Category:God Is Almighty
Theme Analysis
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is celebrated throughout the Vedic literatures as the Almighty Father. According to Śrīla Prabhupāda, the Lord is the ultimate seed-giving father of all living entities, across all species and planets. He is the original source from whom the entire cosmic manifestation emanates, by whom it is maintained, and in whom it is ultimately merged. By His supreme will, the great, almighty Lord created the intricate material world, complete with its diverse planets and stars, while remaining completely independent and full in Himself.
The Lord is designated as almighty because His capabilities are absolutely unlimited and inconceivable to the mundane mind. He does not require the help of any subordinate to accomplish His desires. As confirmed by the Vedic mantras (aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti), He can perform any action with any part of His spiritual body; He can see with His hands or walk with His eyes. Compared to the almighty power of God, even the most powerful living entity is nothing more than a toy lion in the hands of a playing child. While the living entities are persons with limited power, the Supreme Person is infinite and almighty.
Despite interacting with the material world to facilitate creation and maintenance, the Almighty Lord is never controlled by the laws of material nature. Lord Viṣṇu possesses three primary potencies—internal, external, and marginal—and He executes His almighty will through these different energies. His transcendental position remains eternally unchanged as the form of knowledge and bliss. As Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains in his Bhagavat-sandarbha, the complete conception of the Absolute Truth is realized only in the Personality of Godhead precisely because He is almighty and possesses full transcendental potencies.
Recognizing this supreme power, an intelligent human being abandons all other engagements and takes absolute shelter of the Almighty Father. The terrible fear of repeated birth and death can never be vanquished by relying on mundane shelters or personal strength. However, as soon as a conditioned soul surrenders to the divine will of the Almighty, the attacks of material nature are instantly neutralized. By constantly praying to and serving the almighty Lord, a devotee becomes eligible to leave the temporary material world and return back home, back to Godhead.
- The Almighty Creator: The Supreme Lord is the Almighty Father, the seed-giving origin of all living entities and the creator of the entire cosmic manifestation.
- Inconceivable Capabilities: Because He is almighty, the Lord can perform any action with any part of His spiritual body and requires no subordinate help.
- Beyond Material Laws: The Almighty Lord utilizes His internal, external, and marginal potencies to execute His will without ever being controlled by material nature.
- The Ultimate Shelter: Surrendering to the Almighty Father is the only way to conquer the fear of birth and death and vanquish the attacks of the material energy.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Almighty - The Supreme Power and Protection of the Lord.
Pages in category "God Is Almighty"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
A
- Are the caves of the mountains now closed, or, above all, does the Almighty Lord not protect the fully surrendered souls? Why then do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth
- As soon as we surrender unto the Divine Will of the Almighty we not only become Mahatmas & saints but also the attack of unkind Nature is vanquished at once
B
- Because you are son of God - God has got full independence, almighty - therefore you have acquired the quality of your father. You have got little independence. So God does not interfere with your little independence
- Before the Almighty Lord any powerful living being is just like a toy lion in the hands of a playing child
- Being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one's own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life
- By praying to the almighty Lord one will become eligible to remain constantly in the association of the Lord, thus fulfilling the mission of going back home, back to Godhead
- By the grace of the almighty Visnu, I (Narada) travel everywhere without restriction both in the transcendental world and in the three divisions of the material world. This is because I am fixed in unbroken devotional service of the Lord
- By the grace of the Lord, a devotee like Brahma, or one in his chain of disciplic succession, can understand the almighty Personality of Godhead eternally engaged in His transcendental pastimes in the region of different energies
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- He (God) can see with His hands and legs. He does not need a particular bodily part to perform a particular action. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti (SU): He can do anything He desires with any part of His body, and therefore He is called almighty
- Here (in SB 6.1.4-5) the words yathedam asrjad vibhuh clearly indicate that the Supreme, the great, almighty Personality of Godhead, created this entire material world with its different varieties of planets, stars and so forth
- His (God's) transcendental position is always unchanged. He is the eternal form of knowledge and bliss, and He executes His almighty will by His different energies
- How is this (no longer obliged to anyone) possible? By almighty God's power. A man may be condemned to death, but if a president or a king excuses him, he is saved
I
- I - means person. As person, He (God) is also person. And "I" means person. You are also person. But that person and you person is different. He is almighty, all-powerful. You have limited power
- If the king is real representative of God, then simply by pleasing the king, you please the almighty father, God
- In his Bhagavat-sandarbha, Srila Jiva Gosvami states: "The complete conception of the Absolute Truth is realized in the Personality of Godhead because He is almighty and possesses full transcendental potencies"
- It is said in the Bible, "Man is made after the image of God." So God has got two hands, two legs, exactly. But He is the omnipotent, almighty. Our power is limited; His power is unlimited. Otherwise, He has got form
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T
- The almighty Personality of Godhead has three potencies - internal, external and marginal
- The conditioned soul is always fearful due to being controlled by the external potency; therefore the conditioned soul should always pray to the almighty Lord to conquer the external potency (maya) so that she will no longer manifest her powers
- The intelligent man, abandons all engagements in the name of religion and takes shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus receives absolute protection from the Almighty Father
- The kings or administrators are similarly chastised in all circumstances whenever they become godless and plan a godless civilization. That is the order of the Almighty
- The terrible fear of birth and death can never be forsaken by anyone who resorts to any shelter other than Myself, for I am the almighty Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original source of all creation, and also the Supreme Soul of all souls
- The varieties of living entities are mentioned in this list, and, with no exception from the topmost planet down to the lowest planet of the universe, all of them in different species of life are created by the Almighty Father, Visnu
- There is God, or the Almighty One, from whom everything emanates, by whom everything is maintained and in whom everything is merged to rest
W
- We are sons of God, part and parcels of God, and God means almighty. So we have got almighty father, and leaving His place, I have come to this material world to enjoy independently. That is criminality. And we are suffering
- When yajna-pati wants to, He can do anything without the help of any subordinate. Therefore the Supreme Lord is known as almighty
- Without the father's seed, no mother can give birth to a child. Therefore the living beings in different varieties of forms and positions within the innumerable universes are all born of the seeds of the Almighty Father, the Personality of Godhead