Category:God Is The Original Person
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ādi-puruṣa, the original person. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Absolute Truth is not a formless void or an impersonal energy; He is the primeval Lord, Govinda. Although He is the oldest person and the original cause of all creations, He never ages. The Brahma-saṁhitā describes Him as nava-yauvanam, possessing an eternal form of ever-fresh youth. Everything in existence, including time itself and great demigods like Lord Brahmā, emanates from this supreme, intelligent person. Because the living entities are mere reflections or parts of the original person, they can only achieve true satisfaction and liberation from material entanglement by engaging in His loving devotional service.
- The Ādi-puruṣa: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original person, possessing no beginning. He is the ultimate definition of the Absolute Truth from whom everything emanates.
- The Origin of All: The original person is the primeval father and the ultimate cause from whom all living entities, including the first created being, Lord Brahmā, are generated.
- Eternally Youthful: Unlike conditioned living entities who are subject to birth, aging, and death within material time, the original person never grows old. He eternally exhibits the form of a blooming youth.
- The Path of Devotion: The original person cannot be fully understood through mental speculation. He is known only through unalloyed devotional service, which naturally frees the soul from material illusion.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Original Person - The Supreme Ādi-puruṣa.
Pages in category "God Is The Original Person"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A living entity is within the time of past, present and future. His life has a beginning, a birth, and in the conditioned state his life ends with death. But the Lord is adi-purusa, the original person
- All the demigods, including Lord Brahma, are manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the original person, the cause of all causes, is Govinda, the adi-purusam
- As stated in the Brahma-samhita (BS 5.33): I (Brahma) worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who is the original person - nondual, infallible, and without beginning. Although He expands into unlimited forms, He is still the original
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- If one changes his consciousness, however, and associates with the supreme, original person (purusam sasvatam), or with His associates, he can get out of the entanglement of material nature
- If one worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original person, even once, he receives the benefit of being promoted to the spiritual world and possessing the same bodily features as Visnu
- 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 Brahma-samhita Lord Brahma offers his respect to the adi-purusa, Govinda, the original person, who has no beginning, whereas the creation of this material world has a beginning
- In the Brahma-samhita the Lord is addressed as adi-purusam, the original person. Indeed, in Bhagavad-gita (BG 10.8) the Lord Himself declares, mattah sarvam pravartate: "From Me everything proceeds."
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- Lord Ananta is the original person and the great mystic controller. At the same time, He is a servant of God, a Vaisnava. Since there is no end to His glories, no one can understand Him fully
- Lord Brahma said: O Supreme Lord of all lords, proprietor of the entire universe, O benedictor of all living entities, O original person, because of our good fortune You have now killed this sinful demon, who was giving trouble to the entire universe
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- The Absolute is mentioned here as the purusa, or person. The Absolute Personality of Godhead is mentioned in so many Vedic literatures, and in the Bhagavad-gita, the purusa is confirmed as the eternal and original person
- The Bhagavatam tells us that everything comes from the person who is abhijna, very intelligent and experienced, and that original intelligent person transmitted knowledge to adi-kavi, the original created being, Lord Brahma
- The chest of the Original Personality of the gigantic form is the luminary planetary system, His neck is the Mahar planets, His mouth is the Janas planets, and His forehead is the Tapas planetary system
- The Lord lives in the spiritual world in His original personality, and a devotee who follows the instructions of the Lord approaches Him - mam eti
- The Lord, the Original Person, is the father of all other living entities, beginning from Brahma, the personality from whom all other living entities in different gradations of species are generated
- The Padma Purana explains: The same Personality of Godhead, Purusottama, the original person, who is always devoid of material qualities and contamination, can exhibit Himself in various forms and at the same time lie down in one form
- The purusa, the original person - Bhagavan, Visnu - can be understood only by devotional service. Bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah: (BG 18.55) only by devotional service can one understand the Supreme Person, who is behind everything
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not formless; He is purusam, or the enjoyer, the original person. He is the time element and is all-cognizant. He knows everything - past, present and future - as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original person (purusa), has multifarious energies
- The Vedanta-sutra says Brahman, the Absolute Truth, is that from whom everything has emanated. Very simple description. What is God, what is the Absolute Truth, very simple definition - the original person
- There is no difference between the arca-vigraha and the original person