Category:God Is The Cause
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original, primeval cause of all causes (kāraṇa-kāraṇam). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the entire cosmic manifestation, including both the material and spiritual universes, emanates from the Lord. Material scientists and mundane speculators mistakenly point to matter, chemicals, or an impersonal force as the source of creation. However, the Vedic conclusion is that material nature is merely the inert ingredient; the active, efficient cause is the supreme will and glance of Bhagavān. Furthermore, through the philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, the Lord is understood to be both the cause and the effect, for the creation is simply a transformation of His divine energy. Recognizing God as the ultimate cause of all existence naturally leads an intelligent person to surrender unto Him and seek His shelter rather than approaching subordinate demigods or relying on independent material endeavors.
- The Primeval Cause: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original, causeless cause of all creations, maintenance, and annihilations in both the material and spiritual worlds.
- The Active Efficient Cause: Material nature (prakṛti) cannot act independently. The cosmic manifestation only begins when the Supreme Lord, as the active efficient cause, agitates the neutral state of matter with His glance.
- Cause and Effect are One: Because the creation is a manifestation of the Lord's energy, He is simultaneously the cause and the effect. As the cause is present in the effect, the Supreme Lord is present everywhere within His creation.
- The Source of Brahman and Paramātmā: Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate source and cause of both the all-pervading impersonal Brahman effulgence and the localized Paramātmā.
- The Folly of Material Science: Those who lack perfect knowledge falsely attribute the cause of the universe to chemicals or material combinations, ignoring the supreme intelligence and energetic source behind them.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Cause - The Primeval Source of Everything.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
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Pages in category "God Is The Cause"
The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
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- According to Viraraghava Acarya: The original cause of the cosmic manifestation must be the oldest person and must be beyond material transformations. He is the enjoyer of all auspicious activities and is the cause of conditional life and also liberation
- Although the material causes are the place, the worker, the endeavor and the senses, the final cause is the Supreme, the Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
- Although the sky exists in space, it also enters within the body. Similarly, the Supreme Lord, who is the cause of the material energy, lives within the material world as well as beyond it
- An intelligent person never goes to demigods to pray for anything. He goes directly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the cause of all benediction
- As in the material world there are innumerable planets & universes, so in the spiritual world there are also innumerable spiritual planets & universes, including Vaikunthas & Goloka. The Supreme Lord is the cause of both the material & spiritual worlds
- As the materialists cannot find the soul and the Supersoul within the heart, similarly, for want of sufficient knowledge, they cannot see that the Supreme Soul is the cause of the universe
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- Because both the material and antimaterial energies are emanations of the Supreme Transcendence, the Personality of Godhead, it is proper to conclude that I (Lord Krsna) am the ultimate cause of all creations and annihilations
- By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature, the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again
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- In order to maintain the regular procedures of the cosmic manifestation and to be visible to the eyes of persons who are in the mode of goodness, the Lord appears. He is the cause of the creation and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation
- In spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the touchstone remains the same. We therefore hear some sages say that the Supreme is the ingredient or cause of this cosmic manifestation
- In the form of the Vamana incarnation, Lord Visnu, without hindrance, captured all the planets, extending from the root of the material world up to Satyaloka. Indeed, He caused every planetary system to tremble by the force of His steps
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- Lord Janardana is the director both externally and internally. He is the cause of the function of words and what is expressed in all sound
- Lord Rama is the original Vasudeva, and His brothers were Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. Aniruddha is also the cause of Maha-Visnu, from whose breathing the Rg Veda appeared. All this is nicely explained in the Markandeya Purana
O
- O King, know Him (Narayana) who is causeless and yet is the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation. He exists in the three states of consciousness - namely waking, dreaming and deep sleep - as well as beyond them
- O my Lord, the hymns of the Vedas proclaim that You (Sesa Naga) are the effective cause for the creation, maintenance and destruction. But in fact You are transcendental to all limitations and are therefore known as unlimited - SB 5.17.21
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- Since the ingredients and the immediate cause of this material manifestation are Brahman, both of them are truth, satya; there is no validity to the expression brahma satyam jagan mithya. The world is not false
- Superficially it appears that a child is born due to the combination of the father and mother, but the ultimate cause of both the father and the mother is Krsna
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- The Absolute Truth exists in three phases of spiritual understanding - Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan (brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (SB 1.2.11)). Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the cause of Brahman and Paramatma
- The Brahman effulgence is impersonal, but the cause of that energy is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. From Him, in His abode, the Vaikunthas, this brahma-jyotir emanates. He is never impersonal
- The efficient cause (of the manifestation of material creation) is not matter, but the Lord Himself
- The efficient cause of this material world, manifested with its many varieties as the original tree, is You, O Lord. You are also the maintainer of this material world, and after annihilation You are the one in whom everything is conserved - SB 10.2.28
- The effulgent bodily luster of the Supreme Lord is the cause of the creation of infinite universes
- The five sense objects and eleven senses, including the mind, are His partial manifestations. He supplies all the necessities of life, which are His energy and thus nondifferent from Him, and He is the cause of everyone's bodily and mental prowess
- The ingredients and the immediate cause of this manifested material world are Brahman, and we cannot make the ingredients of this world independent of Brahman
- The Lord is the cause and also the effect. Whatever effect we see is the interaction of His energy, and because the energy is generated from Him, He is both cause and effect
- The Lord is the cause of all the manifestations of living entities in this material world. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Lord is the cause of the cosmic manifestation, He maintains it after creation, and after annihilation the Lord is the reservoir of everything
- The Supreme Lord is the super cause. Under these circumstances, he who is acting in Krsna consciousness under the direction of the Supersoul situated within the heart is naturally not bound by any activity. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Lord, the creator of this cosmic manifestation, knows every nook and corner of His creation. Although He is the cause of creation, there is no cause for His appearance. He is fully aware of everything
- The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is so complete that although innumerable Personalities of Godhead expand from Him, He remains the same SP of Godhead. Purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate. Therefore He is the wonderful cause
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is described herein (SB 8.3.15) as the wonderful cause
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is directly the cause of the spiritual world, where there are innumerable spiritual planets known as Vaikunthas, as well as His personal abode, known as Goloka Vrndavana
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the mahat-tattva
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the products of material nature. Without His contact, material nature cannot produce anything
- The universal affairs of the material creation depend upon the material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the cause of the material creation. The entire cosmic manifestation is described as guna-vigrahah, the form of the God's qualities
- The Vaisnavas following Caitanya stress the doctrine of acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, which states that the Supreme Lord, being the cause and effect of everything, is inconceivably, simultaneously one with His manifestations of energy & different from them
- There are two kinds of research to find the original cause of creation. One conclusion is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the all-blissful, eternal, all knowing form, is indirectly the cause of this cosmic manifestation
- This (in SB 6.4.48) is a description of the history of the universal creation. The first cause is the Lord Himself, the Supreme Person. From Him, Brahma is created, and Brahma takes charge of the affairs of the universe
- This cosmic manifestation is a mixture of matter and spirit, but the cause is the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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- When Krsna was playing in so many ways, sometimes it appeared that He caused distress to the gopis, but actually such dealings were full of transcendental bliss
- When the animation takes place, the living entities revive their own natural activities under the spell of time and energy, and thus the varieties of living beings are manifested. The Lord is ultimately the cause of all animation in the material world
- When time agitates the neutral state of material nature, material nature begins to produce varieties of manifestations. Ultimately it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of creation