Category:God Is Uncontaminated
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is eternally pure and completely free from the contamination of the three modes of material nature. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that although the Lord is the creator and controller of the material world and resides within it as the Supersoul, He is never affected by its impurities. He is compared to the powerful sun, which can evaporate contaminated substances like urine without ever becoming polluted itself. Māyāvādī speculators mistakenly believe the Lord accepts a contaminated material body when He descends, but the Vedic literatures confirm that His form is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, full of eternal bliss and knowledge. Because the Lord is śuddham (antiseptic) and apāpa-viddham (prophylactic), He remains the ultimate uncontaminated object of pure affection for all living entities.
- The Sun Analogy: Just as the sun can draw moisture from a filthy place without becoming infected, the Supreme Lord can interact with the material world without ever being contaminated by sinful reactions or material modes.
- The Antiseptic Supreme: The Lord is described in the Īśopaniṣad as śuddham and apāpa-viddham, proving that His spiritual nature is completely pure and prophylactic.
- Refuting Impersonalism: The Māyāvāda theory that God assumes a contaminated material body when incarnating is a fundamental misunderstanding. His forms and pastimes are always enacted in pure transcendental goodness.
- The Supreme Object of Affection: Because the Lord is eternally uncontaminated, He is naturally attractive to pure devotees. True religion, or bhāgavata-dharma, means rendering unalloyed devotional service to this pure Supreme Person.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Uncontaminated - The Pure Supreme Absolute Truth.
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Pages in category "God Is Uncontaminated"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- Devaki said - Such (self-effulgent, changeless and uncontaminated by the material qualities) eternal forms (of Lord Visnu) are ever-cognizant and full of bliss; they are situated in transcendental goodness and are always engaged in different pastimes
- Devaki said - Your (Visnu's) forms are eternal and all-pervading. They are self-effulgent, changeless and uncontaminated by the material qualities
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- He (the Personality of Godhead) is not the object of affection by material tinges of body and mind, but He is the full, naked, uncontaminated object of affection for all living entities because He is the Supersoul, or Paramatma, within everyone's heart
- He is eternally void of all disturbances and fearless. He is complete consciousness as opposed to matter. Uncontaminated and without distinctions, He is the principle primeval cause of all causes and effects
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- In both the spiritual and material worlds, He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is always the controller of all energies. The uncontaminated spiritual nature always exists within Him
- In the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is made clear that the Supreme Truth is eternally uncontaminated by material touch. There is no jugglery of words and activities in the transcendental kingdom of the Lord
- It should be understood that His senses are not exactly like ours. Although He is the source of all our sensual activities, He has His transcendental senses which are uncontaminated. BG 1972 purports
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- Mayavada philosophy tries to designate the Lord as contaminated by a material body when He accepts forms of incarnation. This sort of interpolation is completely denied herein (SB 2.6.40-4) by the explanation that the Lord's position is pure and unalloyed
- My dear servants, this transcendental religious principle, which is known as bhagavata-dharma, or surrender unto the Supreme Lord and love for Him, is uncontaminated by the material modes of nature
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- The Absolute Truth is devoid of material contamination and is transcendental to the material qualities
- The contamination of the material world does not affect the Supreme Godhead. Krsna therefore says in the Bhagavad-gita that those who are rascals and fools think of Him as an ordinary human being, not knowing His param bhavam
- The demoniac speculators cannot understand the transcendental qualities, form, pastimes, strength, knowledge and opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which are all free from material contamination
- The external energy of the Lord is very strong, but the Lord, as the master of the three modes of material nature, is ever liberated from the action and reaction of those modes. He, therefore, is uncontaminated, as stated in the Isopanisad
- The higher and lower natures exist due to ignorance and are being manifested in an infinite number of living entities. But the Supersoul, which is infallible, is uncontaminated by the three qualities of nature and is transcendental. BG 1972 purports
- The individual atma becomes polluted by sin, but the Lord is never contaminated by sins. The Lord is compared to the powerful sun. The sun is never contaminated by anything infectious because it is so powerful
- The living entities, by their very constitution, are spiritually as good as the Lord, and the only difference between them is that the Lord is always supreme and pure, without contamination by the modes of material nature
- The Lord (Caitanya) said to his mother: Everything in relationship with Visnu is to be considered an expansion of Visnu’s energy. Visnu, the Supersoul, is eternal and uncontaminated. How then may these pots be considered pure or impure?
- The Lord, whose pure form (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (BS 5.1)) is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature, can be perceived by pure consciousness. In the Vedanta He is described as being one without a second
- The Personality of Godhead, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial
- The Supreme Lord is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature; therefore He is attractive to the pure devotee. There is no need to practice meditation to attain such attraction; the pure devotee is already in the transcendental stage
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is eternally alipta, uncontaminated by the external energy
- To confirm that the Lord is always pure and uncontaminated, Sri Isopanisad describes Him as suddham (antiseptic) and apapa-viddham (prophylactic)
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- We know that You are the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, who manifests His transcendental form in the uncontaminated mode of pure goodness
- Wherever I am glancing I simply see Your personality. Therefore I know You are the uncontaminated Brahman effulgence, the supreme cause of all causes. I think there is nothing but You in this cosmic manifestation