Category:God's Personal Abode
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains the supreme necessity and absolute nature of God's personal abode. While the Supreme Lord is all-pervading through His energies, He maintains a specific, eternal, transcendental residence known as Goloka Vṛndāvana and the various Vaikuṇṭha planets. These abodes are not material or mythical; they are spiritual realities where the Lord eternally resides with His opulences and pastimes. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that while the Lord expands to sustain the material universe, His pleasure potency remains centered in His personal abode, and sincere devotees, following the path of devotional service, are eventually elevated to these spiritual realms.
- The Transcendental Reality: The personal abodes of the Lord, known as Vaikuṇṭhas, are fully spiritual, eternally existent, and entirely distinct from any material or mythical conception.
- The Supreme Kingdom: Goloka Vṛndāvana is the supermost planet in the spiritual kingdom, maintained by the Lord's conjugal love, while the Vaikuṇṭha planets are maintained by His opulences.
- The Lord's Eternal Presence: Although the Supreme Lord eternally resides in His personal abode, He is simultaneously present everywhere in the material and spiritual creation through His plenary expansions and internal potencies.
- The Path of Reversion: Personalists who strictly follow the path of devotional service and emulate the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana are elevated to these personal abodes to live eternally with the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Supreme Destination of God's Personal Abode.
Pages in category "God's Personal Abode"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- Although His (Krsna's) personal abode is Goloka Vrndavana & He is always staying there, still, by His different manifestations of energy and by His plenary expansion, He is present everywhere in all parts of the material and spiritual creation. BG 1972 p
- Although the supreme light is situated in His (God's) personal abode, Vaikuntha or Vrndavana, His light is diffused not only in the spiritual world but beyond that
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- He (Krsna) is maintaining His personal abode, Goloka Vrndavana, through His conjugal love, and He is maintaining the spiritual world containing the Vaikuntha planets by His opulences
- He (the Lord) gives shelter to the impersonalists in His impersonal Brahman effulgence, whereas He gives shelter to the devotees in His personal abodes known as the Vaikunthalokas
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- In that personal abode of the Lord, the material modes of ignorance and passion do not prevail, nor is there any of their influence in goodness
- In the Gita Lord Krsna gives only a small hint of His personal abode (Goloka Vrndavana) which is the supermost planet in the spiritual kingdom. A vivid description is given in the Brahma-samhita. BG 1972 purports
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- The demons, thus being killed, would attain either the impersonal brahma-jyotir or His personal abode in the Vaikuntha planets
- The inconceivable energies of the Lord are spread throughout the creation. He is all-pervading, and by His energy He sustains all planetary systems, yet through His pleasure potency He remains situated in His personal abode known as Goloka
- The Lord's (Krsna's) personal abode is called Goloka Vrndavana, and the abodes where His plenary expansions reside are called the Vaikunthas, where the Lord is present as Narayana
- The manifestation of His internal potency is not even exhibited in the kingdom of God or on the planets of Vaikuntha, but He does exhibit that internal potency within the universe when, through His inconceivable mercy, He descends from His personal abode
- The personal abodes of the Lord, known as Vaikunthas, are neither mythical nor material, as conceived by the impersonalists
- The personalists who follow in the footsteps of the inhabitants of Vrndavana or strictly follow the path of devotional service are elevated to the personal abode of Krsna
- The Personality of Godhead, being thus very much satisfied with the penance of Lord Brahma, was pleased to manifest His personal abode, Vaikuntha, the supreme planet above all others
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is directly the cause of the spiritual world, where there are innumerable spiritual planets known as Vaikunthas, as well as His personal abode, known as Goloka Vrndavana
- The troubles of penance accepted by Lord Brahma were certainly in the line of devotional service (bhakti). Otherwise there was no chance that Vaikuntha or svalokam, the Lord's personal abodes, would become visible to Brahmaji