Category:God's Putting
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda discusses the seemingly contradictory or perplexing situations into which God's putting places His devotees and the conditioned souls. Sometimes the Lord intentionally puts His most beloved pure devotees (like the Pāṇḍavas or Bali Mahārāja) into acute distress. This is never an act of cruelty; rather, it is His causeless mercy to rapidly rectify them, strip away their material pride, and promote them to a higher position in unalloyed devotional service. A pure devotee never complains, viewing any difficulty as the Lord's kindness. Conversely, the Lord also puts envious atheists into darker regions of ignorance because they stubbornly desire to forget Him. Ultimately, one must be satisfied and continue serving wherever the Supreme Lord has put them.
- Rectification Through Distress: The Supreme Lord occasionally puts His pure devotees into distressed conditions, not to punish them, but to mercifully rectify and purify their consciousness.
- Depriving Material Opulence: To ensure a devotee remains humble and entirely dependent on Him, the Lord may deliberately strip away their material wealth and position.
- The Punishment of the Envious: When rebellious souls persistently exhibit envy and a desire to forget God, the Lord puts them into darker conditions of ignorance where they cannot understand Him.
- Surrendering in All Circumstances: A sincere living entity does not find fault with the Lord's arrangements; rather, they remain satisfied and engage in devotional service wherever He chooses to put them.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding the Shelter of God's Putting.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "God's Putting"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- Bali Maharaja could understand that the Lord had some hidden purpose in punishing him. Consequently he was neither unhappy nor ashamed because of the awkward position in which he had been put by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Bali Maharaja said to God: daivena nitah prasabham tyajita-srih: "It is to bring me to the right platform of eternal life that You have put me into these circumstances"
- Because they (those who are envious upon the SPG) want to forget God, therefore God puts them into such condition that they will never be able to understand what is God. This is the version from Bhagavad-gita by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- Dear Lord, the garment You have put on is yellowish in color, like the saffron of a lotus flower, but it is not made of anything material. Since You live in everyone's heart, You are the direct witness of all the activities of all living entities
- Devahuti said, "Your (God) body is the source of all the universe, and still You put Your body within the abdomen of a common woman like me. To me, that is most astonishing
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- Mrtyuh sarva-haras caham (BG 10.34). When Krsna will come and put you death, what you will do, with you clapping and your bank balance? You'll be taken away
- My dear Lord Nityananda, You are always joyful, in spiritual bliss, and You appear always very happy. So I have come to You because I am most unhappy. So if You kindly put Your glance over me, then I may also become happy
- My dear Lord, at the end of the annihilation of the cosmic manifestation, You put the whole universe within Your abdomen; still, by Your unalloyed mercy, You have appeared in my womb - Devaki prayed to Lord
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- The devotee of the Lord never finds faults with the Lord. Although they may be put in uncomfortable situations even then they offer their gratitude to the Lord, that it is Your mercy. This is the outlook of a devotee of the Lord
- The Lord never takes away material opulences achieved because of devotional service, although He sometimes takes away opulences achieved by pious activities. He does this to make a devotee prideless or put him in a better position in devotional service
- The Lord puts on a dress that is yellow, but such a garment is never to be considered material. The garments of the Lord are also the Lord. They are nondifferent from the Lord because they are spiritual in nature
- The pure devotee, when he is distressed, says - Dear Lord, this is Your kindness. You have put me into distress just to rectify me. I should be put in much greater distress, but out of Your mercy You have minimized this
- This material world is created by the Supreme Lord, but the Supreme Lord does not will that living entities be put in it. The living entities themselves make that decision
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- We must be satisfied in whatever position we have been put into by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and we should try to engage ourselves in His devotional service. Then our lives will be successful
- When the Supreme Personality of Godhead deprives His devotee of material opulences, this does not mean that the Lord puts him into poverty; rather, the Lord promotes him to a higher position
- Why does He (God) put some into difficulty and not others? He is the supreme knower of the Vedic knowledge, and thus He is the factual Vedantist. At the same time He is the compiler of the Vedanta
- Without the permission of the girls, the Lord would take the sandalwood pulp and smear it on His own body, put the flower garlands on His neck, and snatch and eat all the offerings of sweetmeats, rice and bananas