Category:God Has No
Theme Analysis
Understanding the true nature of the Absolute Truth requires correctly interpreting the negative descriptions found in Vedic literature. According to Śrīla Prabhupāda, when the śruti-mantras and the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad state that the Supreme Lord has no hands, no legs, and no eyes, it absolutely does not mean that He is an impersonal, dumb stone. Rather, it means that God has no material body and no mundane senses like ours. His form is entirely sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (eternal, full of knowledge and bliss). With His spiritual senses, He can walk faster than anyone, accept all offerings, and perfectly see the past, present, and future. The Māyāvādī philosophers who constantly blaspheme the Lord by claiming He has no form, no head, and no activities remain grievous offenders for many lifetimes.
Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is completely spiritual and self-sufficient, He has no material designations or false ego. Words like nirahaṁ do not mean He has no identity; they mean He has no material identity. As the supreme controller of time and the modes of nature, He has no fear, no subjection to the laws of karma, and no connection to material qualities.
Furthermore, because the Lord is absolutely complete in Himself, He has no unfulfilled desires, no personal interests, and no need to perform wonderful activities just to improve His position or achieve a result. He only acts to set an example for human society or to please His pure devotees. Being the supreme father, God is perfectly neutral (sama); He has no enemies and no mundane friends. He does not arbitrarily make one person poor and another rich; rather, He simply awards the results of the living entities' own work. Yet, despite having no material obligations, the Lord graciously accepts our loving service, proving that His transcendental personality is full of infinite mercy and reciprocation.
- No Material Form: When the Vedas state that God has no hands or legs, it means He has no material body; His form is completely transcendental and spiritual.
- No Impersonal Void: The Māyāvādī claim that God has no identity or activities is a negative way of denying His existence and is deeply offensive.
- No Material Obligation: The Lord is completely full in Himself; He has no unfulfilled desires, no subjection to karma, and no need to perform activities for personal gain.
- No Enemies or Friends: God is perfectly equal to all living entities; He has no mundane friends or enemies, but simply reciprocates according to our desires and surrender.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Has No Material Limitations - Understanding the Absolute Truth.
Subcategories
This category has the following 44 subcategories, out of 44 total.
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Pages in category "God Has No"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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- A living entity's unlawful desire to become one with the Lord in every respect is the root cause of the entire material manifestation, for otherwise the Lord has no need to create such a manifestation, even for His pastimes
- According to Svetasvatara Upanisad, although Brahman has no material hands and legs, He nonetheless walks in a very stately way and accepts everything that is offered to Him. This suggests that He has transcendental limbs and is therefore not impersonal
- According to the Mayavadi philosophy, the cosmic manifestation is but the transformation of the Absolute Truth, and the Absolute Truth has no separate existence outside the cosmic manifestation. This is not the message of Vedanta-sutra
- Although He (God) has no interest in such things, in order to receive our loving service, He agrees to act as He does. We cannot actually offer suitable paraphernalia for the Lord's worship because we are completely ignorant
- Although He (the Absolute Truth) has no material ears, He can hear everything and anything. Having perfect senses, He knows past, future and present. Indeed, He knows everything, but no one can understand Him
- Although the Lord appears on schedule, namely at the end of Dvapara-yuga of the twenty-eighth millennium of the eighth Manu, in one day of Brahma, still He has no obligation to adhere to rules and regulations. BG 1972 purports
- Although Vedic literatures confirm the fact that the Supreme Absolute Truth has multiple energies, the Mayavadi impersonalists still try to establish that the Absolute Truth has no energy
- Apparently it is contradictory. If He has no leg, then how He can walk more speedily than anyone? These are Vedic mantra
- As living entities, we perform many activities, but we have a tendency to fall down into material nature. God has no such tendency - CC Intro
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- Because the Paramatma has no material connections, He is described here (SB 5.19.4) as anama-rupam niraham. The Paramatma has no material identity, whereas the jivatma does
- Because they are constantly blaspheming the Supreme Personality of Godhead by saying that He has no head, hands or legs, Mayavadi philosophers remain offenders for many, many births, even though they have partially realized Brahman
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- "God is good" means when He's favoring somebody and when He's killing somebody, both of them are benefited. Therefore God is always good, both ways. Nija-labha. He has no business to kill anybody as His enemy
- God is not a petty thing, that He dies, or one is manufactured by meditation, he become God. This kind of God has no value. God is always God
- Guna means quality, and nir means negation.This does not indicate, however, that He (Lord Visnu) has no qualities; He has transcendental qualities by which He appears and manifests His pastimes
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- He (God) has no material eyes, but He has eyes-otherwise how could He see? He sees everything, past, present and future. BG 1972 purports
- He (God) has no need to derive benefit by interfering with the affairs of other living entities, but because He is the maintainer of all, He has the right to bring them to the proper standard so that all living entities may become happy
- He (Krsna) has no mundane name, He is addressed by devotees as Devaki-nandana, Yasoda-nandana, Gopala and Syamasundara. These are all transcendental names that only devotees can appreciate and nondevotees cannot
- He (the Absolute Truth) has no material eyes, but He does have spiritual eyes by which He can see everything and anything
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- In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the Lord, being equally disposed toward every living being, has no enemies and no friends but that He has special affection for a devotee who always thinks of Him in love
- In the sruti-mantras it is also said that although the Lord has no hands and legs like ours, He has a different type of hands and legs, by which He can accept all that we offer Him and run faster than anyone
- Indeed, everything is under the control of time, and time is controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Supreme Lord has no fear of the onslaughts of time
- It is stated in the Svetasvatara Upanisad (3.19): Although the Supreme Lord is described as having no hands and legs, He nonetheless accepts all sacrificial offerings. He has no eyes, yet He sees everything. He has no ears, yet He hears everything
- It may be then argued in this connection (BG 16.20) that God should not be advertised as all-merciful if He is not merciful to demons. In answer to this question, in the Vedanta-sutra we find that the Supreme Lord has no hatred for anyone. BG 1972 pur
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- One should not think, in this connection (BG 9.9), that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no engagement. In His spiritual world He is always engaged. BG 1972 purports
- One son is very obedient to the father, and the other son is not. That is the difference here. God has not made anyone demon or demigod. For God, everyone is equal
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- Saying that there is no God is direct denial of God, and saying that God exists but has no head, legs or hands and cannot speak, hear or eat is a negative way of denying His existence
- Since the devotee considers the word "form" (akara) the common factor for both, he offers his respectful obeisances to the form, although others may go on arguing about whether the Absolute has a form or not
- Svetasvatara Upanisad (6.8) informs us: The Supreme Lord is one without a second. He has nothing to do personally, nor does He have material senses. No one is equal to Him or greater than Him
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- The conclusion is that the Lord has no material body, and He is never to be killed or changed by His transcendental body
- The creative force is merely the energy of the Lord, but the foolish conclude that because the Lord has distributed Himself in an impersonal form He has no separate existence
- The law of karma enacted by the Supreme Lord for the living entities cannot be applicable to Him, nor has the Lord any desire to improve Himself by activities like those of ordinary living beings
- The Lord had no difficulty lifting the mountain with one hand, and Garuda, His carrier, carried all the demons and demigods together by the grace of the Supreme Lord
- The Lord had nothing to fear from anyone, yet He was merciful to His enemy by neglecting him
- The Lord has no desire to achieve any result from His wonderful activities, nor has He any need to perform them. But still, in order to give an example to people in general, He sometimes acts, and those activities are very wonderful
- The Lord has no need to sustain the earth on His tusks, but when He does so the world becomes beautiful, just as the Lord becomes more beautiful because of His pure devotees on the earth
- The Lord is sama, equal to everyone. In this regard, He states in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.29), samo'ham sarva-bhutesu na me dvesyo 'sti na priyah: the Lord has no one as His friend or enemy, and He is equal to everyone
- The Lord's incarnations are so powerful that Lord Vamanadeva covered the entire universe with two steps and therefore had no place for His third step
- The Lord, being full in Himself, has no attraction for so-called heavenly happiness. The heavenly demigods are only His engaged servants. The proprietor never desires the low-grade happiness such as the workers may desire. BG 1972 purports
- The meaning of niraham is "without material designations." This word cannot possibly be twisted to mean that the Paramatma has no ahankara, no "I-ness" or identity. He has His transcendental identity as the Supreme. This is explained by Jiva Gosvami
- The person who directs a prison is not also a prisoner. Similarly, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu directs or supervises the qualitative nature, He has no connection with the material modes of nature
- The propaganda that the Lord is impersonal, that He has no activity and that He is a dumb stone without any name and form has encouraged people to become godless, faithless demons
- The sruti mantras declare that although the Lord has no hands He can accept anything we offer Him with devotion, although He has no feet He can travel anywhere, and although He has no mundane eyes He can see anywhere and everywhere without hindrance
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is decried by the Mayavadi philosophers, who are almost demons. They say that God has no head, no form, no existence and no legs, hands or other bodily limbs
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is equal to everyone. He has no enemies and no friends. Everyone is enjoying the fruitive reactions of his own work, and the Lord, within everyone's heart, is observing and giving everyone the desired result
- The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering
- There are millions and millions of living entities, and the Lord gives them directions. Therefore He has no time to sleep, and He is never in ignorance of our activities
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- We cannot bribe Personality of Godhead. He is so great that our bribery has no value. Nor has He any scarcity; since He is full in Himself, what can we offer Him? Everything is produced by Him. We simply offer to show our love and gratitude to the Lord
- When it is stated that the Supreme Lord has no hands and legs, one should not think that He is impersonal. Rather, He has no mundane hands or legs like ours
- When the Vedas say that God has no hands, it is meant that He has no material hands. His hands are sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. If we can understand Krsna's activities, form, qualities and pastimes in this way, we become fit to return home, back to Godhead