Category:God Is The Center
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu, is the absolute center of all creation, enjoyment, and affection. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that in the material world, conditioned souls are driven by illusion (māyā) to act as self-centered enjoyers, leading to endless competition, envy, and strife. However, when society recognizes God as the ultimate proprietor and the central stomach of the universal body, peace naturally follows. Just as supplying food to the stomach nourishes all the limbs of the body, offering our love and service to the central Supreme Lord automatically distributes love and nourishment to all living entities. True unity and a competition-less society can only be achieved when all civic, social, and personal activities are firmly centered around the Supreme Person.
- The Central Enjoyer: Unlike the material world where everyone competes to be the center of enjoyment, the spiritual reality places the Supreme Lord as the central enjoyer, around whom all loving relationships revolve.
- The Root of All Affection: God is the center of love. It is impossible to truly love others without first loving the Supreme Lord, for He is the central reality and the source of all living beings.
- A Competitionless Society: Artificial attempts at global unity, such as the United Nations, fail because they lack the true center. A God-centered society eradicates material envy and establishes genuine, lasting peace.
- Dovetailing Activities: One does not need to abandon their family, society, or country. By simply keeping God in the center, all such expanded activities become harmonized and spiritually perfect.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Center - The Root of All Love and Enjoyment.
Pages in category "God Is The Center"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- If everyone is taught this God consciousness (nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to God. Everyone has got right to live on God's property), there is no need of this artificial United Nations. We are united by nature. God is the center
- In religious principles there must be God in the center; otherwise simple moral instructions are merely subreligious principles, generally known as upadharma, or nearness to religious principles
- It is not a question of simply accepting God as the center of everything and peace will be achieved, but the question is how to live in God
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- The central stomach of the whole creation is God, or Krsna. He is the enjoyer, He is the friend, and, as the supreme proprietor, He is maintaining everyone
- The Lord is the center of all the affection of all living beings, who are all His parts and parcels. When the flow of natural affection for the Lord is clogged by desires to imitate His Lordship, one is said to be in maya, or illusion
- The material body of the living entity is a result of the conditioned soul's activities, and because the supporter is the Supersoul, the Supersoul is the true reality. Every one of us, therefore, should offer respectful obeisances to this central reality
- The real center of enjoyment is the Supreme Lord, who is the center of the sublime and spiritual rasa dance
- The serving spirit of the residents of the transcendental world is displayed in five varieties of relationships with the Supreme Lord, who is the central enjoyer. In the material world everyone is a self-centered enjoyer of mundane happiness and distress
- The transcendental devotees of the Lord are not only free from material envy, but are well-wishers to everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the center