the activities of Saksi-gopala, transcendental bliss increased in the minds of all the Vaisnavas
- While describing all this, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu became a little overwhelmed, but just to finish bidding farewell to the devotees, He remained patient