Category:God's Imparting
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the original and ultimate source of all perfect knowledge. Because ordinary living entities are plagued by four inherent defects—making mistakes, being illusioned, possessing a cheating propensity, and having imperfect senses—they cannot independently acquire or manufacture absolute truth. Therefore, real knowledge must be imparted directly by the Lord. He accomplishes this in two primary ways: from within and from without. From within the heart, the Lord acts as the Supersoul (caitya-guru), originally imparting Vedic knowledge to Lord Brahmā (tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye) and continuing to dissipate the darkness of ignorance for all pure devotees. From without, God mercifully descends as the ultimate spiritual master to impart transcendental instructions through texts like the Bhagavad-gītā, and through specific incarnations like Lord Kapila and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. However, this confidential knowledge is not imparted to everyone equally; it is revealed only to those who possess a submissive, serving attitude, such as Arjuna and Uddhava. A bona fide spiritual master is simply a pure representative who imparts this exact same knowledge down the line of disciplic succession without alteration.
- The Origin of Vedic Knowledge: The Absolute Truth is the source of all intelligence. At the dawn of creation, the Supreme Lord directly imparted the perfect Vedic knowledge into the heart of the first created being, Lord Brahmā.
- Internal Guidance (Buddhi-yoga): The Lord is situated in everyone's heart. For those who are constantly devoted to serving Him with love, He imparts the necessary intelligence and knowledge from within to help them return back to Godhead.
- The Compassion of Śāstra: Recognizing that materialistic people are trapped in ignorance, the Lord acts as a compassionate father by outwardly imparting essential spiritual treatises like the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
- The Qualification to Receive Knowledge: The Lord does not impart His most confidential knowledge to the faithless or the envious. There must be a perfect exchange of sensible and logical understanding, which only occurs when the Lord is satisfied by the devotee's pure service.
- The Principle of Disciplic Succession: Absolute knowledge cannot be manufactured. It must be imparted by the Supreme Lord or His authorized representative. The test of a bona fide spiritual master is that he repeats exactly what was originally imparted by the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Imparting - The Supreme Spiritual Master Within and Without.
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Pages in category "God's Imparting"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- According to Srimad-Bhagavatam, tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye: (SB 1.1.1) after the creation, the Supreme Person imparted Vedic knowledge within the heart of Brahma
- Asuram bhavam (in BG 7.15) refers to not accepting the existence of God or the transcendental instructions of the Personality of Godhead. Bhagavad-gita clearly consists of transcendental instructions imparted directly by the Supreme Personality of God
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- Having imparted that knowledge to His mother - and, through His mother, to the world - Kapiladeva had no more need to stay at home, so He took permission from His mother and left
- He who is situated in the heart of everyone can be pleased to impart, from within, knowledge of the Absolute Truth in terms of the ancient Vedic principles delivered only to those who are purified by the process of devotional service
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- One who follows the instruction of the Gita, as it is imparted by the Lord, the Personality of Godhead Himself, becomes free from all doubts by the grace of transcendental knowledge. BG 1972 purports
- Only when the Lord is satisfied with the devotional service of the devotee does He impart knowledge, as He did for Arjuna and Uddhava
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- Simply by following the instructions imparted by Lord Krsna or Lord Kapila, one can obtain the highest benefit, even today
- Such persons (materialistic men) are described as equal to asses and bulls. But God, as the compassionate father of all living beings, imparts unto them the Vedic knowledge in short treatises like Bhagavad-gita and, for the graduates, Srimad-Bhagavatam
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- Test for bona fide spiritual masters is that there should be no difference between the instruction of the Lord originally imparted to His devotee and that which is imparted by the authority in the line of disciplic succession
- The Bhagavatam (1.1.1) also states, tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye: Krsna instructed Lord Brahma in Vedic knowledge. Unless the ultimate source is a living entity, how can He impart knowledge
- The directions were to come from within, and there was no necessity for anxiety in that task. Such instructions of buddhi-yoga are directly imparted by the Lord from within, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
- The Lord always helps the pure devotees by imparting necessary knowledge within their hearts, and thus out of His special favor He dissipates all the darkness of ignorance
- The Lord imparted instructions with full senses, and Arjuna received them with full senses, and thus there was a perfect exchange of sensible and logical understanding between the master and the disciple
- The most beautiful thing in the world is the Vedas, or Bhagavad-gita, because therein knowledge is imparted by the Personality of Godhead Himself
- These instructions (CC Adi 1.51-56), which are reproduced from Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 2.9.31-36), were imparted by the Personality of Godhead, acting as the supreme spiritual master
- This knowledge (three divisions of bodies, different planets for different living entities) is being imparted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not by a person like me or like you who are defective in four principles
- This most confidential knowledge was imparted by the Lord to Brahma, Arjuna, Uddhava, etc
- This process of kirtana (kirtayantah), always chanting the glories of the Lord, is the beginning of mahatma. That process is simplified by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu who imparted to mankind this chanting of Hare Krsna