Category:God's Informing
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the supreme educational mission of the Personality of Godhead. Conditioned souls are deeply ignorant of their eternal nature and are stubbornly trying to find happiness in a material world designed for misery. Because the living entity cannot figure out the Absolute Truth through independent speculation, the Supreme Lord personally descends, or sends His authorized representatives, to deliver complete, perfect information. The Lord informs us about the harsh reality of material existence, but simultaneously gives us hope by providing detailed information about the eternal, anti-material world. He acts as the supreme guru, instructing both ordinary souls and great demigods like Lord Brahmā. In His intimate pastimes, the Lord also frequently informs His pure devotees directly—sometimes through dreams, sometimes by verbal instruction, and sometimes by warmly expressing His deep, unyielding affection for them.
- Revealing the True Nature of the Material World: The Supreme Lord, who is fully cognizant of everything, informs humanity that the material world is inherently miserable and temporary. He gives this information in our best interest so we can detach ourselves from it.
- Information of the Anti-Material World: The Lord does not just warn us about material suffering; He provides complete, hopeful information about the superior, anti-material world (the spiritual sky) where life is eternal and blissful.
- The Supreme Instructor (Guru): Out of causeless mercy, the Lord descends specifically to instruct conditioned souls who have forgotten their relationship with Him. In forms like Lord Kapila or Śrī Kṛṣṇa, He acts as the ultimate teacher.
- Intimate Communications with Devotees: For His surrendered devotees, the Lord provides specific, personal information. He may guide them in their marriage choices like Kardama Muni, inform them through dreams, or intimately confess how dear they are to Him, as Lord Caitanya did.
- Informing the Universal Managers: Even the highest demigods and powerful kings require information from the Supreme Lord. He informs Lord Brahmā about subtle spiritual truths and His upcoming incarnations, and He guides kings like Pṛthu Mahārāja and Bali Mahārāja on their duties.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Informing Provides the Ultimate Spiritual Education.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God's Informing"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- In spite of that, my Lord, I am praying to You to kindly fulfill my desire. May I please be informed how, in spite of Your transcendental form, You assume the mundane form, although You have no such form at all
- In this verse (BG 18.17) the Lord informs Arjuna that the desire not to fight arises from false ego. BG 1972 purports
- Informed by the Personality of Godhead that he would be awarded a transcendental body befitting the Lord's association, Narada got his spiritual body as soon as he quitted his material body
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- Lord Caitanya further informed Prakasananda Sarasvati: Because I have full faith in My spiritual master's words, I am always engaged in chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
- Lord Krsna then asked all the boys to go again, but this time to the wives of those brahmanas engaged in sacrifices. He also informed them that these wives were great devotees
- Lord Krsna, in the Bhagavad-gita, also informs us that this material world is full of miseries in the shape of birth, old age, disease and death. Even in the topmost planet of the material universe, Brahmaloka, these miseries are present
- Lord Visnu informed Prthu Maharaja that although the sacrificial performances set an example for ordinary people, there was no need for such sacrificial performances as far as his personal self was concerned
- Lord Visnu informed Sukracarya that there was no need for Bali Maharaja's presence, for his faults and discrepancies could be nullified if judged before the brahmanas
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- She (Devahuti) said, - My dear Kapila, You have come as my son, but You are my guru because You can inform me how I can cross the ocean of nescience, which is the material world
- Sometimes the Lord informs the devotee through dreams. These exchanges of feelings between the Deity and the devotee are not understandable by atheists, but actually the devotee enjoys them
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu called all His devotees together and, holding them by the hand, humbly informed them, "You are all more dear to Me than My life. I can give up My life, but to give you up is difficult for Me"
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- The guru is there - Krsna. The guru is also there as Kapiladeva, the incarnation of Krsna. Krsna informs us that He is the owner of the body, and He has explained this in many different ways
- The Lord always gives instructions to such exalted devotees to inform them how they can remain fixed in devotional service. Similarly, it is stated in the atmarama verse - SB 1.7.10
- 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 informed Kardama Muni, "The girl who is coming to be married with you is a princess, the daughter of Emperor Svayambhuva, and so just suitable for your purpose." Only by God's grace can one get a nice wife just as he desires
- The Lord informs Brahma that knowledge of Him, the Supreme Absolute Truth, as it is stated in the revealed scriptures, is very subtle and cannot be understood unless one is self-realized by the grace of the Lord
- The Lord is known as Yogesvara, master of all mystic powers. Consequently the planet earth was informed by the King (Prthu) that she need not worry about his standing without her help
- The Personality of Godhead, who is fully cognizant of everything in His creation, informs us in our best interest that we must desire to get rid of this material existence. We must detach ourselves from everything material
- The Supreme Lord and the living entities are both antimaterial in quality, we are informed. Thus, we can have an idea of the Supreme Lord by an elaborate study of the living entities. Every living entity is an individual person
- The Supreme Lord, who is the controller of both material and antimaterial energies, descends out of His causeless mercy and gives us complete information of the antimaterial world. In this way we can know what the antimaterial world is
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, informed Lord Brahma that Lord Krsna would personally descend to mitigate the suffering on the earth
- Therefore God comes again to inform these rascals that "Now you have tried so much, better give up this, come to Me again"
- To give hope to foolish conditioned souls who waste their energy in this temporary material world, the Lord gives information that there is another nature, which is eternally existent without being occasionally created or destroyed