Category:God Is The Source
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate source of all emanations. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that according to the Vedānta-sūtra, the Absolute Truth is defined precisely as the origin from which everything emanates (janmādy asya yataḥ). Because Bhagavān is the source of all spiritual and material energies, He is also the origin of the impersonal Brahman effulgence and the localized Paramātmā. The Lord is the supreme generating source for all living entities, opulences, and transcendental truths. Recognizing that all universes, material modes, and living beings emanate from this single supreme source frees the conditioned soul from material illusion. Ultimately, the Supreme Lord is the source of all pleasing humors and transcendental bliss for His pure devotees, while appearing as a source of fear to those absorbed in duality.
- The Absolute Definition: The Vedānta-sūtra confirms that the Absolute Person is the original source of everyone's birth and all cosmic creation, known as janmādy asya yataḥ.
- The Source of the Living Entities: Just as the vast earth is the source of all clay pots, the Supreme Soul is the original source and resting place of all individual living entities.
- The Source of All Energies: God is the complete whole; nothing is independent of Him. He is the supreme consciousness from which all material and spiritual potencies emanate.
- The Source of Bliss and Opulence: For the nondevotees, the Lord may appear as a source of fear, but for the pure devotees, He is the supreme source of all wealth, intelligence, and transcendental bliss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Source - The Absolute Origin of All Emanations.
Subcategories
This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
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Pages in category "God Is The Source"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- A rope is one truth, but some mistake it for a snake, whereas others know it to be a rope. Similarly, devotees who know the Supreme Personality of Godhead do not see contradictions in Him, but nondevotees regard Him as the snakelike source of all fear
- Although Paramatma and Brahman are subordinate to Bhagavan, because Bhagavan is Purusottama or the Superperson, He is the source of the Supersoul also
- As in the individual body the consciousness is the source of all energies of the body, so the supreme consciousness of the Lord is the source of all energies in material nature
- As the vast earth is the source for the ingredients of all earthen pots, so the Supreme Soul is the source for the complete substance of all individual living entities
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- Fear results from being absorbed in duality. When one is in knowledge of duality, one knows both fear and bliss. The same Supreme Lord is a source of bliss to devotees and fear to nondevotees who have a poor fund of knowledge
- From the Narayana Upanisad (1.4): yatah prasuta jagatah prasuti. Narayana is the source from whom all the universes emanate
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- He (God) is the source of everyone's opulence, and no one can equal Him in opulence. Being full of all opulences, namely wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, certainly He is the Supreme Person
- He (Lord Gopinatha) had stolen the pot of sweet rice, and this was not kept a secret because His act of stealing is a source of great transcendental bliss
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- I (Prahlada Maharaja) offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nrsimhadeva, the source of all power. O my Lord who possesses nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material world
- In the material world, theft is criminal, but in the spiritual world the Lord’s stealing is a source of transcendental bliss
- In the Vedanta-sutra the distinction between the energy and the energetic is accepted from the very beginning. In that Vedanta-sutra the first aphorism (SB 1.1.1) clearly explains that the Supreme Absolute Truth is the origin or source of all emanations
- It is not possible to manufacture a religion. A true religion must come from an authorized source, and that source is either God or His representative
- It should be understood that His senses are not exactly like ours. Although He is the source of all our sensual activities, He has His transcendental senses which are uncontaminated. BG 1972 purports
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- Material nature is working under the direction of the Lord. Therefore the Lord is not unattached to the external energy, and He is addressed in this verse (SB 4.17.29) as guna-atma, the source of the three modes of material nature
- Materialism means to forget the source of all this. That is materialism. One who knows that the source of everything is God, for him, there is no materialism
- Mayavada philosophy cannot trace the energy of the Supreme Lord back to its source, but all Vedic literatures give evidence of the Supreme Lord's various energetic manifestations
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- Since impersonalists cannot understand the source of the Brahman energy, they mistakenly choose to think this impersonal Brahman the ultimate or absolute goal
- 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
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- The all-pervading Supersoul, Paramatma, is the source of all living entities, and all living entities are part and parcel of Him
- The Bhagavatam confirms as follows: Anyone who does not render service and neglects his duty unto the Primeval Lord, who is the source of all living entities, will certainly fall down from his constitutional position. BG 1972 purports
- 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 intelligence with which you are working, that is supplied by God. Your body is supplied by God. You are God's. So everything becomes God's. Prabhavah: I am the source of supply of everything
- The Lord is the original source of all emanations, and everything that is created, maintained and annihilated exists by the energy of the Lord
- The Lord is the source of the Ganges water, and therefore He is addressed here (in SB 8.17.8) as tirtha-pada, indicating that all the holy places are at His lotus feet, or that whatever He touches with His foot becomes a holy place
- The Lord showed His lotus feet by raising them. His lotus feet are the source of all awards achieved by devotional service free from material contamination. Such awards are for those who worship Him in pure devotion
- The Lord, being the source of all beings, is like the mother and the maintainer. As the mother is neutral to all different kinds of children, the Supreme Father (or Mother) is also. BG 1972 purports
- The name of the Lord is also called bhavausadhi, or the source of curing the disease of material existence
- 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 source of all truths is the Supreme Spirit, and not gross matter as wrongly conceived by the gross materialist
- The source of birth of the cosmic manifestation, or mahat-tattva, is the Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed throughout Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad-gita
- The supply source is God Himself, for even Brahma is also subject to this regulation of the supreme creator. In the beginning of the creation, Brahma is born first without any father and mother because before him there were no other living beings
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself in the plenary forms of the visnu-tattva, and although they are equally powerful, the original powerful Personality of Godhead is considered the source
- The transcendental body of Visnu is not made of material elements. The body of Visnu is the source of all other living entities, as well as the material nature, which is also supposed to be the energy of that Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The Vedic literature is to be considered the mother, and Vedic literature says, janmady asya yatah (SB 1.1.1): The Supreme Absolute Truth is that who is the source of all generation, all emanations