Category:God's Distributing
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the ultimate distributor of energy, mercy, and transcendental love. To explain how the Absolute Truth can be localized yet universally present, the Vedic literatures utilize the analogy of the sun. Just as the sun remains in one specific location but distributes its heat and light everywhere, the Supreme Lord remains in His supreme abode (paramam dhāma) while distributing His various potencies to create, maintain, and dissolve the cosmic manifestation. Furthermore, the Lord distributes Himself through His all-pervading feature as the Supersoul, expanding His hands and legs everywhere to oversee the actions of the living entities. In His specific incarnations, the Lord distributes distinct forms of mercy. As Mohinī-mūrti, the Lord enchanted the demons in order to exclusively distribute the churning's nectar to the demigods. Ultimately, the highest distribution of mercy occurs in Kali-yuga through the golden avatāra, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Along with Lord Nityānanda, He descended not to distribute mere material benedictions or longevity, but to freely distribute the rarest, most confidential treasure: pure love of Godhead through the saṅkīrtana movement.
- The Sun Analogy: The Supreme Lord is the master of all energies. Although He remains situated in His transcendental abode, He distributes His potencies throughout the creation, exactly as a fire or the sun distributes heat and light from one localized place.
- The All-Pervading Form: While an ordinary living entity's body is strictly localized, the Supreme Lord's hands, legs, and eyes are distributed everywhere. He expands Himself as the Supersoul to maintain cosmic harmony and give pleasure to His devotees.
- The Pastime of Mohinī-mūrti: During the churning of the milk ocean, the Lord appeared as the enchantingly beautiful Mohinī-mūrti. Using sweet words and illusions, He cleverly cheated the demons to ensure the nectar of immortality was distributed solely to the demigods.
- Distributing Pure Love: The greatest act of divine distribution takes place in the current age of Kali. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu overflooded the entire world by cheaply distributing the most confidential, ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa through the congregational chanting of the holy names.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Distributing - From Cosmic Energies to the Nectar of Devotion.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "God's Distributing"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- A different incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead distributes His mercy in each of the nine varsas of Jambudvipa
- According to the sastra, in Kali-yuga the Lord would assume a golden or yellow color and would distribute love of Krsna and the sankirtana movement
- Although God is situated in His dhama paramam, His energies are distributed everywhere. Nor is He different from His energies, inasmuch as the sunshine and the sun are nondifferent
- Another purpose of His (the Lord) appearance is cikirsur bhagavan jnanam, to distribute knowledge
- As fire distributes its light and heat from one place, the Supreme Personality of Godhead distributes His different energies all over His creation
- As if they (the asuras) would allow Her (Mohini-murti) to do with the nectar whatever She liked, whether She distributed it, threw it away or drank it Herself without giving it to them
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- Bali Maharaja appreciated the Lord's mercy not only upon him but upon many other demons. Because this mercy is liberally distributed, the Supreme Lord is called all-merciful
- By distributing Sankhya He would increase the honor of the devotees; therefore, Sankhya philosophy is not dry mental speculation
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- He (Lord Siva) wanted to see the recent incarnation of Mohini-murti, which Lord Visnu had assumed to distribute the nectar generated from the churning of the ocean of milk
- He (the personalist) understands that although He (God) distributes Himself in so many ways, He has His separate personal existence
- His (Lord Nrsimhadeva's) mercy is distributed like moonshine, and His face is like that of a lion. Let me offer my (Sridhara Svami's) obeisances unto Him again and again
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- In the Anandaranya, He (Krsna) is known as Vasudeva, Padmanabha and Janardana; at Visnukanci, He is known as Visnu; and at Mayapura, He is known as Hari. There are millions and billions of su forms of the Lord distributed all over the universe
- In the Visnu Purana it is said: Fire is situated in one place, but it distributes heat and light. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is distributing His energies in different ways
- It is indicated that King Prthu would arrange for the distribution of rainfall personally if Indra failed to discharge his duty properly. Sometimes Indra, would become angry at the inhabitants of the earth if they did not offer sacrifices to appease him
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- One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone distributes Himself in so many manifestations just as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dreams
- One's hands and legs are distributed locally, but Krsna's hands and legs are distributed everywhere. This is confirmed in the Svetasvatara Upanisad: sarvasya prabhum isanam sarvasya saranam brhat. BG 1972 purports
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- Sri Nityananda Prabhu overflooded the entire world by distributing transcendental loving service. No one can understand His character and activities
- Sri Rupa Gosvami could understand that Lord Caitanya was none other than Sri Krsna Himself, for no one but the Supreme Personality of Godhead can distribute confidential love of the Supreme Person
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- The creative force is merely the energy of the Lord, but the foolish conclude that because the Lord has distributed Himself in an impersonal form He has no separate existence
- The energy of our senses is meant to be diverted, not stopped. The senses are to be purified, so that they serve the Lord instead of disturbing His settled harmony. The entire cosmic harmony is a settled fact by the will of the Supreme
- The Lord distributes His mercy in the form of rains on the scorched earth at times of dire necessity. He supplies rain when we are practically on the verge of death for want of water
- The Lord has so distributed Himself all over the universe just to give pleasure to the devotees, to give the common man facility to eradicate his sins, and to establish religious principles in the world
- The Supreme has legs and hands distributed everywhere, and this cannot be said of the individual soul. Therefore that there are two knowers of the field of activity, the individual soul and the Supersoul, must be admitted. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is just like the sun, profusely distributes His energies while situated beyond the cloud of this material cosmic manifestation. He is the master of masters, and He is the Supreme of the supremes
- The words vancayann upasancaraih indicate that the Lord's whole policy was to cheat the demons simply by speaking sweet words. The Lord's intention was to distribute the nectar only to the demigods
- There is no cause for all these phenomenal activities but Him, Hari, the Supreme Lord, who is the primeval cause of all causes. This does not mean, however, that the Lord Himself is distributed impersonally