Category:God's Feelings
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category refutes the impersonalist idea that the Absolute Truth is devoid of feelings. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a person, His thinking, feeling, and willing existed before the material creation and are completely transcendental. God does not experience mundane pain or pleasure governed by the modes of material nature. Instead, He feels profound spiritual emotions, especially in relation to His devotees. He feels like a compassionate father, experiencing pain when His devotees suffer, which is why offenses against devotees (vaiṣṇava-aparādha) are so severely judged. Conversely, although He is fully self-satisfied, He feels uniquely benefited and experiences the highest transcendental bliss when exchanging unalloyed loving service with His devotees—sometimes even preferring their affectionate chastisement over formal, exalted prayers. His physical feelings are also extraordinary and absolute; as Lord Ananta or Lord Śeṣa, He holds the entire universe but feels it as no heavier than a mustard seed. As Kūrma (the tortoise incarnation), the massive friction of Mandara Mountain did not cause Him inconvenience, but rather a pleasing scratching sensation.
- Transcendental Origin of Feelings: God's feelings are not products of the material mind or body. His capacity to think, feel, and will is eternal and spiritual, existing prior to the cosmic manifestation.
- The Bliss of Devotional Exchange: Although the Lord is complete in six opulences, He does not feel true transcendental bliss without the loving service of His devotees. The highest perfection of this exchange of feelings is seen in the rāsa-līlā.
- Compassion for the Devotee: The Lord feels the pain of His devotees exactly as a father feels the pain of his child. This deep emotional connection makes offenses against devotees extremely dangerous.
- Unaffected by Material Burden: The physical feelings of the Lord demonstrate His supreme power. Lord Śeṣa feels the weight of countless universes as merely a mustard seed, and Lord Kūrma feels the grinding of a massive mountain as a pleasant itch.
- Preferring Love over Reverence: The Lord feels more satisfaction from the intimate, sometimes chastising love of a pure devotee than He does from the formal, awe-inspired prayers offered by demigods or ordinary men.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Feelings The Transcendental Emotions of the Supreme.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "God's Feelings"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- After being received by the cowherd men and boys, the gopis, and King Nanda and Yasoda, Lord Balarama sat down, feeling satisfied, and they all surrounded Him
- Although the Lord felt sorrow from the piercing words of the demon, He delivered the earth for the satisfaction of the demigods, who are ever His devotees
- Ananta has the bodily features of a snake with thousands of hoods & since His strength is unlimited, all the universes resting on His hoods feel no heavier than mustard seeds. We can just imagine how insignificant a mustard seed is on the hood of a snake
- At that moment (when Krsna was eating at Pandava's place) all of the sages accompanying Durvasa were taking bath in the river, and when Krsna felt satisfaction from eating Draupadi's offering, they also felt satisfaction, and their hunger was gone
B
- Being always unaffected and complete, He does not feel extra pleasure when offered nice prayers by the devotee, although the devotee benefits by offering prayers to the Lord
- By our calculation, a universe may be very, very heavy, but because the Lord is ananta (unlimited), He feels the weight to be no heavier than a mustard seed
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- He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) was feeling separation of Govinda, Krsna, so intensely that He was thinking one moment as twelve years. So these are mahabhava. Great transcendental ecstasy can be achieved simply by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra
- His (the Lord's) seeing power existed before the material creation; therefore His body is not material. His thinking, feeling and acting are all transcendental
I
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it is said that everyone comes before the Lord (Caitanya) & offers Him exalted prayers, but the Lord does not feel as pleased when offered such prayers as He does when a devotee, out of pure love, chastises Him as a subordinate
- It is (The Lord's rasa-lila with the gopis) the highest perfectional stage of the exchange of feelings between the Lord and the living entities. The Lord gives the fallen souls the chance for this highest perfection of life
- It is certain that a devotee who helps in this endeavor to satisfy the SPG becomes indirectly a controller of the Supreme Lord. Although the Supreme Lord is full in six opulences, He does not feel transcendental bliss without His devotees
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- On the contrary, He (Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His body as a tortoise) apparently felt some itching, and thus the rotation of the (Mandara) mountain was certainly very pleasing
- Only fools are ungrateful to their benefactors. The Lord, however, does not require benefit from anyone besides Himself because He is full in Himself; still He feels benefited by the unalloyed services of His devotees
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- That same Lord Visnu, in the form of Lord Sesa, holds the planets upon His heads, although He does not know where they are, for He cannot feel their existence upon His heads
- The cosmic manifestation gives the conditioned souls a chance to go back home, back to Godhead, and that is its main purpose. The Lord is so kind that in the absence of such a manifestation He feels something wanting, and thus the creation takes place
- The devotees gave their opinion and said, "The Lord will never meet the King, and if we requested Him to do so, the Lord would surely feel very unhappy"
- The Gaudiya Vaisnava then took that water and drank it himself. Seeing that, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu felt a little unhappy and was also outwardly angry
- The Lord does not feel pain or pleasure from any action or reaction of this material world, but the devotees cannot tolerate even the pricking of the Lord's lotus feet by a thorn
- The Lord felt Hiranyaksa's striking on His body to be like flowers offered for worship. In other words, the Lord desired to fight in order to enjoy His transcendental bliss; therefore He enjoyed the attack
- The Lord felt somewhat insufficient, like a husband feeling lonely in the absence of his wife. This is a poetic simile. He wanted to create the cosmic manifestation to give another chance to the conditioned souls who were dormant in forgetfulness
- The Lord's feelings are like those of a father, who feels pain when his child is in pain. Therefore, offenses at the lotus feet of a devotee are serious
- The mind by which the Lord thinks, feels and wills is transcendental, and the eyes by which He glances over material nature are also transcendental
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always the unlimited. Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His body as a tortoise, held on His back the largest of mountains, Mandara-parvata, He did not feel any inconvenience