Category:God Is The Root
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, is the absolute root of all creation. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently uses the analogy of a tree to explain the cosmic manifestation. Just as the entire structure of a tree—its trunk, branches, leaves, and fruits—depends completely on its root, everything in the material and spiritual worlds depends on the Supreme Lord. He is the root cause of all material energies, planetary systems, and demigods. This principle is practically applied through the process of devotional service, likened to watering the root. Just as watering the root of a tree naturally nourishes all its parts, or feeding the stomach satisfies the entire body, satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead automatically brings peace, prosperity, and ultimate satisfaction to the individual soul and the entire universe.
- The Universal Tree: The material world is described as a perverted reflection of the spiritual reality, but the root for both the real tree and the false tree is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Source of All Demigods: There is no need to separately worship various demigods, because Lord Viṣṇu is the supreme root from which all their powers emanate.
- Watering the Root: Realizing God as the root of everything simplifies spiritual life. By serving and pleasing the Lord, everyone else is automatically pleased, just as the body is nourished by feeding the stomach.
- The Goal of Vedic Literature: The ultimate purpose of all Vedic scriptures, especially the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, is to direct human society toward the realization of this supreme root of all categories.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Root - The Supreme Root of the Cosmic Tree.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "God Is The Root"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- One need not be anxious to propitiate each and every demigod and goddess because the root of all of them is the Personality of Godhead
- One process is to find the root of the tree, and next to water the root. The real student of sankhya philosophy finds the root of the material world, Visnu, and then, in perfect knowledge, engages himself in the service of the Lord. BG 1972 purports
- One who does not know the root, however he might be working very diligently for the poor humanity or community or society, they will never be successful to gain the result, peace and prosperity. They are forgetting the root. And root is God
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- The cosmic manifestation is grossly divided into three worlds, the upper, lower and middle planetary systems, and then it broadens into the cosmos of fourteen planetary systems, with the manifestation of the SPG as the supreme root
- The demon wants to uproot this source because if the root, God, were to be checked, the activities of the Lord and the devotees would automatically stop
- The example of an uprooted tree mentioned here by the demon is very significant. Devotees accept that God is the root of everything
- The Lord is the root of everything. Aham adir hi devanam: (BG 10.2) He is the original cause of all the devas, or demigods. Aham sarvasya prabhavah: (BG 10.8) everything emanates from Him
- The Personality of Godhead is the supreme truth, and He is the whole antimaterial principle. The material principle as well as the antimaterial principle is an emanation from His person. He is the root of the complete tree
- The root is the same both for the real tree and the false, but the false tree is only the perverted reflection of the real tree. The Lord, being the real tree, is here offered obeisances by Brahma on his own behalf and also on behalf of Lord Siva
- The Srimad-Bhagavatam is superior to all of these (the karma-kanda, jnana-kanda and upasana-kanda divisions of the Vedas) because it aims at the Supreme Truth which is the substance or the root of all categories
- There is nothing existent except the Lord. The Lord is manifested in different expansions. He is the root of the complete tree. He is the stomach of the complete body