Category:God Is The Predominator
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate predominator, while all living entities and material energies are the predominated subjects. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that although the Lord and the living entities share the same qualitative nature—both are eternal, cognizant persons—they differ entirely in quantity and position. God is the infinite maintainer, and the living entity is the infinitesimally small maintained. In the material world, conditioned souls falsely attempt to dominate material nature (prakṛti), only to be subjugated by the Lord's external energy (māyā). Conversely, in the spiritual sky, the Lord reigns as the supreme predominator of the Vaikuṇṭha planets. True liberation and eternal bliss are achieved only when the living entity abandons the illusion of false mastery and joyfully surrenders to be dominated by the supreme predominator in pure devotional service.
- The Supreme Predominator: God is the supreme puruṣa, the ultimate enjoyer and predominator, while the living entities and material nature are His predominated energies.
- The Illusion of Domination: Conditioned souls struggle to dominate the temporary material world, but true devotees desire only to be dominated by the Supreme Lord.
- The Spiritual Kingdom: The spiritual sky is not a void; it is filled with innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets where the Supreme Personality of Godhead acts as the predominating Deity.
- The Bliss of Subordination: The highest transcendental exchanges, such as the rāsa-līlā, represent the perfect, blissful reciprocation between the absolute predominator and the fully surrendered predominated souls.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Predominator - The Supreme Master of All.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "God Is The Predominator"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- A desire to serve the Lord, the supreme predominator, is spiritual or transcendental, and one has to attain this purification of the mind and the senses to get admission into the spiritual kingdom
- All five of these philosophies (of monism) completely reject the predominance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and strive to establish their own philosophical theories
- All planets in the material universe are temporary residences; the only permanent planets are the Vaikunthalokas. These are found in the spiritual sky, where the Personality of Godhead Himself predominates
- Although the spiritual and marginal energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu, they are predominated subjects, whereas Lord Visnu is the predominator
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- In the spiritual world there are innumerable Vaikuntha planets, and on each one the Lord is the predominating Deity. A devotee can be promoted to one such Vaikuntha planet to live with the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In the spiritual world there is no external energy; there is marginal energy and the internal energy, and the Lord. So the Lord is the predominating Deity there. Everyone is engaged in the service of the Lord
- In these spiritual planets the Supreme Lord as Narayana predominates, and the healthy, unconditioned living beings live there by rendering loving service to the Lord in the capacity of servant, friend, parents and fiancee
- It may even be possible for them (materialistic scientists) to make sufficient progress to be able to know the details of this antimaterial world, where the PG resides as the predominating figure and where the living entities live with Him and serve Him
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- Liberated souls can join in this blissful reciprocation of predominator and predominated without materially concocted ideas. example of such a transcendental exchange between the predominator and the predominated is the Lord's rasa-lila with the gopis
- Lord Sankarsana is Lord Balarama. Being the predominator of the creative energy, He creates both the material and the spiritual world
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- Maharaja Nanda and other elder members argued that without satisfying the predominating god one cannot derive any good result simply by material activities. This is actually the fact
- Many other millions of spiritual lokas wherein the Personality of Godhead predominates; all the living entities there are liberated souls with spiritual bodies as good as that of the Lord
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- Narayana, the predominating Deity in Vaikuntha, is to be known as an expansion of Sri Krsna, but Sri Krsna is the Supreme Absolute Truth, the object of the transcendental love of all living entities
- Narayana, the SPG, who is full of all opulences, is predominant within the core of your heart because of your being a pure devotee. He always drives away all the darkness of ignorance, as the sun drives away the darkness of the universe
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- One living being is providing, maintaining all other living beings. So our position is being maintained by God and God is maintainer. Our position is being predominated and God is predominator
- Our eternal relationship with God is sabhajana: God is great, and we are subordinate. He is the predominator, and we are the predominated. The duty of the subordinate is to please the predominator
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- The devotees of the Lord are not ambitious to dominate a false and temporary phenomenon. On the contrary, a devotee wants to be dominated by the supreme predominator, the Lord
- The difference between the two (God and living entities) is that God maintains all the other living entities. That is a fact. We are maintained, and God is the maintainer. We are predominated - we are not independent - and God is the predominator
- The features of the liberated souls and those of Hari are almost the same, yet Hari is predominator and the liberated souls are predominated
- The impersonal feature stressed by the less intelligent impersonalist school is refuted by pointing out that the predominator "I" is the Absolute Truth and that He is a person. The predominated "I," Brahma, is also a person, but he is not the Absolute
- The Lord is the predominator of the external energy, maya, whereas the living entity is predominated by the same maya under the material condition
- The Lord says that although He is the predominating factor of the internal energy and although the material world is sanctified just by the water that has washed His feet, He has the greatest respect for the brahmana and the Vaisnava
- The predominating Supreme Person residing within the spiritual nature is Krsna
- The self-expansions are predominators, and the separated expansions are predominated for reciprocation of transcendental bliss with the supreme form of bliss and knowledge
- The SPG is Brahman or Parambrahman, the chief of all living entities. Both the Supreme Brahman, or the Personality of Godhead, and the living entities are persons, but the Supreme Brahman is the predominator, whereas the living entities are predominated
- The spiritual sky is not void. There are innumerable Vaikuntha planets, and in each of them the Lord, by His innumerable expansions, predominates, and the pure devotees who are there also live in the same style as the Lord and His eternal associates
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is everlastingly, eternally the form of purusa, the predominator or enjoyer, and when He appears He never accepts anything of this material energy
- They (all the forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead) are predominating figures on the transcendental platform. There is no trace of material contamination in Their expansions because material laws cannot influence Them