Category:God's Inconceivable Potencies
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the absolute necessity of accepting the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because the tiny human brain is limited, empirical scientists and mundane philosophers constantly struggle to explain the Absolute Truth, attempting to measure God with their froglike brains. The Vedic literatures resolve these apparent material contradictions by introducing the concept of acintya-śakti, the Lord's inconceivable mystic power. By this potency, the Lord can perform contradictory actions simultaneously: He can walk and not walk, He can be all-pervading throughout the cosmic manifestation yet remain aloof in His eternal personal form, and He can simultaneously act as a person and an impersonal energy. Ignorant of these energies, impersonalist philosophers wrongly conclude that the Lord loses His identity when creating the universe. Ultimately, the central point of Vaiṣṇava philosophy is the acceptance of these inconceivable potencies, which forms the basis of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, the philosophy of simultaneous oneness and difference.
- Beyond Mundane Comprehension: The potencies of the Supreme Lord are completely beyond the range of human calculation and mental speculation. Material scientists who try to measure God with limited intelligence are described as froggish philosophers exhibiting symptoms of lunacy.
- Reconciling Contradictions: The Lord possesses inconceivable energies that allow Him to perform actions that appear impossible or contradictory from a material viewpoint, such as being simultaneously personal and impersonal, or walking while remaining still.
- The All-Pervading Yet Aloof Creator: Through His inconceivable potencies, the Lord expands as the ingredient of the cosmic manifestation and resides in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, yet He remains completely unchanged in His original, transcendental form.
- Expansions and Incarnations: By His internal potency, the Lord can simultaneously represent Himself as the original person and expand into innumerable distinct transcendental forms, such as Vāmanadeva, Paraśurāma, Nṛsiṁhadeva, and Varāha.
- The Heart of Vaiṣṇava Philosophy: Accepting the inconceivable potency of Lord Viṣṇu is the absolute prerequisite for understanding the Supreme Absolute Truth and the ultimate philosophy of simultaneous oneness and difference.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Inconceivable Potencies - The Limitless Power of the Absolute.
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Pages in category "God's Inconceivable Potencies"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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- Actually, no one could see the inconceivable potency of the Lord. Only the most confidential devotees, those in pure, unalloyed devotional service, could understand
- Although the sun may be on the heads of millions and millions of people, this does not mean that the sun is variously situated. Similarly, because the SPG has inconceivable potencies, He can be within everyone's heart and yet not be situated variously
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- By God's inconceivable potency, He can present before yourself in sound incarnation. That is His potency
- By His inconceivable internal potency, the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands into various transcendental bodies as Vamanadeva, the incarnation of strength among the demigods; Parasurama, the incarnation among saints; Nrsimhadeva and Varaha
- By material calculation all this (God's varieties of forms) may appear contradictory, but if we understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has inconceivable potencies, we can accept these facts as eternally possible in Him
- By the inconceivable potency of the Lord, He can move in human society or any other society of living beings and yet remain the same omnipotent Lord, without deviating in the slightest from His transcendental position
- By Your (the Lord's) inconceivable potency, there is nothing contradictory in You
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- Each incarnation (of the Personality of Godhead) is distinct from all the others. This is possible by the Lord’s inconceivable potency, by which He can simultaneously represent Himself as one, as various partial forms and as the origin of these forms
- Ekatvam anupasyatah (Isopanisad 7). The Lord is one, but He can appear in everyone's heart by His inconceivable potency. Thus although the Lord was within the heart of Devaki, He appeared as her child
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- He (God) is full of inconceivable potencies, God can accept our service through any sort of medium, and He can convert His different potencies according to His own will
- He (God) is simultaneously personal and impersonal by His inconceivable potency, or He is the one without a second, displaying complete unity in a diversity of material and spiritual manifestations
- He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) exists in His personal form always, but the cosmic manifestation takes place by His inconceivable potency
- He is never tainted in the slightest degree by the flaws of ordinary living beings. Everyone must therefore understand the Absolute Truth to possess inconceivable potencies
- Here (in ISO 5) is a description of some of the Supreme Lord's transcendental activities, executed by His inconceivable potencies. The contradictions given here prove the inconceivable potencies of the Lord. He walks, and He does not walk
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- If we accept the inconceivable potencies of the Lord, we can understand how the Supreme Personality of Godhead can appear within this material world without being touched or contaminated by the three modes of material nature
- In Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami says that as soon as one accepts the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no great philosopher or scientist can put forward any thesis to contradict the Lord’s power
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam there are statements to the effect that the supreme atma, the Lord, has inconceivable and innumerable potencies
- In the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Purva 5.86–100), there is a lucid explanation of the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- It is because of these inconceivable potencies that the glories of the Lord have always been accepted as difficult to understand
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- No one can estimate the inconceivable potencies of Lord Visnu. Even if one can count the number of atomic combinations in this material world, he still cannot count the different energies of the Supreme Lord
- Nothing is impossible for His (the infallible Personality of Godhead's) inconceivable potencies
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- That is the inconceivable mystic power of the Lord, and as such everything is simultaneously one with and different from Him by His inconceivable potencies
- That is the inconceivable potency of the Lord. No one can measure the length and breadth of God by speculation or by false identification with God. These attempts are symptoms of lunacy
- The activities of the Lord's internal potency are inconceivable, but by a slight exhibition of this potency, the Lord, by His grace, can deliver one from nescience
- The central point of all Vaisnava philosophy is to accept the inconceivable potency of Lord Visnu
- The earth was placed on the water by His inconceivable potency. The Lord is all-powerful, and therefore He can sustain the huge planets either on the water or in the air, as He likes
- The froggish philosophers and mundane wranglers in science and mathematical calculation may not believe in the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they are sometimes puzzled by the wonderful jugglery of man and nature
- The Lord's vilasa expansions are described in the following verse from the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (1.15): When the Lord displays numerous forms with different features by His inconceivable potency, such forms are called vilasa-vigrahas
- The material manifestation is caused by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is inconceivably potent
- The material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog
- The members of the Bhagavata school, adopting the perfect conception of the Lord, accept His inconceivable potencies and thus understand that He is both personal and impersonal
- The state of being in their (the living entities) past life in the past creation is simply manifested again, and all this is done simply by His will. This is the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of God. BG 1972 purports
- The Supersoul in all living entities is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His omnipotency, He can live anywhere, and He can create His Vaikuntha situation everywhere. That is His inconceivable potency
- The Supreme Absolute Truth has His inconceivable potency, out of which this cosmos has been manifested. In other words, the Supreme Absolute Truth is the ingredient, and the living entity and cosmic manifestation are the by-products
- The Supreme Lord is full of inconceivable potencies, which are related to His person, His energies and His transcendental qualities. All of these are very attractive to the serious student. Consequently the Lord is known as Krsna, the all-attractive one
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always equipped with inconceivable potencies. Although creation takes place by His glancing over the material energy, He is not affected by the modes of material nature
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as the cosmic manifestation by His inconceivable potency, yet He remains unchanged in His eternal, transcendental form
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable potencies and transcendental qualities, attracts the mind of the student engaged in the activities of karma, jnana, yoga and so forth
- These arguments (that God cannot incarnate Himself or that He has to accept a material body) are nullified if we accept the existence of the Lord's inconceivable potencies
- These dirty things of fruitive work and empiric philosophy can be removed only by association with the Supreme Lord. The Lord, being omnipotent, can offer His association by His inconceivable potencies
- They (the Visnu forms of worship) are different spiritual centers of meditation on the transcendental limbs of the body of Visnu. The worshipable Deity in the temple of Visnu is identical with Lord Visnu by the inconceivable potency of the Lord
- This verse (SB 10.3.7-8) describes the inconceivable potency of the Lord, who appeared like the full moon. Understanding the special significance of the appearance of the SG, one should never regard Him as having taken birth like an ordinary child
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- We find very wonderful qualities even in such material things as jewels and drugs. Indeed, their qualities often appear inconceivable. if we do not attribute inconceivable potencies to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we cannot establish His supremacy
- What sometimes appears contradictory from a material viewpoint is understandable in connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead because He can perform contradictory activities by dint of His inconceivable potencies
- When the Lord displays numerous forms with different features by His inconceivable potency, such forms are called vilasa-vigrahas