Category:God's Marginal Energy
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the exact constitutional position of the living entities within the cosmic hierarchy. The Supreme Personality of Godhead possesses unlimited potencies, which are primarily categorized into three groups: the internal (spiritual) energy, the external (material) energy, and the marginal energy. The living entities (jīvas) constitute this marginal energy, known technically as taṭasthā-śakti. Because they are infinitesimal sparks of the supreme energetic, they share the Lord's spiritual nature. However, because of their marginal position, they have the inherent independence to choose their association. They can either take shelter of the internal spiritual energy and engage in the blissful loving service of the Lord, or they can become entrapped by the external material energy (māyā) due to a false desire to lord over material nature. The ultimate goal of spiritual life, as taught by the Vedic literatures, is for the marginal energy to recognize its subordinate position, transfer its association from the material to the spiritual energy, and revive its original, pure consciousness.
- The Three Principal Energies: God is omnipotent and possesses multi-energies, which are primarily grouped into three main divisions: the superior internal energy, the inferior external energy, and the intermediate marginal energy.
- The Identity of the Living Being: The living entities are not God, nor are they a product of dead matter. They are separated, infinitesimal expansions of the Lord, specifically designated as His marginal energy.
- The Liberty of Choice: The term marginal (taṭastha) indicates that the living entity is situated on the boundary between the spiritual and material realms. He is endowed with the free will to associate with either the superior or the inferior energy.
- Entrapment by Material Nature: When the living entity misuses his minute independence and desires to become the master rather than the servant, he falls under the control of the external energy and becomes entangled in the bodily concept of life.
- The Path of Liberation: True yoga and devotion mean understanding one's constitutional identity as the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord and consciously choosing to take shelter of the internal energy through pure devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Position of the Living Entity as God's Marginal Energy.
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Pages in category "God's Marginal Energy"
The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
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- A particular person has got special intelligence, special energy. So what to speak of the Supreme Lord. He has got varieties of energies and all of these energies taken together primarily divided into three, the material, spiritual and the marginal energy
- All energies - internal, external, and marginal - are emanations from Him, the Supreme, and they act differently to prove diversity in unity. The unity is the Lord, and the energies represent diversity
- Although the spiritual and marginal energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu, they are predominated subjects, whereas Lord Visnu is the predominator
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- For God, every energy is His energy. Therefore He has no distinction what is spirit and what is matter. But for me, because I am in marginal energy, I have to make distinction that "This is spirit; this is matter."
- From Vedic reference it is concluded that the origin of all energies (namely internal, external and marginal) is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As explained hereinbefore, the illusory conclusion is that creation is made by the inert material nature
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- He (the living entitiy) is called the Supreme Lord's marginal energy. According to his identification with material or spiritual nature, he receives a material or spiritual body. BG 1972 purports
- His (God's) transcendental energy acts according to His omnipotency. The same energy acts as His external, internal and marginal energies, and by His omnipotency He can perform anything and everything through the agency of any of the above energies
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- In this verse (SB 4.17.32) the word mayaya is significant. Maya means "energy." Lord Brahma is not the energetic but is one of the manifestations of the Lord's marginal energy. In other words, Lord Brahma is only an instrument
- Innumerable material universes are similarly exhibited by His external energy, and the living entities are manifested by His marginal energy
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- Sakti is feminine, and the Lord is purusa, masculine. It is the duty of the female to serve under the supreme purusa. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, all living entities are marginal energies of the Supreme Lord
- Since the energy and the energetic are not different and since the material and marginal energies are both energies of the supreme energetic, the Supreme Lord, ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead is everything
- Such (internal, marginal and external) energy is simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, just as the sunshine is simultaneously one with and different from the sun planet
- Superior to this material energy is the Lord's marginal energy, exhibited as the living being. Besides these energies, the Supreme Lord has another energy, which is known as the internal energy
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- The Absolute Personality of Godhead is the perfect person. The Supreme Person has manifold energies, out of which the internal, external and marginal energies are specifically important
- The actual fact is that all living entities are sons of God, or by-products of His marginal energy. Because of our being contaminated by the modes of material nature, we distinguish one spiritual spark from another
- The body is just like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit and move according to his desire. The Lord is the original cause of the material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy
- The conditioned living entity is the marginal energy of the Lord; he tends to be in contact with both the material energy and the spiritual energy. BG 1972 purports
- The distinction between good and bad is simply a mental concoction. The actual fact is that all living entities are sons of God, or by-products of His marginal energy
- The energy of the Absolute Truth is exhibited in three ways: spiritual, material and marginal
- The jiva, or living entity, is actually prakrti, or the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord. Being associated with material energy, he tries to lord it over the material nature. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
- The living being is the marginal energy of the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and he can spend his conserved energy either externally or internally
- The living beings are also manifestations of His marginal energy, qualitatively one with the Lord, and there are innumerable living beings both within and without the external and internal energies of the Lord
- The living entities are His (God) marginal energies, and some of them, in the confidence of the Lord, are entrusted with the work of creation also, as are Brahma, Marici, etc., and the acts of creation are inspired by the Lord unto them
- The living entities are the marginal energy of the Lord, and therefore they are meant for being properly utilized in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. When this is not done, one's situation is called maya
- The living entities are the marginal energy of the supreme form. As such, they are not different from the supreme form, but at the same time they are not equal to the supreme form
- The living entities, who are residents of the spiritual as well as the material expansions, are His (God's) marginal energy (tatastha-sakti), and they are at liberty to live in either of the energies, external or internal
- The living entity is called the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord, and the material energy is called the inferior energy
- The living entity is the marginal energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the material world is the external energy
- The living entity, who is of the marginal energy, is entrapped by the material energy on the basis of his desire to lord it over the material world
- The Lord is described here as omnipotent by three energies (tri-sakti-dhrk). So primarily His three energies are internal, marginal and external
- The Lord possesses His internal energy, His external, marginal and relative energies, the manifestation of the cosmic world and the living entities. The external energy is manifested by the qualitative modes (gunas) of material nature
- The marginal energy can take shelter of either the internal energy or the external energy, but factually it belongs to the Lord's internal energy. The living beings are therefore infinitesimal samples of the Supreme Lord
- The material energy, called maya, is also one of the multi-energies of the Lord. And we the living entities are also the energy, marginal energy, of the Lord. The living entities are described as superior to material energy
- The personal plenary expansions are visnu-tattvas, and the separated expansions are living entities. Since the living entities are very small, they are sometimes described as the marginal energy of the Lord
- The process is to transfer yourself from material energy to spiritual energy. We are under energy. The God has got two energies - material energy and spiritual energy. We are also energy. We are marginal energy
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is manifested by His different energies - the material energy, the spiritual energy and the marginal energy
- The whole manifestation is the Lord Himself by diffusion of His different energies only, namely the internal, external and marginal, just as the sunlight is the manifestation of the energy of the sun planet
- These three energies (internal, external and marginal) of the Absolute Truth are also described in the Visnu Purana
- To be either a woman or a man only involves one's bodily dress. The soul in nature is actually the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord