Category:God's Pleasure Potency
Theme Analysis
The Absolute Truth is eternally joyful (anandamayo 'bhyasat), and this absolute joy is fully manifested through His internal spiritual energy, specifically known as the hladini-sakti, or God's pleasure potency. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, Sītādevī, and the goddesses of fortune are all direct manifestations of this supreme pleasure potency. While conditioned souls chase after the degraded, illusory pleasure of mundane sex life, the Lord exhibits His pure, spiritual pleasure potency in pastimes like the rasa-lila to attract them back to the spiritual world. One can only taste genuine spiritual ecstasy by surrendering to the Lord and His divine pleasure potency.
- The Divine Trinity of Internal Potencies: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha, possessing three primary internal energies: the existential potency, the cognitive potency, and the pleasure potency.
- Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī as the Pleasure Potency: The supreme manifestation of the Lord's hladini-sakti is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, along with Sītādevī and the countless goddesses of fortune who eternally serve Him.
- The Eternal Joyfulness of the Absolute: The Supreme Lord is naturally full of bliss (anandamaya); He does not depend on anything external to experience joy, as His pleasure potency is eternally inherent within Him.
- Spiritual Bliss vs. Material Illusion: The Lord's pleasure potency is completely transcendental and untainted by material lust; conditioned souls mistake this pure spiritual bliss for mundane sex life, remaining trapped in illusion.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding the Internal Supreme Energy of God's Pleasure Potency.
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Pages in category "God's Pleasure Potency"
The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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- A class of so-called devotees known as sahajiyas try to imitate the Lord's pastimes, although they have no understanding of the amorous love in His expansions of pleasure potency
- A drop of the Atlantic Ocean possesses the same quality as all the ocean water - it is also salty. Similarly, because the pleasure potency exists in the Supreme Lord, we can also enjoy pleasure
- All these goddesses of fortune are manifestations of His (God's) transcendental pleasure potency (hladini-sakti) in His internal energy
- Although appearing just like a madman, a person in the ecstasy of devotional service is not mad in the material conception of the term; this ecstasy is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Supreme Lord
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- Because he (the living being) is conditioned by material nature, even the pleasure potency of the Lord is manifested in the conditioned soul as troublesome
- Bs says that God is worshiped by 100's and thousands of goddesses of fortune, but God does not require service from any of them because if He so desires He can produce millions of goddesses of fortune through His spiritual energy, the pleasure potency
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- In the Vedanta-sutra the Absolute Truth is said to be always enjoying the pleasure potency
- In the Vedas we understand the nature of the Absolute Truth as anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). He's anandamaya, always in pleasure potency
- It is explained by the Gosvamis that Radharani is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- Lord Ramacandra manifested the truth both spiritually & materially. Materially those who are attached to women suffer, but spiritually when there are feelings of separation between the Lord & His pleasure potency the spiritual bliss of the Lord increases
- Lord Ramacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, chief of the best learned scholars, resided in that palace with His pleasure potency, mother Sita, and enjoyed complete peace
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- O Supreme Lord, You are not an ordinary living entity appearing in this material world as a result of fruitive activities. Therefore Your appearance or birth in this world has no other cause than Your pleasure potency - SB 10.2.39
- One who becomes affected by the pleasure potency of the Supreme Lord manifests various symptoms of ecstasy, such as slackening of the heart, laughing, crying, shivering, and dancing. These symptoms are not material
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- Ravana even dared kidnap Sita, who was both the wife of Lord Ramacandra and the goddess of fortune, thinking that he would be able to enjoy the pleasure potency of the Lord. But actually, by such action, Ravana became vidhvamsita, or ruined
- Ravana was so sinful and shameless that he did not know what the result would be of kidnapping mother Sita, the pleasure potency of Ramacandra. This is the disqualification of the Raksasas
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- The confectioner, who is always manufacturing sweetmeats, has very little desire to eat them; similarly, the Lord, by His pleasure potential powers, can produce innumerable spiritual beauties and not be the least attracted
- 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 has various potencies, one of which is called ahladini-sakti, His internal pleasure potency. Only one who becomes a little conversant with this potency can taste such ecstasy
- The Lord possesses unlimited potency for pleasure, and the living entities have a limited pleasure potency
- The Lord, by His pleasure potential powers, can produce innumerable spiritual beauties and not be the least attracted by the false beauties of material creation
- The pleasure feature of the Lord is understood by the pure devotees only, and not by others. The impersonalist is satisfied simply by understanding the all-pervasive influence of the Lord. This is called Brahman realization
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead has got many potencies, multipotencies, and one of the potency is hladini-sakti, pleasure potency. That pleasure potency is Sita, Radharani, Laksmi-devi
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three kinds of internal potency, namely the hladini-sakti, or pleasure potency, the sandhini-sakti, or existential potency, and the samvit-sakti, or cognitive potency
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (BS 5.1). This means that He originally has three potencies - the pleasure potency, the potency of eternality and the potency of knowledge
- The Vaisnava philosophy first of all pays obeisances to and worships the internal pleasure potency of the Supreme Lord. Thus the Lord and His potency are always referred to as Radha-Krsna
- The Vedanta-sutra (1.1.12) states, ananda-mayo 'bhyasat: "By nature the Lord is always joyful." This joyfulness of the Lord is due to His pleasure potency
- There are pure devotees who take part in the direct pleasure (ananda) potency of the Lord by factual reciprocation of loving service
- This same characteristic (of God) is also present in the living being, but because he is conditioned by material nature, even the pleasure potency of the Lord is manifested in the conditioned soul as troublesome
- Together these are called the cit potency, and they are present in full in the Supreme Lord. For the living entities, who are part and parcel of the Lord, the pleasure potency in the material world is sometimes displeasing and sometimes mixed
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- We can understand that when the Supreme Lord appears or disappears as an incarnation, there is no other cause than His pleasure potency. We cannot force the Supreme Personality of Godhead to appear
- When the living entity becomes free from false ego, he understands his superior position as a spirit soul, part and parcel of the pleasure potency of the Lord
- When the Lord manifested Himself on this earth He partially displayed the activities of His pleasure potency in His rasa-lila just to attract the conditioned souls, who are all after the phantasmagoria pleasure potency in degraded sex enjoyment
- When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears no such causes (as suffering birth, death, old age and disease under the control of the illusory energy) are involved; His descent is an act of His pleasure potency
- While Jiva Gosvami was alive, Srimati Jahnava-devi, the pleasure potency of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, went to Vrndavana with a few devotees