Category:God's Keeping
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category reveals the multifaceted ways the Supreme Personality of Godhead maintains, protects, and perfectly orchestrates both the material creation and the lives of His devotees. Although the Lord expands Himself to create the cosmic manifestation, He miraculously keeps His original form and identity completely aloof from material contamination. At the universal level, it is the Lord's supreme energy that keeps the planets in orbit and, in His boar incarnation, literally keeps the earth afloat. On a deeply personal level, God's keeping demonstrates His supreme affection. He acts as the Paramātmā, keeping company with the fallen living entities through millions of lifetimes, waiting for them to turn back to Him. For His pure devotees, the Lord goes to extraordinary lengths; He will even break His own promises simply to keep the promise of His devotee intact, as He did for Bhīṣmadeva. Ultimately, the highest perfection of life is to be kept under the protective shade of the Lord's lotus feet, completely dependent on His divine maintenance.
- Keeping Aloof from Matter: Although the Supreme Lord's energy constitutes the entire cosmic creation, He never becomes entangled. He keeps His supreme identity and remains completely aloof from material tribulations.
- Keeping the Devotee's Promise: The Lord is perfectly absolute, yet He willingly subordinates Himself to the love of His pure devotees. He is so affectionate that He will famously break His own vow just to keep a vow made by His servant.
- Keeping the Cosmos Sustained: The so-called laws of physics, like magnetism, are actually the spiritual energy of the Lord (Śeṣa Nāga) keeping the planetary globes in balance. As Lord Varāha, He directly keeps the earth aloft on His tusks.
- Keeping Company as the Supersoul: God never abandons the living entities. Even when they fall into the darkest material conditions, He keeps company with them as the Paramātmā, silently guiding them back to Godhead.
- Keeping the Devotee Secure: A pure devotee knows that the Lord will always keep them protected and maintained. Their only prayer is to be kept eternally in the Lord's service, rejecting all other forms of liberation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Keeping Protects the Devotee and Sustains the Cosmos.
Pages in category "God's Keeping"
The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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- By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the Supersoul and without as time
- By His (God's) spiritual energy Sesa Naga sustains all the planetary globes upon His invisible hoods. Sesa Naga is popularly known as Sankarsana, or - that which keeps balance by the law of magnetism
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- He (Krsna) kept His servant's promise intact. The demon (Hiranyakasipu) was also killed, and the promise given by . . . benediction given by Brahma, everything . . . that is the action of the Supreme Personality. In one stroke He is doing so many things
- He (Krsna) told them not to be overwhelmed and in this way pacified them. But when He failed to come back with Nanda Maharaja, it appeared that He either cheated them or could not keep His promise
- He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) maintains all opulences and perfections in full while keeping Himself apart from all the tribulations of this material world
- His success was made possible because he was a reservoir of unlimited glorified qualities. The word upagupta-vittah is very significant here (SB 4.16.10). It indicates that no one would know the extent of the riches King Prthu would confidentially keep
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- If a devotee wants liberation or material sense gratification from the Lord, Krsna immediately delivers it, but pure devotional service He keeps hidden
- In His incarnation as Lord Boar, He raised the planet earth from the water at the bottom of the universe and kept it on His pointed tusks. May that Lord protect me from rogues on the street
- 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
- In other words, the Lord's body was as big and hard as the Himalayan Mountains; otherwise how was it possible that He kept the entire earth on the support of His white tusks?
- In the Bhagavad-gita also, it is said that the Lord reserves the right of not being exposed to everyone, and He keeps Himself concealed from the faithless by His yoga-maya potency
- In this verse (SB 5.19.4) the words pratyak prasantam indicate that Lord Ramacandra and His potency, the goddess Sita, keep themselves aloof from the influence of the material energy
- It is said that the Sapta-tala trees were very old, massive palm trees. There was once a fight between Vali and his brother Sugriva, and Lord Ramacandra took the side of Sugriva and killed Vali, keeping Himself behind one of those celebrated trees
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- Just as a boy at the beach creates something in which he is not interested, the Lord, keeping everything under His control, causes creation, maintenance and annihilation
- Just see kindness of Krsna. He kept Brahma's promise, the atheist Hiranyakasipu's aspiration & satisfied Prahlada. And everything was done simply by incarnating as Narasimhadeva. This is Krsna's plan. He comes, but by one stroke, serves so many business
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- Narada-pancaratra states, "I simply pray that You grant me the favor of keeping me under Your lotus feet. I do not wish any kind of liberation such as salokya, to reside on Your planet, or sarupya, to have the same bodily features as You"
- Nonetheless He (God) keeps Himself distinct from such creation as the purnam (or complete), and so no one should wrongly think that His personal feature is not existent due to His impersonal unlimited expansions
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- The Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad confirms, purnam idam purnat purnam udacyate: Although He expands in many ways, He keeps His original personality. His original spiritual body remains as it is
- The Lord inaugurated this system of mass sankirtana, and leaders of all countries can take advantage of this spiritual movement in order to keep the mass of people in a pure state of peace and friendship with one another
- The Lord is known as Dharadhara, meaning, "He who keeps the planet earth on His tusks as the boar incarnation."
- The Lord is situated in everyone's heart as Sankarsana, and when a demon thinks himself one with the Supreme Lord, the Lord keeps him in that darkness
- The Lord keeps His transcendental form, and at the same time He extends everywhere, in every nook and corner of the material creation
- The Lord kills the process of birth and death and keeps Himself invisible
- The Lord then appears in His transcendental form without any tinge of material qualities. He descends just to keep the state of His creation in a normal condition
- The poet Jayadeva, a great devotee of the Lord, has sung of the incident (God as a boar keeping the entire earth on the support of His white tusks) in his prayers for the incarnations
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding His own energy, keeps this cosmic manifestation visible and again sometimes renders it invisible
- The transcendental Lord, in any conception of His form, is never a part of the material creation. He keeps His identity as Supreme Spirit in all circumstances and is never affected by the three material qualities, for everything material is contaminated
- This transcendental devotional service of the Lord is so wonderful that the occupation keeps the deserving devotee always rapt in psychological activities, without deviation from the absolute touch
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- We should try to purify ourselves from sinful activity so that Nrsimha-deva may keep His hand on our, blessing. That is wanted. Then our life is successful. Otherwise nature will not excuse
- When a demon thinks himself one with the Supreme Lord, the Lord keeps him in that darkness. Although such a demoniac living entity is only an insignificant part of the Supreme Lord, he forgets his true position and thinks he is the Supreme Lord
- When an incarnation of Godhead descends on this planet, demigods like the sun-god, the moon-god or the King of heaven, Indra, all join Him. Consequently the incarnation is able to act for the departmental demigods to keep the planetary systems in order
- When the living entity falls down into the material world, the Supreme Lord, through His svamsa expansion (Paramatma), keeps company with the living entity
- When the living entity falls down into the material world, the Supreme Lord, through His svamsa expansion (Paramatma), keeps company with the living entity. In this way the living entity may some day return home, back to Godhead
- When they (the demigods) saw the uncommon prowess of the Lord in keeping the earth on the surface of the water, they showered flowers on Him in appreciation of His transcendental activity