Category:God Is Like the Sun
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category utilizes the analogy of the sun to explain the supreme nature, potencies, and all-pervasiveness of the Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently compares the Supreme Lord to the sun globe and the living entities to the infinitesimal molecules of sunshine. Just as the sun remains in one fixed position while its light and heat pervade the entire solar system, the Supreme Lord eternally resides in His spiritual abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana, while His energies manifest and sustain the entire cosmic creation. Furthermore, the Lord's presence instantly dissipates the darkness of material ignorance, just as the rising sun naturally destroys the darkness of night. Understanding this analogy helps the conditioned soul realize that although God is a localized Supreme Person, He is simultaneously everywhere, completely transcendental, and eternally unaffected by the material contamination He illuminates.
- The Sun and the Sunshine: The Supreme Lord is the localized sun globe, and the living entities are the minute particles of sunshine. They are qualitatively one in heat and light, but the sunshine is always dependent on the sun.
- All-Pervading Through Energy: Although situated in His eternal abode, the Lord pervades the entire universe through His diverse energies, just as the sun remains in one place while distributing its rays everywhere.
- Destroying the Darkness of Ignorance: God is likened to the brilliant sun, and material illusion is compared to darkness. Wherever the Supreme Lord is present, the darkness of ignorance is immediately vanquished.
- Untouched by Contamination: Just as the sun's rays can dry up infectious, dirty places without the sun itself becoming contaminated, the Supreme Personality of Godhead can neutralize all sinful reactions while remaining supremely pure.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Like the Sun - The All-Pervading Luminous Lord.
Pages in category "God Is Like the Sun"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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- Both the sun and the sunshine are very brilliant. The Lord is like the full shining sun, and the living entities are like the small particles of that sun which constitute the all-pervasive sunshine
- By the illumination of all the moons, brightened by the reflection of the Krsna sun, or by the grace of all the devotees of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the entire world will be illuminated, despite the darkness of Kali-yuga
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- Formless is not the actual realization of God. That is the beginning. That may be beginning. To realize the energy of God, that is formless. Just like the sun. The sunshine is formless, but the sun globe is not formless
- From the Rk-samhita (1.22.20): The Personality of Godhead Visnu is the Absolute Truth, whose lotus feet all the demigods are always eager to see. Like the sun-god, He pervades everything by the rays of His energy. He appears impersonal to imperfect eyes
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- He (God) is full of all energies, He is all-pervasive in spite of His residing in Goloka Vrndavana, just as the sun, although situated in a particular place within the universe, is present by its sunshine throughout the universe
- He (God) is just like the sun. The sun does not appear or disappear in the sky; it is only in the experience of men that in the morning the sun rises and in the evening the sun sets
- He (God) is like the sun. The sun appears and disappears on its own accord at any place without disturbing its presence in other places. The sun appears in the morning in India without disappearing from the Western Hemisphere
- He (the Supreme Lord) is just like the sun, eternally luminous, but He is far, far beyond the darkness of this material world. His knowledge is transcendental. BG 1972 purports
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- Kardama Muni saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is free from material contamination, in His eternal form, effulgent like the sun, wearing a garland of white lotuses and water lilies
- King Prthu is very appropriately compared to the sun and the demigod Indra. King Indra of the heavenly planets is in charge of distributing water over the earth and other planetary systems
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- My dear lord, you are a worthy son of Lord Brahma, and you travel, playing on your musical instrument, the vina, for the welfare of the entire universe. You are like the sun, which rotates in the universe for the benefit of all living beings
- My Lord, who are never conquered by anyone, I am certainly not afraid of Your ferocious mouth and tongue, Your eyes bright like the sun or Your frowning eyebrows
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- O Lord, who resemble the shining sun, You (Visnu) are always ready to fulfill the desire of Your devotee, and therefore You are known as a desire tree (vancha-kalpataru) - SB 10.2.31
- One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is beyond this material nature. BG 8.9 - 1972
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- The living entity is constitutionally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord; the Lord can be compared to the sun, and the living entities can be compared to molecules of sunshine
- The living entity is like sunshine. There is heat and light in the sun, and there is heat and light in the sunshine, and thus they are qualitatively one. But one should not forget that the sunshine rests on the sun
- The Lord is also all-pervading like the sun, and as such the word pratyak is used in this verse (SB 2.6.40-41). Nothing is excluded from the existence of the Lord's potential expansions
- The Lord is described here (in SB 8.3.10) as atma-pradipa. The Lord is like the sun, which illuminates everything and cannot be illuminated by anyone
- The Lord is just like the effulgent sun. Consequently, whenever the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present, there cannot be darkness or ignorance
- The Lord is like the sun; the sun's appearance means immediate dissipation of darkness, or ignorance, and the Lord's appearance within the mind of the devotee can at once drive away the miserable material effects
- The Lord is said to be the sun, and ignorance is called darkness. BG 1972 purports
- The Personality of Godhead is described herein (SB 3.5.23) as the master of all other living entities. He is like the sun disc, and the living entities are like the molecules of the sun's rays
- The sun is considered to be the eye of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, and it also has a specific orbit within which it circles. Similarly, all other planets have their specific orbits. But together all of them encircle the polestar
- The sun is the eye of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Actually, everything is created by the universal body of the Supreme Godhead. Material nature is simply the supplier of materials
- The Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the source of light in all luminous objects like the sun, moon, stars, etc. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead can accept the reactions of anyone's sinful deeds and neutralize them because He is pavitra, pure, like the sun, which is never contaminated by any worldly infection
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is just like the sun, profusely distributes His energies while situated beyond the cloud of this material cosmic manifestation. He is the master of masters, and He is the Supreme of the supremes