Category:God's Indications
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category reveals how the Supreme Personality of Godhead guides the cosmic manifestation, pure devotees, and human society through His divine indications. The Lord does not always give direct, explicit orders; often, His supreme will is communicated through subtle indications that are immediately understood by His faithful servants and His pure energies. For example, the material energy, maya, does not need to wait for a direct command; she instantly understands the Lord's indications and acts accordingly to maintain the cosmic order. Similarly, pure devotees like Lord Brahma and Arjuna never act on their own account but always await the Lord's indications to execute His mission. The Vedic literatures also provide specific indications by which one can verify the genuine incarnations of God, distinguishing them from cheap imposters. Finally, the Lord uses indirect indications in His pastimes to convey profound lessons, express His satisfaction or dissatisfaction, and communicate confidentially with His associates.
- Directing the Cosmic Energy: The activities of material nature and the permutations of energy are carried out perfectly through the mere indications of the Supreme Lord. His external energy, maya, acts instantly upon His slightest gesture.
- The Surrendered Servants: Pure devotees are fully surrendered souls who do not act whimsically. They carefully observe and await the indications of the Lord to execute His desires, even when direct orders are absent.
- Verifying the Authentic Incarnations: The Vedic texts give clear indications, such as bodily features and the ability to display the universal form, to help humanity identify the true incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and reject pretenders.
- Indirect Instructions and Pastimes: In His various incarnations, the Lord frequently uses indirect indications to teach kings, chastise offenders, and communicate inner meanings to His associates that outsiders cannot comprehend.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Indications - Guiding the Universe and the Devotees.
Pages in category "God's Indications"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- According to Vedic civilization the king is supposed to be the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is called nara-narayana, indicating that Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears in human society as the king
- All these activities are His marginal characteristics. Great saintly persons understand the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the indications of the two characteristics known as svarupa and tatastha
- Arjuna submitted the three different questions (BG 14.21), & the Lord answers them one after another. In these verses (22-25), Krsna first indicates that a person transcendentally situated neither envies anyone nor hankers for anything. BG 1972 purports
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- In Bhagavad-gita the Lord indicates that all things abide in Him in both their beginning and in their end and also in the interim state
- In this way the Kazi and the Lord talked with each other with various indications, but no outsider could understand the inner meaning of their conversation
- Indirectly, He (Lord Visnu) indicated that He was not satisfied with Daksa's trying to deny Lord Siva his share
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- Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was Krsna Himself, and we should take this to be Krsna's indication of our proper work. But we should be careful to present Bhagavad-gita as it is, without personal interpretation or motivation
- Lord Krsna as Govinda is more inclined to the brahmanas and the cows, indicating thereby that human prosperity depends more on these two items, namely brahminical culture and cow protection. Lord Krsna is never satisfied where these are lacking
- Lord Vamanadeva indirectly indicated to Bali Maharaja that he was occupying more land than he needed
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- The energies are acting by combination and permutation by the indication of the Lord, and the acting agents, like Brahma, Visnu and Siva, are also different incarnations of the Lord
- The Lord assured Uddhava that He would fulfill his desire. It appears that when the Lord informed him by His indication to Uddhava, the great sage Maitreya finally became aware of the importance of entering into the association of the Lord
- The Lord indicates that the unsuccessful yogi takes up his practice of Krsna consciousness in the next life, beginning from the point where he left off
- The Lord is stated here to be Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, indicating that He is full of all opulences and is therefore perfectly competent to deliver one from the cycle of birth and death
- The orders of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu must be carefully carried out. Although the Lord may not give direct orders, you are still to carry out His desires simply by understanding His indications
- These are special indications of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord's personal attendants and other devotees in Vaikuntha have the same features, except for the Srivatsa mark and the Kaustubha gem
- This is an example set by the Supreme Personality of Godhead while acting like an ordinary human being so that others might learn from Him. He (Kapiladeva) could have stayed with His mother, but He indicated that there was no need to stay with the family
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- We can simply understand that behind the activities of material nature is the Supreme Lord, by whose indications everything takes place, although we cannot see Him. Even without seeing Him, we should offer Him our respectful obeisances
- We should have firm faith that the Lord is supreme and that if we surrender to Him, He will take charge of us and indicate how we can get out of material life and return home, back to Godhead