Category:God's Intelligence
Theme Analysis
This article focuses on the nature and scope of God's Intelligence, which Śrīla Prabhupāda defines as the supreme, unbroken, and incomparable quality of the Personality of Godhead (abhijña). This supreme intelligence is the singular, expert mechanism that controls the entire cosmic creation, including all the universes, stars, and planets, simultaneously. Man's intelligence is acknowledged as being subordinate; no human can create self-sustaining machines that operate without individual attention, confirming that the Lord stands aloof as the ultimate creator and maintainer. Rejecting this supreme intelligence (parameśvara) is the sign of the mudha, who fails to appreciate the divine craftsmanship behind the material world.
- Supreme and Unbroken: The Lord possesses the greatest intelligence, which is never affected by material conditions and remains perfectly intact under all circumstances, distinguishing Him from all other living entities.
- Cosmic Controller: God's intelligence is the active principle that controls every detail of the material creation, ensuring that all universes and planetary systems are perfectly maintained.
- Incomparable Expertise: No man can equal the intelligence of God, as demonstrated by the impossibility of manufacturing self-sustaining machines that do not require individual human attention.
- The Source of All Qualities: Qualities such as expert intelligence, mercy, and humility, when seen in other deities or personalities (like Nārāyaṇa), are understood to be bestowed upon them by the original Supreme Intelligence, Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Intelligence - Controlling All the Universes.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "God's Intelligence"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- Bali Maharaja was very pleased to see the features of Vamanadeva and was ready to give Him as much land as He could ask, but because Lord Vamanadeva asked only three paces of land, Bali Maharaja considered Him not very intelligent
- By His (God's) superior intelligence, the Lord gives everyone the chance to fulfill his desires to the fullest extent, and the resultant reaction is also awarded by the Lord
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- God is also living entity. He is the chief living entity, chief intelligent man or god, and we are subordinate. What is our relationship? God is the supreme father, we are all children
- God is an intelligent person who knows that we need heat, light, water, and so on. Without water we cannot produce food
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- If a man could manufacture a set of machines capable of producing other machines without the man giving the matter any further attention, then a man could be said to equal the intelligence of God. Of course this is not possible
- If a man could manufacture such a set of machines that could produce other machines without his attention, then he could approach the intelligence of God. But that is not possible, for each machine has to be handled individually
- In one stroke He (Krsna) is doing so many things. He's saving Prahlada Maharaja, killing Hiranyakasipu, keeping intact the promise of Brahma - everything. That is God's intelligence
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- O best amongst the Kurus, the clouds which carry water are the hairs on His head, the terminations of days or nights are His dress, and the supreme cause of material creation is His intelligence. His mind is the moon, the reservoir of all changes
- One who does not know the spiritual potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead thinks of the Lord as an ordinary human being. But the Lord's mind, intelligence and senses can never be affected by material conditions
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- Sometimes it is said that man is made after the image of God. The Absolute Truth is therefore the Supreme Personality, with transcendental mind, senses and intelligence
- Srila Bhaktivinoda mentions that the qualities of beauty, humility, mercy, merit, patience & expert intelligence are brilliant qualities, and when they are exhibited in the person of Narayana, one should know that they are bestowed upon Narayana by Krsna
- Srila Vyasadeva, however, at once accepts the supreme intelligence as the paramesvara. He offers his respectful obeisances unto the supreme intelligence addressed as the para or the paramesvara or the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Supreme Lord has the greatest intelligence
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- The Bhagavatam tells us that everything comes from the person who is abhijna, very intelligent and experienced, and that original intelligent person transmitted knowledge to adi-kavi, the original created being, Lord Brahma
- The Lord of intelligence
- The Lord refuses to be so intelligible
- The quality of Krsna - knowledge, can be further extended into five subheadings, namely intelligence, gratefulness, power of understanding the circumstantial environments of place, object & time, perfect knowledge of everything, & knowledge of the self
- The Supreme Being, who is the supreme intelligence, is the ultimate creator, the all-attractive Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna
- The words vaisaradi dhih refer to intelligence concerning the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is extremely expert. The Lord has created wonderful universes by His expert knowledge
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- We are appreciating immediately Krsna's craftsmanship, artistic sense, and we are glorifying. So that should be done by everyone. But the mudhas, they will not do that. They'll explain away. They'll never admit God's hand, intelligence, brain is there
- When the intelligence of the gigantic form separately became manifest, Brahma, the lord of the Vedas, entered into it with the partial power of understanding, and thus an object of understanding is experienced by the living entities