Category:God's Mystic Power
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda reveals the absolute supremacy of God's mystic power. As Yogeśvara (the master of all mystic yoga), the Lord possesses all perfect opulences and mystic perfections (aṣṭa-siddhi), such as aṇimā and mahimā, to an infinite and inconceivable degree. When powerful demigods like Lord Brahmā attempt to exhibit their own mystic abilities before Kṛṣṇa, their power is immediately proven insignificant compared to the Lord's effortless spiritual expansions. While pure devotees deeply appreciate this inconceivable mystic power and respond by engaging in unalloyed devotional service, ignorant demons like Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu foolishly view the Lord's transcendental activities as mere "hypnotism," deceptive "misdeeds," or cowardly tricks.
- The Master of All Perfections: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Yogeśvara, the ultimate source of all mystic opulences, including the aṣṭa-siddhis like aṇimā and mahimā.
- The Insignificance of Demigod Power: Even the greatest demigods, such as Lord Brahmā, find their own immense mystic powers completely dwarfed by the Lord's effortless expansions.
- The Source of Universal Potencies: All prominent rulers and universal controllers who display vast mystic powers originally received those perfections as a fraction of the Lord's grace.
- The Delusion of the Demons: Because of their envy, atheistic demons stubbornly misinterpret the Lord's absolute mystic power as mere trickery, hypnotism, or cowardly evasion.
- The Devotee's Appreciation: Pure devotees never try to compete with the Lord; instead, factually convinced of His supreme mystic power, they joyfully engage in unalloyed devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Inconceivable Glories of God's Mystic Power.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "God's Mystic Power"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- All the visnu-murtis were surrounded by the opulences, headed by anima-siddhi; by the mystic potencies, headed by Aja; and by the twenty-four elements for the creation of the material world, headed by the mahat-tattva - SB 10.13.52
- As far as the destruction of the citizens is concerned, Maharaja Prthu maintained that he could uphold everyone by his own mystic powers
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- He (Kartaviryarjuna) became the emperor of the entire world, consisting of seven islands, and received mystic power from Dattatreya, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he obtained the mystic perfections known as asta-siddhi
- Hiranyakasipu murmured to himself, "Lord Visnu, who possesses great mystic power, has made this plan to kill me, but what is the use of such an attempt? Who can fight with me?" Thinking like this and taking up his club, Hiranyakasipu attacked the Lord
T
- That is the inconceivable mystic power of the Lord, and as such everything is simultaneously one with and different from Him by His inconceivable potencies
- The boys could understand that by drinking the water of the Yamuna they had died and that the merciful glance of Krsna had restored their lives. Thus they appreciated the mystic power of Krsna, who is known as Yogesvara, the master of all mystic yogis
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- When demons are in adversity, they think that God is hiding Himself and is working by His mystic potency
- When the celestial beauties saw that the Lord (Nara-Narayana) can produce innumerable beauties by His mystic internal potency, there was consequently no need to be attracted by others externally
- Whoever sees Him accepts Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Since He has some mystic power by which He hypnotizes people, everyone who sees Him becomes illusioned