Category:God's Excusing
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category explores the profound balance between the supreme mercy and the strict justice of the Absolute Truth. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is all-powerful, He can immediately excuse any sinful reaction and grant liberation to a surrendered soul. If a sincere devotee accidentally falls victim to illusion, the Lord from within the heart instantly excuses them. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda strictly warns against misusing this mercy; a person who intentionally and repeatedly commits sins, expecting the Lord's forgiveness through mechanisms like confession, is engaged in a nonsensical and punishable proposition. Furthermore, there is one specific transgression that the Lord absolutely never excuses: Vaiṣṇava-aparādha, or offending a pure devotee. Even if a great mystic like Durvāsā Muni directly approaches Lord Nārāyaṇa for forgiveness, the Lord refuses to excuse him, directing the offender to beg forgiveness from the devotee himself. In beautiful contrast, the pure devotees of the Lord are oceans of causeless mercy. Like Lord Jesus Christ praying for his executioners, or Prahlāda Mahārāja begging for the deliverance of his demonic father, pure Vaiṣṇavas naturally pray for God to excuse the offenses of even their worst enemies.
- The Power to Forgive: As the supreme controller, the Lord has the inconceivable power to wipe away lifetimes of karmic reactions. He is favorably disposed to His sincere devotees and readily excuses accidental falldowns.
- The Unforgivable Offense: The Supreme Lord never tolerates or excuses an offense committed against His pure devotees (Vaiṣṇava-aparādha). The only way to be excused from such an offense is to submit directly to the offended devotee.
- The Forgiving Nature of the Vaiṣṇava: While the Lord is strict regarding offenses to His devotees, the devotees themselves hold no grudges. A pure devotee always thinks of the welfare of others and prays to God to excuse their tormentors.
- The Role of the Guru: The spiritual master acts as a transparent via medium. One of his primary roles is to introduce the conditioned soul to Kṛṣṇa and pray to the Lord to excuse the disciple's past sinful life.
- No License to Sin: The Lord's willingness to excuse sins is not a license for repeated criminality. Systems like confession are valid only if one genuinely stops the sinful act; repeatedly sinning on the strength of God's forgiveness guarantees severe punishment.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Excusing - The Causeless Mercy and Strict Justice of the Lord.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "God's Excusing"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- A great mystic yogi, Durvasa Muni, offended the great devotee Ambarisa Maharaja. The sage Durvasa was to be chastised by the Sudarsana cakra of the Lord. Even though the great mystic directly approached the Lord, he was never excused
- An offender at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava is never excused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are many instances illustrating this fact
- As soon as this is done the Lord excuses the sincere devotee. But that does not mean that one should take advantage of the Lord's causeless mercy and expect to be excused over and over again, while he commits the same sinful activities
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- Because He is all-powerful, the Lord can do anything and everything. He can excuse all sinful reactions. He can immediately transfer a person to Vaikunthaloka. That is the inconceivable power of the SPG, who is favorably disposed to the pure devotees
- By calling on the Supreme Lord, the priests of Nabhi Maharaja proved themselves unintelligent; nonetheless, the Lord came out of His causeless mercy. All of them wanted to be excused by the Lord
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- God can excuse you once, twice, thrice, not more than that. Then you will be punished. Because you are knowingly criminal, your punishment will be very severe
- Guru introduces us with God and prays to God, "Please excuse him." This is guru's business. And by the request of guru, God agrees to excuse him. This is the process
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- If a person derides a pure devotee, he is never recognized by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In other words, the Supreme Lord never excuses one who offends a pure devotee. There are many examples of this in history
- If a person is not ashamed of his sinful activities and continues to commit the same sinful activities with the knowledge that the Lord will excuse him, that is a most nonsensical proposition
- If a servant makes a mistake, the master is punishable because he is responsible for the offense. Taking this seriously, Yamaraja, along with his servants, prayed with folded hands to be excused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana
- If by chance a devotee accidentally performs some sinful activity, the Lord will excuse him, but one should not intentionally perform sinful acts
- If one offends a great personality, the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not excuse one, although the great personalities themselves might not take offense
- Ignorant personalities, or conditioned souls, have no choice but to accept their precarious condition under material nature. The only remedy is to surrender to Visnu and always pray to be excused
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that if a person falls down, but is wholeheartedly engaged in the transcendental service of the Supreme Lord, the Lord, being situated within his heart, beautifies him & excuses him from that abomination. BG 1972 pur
- In your country there is Lord Jesus Christ. When he was being crucified, still he was saying, "My Lord, excuse them. They do not know what they are doing." This is Vaisnava
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- Jesus Christ told, if I remember, that "Lord, excuse these persons," who were crucifying him. Is it not? He knew that "These rascals, they are killing me, but... They are offending certainly. So they do not know that I cannot be killed
- Jesus Christ was so badly treated, and still he was thinking, "Father, they do not know what they are doing. Please excuse." This is suhrdah. He is praying to God. This is sadhu, mahatma
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- Lord Jesus Christ, when he was being crucified, he was requesting God, "My Lord, please excuse them. They do not know what they are doing." This is the position of the devotee. Yes
- Lord Narayana could not excuse a person who had offended a Vaisnava. To be excused from such an offense, one must submit to the Vaisnava whom he has offended. There is no other way to be excused
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- Prahlada Maharaja did not ask for anything for himself; rather, he prayed for the Lord to excuse his demoniac father. This is the attitude of a Vaisnava, who always thinks of the welfare of the entire universe
- Prahlada Maharaja told the Lord - My father was a great atheist, and he committed many offenses at Your lotus feet. Now You have killed him. I request that he be excused and be given liberation
- Prahlada Maharaja, when he was ordered by the Lord to take some benediction, he said that "I am not a merchant, Sir, that by giving You some service I'll take some return. Please excuse me." Nrsimha-deva was very much satisfied: "Here is a pure devotee"
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- She (Mother Earth) reminded King Prthu that not only was he an incarnation of God, but he was situated as the King of the earth as well. Therefore his duty was to excuse her
- Since they (the demigods) considered Gajendra's prayer to be directed toward God, they felt offended, and this in itself was offensive. Consequently, when the Lord went there, they also went & offered prayers to God so that their offense might be excused
- Such persons (the most degraded persons in the world) are never excused by the Lord or by any agent of the Lord. One should, therefore, utilize one's life in glorifying the Lord by all means, without any offense
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- The Christian process, that going to church, confession, that is very nice. You confess. And God or God's representative is quite able to excuse you and to make you free from all sinful reaction. But why should you commit again?
- The foolish boy was, of course, excused by the Lord, but others, who may not have a father like Samika Rsi, will be put into great difficulty if they misuse the advantages obtained by birth in a brahmana family
- The Lord as Supersoul could detect the lust in the mind of Junior Haridasa, who was at once banished from the Lord's association and was never accepted again, even though the Lord was implored to excuse Haridasa for the mistake
- The Yamuna very much afraid of Lord Balarama’s anger, immediately came and surrendered unto Him, praying to the Lord, the SP of Godhead, and admitting her fault. She was then excused. This is the sum and substance of the yamunakarsana-lila