Category:God As a Husband
Theme Analysis
In Vedic culture, the role of a husband is synonymous with being a fearless protector and provider. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the only factual husband of all living entities because He alone can offer absolute, fearless shelter. To teach human society how to properly execute family life, the Lord appeared as Śrī Rāmacandra and acted as the ideal, faithful husband (eka-patnī-vrata). Although the Lord could have instantly manifested millions of Sītās through His internal potency, He chose to fight a devastating war and annihilate Rāvaṇa's entire dynasty simply to demonstrate a husband's duty to protect his wife.
Furthermore, the category establishes Lord Nārāyaṇa as the eternal husband of Lakṣmīdevī, the goddess of fortune. Śrīla Prabhupāda strictly refutes the modern mundane concept of daridra-nārāyaṇa ("poor Nārāyaṇa"), explaining that the husband of the goddess of fortune can never be poor. Because Lakṣmī is restless (Cañcalā) and only stays peacefully by the side of her husband, true wealth and prosperity are only found when engaged in the service of Nārāyaṇa. Ultimately, the Supreme Lord is completely self-sufficient and has no hankering for a wife, but out of His boundless causeless mercy, He happily becomes a husband to fulfill the intense conjugal love of pure devotees.
- The Ideal Standard: Lord Rāmacandra perfectly demonstrated the duties of a faithful husband by annihilating Rāvaṇa's entire family to rescue and protect Mother Sītā.
- The True Protector: A real husband must be a fearless shelter. Because only the Supreme Lord is completely fearless, He is the only factual husband of all living beings.
- The Husband of Fortune: Lord Nārāyaṇa is the eternal husband of Lakṣmī. Therefore, the concept of a "poor God" (daridra-nārāyaṇa) is absurd; all wealth belongs to Him and must be engaged in His service.
- Transcendental Reciprocation: Although self-sufficient, the Lord willingly accepts the role of a husband to fulfill the pure, unmotivated loving desires of His devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Supreme Protector - God As the Ideal Husband.
Pages in category "God As a Husband"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- After observing the payo-vrata, Aditi was certain that the Lord had appeared before her as Rama-pati, the husband of all good fortune, just to offer her sons all opulences
- As an ideal husband, Lord Jagannatha remained fifteen days in a secluded place with His wife, the supreme goddess of fortune. Nonetheless, the Lord wanted to come out of seclusion to give happiness to His devotees
- As Lord Ramacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patni-vrata), mother Sita is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah: whatever example a great man sets, common people follow
- As soon as one uses his intelligence in this way (in God's service), the goddess of fortune automatically becomes favorable to him. The goddess of fortune, Laksmi, never remains without her husband, Lord Visnu
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- By His personal example, Lord Ramacandra demonstrated this duty - of being a faithful husband
- By His personal example, Lord Ramacandra wanted to instruct both of them (those who strictly follow the religious principles and those who are devotees) how to fully adopt the discipline of the religious system and how to be a beloved and dutiful husband
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- He (Lord Ramacandra) fought with demons like Ravana, He carried out the orders of His father, and He remained the faithful husband of mother Sita. Thus there is no comparison to Lord Ramacandra's acting as an ideal king
- He alone who is never afraid but who, on the contrary, gives complete shelter to all fearful persons can actually become a husband and protector. Therefore, my (Laksmi's) Lord, you (Kamadeva) are the only husband, and no one else can claim this position
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- If anyone desires the Lord to become one's husband, the Lord fulfills such desires in full
- If you (Lord Kamadeva) were not the only husband, You would be afraid of others. Therefore persons learned in all Vedic literature accept only Your Lordship as everyone's master, and they think no one else a better husband and protector than You
- In the history of Aryan civilization there have been many instances in which famous princesses have selected their husbands in open competitions. For example, it was in such a competition that Sitadevi accepted Lord Ramacandra as her husband
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- Lord Ramacandra could have produced hundreds and thousands of Sitas from His pleasure energy, but just to show the duty of a faithful husband, He not only rescued Sita from the hands of Ravana but also killed Ravana and all the members of his family
- Lord Ramacandra went to the forest in compliance with the order of His father, Maharaja Dasaratha, but mother Sita was not so ordered. Nonetheless, she voluntarily accepted the path of her husband
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- Once Hanuman, the great devotee of Lord Ramacandra, said that he knew that Narayana, the husband of Laksmi, and Rama, the husband of Sita, are one and the same, and that there is no difference between Laksmi and Sita
- Once Hanuman, the great devotee of Lord Ramacandra, said that he knew that Narayana, the husband of Laksmi, and Rama, the husband of Sita, are one and the same, but as for himself, he liked the form of Lord Rama
- One becomes very great philanthropist, rejecting . . . They say, "What is the use of this temple worship?" The daridra-narayana-seva. Narayana has now become daridra. Formerly Narayana was husband of the goddess of fortune
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- She (Laksmidevi) examined every one of the candidates, but she could not find anyone suitably qualified to be her shelter. In other words, Narayana, the natural husband of Laksmi, cannot be superseded by anyone in this material world
- Sita is Laksmiji, or the goddess of fortune, but she is never to be enjoyed by any living being. She is meant for being worshiped by the living being along with her husband, Sri Ramacandra
- Sitadevi was kidnapped. Ramacandra is the Supreme Lord; He could have married many thousands of Sita. But as the dutiful husband, to rescue one wife He killed the whole family of Ravana. This is protection
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- That is the ideal given by Lord Ramacandra, how woman is given protection by the husband
- The conditioned soul is very proud of becoming the husband of even one wife, but the Lord laughs at this; the intelligent man can know who is the real husband. Factually, the Lord is the husband of all the women in His creation
- The goddess of fortune cannot stay anywhere but by the side of Narayana; therefore another of her names is Cancala, restless. She cannot be peaceful unless she is in the company of her husband, Narayana
- The goddess of fortune mother Sita followed her husband, Ramacandra, when He went to the forest
- The gopis, following the proper system, protected Krsna, their child, with this mantra: May Lord Vaikuntha protect You while You are walking, and may Lord Narayana, the husband of the goddess of fortune, protect You while You are sitting - SB 10.6.25-26
- The Lord appeared like a mundane husband, but factually His relation with His wives was transcendental, pure and unconditioned by the modes of material nature
- The Lord is always perfect in Himself, and thus He has no hankering for Himself. He, however, becomes a master, a friend, a son or a husband to fulfill the intense love of the devotee concerned
- The Lord of the ritualistic performance of yajna later married Daksina, who was anxious to have the Personality of Godhead as her husband, and in this wife the Lord was also very much pleased to beget twelve children
- The Lord takes great pleasure in being addressed as Devaki-nandana ("the son of Devaki"), Nanda-nandana ("the son of Nanda"), Yasoda-nandana ("the son of Yasoda"), Dasarathi ("the son of King Dasaratha"), Janaki-natha ("the husband of Janaki"), and so on
- The muni (Astavakra Muni), being angry at them (the daughters of the demigods), cursed them that they would be kidnapped by rogues, even if they would get the Lord as their husband
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is self-sufficient. Since He is fully independent, He was not in want of the support or association of Laksmidevi. Nonetheless, Laksmidevi, the goddess of fortune, accepted Him as her husband
- Think always that the money which is accumulated is the wealth of the Lord. Wealth is considered to be the goddess of fortune (Laksmi), and the Lord is Narayana, or the husband of Laksmi. Try to engage Laksmi in the service of Lord Narayana and be happy
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- When a mother loves a child, she is not forced to do so, nor does she do so out of expectation of some salary or remuneration. Similarly, we can love the Supreme Lord in so many ways - we can love Him as master, as friend, as child or as husband
- When Jagannatha starts His car festival, He gives assurance to the goddess of fortune that He will return the next day. When He does not return, the goddess of fortune, after waiting two or three days, begins to feel that her husband has neglected her