Category:God Is Fully Independent
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the absolute autonomy and self-sufficiency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Lord is svarāṭ, or fully independent, meaning He is directly and indirectly cognizant of everything while remaining completely free from external obligations or limitations. While the living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord and thus possess a small particle of independence, God's independence is unlimited and all-pervading. This divine freedom allows the Lord to appear and disappear by His own will, manage the cosmic manifestation through His various potencies, and enjoy transcendental pastimes without being dependent on any other person or energy.
- The Definition of Svarāṭ: The Supreme Being is the only person who is fully independent and cognizant of all manifestations, both directly and indirectly.
- Qualitative Oneness and Quantitive Difference: As sons of God, living entities possess a minute degree of independence, but misusing this small particle leads to sinful conditions, whereas the Lord's independence remains absolute.
- Independence in Pastimes and Incarnations: The Lord's appearance in the material world or His interactions with devotees and the goddess of fortune do not imply any dependency; He remains self-sufficient and free.
- Spontaneous Service and Independence: In the spiritual atmosphere, both the Lord and His servants act in full independence because transcendental loving service is based on spontaneous love rather than force.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Fully Independent - The Supreme Svarāṭ.
Pages in category "God Is Fully Independent"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- Because we are part and parcel of God - God is fully independent - so we have got also little particle of independence. As soon as we misuse that independence, disobey the words of God, we become sinful
- 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
- Being an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Rsabhadeva was fully independent because His form was spiritual, eternal and full of transcendental bliss
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- I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord, who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully independent
- If we scrutinizingly try to understand the supreme truth, we can understand that He knows everything directly & indirectly. He is the only Supreme Personality, and it is He only who is fully independent. He alone instructed Brahma as the Supersoul within
- In this way (the Supreme Being is directly and indirectly cognizant of everything and is fully independent, everthing has emanated from Him) the smrti explains the sruti
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- My (Laksmi's) dear Lord, You (Kamadeva) are certainly the fully independent master of all the senses. Therefore all women who worship You by strictly observing vows because they wish to acquire a husband to satisfy their senses are surely under illusion
- My Lord, You are the all-pervading universal form, the fully independent creator, maintainer and destroyer of this universe
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- Sankarsana is the first expansion of Vasudeva, and because He appears by His own will, He is called svarat, fully independent. He is therefore infinite and transcendental to all limits of time and space. He Himself appears as the thousand-headed Sesa
- Srila Jiva Gosvami, in his Krsna-sandarbha, has described Sesa Naga as follows: Sri Anantadeva has thousands of faces and is fully independent. Always ready to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He waits upon Him constantly
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- The appearance of Godhead in some particular family does not mean that He is limited by obligations to that family. He is fully independent and may appear and disappear. anywhere and everywhere, because He is all-pervading
- The independent Personality of Godhead enjoys His pastimes by His internal potency and at the time of annihilation gives them up to the external potency, and He remains a witness to it all
- The Lord is svarat, or fully independent, and the servant is also fully independent, or svarat, in the spiritual atmosphere because there is no forced service. There the transcendental loving service is due to spontaneous love
- The Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is smrti, explains, janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah sva-rat: (SB 1.1.1) The Supreme Being, from whom everything has emanated, is directly and indirectly cognizant of everything and is fully independent
- The Supreme Person is totally independent of all others in these pastimes. While teaching Sanatana Gosvami (CC Madhya 20.296-298), Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu pointed out that one cannot count the number of lila-avataras
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is fully independent. Thus it is not always a fact that a living being's loss of all opulence is a sign of the Supreme Lord's mercy upon him
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is self-sufficient. Since He is fully independent, He was not in want of the support or association of Laksmidevi. Nonetheless, Laksmidevi, the goddess of fortune, accepted Him as her husband