Category:God Is The Superself
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead acts as the Superself (Paramātmā) residing within the heart of every living entity. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the individual self (ātmā) and the Superself are qualitatively one—both being spirit—they are quantitatively different. The Superself is the absolute master, the supreme authority, and the most intimate friend, directing the individual soul in all activities of seeing, hearing, thinking, and feeling. True self-realization and the ultimate goal of all yoga systems is not to artificially merge the self with the Superself, but to perfectly understand their interrelation. By conquering material desires and dovetailing one's intelligence with the superior direction of the friendly Superself, the conditioned soul is freed from the reactions of all pious and impious activities and attains perfect peace.
- The Master and the Friend: The Superself is not simply an order-supplier for material desires; He is the original master (ātmeśvara) and the supreme, equal friend to all living entities.
- Qualitative Oneness, Quantitative Difference: The individual self and the Superself are both purely spiritual and qualitatively nondifferent. However, realizing only their oneness while remaining ignorant of their quantitative difference is incomplete knowledge.
- The Director in the Heart: The individual soul is completely dependent on the Superself. Every action, thought, and feeling is directed by the higher authority residing within.
- The Goal of Yoga: The true purpose of the yoga system (including jñāna-yoga and dhyāna-yoga) is to control the mind and senses in order to concentrate on the Superself, Lord Viṣṇu, and understand one's constitutional relationship with Him.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Superself - The Ultimate Friend and Guide.
Pages in category "God Is The Superself"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- One becomes situated in trance (after practicing yoga), or samadhi which means that the yogi realizes the Supersoul through transcendental mind and intelligence, without any of the misgivings of identifying the self with the Superself. BG 1972 purports
- One should be Krsna conscious, or God conscious, why? Because He is the master of your self and the most intimate friend, suhrt. Yatha atmesvara. Atmesvara means we are individual self and He is the original Superself
- One who does not understand the truth of self-realization is called ignorant, but one who understands the self, the Superself, their interrelation, and activities in self-realization is called viditatma-tattva
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- The first six chapters of the Gita are meant for those who are interested in transcendental knowledge, in understanding the self, the Superself & the process of realization by jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, & discrimination of the self from matter. BG 1972 pur
- The higher authority, who is present and residing within every individual living being, is the Superself
- The individual is completely dependent on the direction of the Superself because in every step the individual self follows the direction of the Superself in the matter of seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling, willing, etc
- The Lord is the Paramatma - the atma or Superself of all individual souls. Therefore it must naturally be concluded that He has no defective bodily conceptions
- The materialist tries to satisfy himself in relation to his body by constructing a skyscraper, but the devotee tries to satisfy the Superself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by constructing the temple
- The Superself and the individual self are both spirit, and the Superself and the individual self are both qualitatively one and distinct from matter
- The Superself is a partial representation or plenary portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Bhagavad-gita affirms that the Supreme Personality of Godhead dominates all over the material world by His partial representation only
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His second feature, is the Supersoul of all living entities. As one's self is extremely dear, the Superself of the self is still more dear. No one can be the enemy of the friendly Superself, who is equal to everyone
- The whole process is to understand the real position of the self in relation to the Superself. BG 1972 purports
- The yoga system is especially difficult for this age. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam we understand that yoga means to concentrate one's attention on the Superself, Visnu. He is situated in your heart