Category:God Is Neutral
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is perfectly neutral (udāsīna) toward all living entities. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Lord sits within the core of everyone's heart as the Paramātmā, acting as the impartial witness to the activities and desires of the conditioned souls. This neutrality does not mean that God is inactive or uncaring; rather, like a supreme judge or a loving mother, He does not interfere with the minute independence of the living entities. Although His various potencies carry out the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the material world, the Lord remains completely unaffected by these material activities. Thus, partiality and neutrality are both transcendental qualities of the Supreme Lord, perfectly adjusted by His inconceivable energy to maintain cosmic law and order.
- The Impartial Witness: The Supreme Lord resides in everyone's heart as the neutral witness, observing the causes and effects of all good and bad activities without interfering with free will.
- Unaffected by Material Nature: Although the Lord controls every minute detail of the cosmic manifestation through His potencies, He remains completely transcendental and materially unaffected.
- The Supreme Judge: God's neutrality is like that of a court judge; He is not personally affected by the opposing parties, yet He takes perfect action to maintain cosmic law and order through departments like that of Yamarāja.
- Transcendentally Neutral: Neutrality is a supreme spiritual quality of the Absolute Truth. The perfect yogī understands that the Lord is equally present in all beings, from a brāhmaṇa to a dog, yet remains eternally uncontaminated.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Neutral - The Supreme Impartial Witness.
Pages in category "God Is Neutral"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- In the sastras, we have the Yamaraja, or there is justice department. Everything is there. So he is neutral. It is not that God is kind to somebody and unkind to some other, no. His position is always neutral
- It may be said that He (God) sits in the core of everyone's heart as the neutral witness of the causes and effects of one's activities, good and bad
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- Partiality, neutrality and all such qualities are present in God; otherwise they could not be experienced in the creation
- Prthu will be able to see all the internal & external activities of every one of his citizens. Still no one will be able to know his system of espionage, & he himself will remain neutral regarding all matters of glorification or vilification paid to him
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- The Lord can fulfill all desires, and the Lord, being neutral to everyone, does not interfere with the desires of the minute independant living entities. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord is always neutral, although He has His hand in every sphere of activity. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord, being the source of all beings, is like the mother and the maintainer. As the mother is neutral to all different kinds of children, the Supreme Father (or Mother) is also. BG 1972 purports
- The perfect yogi knows that the Lord is eternally transcendental and is not materially affected by His presence in either a dog or a brahmana. That is the supreme neutrality of the Lord. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Lord is neutral to everyone, but for the maintenance of law and order His supreme government has various departments, which control the activities of the living entities
- This (mother Ganges fears being burdened with the sins of the people in general who would bathe in her waters) indicates that no one but the SP of Godhead is able to neutralize the reactions of sinful deeds, whether one's own or those of others