Category:God Is The Supreme Personality
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Absolute Truth is ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the impersonal Brahman and the localized Paramātmā are genuine spiritual realizations, they are incomplete without the realization of the Supreme Personality. The Brahmā-saṁhitā and all authorized Vedic literatures boldly declare that the Supreme Lord has an eternal, spiritual form (sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha) and engages in transcendental pastimes. The Māyāvādī (impersonalist) philosophy, out of envy and ignorance, attempts to defy the Vaisṇavas by claiming the Absolute Truth is formless or by mistakenly considering the Lord's form to be material. However, pure devotees understand that the Supreme Personality is the cause of all causes, the maintainer of the universe, and the master of all inconceivable energies. Realization of this Supreme Personality is never achieved through mental speculation or yogic gymnastics; it is attained exclusively through unalloyed devotional service (bhakti-yoga), which directly revives the living entity's eternal relationship with the Lord.
- The Complete Realization: Realizing the Supreme Personality automatically includes the realization of Brahman and Paramātmā. He is the ultimate resting place of the impersonal effulgence.
- Refuting Impersonalism: The idea that the Absolute Truth is a formless void is born of ignorance and envy. Whenever the Vedas speak of the impersonal Brahman, they ultimately establish the Supreme Personality at the conclusion.
- The Supreme Cause and Maintainer: The Supreme Personality is the original cause of all manifestations, and as Lord Viṣṇu, His function of maintaining the universe is supreme.
- The Path of Devotion: The Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be understood through mundane logic. He is known and achieved only by those who engage in pure devotional service (bhaktyā mām abhijānāti).
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Supreme Personality - The Ultimate Stage of Realization.
Pages in category "God Is The Supreme Personality"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- Because we are all qualitatively one - the sanatana-dhama, or sky, the sanatana SP and the sanatana living entities - the whole purpose of BG is to revive our sanatana occupation, which is the eternal occupation of the living entity. BG 1972 Introduction
- By incarnating Himself as the son of Satyavati and Parasara, He (the Supreme Personality) explains the Vedic knowledge as Vyasadeva. BG 1972 purports
- By practicing this remembering, without being deviated, thinking ever of the Supreme Godhead, one is sure to achieve the planet of the Divine, the Supreme Personality. BG 1972 Introduction
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- If the leaders do not recognize the existence of the all-powerful Visnu, who is simultaneously both the supreme transcendental personality and the impersonal spirit existing everywhere, then what will ordinary men understand about Him
- If we scrutinizingly try to understand the supreme truth, we can understand that He knows everything directly & indirectly. He is the only Supreme Personality, and it is He only who is fully independent. He alone instructed Brahma as the Supersoul within
- Impersonalist Mayavadis always try to defy Vaisnavas because Vaisnavas accept the Supreme Personality as the supreme cause
- In the Tenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna confirmed that it is very difficult to understand the personality of the Lord
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- One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God. BG 18.55 - 1972
- One who is devoted to the Supreme Personality can attain all the benefits derived from other yogic processes, speculation, rituals, sacrifices, charities, etc. That is the specific benediction of devotional service. BG 1972 purports
- One who realizes the Supreme Personality realizes the other features, namely the Paramatma feature and the Brahman feature, and that total realization is brahma-siddhi
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- Sanandana said, "The Vedic reciters, or the personified Vedas, sing thus, 'O unconquerable Lord, You are the Supreme Personality. No one is equal to You or greater than You. No one can be more glorious in his activities'"
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirms, jivera ‘svarupa’ haya - krsnera nitya-dasa: (CC Madhya 20.108). “Every living entity is an eternal part, an eternal servant, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead”
- Sri Krsna, Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality, He was also referring to the Brahma-sutra: brahma-sutra-padais caiva viniscitam. So this is the way, that any bona fide spiritual propaganda must be following the footsteps of previous authority
- Sthana: the maintenance of the universe by the PG, Visnu. Visnu’s function is more important and His glory greater than Brahma’s and Lord Siva’s, for although Brahma is the creator and Lord Siva the destroyer, Visnu is the maintainer
- Such truths (acintya-bhedabheda philosophy) cannot be understood unless one is a pure devotee, for the Lord says in BG 18.55, bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah: One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service
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- That the impersonal Brahman is dependent on the Supreme Personality is stated in the Hayasirsa-pancaratra and in every other Upanisad or Vedic scripture
- The coverings take place due to ignorance. Such coverings are never effective in the person of the Personality of Godhead
- The demon (Hiranyaksa) also addressed Him (the Personality of Godhead) as mrgah, indicating, unintentionally, that the Supreme Personality is sought after by great sages, saintly persons and transcendentalists
- The living entity is prone to forget his spiritual identity, whereas the Supreme Personality never forgets. This is the difference between lipta and alipta
- The Lord says, My dear friend, you and I are not different. This nondifference refers to qualitative oneness, for it was not necessary for the Paramatma, the Supreme Personality, to remind the conditioned soul that he is not one in quantity
- The personalist, without any risk, trouble, or difficulty, approaches the Supreme Personality directly. BG 1972 purports
- The Supreme Personality is exhibiting and diffusing His spiritual effulgence, which is the ultimate illumination. That Supreme Personality also has a localized aspect as Paramatma. BG 1972 purports
- The ultimate result of devotional service is to develop genuine love for the Supreme Personality
- There are different kinds of power. Your power is different from another man. Another man's is different from another man, another man, ano . . . go on, go on, go on. When you find the supreme man, or Supreme Personality, He is God
- There is no possibility of one's being situated in his own position unless he is blessed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- They are not interested in the Supreme Personality's pastimes, which are worth hearing because of His transcendental prowess
- Those who are demons and are inimical towards the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are punished by His mace, which is always smeared with the blood of such fallen living entities
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- We find the Brahma-samhita boldly declaring the Lord's Supreme Personality
- When Dhruva Maharaja factually saw the SPG, there was no question of a revengeful attitude towards his stepmother nor any aspiration to lord it over the material world, but the Supreme Personality is so kind that He knew that Dhruva Maharaja wanted these
- When one is purely situated in the qualities of goodness, he can understand the form, name, quality, paraphernalia and entourage of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- When one is transcendental or surpasses the material qualities, he is simply fixed in the worship of the Supreme Personality
- When the Supreme Personality disappeared from his (Dhruva Maharaja's) heart, he thought that he had lost Him. Dhruva Maharaja was perturbed, but upon opening his eyes and breaking his meditation he saw the same form of the Lord before him
- Whenever there is talk of the impersonal Brahman in the beginning, the Supreme Personality is finally established at the end
- Why the Supreme Personality should be impersonal? No. He is person, but we have no sufficient information of Him; therefore we are envious. Defying