Category:God Gives Knowledge
Theme Analysis
The Vedic epistemological system is entirely descending; absolute truth is never the product of ascending human speculation. According to Śrīla Prabhupāda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original and exclusive source of all genuine knowledge. At the dawn of the cosmic manifestation, the Lord empowered the first created being, Lord Brahmā, by infusing him with the complete knowledge of the Vedas. The purpose of giving this knowledge to Brahmā was to diffuse it to the conditioned souls so they could find their way out of the material labyrinth. Therefore, to understand God, one simply has to accept the knowledge given by God Himself, bypassing the flawed and uncertain process of mundane research.
The Lord's distribution of knowledge is not merely a historical cosmic event; it is an ongoing, deeply intimate process. As the Paramātmā (Supersoul), the Lord resides within the core of every living entity's heart. He is the ultimate friend (suparṇam) who engineers all remembrance, knowledge, and forgetfulness. A living entity can only remember their past activities or acquire new understanding by the direct grace of the Supersoul.
While atheists and mundane philosophers suffer from the material disease of manufacturing their own uncertain theories, a liberated or sincere soul receives flawless knowledge directly from the Lord. When Kṛṣṇa speaks in the Bhagavad-gītā, He is personally explaining Himself, which is the only way the Absolute Truth can be understood. Most importantly, when a conditioned soul becomes genuinely frustrated with lording it over material nature, the Supreme Lord acts as the internal guide, giving them the most confidential and ultimate knowledge: the instruction to surrender unto Him. This divine enlightenment guarantees the soul's transfer to the eternal, spiritual world.
- The Cosmic Origin of Knowledge: The Supreme Lord gave perfect Vedic knowledge to Lord Brahmā at the beginning of creation to be distributed to all conditioned souls.
- The Internal Guide: Situated as the Paramātmā in everyone's heart, the Lord is the sole source of all memory, knowledge, and forgetfulness.
- Defeating Speculation: Perfect knowledge cannot be manufactured by the finite human brain; it must be received directly from the Supreme Lord.
- The Ultimate Enlightenment: When a soul is serious about liberation, the Lord gives them the supreme knowledge: to surrender entirely to His lotus feet.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Gives Knowledge - The Supreme Source of Absolute Truth.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "God Gives Knowledge"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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- A living being is sufficiently potent to possess knowledge from the Lord in the proportion of fifty sixty-fourths, or seventy-eight percent of the full knowledge acquirable
- All recollections, knowledge, etc., as well as all forgetfulness, are engineered by the Lord, who is sitting within the heart of everyone
- As Paramatma, Supersoul, the Lord is living in everyone's heart, and from Him only does one's power of remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness follow. One person can sharply remember past activities by the grace of the Lord while others cannot
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- In a sense, there is nothing but Sri Krsna, and yet nothing is Sri Krsna save and except His primeval personality. This knowledge constitutes a complete transcendental science, and Visnu wanted to give Brahmaji full knowledge about that science
- In that same verse it is stated that the Lord is the creator, maintainer and annihilator of the cosmic manifestation and that He enabled Lord Brahma to create the universe by infusing him with the knowledge of the Vedas
- In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that He is present in everyone's heart, and from Him only all knowledge, remembrance or forgetfulness take place
- In the cosmos of three-fourths energy of the Lord there is neither death nor fear, and one is full of the blissful life of happiness and knowledge
- In the unconditioned stage the living entity directly receives knowledge from the Lord, and such a liberated soul acts flawlessly, without any speculative habit
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- O King Pariksit, when Amsuman had glorified the Lord in this way, the great sage Kapila, the powerful incarnation of Visnu, being very merciful to him, explained to him the path of knowledge
- Our program is not a bogus thing, it is the eternal reality of transcendental life of full bliss and knowledge in the service of the Lord
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- The first created living being is Brahma, who is endowed with perfect knowledge and intelligence by the Lord
- The Lord always helps the pure devotees by imparting necessary knowledge within their hearts, and thus out of His special favor He dissipates all the darkness of ignorance
- The Lord declares that by enlightenment in theistic knowledge He awards attachment for Him to those who constantly engage in His transcendental loving service
- The Lord has given Arjuna confidential knowledge of the Supersoul within everyone's heart, and now He is giving the most confidential part of this knowledge: just surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord Himself confirms in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), I am sitting in everyone's heart and giving directions for remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness
- The Lord instructs Brahma in Vedic knowledge in order to diffuse this knowledge to the conditioned souls
- The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (15.15), I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness
- The Lord, as the Supersoul of all living beings from Brahmā to the insignificant ant, endows all with the required knowledge potent in every living being
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Paramatma feature is always present within the hearts of all living entities and from Him come memory, knowledge and forgetfulness. This is indicated here (in SB 8.1.11) by the word suparnam, which means "friend"
- The word atma-prajnaptaye indicates that the Lord descends for the benefit of the human race to give transcendental knowledge
- Therefore they take shelter of the shade of Your lotus feet, which are full of knowledge, and we also thus take shelter of them
- They'll not accept knowledge given by God, they'll manufacture knowledge. That is material disease. And that knowledge is also uncertain
- To one who is anxious to be transferred to that spiritual world, knowledge is given by the Supreme Lord who is situated in everyone's heart. BG 1972 purports
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- When a conditioned soul is seriously anxious to get out of the influence of the material clutches, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated within him as Paramatma, gives him this knowledge: Surrender unto Me
- When one is frustrated in lording it over material nature and is very serious about getting out of this material entanglement, the Lord, from within, gives him the knowledge that he has to surrender unto Him; then there is liberation
- When the living entity is enlightened by the grace of the Supreme Lord or His pure devotee and becomes inclined to revive his original state of loving service, he is on the most auspicious platform of eternal bliss and knowledge