Category:God Is Wonderful
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is extraordinarily wonderful in His forms, potencies, and pastimes. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Lord is the wonderful cause of all causes; His energies act so perfectly that He requires no personal endeavor to create the cosmic manifestation. Furthermore, when the Lord expands into innumerable incarnations, He miraculously remains the complete whole without any diminution. To please His pure devotees and establish religious principles, the Lord descends and performs inconceivably wonderful activities—such as Lord Rāmacandra floating stones on the ocean, Vāmanadeva covering the universe with His steps, or Nṛsiṁhadeva appearing from a pillar. These authentic, wonderful acts distinguish the genuine Supreme Lord from modern imposters and cheap magicians. By submissively hearing and meditating upon these wonderful pastimes, a sincere soul becomes fearless and remains eternally rapt in transcendental devotional service.
- The Wonderful Cause: The Lord is the uncaused cause of everything. His potencies act so wonderfully that the entire cosmic creation manifests without His direct physical endeavor.
- The Complete Whole: By His inconceivable potency, the Supreme Lord expands into unlimited forms and emanations, yet He always remains the wonderful, complete Absolute Truth.
- Authenticating the Lord: True incarnations of God are identified by the performance of extraordinarily wonderful acts, separating them from mundane jugglers and false modern incarnations.
- Pleasing the Devotees: The Supreme Lord descends to this material world and enacts glorious, wonderful pastimes specifically to give satisfaction and transcendental pleasure to His devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Wonderful - The Inconceivable Pastimes of the Supreme Lord.
Pages in category "God Is Wonderful"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- All glories to Lord Kesava, who assumed the form of a dwarf. O Lord of the universe, who takes away everything inauspicious for the devotees! O wonderful Vamanadeva! You tricked the great demon Bali Maharaja by Your steps
- As described in this verse (SB 8.1.2) by the word mahiyasah, the activities of an incarnation are not ordinary magic or jugglery, but are wonderful activities
- At the present time, especially in India, so many rascals are claiming to be incarnations, and people are being misled. Therefore, the identity of an incarnation should be confirmed by the descriptions of the sastras and by wonderful activities
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- He (the Lord) is not attached to anything. Na mam karmani limpanti: although He acts very wonderfully, He is not at all attached to anything (BG 4.14). He is self-sufficient
- He is wonderful in the sense that although there may be unlimited emanations from the Supreme Personality of Godhead (janmady asya yatah (SB 1.1.1)), He always remains complete (purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate) - Sri Isopanisad, Invocation
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- In the presence of the Gandharvas, the Siddhas & the other demigods who were praising the Lord for His wonderful transcendental activities, the Lord, sitting on the back of His carrier, Garuda, returned to His all-wonderful abode & took Gajendra with Him
- It is not that one has to become very learned scholar to become a preacher. Simply it requires enthusiasm, "My Lord is so great, so kind, so beautiful, so wonderful. So I must speak something about my Lord"
- It is wonderful (for Lord Ramacandra to construct a bridge over the Indian Ocean with the help of monkey soldiers who threw great mountain peaks into the water) only in the sense that it has kept the name and fame of Lord Ramacandra eternally celebrated
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- The Absolute is personal, but He is independent. He does not require to personally take a brush and colors to paint the flowers, for His potencies act so wonderfully that it appears as if flowers have come into being without the aid of an artist
- The acts of the Supreme Lord, in the creation of just this one universe, appear inconceivably wonderful
- The appearance of the wonderful and gigantic incarnation of Visnu as the mountainlike boar did not fill them (Brahma and the other enlightened brahmanas) with any kind of fear
- The cobbler began to weep, "Oh, my Lord is so wonderful, He can do anything." "Do you really believe that the Lord can push an elephant through the hole of a needle?" Narada asked
- The Lord has no desire to achieve any result from His wonderful activities, nor has He any need to perform them. But still, in order to give an example to people in general, He sometimes acts, and those activities are very wonderful
- The process of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very wonderful. One who is intelligent should accept that process and be satisfied with whatever comes, favorable or unfavorable, by His supreme will
- The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is so complete that although innumerable Personalities of Godhead expand from Him, He remains the same SP of Godhead. Purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate. Therefore He is the wonderful cause
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is described herein (SB 8.3.15) as the wonderful cause
- Then that supreme authority, personified by sound and unseen by eyes, but most wonderful, stopped speaking. Feeling a sense of gratitude, I (Narada) offered my obeisances unto Him, bowing my head
- This transcendental devotional service of the Lord is so wonderful that the occupation keeps the deserving devotee always rapt in psychological activities, without deviation from the absolute touch
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- When he (Vasudeva) understood that this was not an ordinary child but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he became fearless. Regarding his son as the Supreme Lord, wonderful in everything, he began offering prayers appropriate for the Supreme Lord
- When the Lord wants to take pleasure in pastimes, He comes down to this material world and acts like a human being, thus showing His wonderful, glorious activities to please the devotees
- While Hiranyakasipu looked all around to find the source of the sound, that wonderful form of the Lord, which could not be ascertained to be either a man or a lion, emerged from the pillar