Category:God Is The Supreme Source
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme source of all energies, living beings, and cosmic manifestations. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the supreme source is not a dead, impersonal void or a stone, but the chief, original, and supremely conscious living entity (abhijña). All creative energies and agents, including Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, emanate from this single supreme source. The living entities borrow their energy from Him and are meant to return it through unalloyed devotional service. Human endeavor and material acquisition are completely insufficient to understand this infinite supreme source; one must learn directly from the Lord through the Vedic hymns. By understanding that the Lord is the supreme source of all pleasure (rasa), the conditioned soul revives its eternal relationship with Him and enjoys a truly blissful life.
- The Conscious Origin: The supreme source is supremely conscious and fully sentient, possessing all the sentiments of the original living entity, unlike an impersonal void or dead matter.
- The Source of All Energies: Both superior (spiritual) and inferior (material) energies emanate from the supreme source, the Personality of Godhead.
- The Limit of Material Endeavor: The supreme source of creation cannot be understood through mundane speculation or material acquisition, but only through His causeless mercy and devotional service.
- The Supreme Pleasure: The Vedic literatures reveal that the supreme source is the reservoir of all pleasure and attraction, and connecting with Him brings eternal bliss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is The Supreme Source - The Fountainhead of Creation.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God Is The Supreme Source"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- As explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.5), jiva-bhutam maha-baho: the whole world is energy released from the supreme source, the Personality of Godhead, who, it is further stated in Bhagavad-gita, acts in superior energies and inferior energies
- As the rivers draw water from the sea through the clouds and again go down to the sea, similarly our energy is borrowed from the supreme source, the Lord's energy, and it must return to the Lord
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- In other words, the supreme source of creation, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cannot be understood by our own endeavor
- In this regard, Srila Sridhara Svami has composed a verse which conveys the idea that the supreme source of everything, the S P of God, is so great & unlimited that it is not possible for the living entity to understand Him by any material acquisition
- In this verse (SB 4.16.25) the verb vidanti is sometimes taken to mean "understanding." Thus when a person understands Brahman, or the supreme source of everything, he enjoys a blissful life
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- One should pray to the Lord to be engaged in His devotional service eternally, so that by the grace of the Lord one can understand the supreme source of creation
- One should try to learn of the Transcendence from the Lord Himself, the supreme source of the Vedas, for the Lord alone has full knowledge of the Transcendence
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- The Personality of Godhead has every sentiment of a sentient being, like all other living beings, because He is the chief and original living entity, the supreme source of all other living beings
- The philosophy of monism, explained very clearly, adjusts itself to the fact that the supreme source of all energy is the Supreme Personality, Krsna. This is described very clearly. It is also stated how the impersonal feature of Krsna can be understood
- The supreme source is abhijna. He is not a stone or a void. How could He be? The creation itself is evidence of the consciousness of the Supreme. Everyone can appreciate the cosmic manifestation and how nicely it is working
- The Vedic hymns inform everyone about the supreme source of all pleasure