Category:God Is Auspicious
Theme Analysis
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the absolute source of all good fortune, purity, and spiritual benefit. According to Śrīla Prabhupāda, the sheer auspiciousness of the Lord profoundly impacts the material universe during His advent. At the auspicious time of His appearance, the natural elements perfectly align to welcome Him: pure breezes blow, rivers flow with exceptionally clear water, stars and planets become peaceful, and swarms of birds and bees chant sweet sounds. This universal harmony is a direct reflection of the Lord's supreme purity entering the material sphere.
The auspiciousness of God extends progressively through the stages of spiritual realization. By realizing the impersonal brahmajyoti, a transcendentalist experiences the auspicious aspect of the Absolute Truth. By realizing the all-pervading Paramātmā, one achieves an even more auspicious enlightenment. However, the ultimate perfection is reached when the devotee surpasses these preliminary stages to meet the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face. The Lord's eternal, personal form is the most auspicious feature of the Absolute. Whether He appears in His fierce form as Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva to protect His devotee, or as the merciful Deity in the temple, His presence is always worshipable, protective, and supremely auspicious for all sane persons.
Because the Lord is full of all auspicious qualities, hearing and chanting about His pastimes (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam) is the most beneficial activity for the conditioned soul. Literatures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which narrate the wonderful potencies and adventures of the Lord, distribute this auspiciousness to all living beings residing in every planet. Expert and intelligent persons find complete satisfaction simply in glorifying these transcendental characteristics, knowing that such narrations bring ultimate peace and good fortune.
Therefore, the only truly auspicious path for human society is God consciousness. Every other endeavor—whether karma, jñāna, or yoga—must ultimately aim at the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be considered successful. By abandoning materially motivated plans and adopting the devotional service of chanting the holy name, a living entity connects with the absolute mine of all auspicious qualities, thereby attaining full liberty, true happiness, and the perfection of human life.
- The Auspicious Advent: The Lord's descent into the material world brings profound peace and purity, causing the rivers, stars, and natural elements to manifest extraordinary beauty.
- The Supreme Realization: While the brahmajyoti and Paramātmā are auspicious, the highest and most auspicious realization is seeing the eternal, personal form of the Lord.
- The Power of His Pastimes: Hearing and chanting about the wonderful activities of the Lord is universally auspicious and purifies the living entities on all planets.
- The Goal of Human Life: True liberty and good fortune can only be achieved by surrendering to the Lord and adopting the ultimately auspicious path of devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Auspicious - The Supreme Source of All Good Fortune.
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Pages in category "God Is Auspicious"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- A pure breeze began to blow at the auspicious time for the appearance of God and when the brahmanas engaging in ritualistic ceremonies ignited their fires according to Vedic principles, the fires burned steadily, undisturbed by the breeze - SB 10.3.1-5
- According to Vedic civilization, a human being must be God conscious. He should understand what God is, what this material world is, who he is, and what their interrelationships are. This is called sreyas, or ultimately auspicious activity
- After surpassing the impersonal brahmajyoti and seeing the personal aspect of the Lord and His most auspicious eternal form, the devotee realizes the Absolute Truth in full
- All of the Lord's arms are auspicious, whether they are holding conchshells and flowers or clubs and discs
- Any person upon whom the brahmanas and Vaisnavas are pleased can achieve anything which is very rare to obtain in this world as well as after death. Not only that, but one also receives the favor of the auspicious Lord Siva and Lord Visnu
- At the auspicious time for the appearance of the Lord a pure breeze began to blow, pleasing the sense of touch and bearing the aroma of flowers
- At the auspicious time for the appearance of the Lord the rivers flowed with clear water, and the lakes and vast reservoirs, full of lilies and lotuses, were extraordinarily beautiful - SB 10.3.1-5
- At the auspicious time for the appearance of the Lord the sun, the moon and the other stars and planets were very peaceful. All directions appeared extremely pleasing, and the beautiful stars twinkled in the cloudless sky - SB 10.3.1
B
- Because Sankarsana appears in order to increase love of Krsna, He is known as Baladeva. One may take auspicious strength from Him to become a devotee of the Lord, and therefore He is also known as Balabhadra
- By meeting the Personality of Godhead Himself face to face, the devotee experiences the most auspicious feature of the Supreme
- By realizing the impersonal brahmajyoti, one experiences the auspicious aspect of the Supreme, and by realizing the Paramatma, or all-pervading feature of the Supreme, one experiences an even more auspicious enlightenment
C
- Considering all these points, therefore, intelligent men decide to solve all problems by adopting the devotional service of chanting the holy name of the Lord, who is situated in everyone's heart and who is a mine of all auspicious qualities
- Considering the Lord's appearance very auspicious, all the stars and planets, from the sun to Saturn, were munificently charitable
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- Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious activities - karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti - is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- For everyone living as a householder in one of the higher social orders (brahmana, ksatriya and vaisya), this worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Purusottama, the original person, is recommended as the only auspicious path
- For the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material worlds, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead Himself appears in many thousands of forms of incarnations, and the specific adventures found in those transcendental forms are all auspicious
I
- If one hears and describes in a devotional service attitude this auspicious narration of Lord Boar, which is worthy of description, the Lord, who is within the heart of everyone, is very pleased
- In the trees and green plants, full of flowers and leaves, pleasing to the eyes, birds like cuckoos and swarms of bees began chanting with sweet voices for the sake of the demigods (at the auspicious time for the appearance of the Lord) - SB 10.3.1-5
L
- Liberty, happiness and all good fortune can be attained only by surrendering unto the Lord because He is full liberty, full happiness and full auspiciousness
- Lord Siva addressed the SPG with the following prayer: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all glories unto You. You are the most exalted of all self-realized souls. Since You're always auspicious for the self-realized, I wish that You be auspicious for me
O
- O most auspicious lord, you have ordained the heavenly planets, the spiritual Vaikuntha planets and the impersonal Brahman sphere as the respective destinations of the performers of auspicious activities
- O my lord, what was the purpose of this incarnation? Kindly explain this to us, for hearing about the pastimes of the Lord is auspicious for everyone
S
- Sri Advaita Prabhu, who is an incarnation of Maha-Visnu, is an acarya, or teacher. All His activities and all the other activities of Visnu are auspicious
- Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is full of narrations of the activities of the Supreme Lord, is auspicious for all living beings residing in every planet. One who takes it as belonging to a particular sect is certainly mistaken
T
- The burden of the earth was certainly diminished by the Personality of Godhead and by others as well. When He was present as an incarnation, all good was performed because of His auspicious footprints
- The devotees can always remember the form of Nrsimhadeva when they are in danger, and therefore the appearance of Nrsimhadeva was not at all inauspicious. The Lord's appearance is always worshipable and auspicious for all sane persons and devotees
- The King said: I wish to know. Narrations concerning the Lord, who possesses wonderful potencies, are certainly auspicious for living beings in all planets
- The Lord in the temple in the worshipable form is never to be considered to be made of stone or wood, for the Lord in His arca incarnation as the Deity in the temple shows immense favor to the fallen souls by His auspicious presence
- The Pracetas spoke as follows: Dear Lord, You relieve all kinds of material distress. Your magnanimous transcendental qualities and holy name are all-auspicious. This conclusion is already settled. You can go faster than the speed of mind and words
- The Supreme Lord is so kind to His pure devotees that in proper time He calls such devotees up to Him and thus creates an auspicious circumstance for the devotee
- There are certain characteristics of different limbs which are considered to be very auspicious and are fully present in the body of the Lord
- There is no auspicious activity except arcana of the Lord. Jnana and yoga are sometimes accepted within the purview of arcana when the ultimate aim is Visnu, and not otherwise
- They (devotees) are concerned only with glorifying the Supreme Lord and His auspicious activities. Pure devotional service is sravanam kirtanam - SB 7.5.23
U
- Unalloyed devotees, who have no desire other than to serve the Lord, worship Him in full surrender and always hear and chant about His activities, which are most wonderful and auspicious
- Upon reaching the border of His (Krsna's) most prosperous metropolis, known as the country of the Anartas (Dvaraka), the Lord sounded His auspicious conchshell, heralding His arrival and apparently pacifying the dejection of the inhabitants