Category:God Has Nothing To Do
Theme Analysis
A fundamental definition of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, repeated throughout the Upaniṣads, is na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate: the Lord has nothing to do. According to Śrīla Prabhupāda, this statement from the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad establishes that God is completely self-sufficient and perfect. Unlike a mundane executive or a politician who must constantly labor to maintain their position and power, the Supreme Lord has no duties, no obligations, and no aspirations. He does not need to meditate or perform austerities to become God; He is substantially and eternally God.
Because the Lord is full in all opulences—wealth, knowledge, power, beauty, fame, and renunciation—He has no personal interest to pursue. How, then, is the vast cosmic manifestation managed? The Vedas explain that although God personally has nothing to do, He possesses unlimited, multifarious energies (parasya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate). Simply by His supreme will, these energies naturally and systematically carry out the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of the material world. Like a supreme master who employs countless servants and secretaries, the Lord directs everything without having to lift a finger, proving that no one is equal to or greater than Him.
This supreme independence means that God has absolutely nothing to do with the qualities, combinations, or sinful and pious activities of the material world. However, despite having no obligations, the Lord sometimes descends and performs wonderful activities. When Kṛṣṇa takes birth, dances with the gopīs, or appears as Lord Vāmanadeva before Bāli Mahārāja, these actions are never driven by necessity. They are purely transcendental pastimes performed exclusively out of causeless mercy to attend to the welfare of His pure devotees. Thus, the Lord's "inactivity" highlights His supreme perfection, while His transcendental activities highlight His boundless love.
- The Vedic Definition: The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad explicitly defines God as having nothing to do (na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate), proving His absolute self-sufficiency.
- Omnipotent Energies: Although the Lord personally has no work to perform, His multifarious energies naturally and systematically execute His will to manage the cosmic creation.
- Aloof from Matter: The Supreme Personality of Godhead has nothing to do with material qualities, fruitive karma, or the modes of nature; He remains completely transcendental.
- Pastimes for the Devotees: When the Lord does act in the material world, it is never out of necessity or self-interest, but entirely as a pastime to satisfy and protect His pure devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Has Nothing To Do - The Supreme Independence of the Absolute Truth.
Pages in category "God Has Nothing To Do"
The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
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- Although He's cause of everything, but He hasn't got to work. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. That is Vedic information; in the Upanisad you'll find. He has nothing to do
- Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead has nothing to do, He nevertheless acts; although He is always unborn, He nevertheless takes birth
- An actor imitates the activities of a king on stage, although actually he is not the king. Similarly, when the Lord incarnates, He imitates parts with which He has nothing to do
- Another characteristic of God is that He has nothing to do. In the material world, when a man is considered very important, he always has a great number of things to do
- As indicated here (in SB 8.5.44) by the word upasanta-saktaye, His (God's) different energies act, but although He sets these energies in action, He Himself has nothing to do
- As stated in the Vedas (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8): The Supreme Lord has nothing to do, and no one is found to be equal to or greater than Him, for everything is done naturally and systematically by His multifarious energies
- As stated in the Vedas: "The Supreme Lord has nothing to do, and no one is found to be equal to or greater than Him, for everything is done naturally and systematically by His multifarious energies" - Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8
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- Even he (the President of the United States) is required to do so many things. If he does not do anything, he is no longer the supreme man. In Vedic literatures, however, we find that God has nothing to do - na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate
- Experimental study, by research work by great saintly persons, sages, they have concluded, "Nobody is found . . ." samah means "equal to Him or adhikah," adhikah means "greater." That is the experience. And still, He has nothing to do
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- He (God) has nothing to do personally, for since His potencies are perfect, everything is immediately done by His will
- He (God) hasn't got to do anything. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. He has no duty
- He (God) is all-spiritual and has nothing to do with the qualities of the material world, which are qualitatively distinct from the spiritual qualities of the Lord
- He (one European gentleman) said that "I find in this temple there is God." "Why? Why you conclude like that?" "That in every temple I saw, that the god, deity, is doing something. But here I see the God is enjoying. He has nothing to do"
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- In another part of the Vedas it is said, "You have nothing to do. You are so perfect in Your knowledge & potency that everything becomes manifest simply by Your will. There is no one equal to or greater than You, & everyone acts as Your eternal servant"
- In Bhagavad-gita (BG 4.14), it is said that the Lord has nothing to do with the activities in which He is supposedly engaged
- In the srutis it is said that the birthless appears to take birth. The Supreme has nothing to do, but because He is omnipotent, everything is performed by Him naturally, as if done automatically
- In understanding God, we must be careful to accept the Vedic conclusion only: na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: God has nothing to do. Why would God have to do something to become God? If we manufacture gold, that is artificial gold, not real gold
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- Na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate. These are the informations from Vedas, Upanisads, that He has nothing to do. Yes. That is real God. If God has to work, God has to do something, then what kind of God He is?
- Na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate: nothing is equal to Him (the Lord), nor is anything greater than Him. Although He manifests Himself in so many ways, personally He has nothing to do, for everything is done by expansions of His unlimited energies
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- Personally He (the Lord) has nothing to do, for everything is being carried out by His omnipotent energies. This is confirmed by the Vedic mantras: parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca
- Persons to whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not revealed cannot see how He is working, and therefore they think that even if there is God, He has nothing to do or has no particular name
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- So this is God; in the lap of His mother He is God. He does not have to become God by meditation, penance, austerity or by following rules or regulations. He is substantially and eternally God, and He has nothing to do
- Such works (arising from an abuse of the free will of living entity) are all material and are therefore conditioned and directed by the modes of nature. The Personality of Godhead has nothing to do with such works
- Sukadeva Gosvami was already situated in the liberated stage, yet he was attracted by the pastimes of the Lord. This proves that the quality of His pastimes has nothing to do with material affinity
- 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 Absolute Personality of Godhead, He has nothing to do personally. He hasn't got to perform any work, although He is the greatest worker. And nobody is found greater than Him or equal to Him
- The external potency, or the material energy, has nothing to do with His (God's) eternal form. All these truths were known to Sri Bhismadeva, who worshiped Him accordingly
- The Lord acts only to satisfy the desires of His devotees; otherwise He has nothing to do
- The Lord has nothing to do (na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate); whatever He does is His pastime
- The Lord has nothing to do personally, for everything is done through His different potencies. The Lord has multifarious energies, through which everything is done. Thus when He personally does something, it is only to satisfy His devotee
- The Lord is described as having nothing to do personally, and it is actually so because even in the creation and sustenance of the material world, the Lord has nothing to do
- The Lord is the supreme controller of the material elements, and being endless and beginningless, He exists in all times - past, present, and future. And because He is absolute, He has nothing to do with vice and virtue
- The SG personally has nothing to do. How is this? He has not to strive for wealth, for all wealth is His; nor for knowledge, for all knowledge is His; nor for power, for all power is His; nor for beauty, fame or renunciation, for they are all His in full
- The solution is that the Lord has nothing to do with anything mundane. All His activities are transcendental. This cannot be understood by the mundane speculators
- The statement made in this verse (in SB 3.33.3) by Devahuti that the Absolute Truth has many diverse energies although He personally has nothing to do is confirmed in the Upanisads
- The Supersoul engages the living being in executing fruitive work as a result of his deeds in the past, but the Paramatma has nothing to do with such engagements
- The Supreme Lord has got multi-various energies. They are acting. He hasn't got to do anything personally. - Just like the big man in establishment, he hasn't got to do anything personally. But he has got so many energies, so many servants, secretaries
- The Supreme Lord has manifold energies. It is not that He comes to this material world to perform activities. It is stated in the Vedas that the Supreme Lord has nothing to do
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead has nothing to do with the human secretions of sexual intercourse. He is always completely aloof from such material combinations
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being full in Himself, actually has nothing to want for His self-interest. Lord Vamanadeva, therefore, had not gone to Bali Maharaja for His own self-interest
- The Vedas say that the Supreme Lord has nothing to do personally, as is always the case with superiors, but everything is done by His direction. As it is said, not a blade of grass moves without His sanction
- These are some of the instances of His (God's) complete independence and perfection. That He has nothing to do does not mean that He is impersonal
- These are the Vedic information. God means na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. He has nothing to do; He has simply to desire. I think in Christian Bible also it is said, "God said, 'Let there be creation,' and there was creation." He has to simply desire
- This form (of God) has nothing whatsoever to do with material forms. Impersonalists say - Oh, you say Krsna has a form. If so, how can you say that He is the Supreme? The impersonal Brahman is the Supreme, and the impersonal Brahman is formless
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- We don't want that such kind of rascal God; we want God who hasn't got to work anything
- We should know that He (God) is complete. Everything is done systematically by His energies (parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate (CC Madhya 13.65, purport)), and therefore He has nothing to do - na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate
- We want so many things. But He has no want. He's atma-trpta, fully complete. Thus He has nothing to do. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. This is description of God. He has nothing to do