Category:God Is Like A
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the authorized transcendental analogies used to describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because the limited human brain cannot easily comprehend the infinite Absolute Truth, Śrīla Prabhupāda utilizes practical comparisons to convey the Lord's magnitude, beauty, and activities. The Lord is compared to a vast gold mine or the Pacific Ocean to illustrate that while the living entities share His spiritual qualities, they are merely tiny drops or sparks in comparison to His absolute fullness. Furthermore, when the Lord descends into the material world, He may appear like an ordinary human being or a child, but this is simply the display of His internal potency; He is never a product of material nature. Whether manifesting as a gigantic mountain to balance the universe or exhibiting eyes like lotus petals, every comparison reveals the boundless, nectar-like nature of the Supreme Lord.
- The Ocean and the Gold Mine: The Supreme Lord is the infinite source of all existence. Just as a drop of ocean water contains the same salt as the Pacific Ocean, the minute soul shares the Lord's spiritual quality but can never equal His supreme magnitude.
- Appearing Like a Human: To favor His devotees, the Lord descends and seems to take birth like an ordinary child. However, foolish speculators misunderstand this and falsely conclude that God is ultimately impersonal or subjected to material laws.
- The Beauty of His Forms: The Lord possesses an eternal, spiritual body of unmatched sweetness. Authorized scriptures compare His beautiful eyes to blooming lotus petals and His teeth to pomegranate seeds.
- Unlimited Incarnations: The manifestations of the Supreme Lord are endless, appearing like the continuous waves of a flowing river. He can expand into forms as massive as a giant mountain to perform extraordinary cosmic feats.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Like A - Transcendental Comparisons.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "God Is Like A"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- Although He is the original source of everything, He is untouched by any of His by-products. In this way He is like a gold mine, which is the source of gold in ornaments and yet is different from the ornaments themselves
- Although the SP of Godhead has no material form, He accepts innumerable forms to favor His devotees and kill the demons. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are so many incarnations of the SP of Godhead that they are like the waves of a river
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- Diving into the water like a giant mountain, Lord Boar divided the middle of the ocean, and two high waves appeared as the arms of the ocean, which cried loudly as if praying to the Lord, "O Lord please do not cut me in two! Kindly give me protection!"
- Do you think God is so cheap thing, anyone will understand? Because they do not understand, they present something nonsense: "God is like this. God is like that. God is like that."
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- His (Lord Rsabhadeva's) mouth was beautifully decorated with His natural smile, and He appeared all the more lovely with His reddish eyes spread wide like the petals of a newly grown lotus flower covered with dew in the early morning
- His face was more beautiful than millions upon millions of moons, and His teeth were like pomegranate seeds because of His chewing betel
- How can the all-powerful Lord take birth, seemingly like an ordinary man? The matter is explained in the Bhagavad-gita (4.6), where the Lord says, ajo 'pi sann avyayatma bhutanam isvaro 'pi san, prakrtiḿ svam adhisthaya sambhavamy atma-mayaya
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- The common man, who is under the spell of material energy, takes it for granted that the Lord is like one of us, and therefore he refuses to accept the transcendental nature of the Lord's form, name, etc
- The contents of salt, that is very small, and the contents of salt in the ocean, that is very big. That you cannot imagine. It is like that. God is like you and me, a person. But He is Pacific Ocean; we are drop. That's all
- The foolish with a poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is playing like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their speculations nor in their words
- The Lord is not a prakrta-sisu, a child of this world, but by His personal energy He appeared like one
- The narration of the activities of the Personality of Godhead is like a constant flow of nectar. No one can refuse to drink such nectar except one who is not a human being
- Those who are not in full knowledge that the appearance and disappearance of the Lord are transcendental (janma karma ca me divyam (BG 4.9)) are sometimes surprised that the Supreme Personality of Godhead can take birth like an ordinary child
- To balance Mandara Mountain while it was being pulled from both sides, the Lord Himself appeared on its summit like another great mountain