Category:God Is The Reservoir
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the ultimate reservoir of all existence, energies, and auspicious qualities. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that unlike the impersonalists (Māyāvādīs) who incorrectly assume the Absolute Truth is nirguṇa in the sense of having no qualities, the Vedic literatures declare the Lord to be the reservoir of all good qualities and the wellspring of all transcendental rasas (mellows). From the cosmic manifestation generated by Mahā-Viṣṇu to the individual living entities sheltered within Saṅkarṣaṇa, everything rests within the Supreme Lord. He is the primeval generating reservoir for everyone's existential capacity and the ultimate destination where everything returns after annihilation. Because He is ānandamaya (by nature full of blissful pleasure), concentrated meditation on His lotus feet is the only way for the conditioned soul to cross the ocean of nescience and attain perfect peace.
- The Reservoir of All Existence: The Supreme Lord is the generating source and the ultimate resting place of both animate and inanimate creation. All existence depends entirely on Him.
- The Reservoir of Rasas: Kṛṣṇa is the complete reservoir of all transcendental mellows (akhila-rasāmṛta), containing every kind of relationship and emotion, including the fighting spirit, in its original, pure form.
- The Reservoir of Good Qualities: Refuting the impersonalist conception of a void or quality-less Absolute Truth, the Vedas confirm that the Lord is the reservoir of unlimited auspicious qualities and supreme goodness.
- The Reservoir of Happiness: Because the Lord is the source of all blessings and transcendental pleasure, those who are genuinely searching for happiness must direct their vision toward Him rather than toward temporary material manifestations.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Reservoir - The Ultimate Source of All Qualities and Energies.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "God Is The Reservoir"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- Hairs on God's body are the cause of vegetation, particularly of those trees which are required as ingredients for sacrifice. The hairs on His head and face are reservoirs for clouds, and His nails are the breeding ground of electricity, stones and iron
- He (Lord Anantadeva) has thousands of hoods and is the reservoir of all devotional service
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- The Lord is called "Govinda," or the prime cause of all causes and the reservoir of all blessings. & the people in general can attain to perfect peace and tranquillity when they come to know Him by the gradual process of work with transcendental results
- The Lord is the reservoir of all cosmic manifestation, animate and inanimate
- The Mayavadi philosophers take the Absolute Truth to be nirguna ("without qualities"), in accordance with the impersonalistic view, but actually the Lord is the reservoir of all good qualities
- The moonlike face of Krsna is the reservoir of nectarean songs and the abode of His flute. It is also the root of all bodily beauty
- The senses and their reservoir source, the gigantic universal form as the second incarnation Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and all living beings, both moving and standing, which come out of the second incarnation, all became manifested
- 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 reservoir of the twenty-five elements, and as the Supreme Being, the conductor of cause and effect, He causes their manifestation
- The Vedas confirm that the Supreme Absolute Truth is anandamaya, or full of blissful pleasure, and that He is abhyasat, by nature the reservoir of unlimited auspicious qualities. BG 1972 purports