Category:God Is The Supreme Father
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original, seed-giving father (aham bīja-pradaḥ pitā) of all living entities. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that this fundamental truth is accepted not only in the Vedic literatures but across all major world religions, including Christianity and Islam. As the supreme father, God is a person, not an impersonal void, because a father must naturally possess personality and form to generate children. He impregnates the material nature (the mother) with the minute spirit souls, and He provides all necessities for their maintenance. Recognizing God as the supreme father immediately dissolves the false demarcations of nationalism and speciesism; every living being has a right to the father's property, and the father never sanctions the unnecessary killing of His less intelligent children (animals). While beginners in spiritual life pray to the father for their daily needs, mature devotees advance to the stage of unalloyed bhakti, seeking only to serve and please the supreme father.
- The Universal Father: All major religious traditions acknowledge God as the supreme father. He is the ultimate origin and the seed-giving father of all species of life.
- The Personal Nature of God: Because we, the children, have form and personality, it logically follows that our supreme father must also be a person with a transcendental form.
- The Provider and Proprietor: The supreme father owns everything and provides the daily necessities for all His children through His agent, the material nature (mother).
- Universal Brotherhood: Recognizing the supreme father automatically establishes the true brotherhood of all living entities. Therefore, the father does not tolerate the killing of animals by human beings.
- The Progression of Devotion: While it is good to approach the supreme father for daily needs, true devotional service (bhakti) means acting as a grown child who desires only to serve and please the father without personal motivation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Supreme Father - The Loving Maintainer of All.
Pages in category "God Is The Supreme Father"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
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- According to Christianity, the supreme father, God, provides the living entities with all of life’s necessities. Therefore they pray - Give us this day our daily bread
- All of these things are coming from the Supreme Father, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but we are thinking that they are coming from nature, and we are utilizing them without caring whether we pay the bill or not
- All property belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all living beings, who are sons of the Supreme Lord, have the right to use the Supreme Father's property, but one cannot take more than necessary
- As the Supreme Father, the Lord, however, does not supply to a pure devotee what is considered to be a barrier to the discharge of devotional service
- At least the Christian religion accept that supreme father, God, and the material nature is mother. And we are all sons. Not only human beings, every living being, even the dogs. This is philosophy, real philosophy
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- Even in the Christian world the Supreme Lord God is accepted as the supreme father. "O father, give us our daily bread." It is very good, accepting the Supreme Lord, the supreme father. Everyone must accept. That is human life. That is human knowledge
- Every living entity is a child of God. God is the Supreme Father. Krsna says: "I am the seed-giving father of all living entities. In whichever form they may live, they're all living entities, they're My sons." Actually that is the fact
- Everyone is God's creature, although in different bodies or dresses. God is considered the one supreme father
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- Father is the cause of the beginning of my body or your body, everyone. So therefore He (Krsna) has no beginning - that He has no father, but He is the supreme father. That is the Christian conception: God is the supreme father
- Form of the Lord there must be. God is accepted as the supreme father. In Christianity also it is accepted, the supreme father
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- God is accepted as the supreme father. In Christianity also it is accepted, the supreme father. In every religion He's accepted the supreme person, supreme father, supreme master. So how He can be accepted as imperson?
- God is also living entity. He is the chief living entity, chief intelligent man or god, and we are subordinate. What is our relationship? God is the supreme father, we are all children
- God is supposed to . . . the Supreme Father. Janmady asya yatah (SB 1.1.1). That is the Vedic information. The Supreme is that which is the source of everything
- God is the supreme father, and He will never tolerate that, "Because you are intelligent, you are allowed to kill another unintelligent living being." No
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- If we simply study this verse from the Bhagavad-gita, that the mother nature is the mother of all living entities and God is the supreme father of everyone . . . We can study these two lines very carefully
- If we understand these three principles, that God is the supreme father, God is the supreme proprietor, God is the supreme friend, these three things, if you understand, then you become peaceful immediately
- If you actually approach the Supreme Father, there is no death. Death cannot touch you, you have got such a father. Just approach him. Aisvrayasaya samagraya viryas . . . He is so powerful
- In every religion, God is accepted as the supreme father. The Christian religion also, they say, "O father, give us our daily bread." So God is accepted, actually He is the father
- In every system of religion, it is accepted that God is the supreme father of all living entities
- In one family there cannot be two father. The one father. Similarly, when you speak of the supreme father, "O father, give us our daily bread," He is father of everyone. So why one should select one father, another man will select another father?
- In the Christian Bible there is, "Father, give us our daily bread." That is good - they are accepting the Supreme Father. But grown-up children should not ask from the father; rather, they should be prepared to serve the father. That is bhakti - devotion
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- Just like in Christian Bible there is, "Father, give us our daily bread." That is good, they are accepting the Supreme Father. But grown-up children, they should not ask from the father, but they should be prepared to serve the father. That is bhakti
- Just like your father has got many children - you are part of the father's body - similarly, God, the supreme father, He has also many children, and you are one of them; therefore you are part and parcel of God
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- The Christian conception of God as the Supreme Father is not very perfect because if we conceive of God as a father, our position will be to take things from Him
- The father supplies the money in the hands of the mother and mother expends for the children, similarly, God is the supreme father of the whole living entities, and the material nature is the agent of the Supreme Lord, and she produces food for you
- The living entities, parts and parcels of the supreme father, are impregnated by the Lord in material nature
- 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 material nature produces the moving and standing manifestations of the material world after being contacted by the supreme father, and not independently
- The pleasure one gives the Lord by addressing Him by such names (Devaki-nandana, Janaki-natha etc.) is many, many times greater than the pleasure He enjoys when He is addressed as the Supreme Father, the Greatest of the Great
- There is no contradiction between Jesus Christ's description and our Vedic description. God is the supreme father. That's a fact. He says, aham bija-pradah pita. Pita means father. So He is father of all living entities in different forms
- There is no difference of opinion if one is actually religious. "God created this world," "God is the supreme father," "God is great," this is accepted by everyone, either Hindu or Muslim or Christian. There is no doubt about it
- This is not very difficult to understand (that the supreme father, who must be a person), and it is noteworthy that God is called the supreme father not only in the Vedas but in the Bible, Koran, and other scriptures
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- We are all children of the Supreme Father, and in Bhagavad-gita (14.4) Krsna claims all species of life as His children
- We have voluntarily come into this material world for sense enjoyment, and in sense enjoyment we have forgotten our supreme father, God. The material nature's duty is to give us simply miserable condition of life
- Why do they not accept this simple philosophy? If God is the supreme father and in every religion they accept that, at least the Christian religion accept that supreme father, God, and the material nature is the mother, and we are all sons
- Why should one think that his state belongs to only a small number of people? In fact this is all the property of God, and every living entity has a right to use this property because every living being is a child of God, who is the supreme father
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- You are part and parcel of God. Who can deny it? There is no secrecy. As you are part and parcel of your father - God is the supreme father - so you are the part and parcel of your father, and it is your duty to love God
- You cannot make any experiment, neither it is possible to understand who is your father by experimental knowledge. Then how you can make experiment the Supreme Father, God? That is not possible. Simply you have to hear