Category:God's Parents
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the highly exalted transcendental mellow of vātsalya-rasa, where a pure devotee loves the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their own child. Although God is the original father of everyone and inherently has no parents, by His inconceivable spiritual potency, He joyfully accepts pure devotees like Nanda Mahārāja, Yaśodāmayī, Vasudeva, and Devakī as His parents. In this intimate relationship, the devotee considers themselves the maintainer of the supreme maintainer and may even lovingly chastise the Lord. The Supreme Lord relishes this spontaneous parental affection, along with its loving reproaches, far more than the formal, awe-filled prayers offered by Vedic scholars.
- The Supreme Lord's Eternal Associates: The parents of the Lord are eternally liberated souls (nitya-siddhas) who descend with Him to participate in His transcendental pastimes, serving Him purely in the mellow of vātsalya-rasa.
- The Intimate Exchange of Parental Affection: In parental love, the awe and reverence of God's majesty are entirely forgotten. The devotee naturally assumes the role of the supreme maintainer, and the Lord happily places Himself under their loving control and chastisement.
- The Unparalleled Love of Kṛṣṇa's Parents: Exalted devotees like Vasudeva, Devakī, Nanda Mahārāja, and mother Yaśodā exhibited the absolute pinnacle of parental affection, constantly feeling extreme anxiety for Kṛṣṇa's safety and well-being.
- The Lord's Reciprocation with His Parents: Just as His parents offer Him unconditional love, the Supreme Personality of Godhead perfectly reciprocates. He begs their pardon, protects them, and automatically awards them all mystic opulences simply by virtue of their intimate relationship with Him.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Transcendental Ecstasy of God's Parents.
Pages in category "God's Parents"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- All the relatives of the Lord are His devotees only, and they are situated in different transcendental mellows as friends, parents, and lovers
- As a parent of the SPG, the devotee sometimes chastises the Lord and considers himself to be the Lord's maintainer. This transcendental sense of being the maintainer of the supreme maintainer is very pleasing both to the devotee and to the Supreme Lord
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- In the capacity of servitor, friend, parent or conjugal lover of the Lord (the devotee of God desires to associate with the Lord), either in one of the innumerable Vaikuntha planets or in Goloka Vrndavana, the planet of Lord Sri Krsna
- In the fourth stage, called vatsalya-rati, the fraternal affection evinced in the preceding stage develops into paternal affection. At this time the living entity tries to be the parent of God
- In the scripture, the color, the activities, the time and the place and the parents - everything is described about the incarnation. So that just like everything has to be understood by the symptoms, that is the scientific advancement
- In these spiritual planets the Supreme Lord as Narayana predominates, and the healthy, unconditioned living beings live there by rendering loving service to the Lord in the capacity of servant, friend, parents and fiancee
- Instead of worshiping the Lord, the living entity, as a parent of the Supreme, becomes an object of worship for the Supreme. At this stage the Lord depends on the mercy of His pure devotee and puts Himself under the control of the devotee to be raised
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- The confidential devotees attached to the service of the Lord are divided into several categories: some of them are servants, some are friends, some are parents, and some are conjugal lovers
- The Lord (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) entered the bodies of His parents thirteen full months before His birth
- The Lord relishes the reproaches of friends, parents or fiancees more than the Vedic hymns offered to Him by great learned scholars and religionists in an official fashion
- The most brilliant part of His supreme character was that He (Krsna) begged pardon from His parents for being unable to serve their feet while absent from home because of fear of Kamsa
- The parents of the Lord (who are all pure devotees) consider Him a child only. The Lord accepts the chastisements of the parents more cheerfully than the prayers of the Vedic hymns
- The parents of the Lord, due to parental affection, felt extreme danger, and they almost fainted. Just to convince them that They had actually killed Kamsa, Krsna and Baladeva pulled Kamsa's dead body along the ground to encourage them
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the father of everyone. No one, therefore, is His father, but by His inconceivable energy He accepts some of the devotees as His parents and descendants
- Then (when one has a relationship with Him (Vasudeva) as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover) one automatically feels transcendental bliss, just as one becomes happy seeing the shining of the moon
- Those who are in love with God as His parents are elevated to the point of transcendental emotion. only those who are related with the Supreme in conjugal love can experience the highest of ecstasies. Thus there are different meanings for the word bhakti
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- Under the heading of regulative devotional service, there are sixteen meanings based on understanding the word atmarama to mean (1) a servant of the Lord as His personal associate, (2) a personal friend, (3) personal parents or similar superiors
- Under the heading of regulative devotional service, there are sixteen meanings based on understanding the word atmarama to mean (11) a mature devotee as a parent and superior, (12) a mature devotee as a wife and beloved
- Under the heading of regulative devotional service, there are sixteen meanings based on understanding the word atmarama to mean (6) a friend by spiritual cultivation, (7) parents and superior devotees by cultivation of devotional service
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- When one advances through impersonal Brahman and localized Paramatma to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead in relationship with Him as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover, one's happiness becomes all-pervading
- When one attains that stage he can understand how he is related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant or friend or as a parent or conjugal lover. This stage of understanding is called svarupa-sthah
- When one realizes something of his constitutional relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he understands his original position and wants to be reinstated in this position, either as friend, servant, parent or conjugal lover of Krsna
- When the two brothers attacked Kamsa on the throne, Their parents feared that now Kamsa would finally get the opportunity to kill their (Vasudeva's and Devaki's) sons, whom they had hidden for so long in the house of Nanda Maharaja