Category:God Is One Without a Second
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the absolute singularity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is eternally one without a second (advaita). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that there is no one equal to or greater than the Lord. The acceptance of multiple supreme gods is a pantheistic illusion rejected by the Vedic literatures. However, although the Lord is singular, out of His own sweet will, He expands Himself into innumerable forms, energies, and living entities (jīvas) to enjoy transcendental pastimes. By His inconceivable potency, this one Absolute Truth is simultaneously realized in three features: the impersonal Brahman, the localized Paramātmā, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavān. Thus, the supreme singularity of God perfectly accommodates the infinite diversity of the spiritual and material creations.
- The Absolute Supreme: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the singular source of all existence. Because no one is equal to or greater than Him, He is eternally one without a second.
- Three Features of One Truth: The one Absolute Truth is realized from different angles of vision as the impersonal Brahman effulgence, the localized Paramātmā within the heart, and the original Supreme Person, Bhagavān.
- Expansions and Energies: God is one without a second, yet like a fire expanding its heat and light, He diffuses His diverse energies to create and maintain the material and spiritual worlds for His transcendental pleasure.
- The Subordinate Living Entities: The ordinary living entities are innumerable, but the Supreme Lord is singular. He eternally maintains all the minute souls, who are differentiated parts and parcels of the one Absolute Truth.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is One Without a Second - The Singular Absolute Truth.
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Pages in category "God Is One Without a Second"
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- All the stars and planets are simply manifestations of Your different energies, but originally You (the Lord Kurma) are one without a second. Therefore there is nothing beyond You
- Although He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is one without a second, He expands Himself by svamsa, His personal expansion, and sometimes by vibhinnamsa, or His separated expansion
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- God expanded into many, and we constitute those expansions. God is one without a second, but He willed to become many in order to enjoy. We have experience that there is little or no enjoyment in sitting alone in a room talking to oneself
- God is God eternally, and an ordinary living entity is eternally a part and parcel of God. God is one without a second, and the ordinary living entities are many without number. All such living entities are maintained by God Himself
- God is one without a second, and He is the primal cause of all causes. As there are many departmental heads of governmental affairs, so there are many heads of management of the universal affairs
- God is one without a second, and the ordinary living entities are many without number. All such living entities are maintained by God Himself, and that is the verdict of the Vedic literatures
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- He (God) is simultaneously personal and impersonal by His inconceivable potency, or He is the one without a second, displaying complete unity in a diversity of material and spiritual manifestations
- He (the Lord) is the support of the material cause and He enters into everything. He is absolute, one without a second, and He is the eyes of the illusory energy
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- If the SP of God, who is one without a second, who is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and who is the life & soul of all living entities, is pleased with us, we wish that this brahmana, Durvasa Muni, be freed from the pain of being burned
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam also the Absolute Truth is described as the one without a second, but He is realized in three features - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam the Absolute Truth is described as the one without a second, but He is realized in three features - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In the Brahma-samhita (5.33) it is also stated: advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. The original person is one without a second, yet He never appears old; He always appears as ever fresh as a blooming youth
- In the Vedas also it is said that the Lord, although one without a second, nevertheless manifests Himself in innumerable forms. BG 1972 purports
- In the Visnu Purana it is stated that as the presence of fire is understood by heat and light, so the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although one without a second, is perceived everywhere by the diffusion of His different energies
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- O my Lord, although You manifest Yourself in varieties of forms, You are one without a second. Therefore pure devotees concentrate upon You and worship only You - SB 10.40.7
- O ultimate truth, one without a second, You are realized as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan and are therefore the reservoir of all knowledge. I (Citraketu) offer my respectful obeisances unto You
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- Srimad-Bhagavatam explains this truth in the verse under discussion: Lord Vasudeva is one without a second, but because He is all-powerful, He can expand Himself as well as display His omnipotencies
- Svetasvatara Upanisad (6.8) informs us: The Supreme Lord is one without a second. He has nothing to do personally, nor does He have material senses. No one is equal to Him or greater than Him
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- The Absolute Truth is one without a second, but He is viewed from different angles of vision by different religionists or transcendentalists under different circumstances
- The acceptance of more than one God is contradictory to the conclusion that Lord Vasudeva, the absolute Personality of Godhead, is one without a second
- The conception of many gods in the Vedic literatures by the ignorant is completely wrong. The Lord is one without a second, but He expands Himself in many ways, and this is confirmed in the Vedas
- The conception of one without a second is clearly confirmed here. The one is Lord Vasudeva, and only by His different energies and expansions are different manifestations, both in the material and in the spiritual worlds, maintained
- The fact is that the Supreme Lord is one without a second
- The jivas, or living beings, are differentiated parts and parcels of the Lord. They are all diversities of the one without a second, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The Lord is glorified as one without a second and as the supreme truth who has no beginning. Therefore He is called Anantadeva (unlimited). Who can understand Him
- The Lord is one without a second, advaita. Acyuta: the Lord never falls down
- The Lord, as Supersoul, pervades all things, just as fire permeates wood, and so He appears to be of many varieties, though He is the absolute one without a second
- The Lord, or the Supreme Godhead, who is one without a second, is a fully cognizant and eternally joyful personality with a full sense of His identity. No one is equal to Him or greater than Him. This is a concise description of the Supreme Lord
- The Lord, whose pure form (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (BS 5.1)) is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature, can be perceived by pure consciousness. In the Vedanta He is described as being one without a second
- The rtvijah, the priests, knew that God is one, yet they prayed for the Supreme Lord to become the son of Maharaja Nabhi to let the world know that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is one without a second
- The Supreme Lord is the Absolute Truth, and He is one without a second, but He also includes His diverse energies, parts, and plenary portions which are simultaneously one with and different from Him
- The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is one without a second, but He manifests Himself by different energies because He is by nature blissful
- The Supreme Lord, although one without a second, expands Himself as many other living beings
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second, and therefore He is all-powerful. He has inconceivable energies, of which three are principal
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second. He is above everyone. No one is equal to Him, nor is anyone greater than Him. Therefore He is described here as visva-guru
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, is one without a second. When He incarnates, He expands Himself in different potencies
- The Supreme Truth, the all-spiritual and all-powerful person, is one without a second and has fully transcendental senses. He is the fountainhead of all emanations
- Therefore, O King (Yudhisthira), you should look to the Supreme Lord only, who is one without a second and who manifests Himself by different energies and is both within and without
- This existence of the Lord before the creation is confirmed by the srutis. Because everything that be is an emanation from the Personality of Godhead, He always exists alone without a second
- This is the constitutional position of the living entities. The Lord is one without a second, and He expands Himself into many for His transcendental pleasure