Category:God Is The Complete Whole
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the complete whole, or pūrṇam. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently cites the invocation of Śrī Īśopaniṣad to explain that because the Lord is completely perfect, all emanations from Him are also perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Despite innumerable complete units emanating from Him, the Supreme Lord remains eternally the inexhaustible, complete balance. Realization of the impersonal Brahman or the localized Paramātmā represents only a partial understanding of the Absolute Truth; full realization is only achieved by understanding Bhagavān. Because the living entities are minute parts and parcels of the Lord, their constitutional duty and ultimate self-realization lie in rendering loving service to the complete whole.
- The Inexhaustible Balance: The Supreme Lord possesses immense potencies. Even when countless complete universes and energies emanate from Him, He never diminishes and remains the complete whole.
- Incomplete Realizations: Understanding God merely as the all-pervading Brahman or the localized Paramātmā is an incomplete realization. The ultimate and complete realization is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who possesses an eternal form of knowledge and bliss.
- The Duty of the Part and Parcel: The living entities are infinitesimal parts of the complete whole. Just as a hand must serve the entire body to remain healthy, the living entity must serve the Supreme Lord to achieve true peace and satisfaction.
- Dovetailing All Activities: All human endeavors—whether social, political, or philanthropic—remain fundamentally incomplete unless they are dovetailed with the service of the complete whole.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Complete Whole - The Inexhaustible Absolute Truth.
Subcategories
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Pages in category "God Is The Complete Whole"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- All facilities are given to the small complete units (namely the living beings) to enable them to realize the Complete Whole
- All of these (the supreme controller, the controlled living entities, the cosmic manifestation, eternal time, and karma) taken completely form the complete whole, and the complete whole is called the Supreme Absolute Truth. BG 1972 Introduction
- All services in this world - whether social, political, communal, international or even interplanetary - will remain incomplete until they are dovetailed with the Complete Whole
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- He (God) is the Complete Whole, and His mind, body and He Himself are all one and the same
- He (God) is the complete whole, and therefore whatever He may eat as offered by the devotee is accepted because of the devotee's love, but again it is returned as prasada for the devotee so that he can be happy by eating
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- If in this human life of full consciousness the living entity does not realize his completeness in relation to the Complete Whole, he loses the chance to realize his completeness and is again put into the evolutionary cycle by the law of material nature
- Impersonal Brahman is incomplete realization of the absolute whole, and so also is the conception of Paramatma in the Twelfth Chapter. BG 1972 Introduction
- In the sruti-mantra it is stated that the absolute whole, or Brahman, is the ultimate source of everything. Everything emanates from Him, everything is maintained by Him, and at the end everything enters into Him again. That is the law of nature
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- Neither of these partial realizations (the sat and cit portions) of the Complete Whole can help one realize ananda, or complete bliss. Without such realization of ananda, knowledge of the Absolute Truth is incomplete
- Neither the impersonalists nor the yogi can have real peace and satisfaction, but the devotee can become fully peaceful and satisfied because of his association with the complete whole
- No extraneous effort is required for the maintenance of the universe. It's at its own time, fixed up by the energy of the complete whole, and when the time is complete, these temporary manifestations will be annihilated by the complete arrangement
- No other unit in the universe need make an extraneous effort to try to maintain the universe. The universe functions on its own time scale, which is fixed by the energy of the Complete Whole, and when that schedule is completed
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- Self-realization is when you actually engage yourself in the service of the Lord. That is your self-realization. Because you are part and parcel, your duty is to serve the whole. If you think yourself, "I am whole," that is wrong conception
- Since (God's) His body is the complete whole of everything that be, one cannot assert that He is impersonal only. On the contrary, the perfect description of the Lord holds that He is both impersonal and personal simultaneously
- Since the complete whole, or the Absolute Truth, is the source of everything, nothing is independent of Him. Everything exists within the body of the Absolute Truth
- Sukadeva Gosvami said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the S.P of God who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable
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- The Complete Whole must contain everything both within and beyond our experience; otherwise He cannot be complete
- The Complete Whole, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is the complete Personality of Godhead. Realization of impersonal Brahman or of Paramatma, the Supersoul, is incomplete realization of the Absolute Complete
- The complete whole, Personality of Godhead, has immense potencies. BG 1972 Introduction
- The Lord is the whole, and the devotee is the part or fractional part. That is the relationship between the Lord and the devotee
- The parts and parcels are never equal to the whole; therefore they cannot appreciate the Lord's full potency
- The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes
- The reason the Lord uses these words param avyayam is that although He permeates everything by means of His transcendental energies, He remains eternally unchanged and the complete whole
- This is refuted in this sloka by Srila Vyasadeva: "Since the complete whole or the Absolute Truth is the source of everything, nothing can be independent of the body of the Absolute Truth"
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- Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete by itself. Because He (the Personality of Godhead) is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance - Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad 5.1
- Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete in itself. Because He (God) is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance
- Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance
- Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance. Therefore, to take shelter of the Supreme Lord is required