Category:God Is The Supreme Eternal
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme eternal (nityo nityānāṁ) among all eternal beings. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while both the Lord and the individual living entities are eternal and spiritual by nature, their positions are vastly different. The Lord is the infinite, supreme eternal who never accepts a temporary material body and who eternally maintains all others. The minute living entities are subordinate eternals who are prone to fall under the control of the material energy (māyā). True spiritual life begins when the conditioned soul stops identifying with the temporary material modes of nature and realizes its eternal relationship with the supreme eternal. By engaging in transcendental loving service, the minute eternal soul is reinstated in its natural, blissful position as an eternal servant of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
- The Chief Eternal: The Vedic literatures confirm that among all eternal, conscious beings, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the singular, supreme eternal (nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām).
- Quantitative Difference: Although the living entities share the same eternal spiritual quality as the Lord, they are infinitesimal fragments, whereas He is the infinite supreme whole.
- Immunity to Illusion: Unlike the minute souls who can be bewildered by the material modes of nature, the supreme eternal never assumes a temporary material body and always remains the absolute controller of māyā.
- The Eternal Relationship: The ultimate goal of life is to revive our dormant love for the supreme eternal and relish the taste of His transcendental service eternally.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Supreme Eternal - The Chief of All Eternals.
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Pages in category "God Is The Supreme Eternal"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- A devotee is simply interested in the supreme eternal, Sri Krsna. The Supreme Lord is the supreme leader of the nityas, the eternal living entities. We are all nityas, eternal, and Krsna guides and plays with us
- According to the Vedic version, the Lord is the supreme eternal, the supreme living being
I
- In the Katha Upanisad it is said, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam: the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme eternal and the supreme living force
- In the SB (10.87.30) the personified Vedas pray to God, "O supreme eternal, if the living entities were equal with You and thus all-pervading and all-powerful like You, there would be no possibility of their being controlled by Your external energy, maya
- In the Vedas the Supreme Lord is called the supreme eternal of all eternals (nityo nityanam). Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities are eternal. The supreme eternals are the visnu-tattva, or Lord Visnu and His expansions
K
- Krsna is the supreme eternal, and we are subordinate eternals. Krsna is the supreme living entity, and we are subordinate living entities
- Kunti says, kecid ahur ajam jatam: the supreme eternal, the supreme unborn, has now taken His birth. But although Krsna takes birth, His birth is not like ours. That we should know
O
- O supreme eternal (Krsna), please, let my (Srila Rupa Gosvami) mind be fixed at Your lotus feet so that eternally I may be able to relish the taste of Your transcendental service
- O Supreme Eternal! If the embodied living entities were eternal and all-pervading like You (God), then they would not be under Your control (SB 10.87.30). BG 1972 purports
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- The living entities are also eternal and are also living forces, but they are very minute in quantity, whereas the Supreme Lord is the supreme living force and the supreme eternal
- The Lord is the supreme eternal amongst all eternals and the supreme living entity amongst all living entities. He is maintaining all others - confirmed in the Vedas
- The supreme eternal never accepts a body of a temporary material nature, whereas the living entities, who are part and parcel of the supreme eternal, are prone to do so
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sanatana, eternal, and the individual living entities are also eternal. The difference is that Krsna, or God, is the supreme eternal, whereas the individual souls are minute, fragmental eternals
- The word aham indicates a person. As explained in the Vedas (Katha Upanisad): the Lord is the supreme eternal among innumerable eternals and the supreme living being among the innumerable living beings. God is a person who also has impersonal features