Category:God Is The Supreme Cause
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Nārāyaṇa or Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme cause of all causes (sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while atheists, scientists, and individuals absorbed in material duality only perceive the immediate, physical causes of natural events, pure devotees understand the remote, ultimate cause behind the entire cosmic manifestation. The material energy is simply the effect (aparam), whereas the Supreme Lord is the supreme cause (param). This ultimate truth cannot be grasped through mundane arguments, logical deductions, or the speculative reasoning of the Māyāvādīs. It is revealed only by the causeless mercy of the Lord to those who accept Him as the Supreme Person and engage in His transcendental loving service.
- The Cause of All Causes: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vāsudeva, is the ultimate origin and the supreme cause of both the material and spiritual worlds.
- Cause and Effect: The material universe is simply the effect of the Lord's inconceivable energies. The Supreme Lord is the cause, and the cosmic manifestation is the effect.
- Immediate vs. Remote Causes: Foolish materialistic people study only the immediate, mechanical causes of nature, remaining completely blind to the remote, supreme cause directing everything from behind the scenes.
- The Limit of Speculation: The supreme cause cannot be understood through mental gymnastics or philosophical arguments; it is comprehended only through the causeless mercy bestowed upon surrendered devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Supreme Cause - The Original Cause of All Causes.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God Is The Supreme Cause"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
A
- Akrura offered his prayers as follows, "My dear Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because You are the supreme cause of all causes and the original inexhaustible personality, Narayana"
- As a result of this achievement (come to the conclusion that Vasudeva is the supreme cause of everything) of the goal of life, such an advanced learned scholar or philosopher surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, mamaivamsah: both the living entity and the Supreme Lord are unborn, but it has to be understood that the supreme cause of the part and parcel is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
B
- Because the Lord is differently situated from everything material, He is the Supreme Brahman, the supreme cause, the supreme controller
- Because the Lord is perfect, everything works as if He were directly supervising and taking part in it. Atheistic men, however, being covered by the three modes of material nature, cannot see Narayana to be the supreme cause behind all activities
- Because the Lord is the supreme cause, everything is one with Him, but when we consider varieties, we find that one thing is different from another
- By His causeless mercy, He protects the demigods, who are always harassed by the demons. He is the supreme worshipable Deity of all living entities. He is the supreme cause, represented as the male and female creative energies
E
- Everyone is infinitesimal, and therefore in the Vedas the Supreme Lord is called the supreme eternal amongst all eternals. He is the proprietor of the material and spiritual worlds and the supreme cause of manifestation
- Everything rests on the Lord, just like pearls strung together on a thread. The thread is the principal Brahman. He is the supreme cause, the Supreme Lord upon whom everything rests
I
- If the material world were not a part of His body, the Supreme Lord, the supreme cause, would be incomplete
- Impersonalist Mayavadis always try to defy Vaisnavas because Vaisnavas accept the Supreme Personality as the supreme cause
- It is stated in BG that those who are advocates of knowledge alone, without any religious ritualistic processes, advance in knowledge after many, many lifetimes of speculation & thus come to the conclusion that Vasudeva is the supreme cause of everything
O
- O best amongst the Kurus, the clouds which carry water are the hairs on His head, the terminations of days or nights are His dress, and the supreme cause of material creation is His intelligence. His mind is the moon, the reservoir of all changes
- One can know the supreme cause, the Personality of Godhead, by the causeless mercy of the Lord, which is bestowed upon the Lord's pure devotees like Brahma and those in his disciplic succession
- One should not try to understand the supreme cause by argument or reasoning
T
- The conclusion is that everyone should be engaged according to the particular mode of nature he has acquired, and he should decide to work only to serve the supreme cause of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord has employed His wonderful material energy in manifesting many, many wonderful distractions in the material world, and the conditioned souls, illusioned by the same energy, are thus unable to know the supreme cause
- The material nature is ever existing, and the Lord is the supreme cause for both the subtle and gross manifestations of this material world
- The personality of religion knew perfectly well that nothing can take place without the sanction of the Supreme Lord, and still he was put into doubts by the deluding energy, and thus he refrained from mentioning the supreme cause
- The supreme cause of all causes, Narayana, is situated in His own abode in the spiritual world, but nevertheless He controls the entire cosmic manifestation according to the three modes of material nature-sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna
- The word param means "the supreme cause," and aparam means "the effect." The supreme cause is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the effect is material nature
- They (persons with the vision of differentiation) are influenced by the immediate cause, which they are busy counteracting, because they have no knowledge of the remote, supreme cause, the Personality of Godhead - SB 10.4.27