Category:God Knows Everything
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is fully omniscient. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that unlike the conditioned living entities who forget their past activities due to the constant changing of material bodies, the Lord resides within everyone's heart as the localized Paramātmā and knows everything perfectly—past, present, and future. Because the entire cosmic manifestation is essentially His body, He knows everything directly and indirectly. This absolute knowledge allows Him to act as the perfect witness, accurately awarding the reactions of karma, and as the supreme protector, expertly doing the needful to relieve the distress of His sincere devotees. Speculators who argue that God's foreknowledge reduces human beings to mere puppets fail to understand His transcendental nature. He knows everything, yet He mercifully allows the minute jīva souls their tiny independence.
- The Omniscient Witness: God resides within the core of everyone's heart as the Paramātmā, witnessing and remembering all activities, thoughts, and desires across all lifetimes.
- Beyond Time and Space: The Lord knows everything directly and indirectly. He is fully cognizant of the past, present, and future, whereas the conditioned soul's knowledge is severely limited.
- The Perfect Director: Because He knows exactly what each living entity needs and desires, He expertly arranges the material nature to award karmic reactions and to facilitate the spiritual progress of His devotees.
- Refuting Mundane Logic: Atheistic arguments claiming that God's foreknowledge strips humans of free will stem from ignorance. The Lord knows everything, yet allows the living entities to exercise their minute independence.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Knows Everything - The Omniscient Supreme Lord.
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Pages in category "God Knows Everything"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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- After King Prthu gave his royal command, the planet earth in the shape of a cow could understand that the King was a directly empowered incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the King knew everything - past, present and future
- Although He (the Absolute Truth) has no material ears, He can hear everything and anything. Having perfect senses, He knows past, future and present. Indeed, He knows everything, but no one can understand Him
- As indicated by the words prag distam, the Lord knew everything. Before anything happened, He had already arranged for His cakra to protect Maharaja Ambarisa. This protection is offered to a devotee even from the very beginning of his devotional service
- As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.26), vedaham samatitani vartamanani carjuna. The Lord says: I know everything that has happened in the past and is going to happen in the future
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- Because the Lord is situated in everyone's heart, He knows everything. Therefore, knowing that we still want something material, He will give us another material body - Yes, take it
- Buddha knew everything because He is incarnation of God. But He had to cheat the people in that way because they are not intelligent enough. Why not intelligent? Because they were killers of animals, they lost their intelligence
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- God is residing in every ones heart, in your heart, my heart, and he knows everything, past, present, future. As we desire, we pray to God, "O lord please give me these facilities", and God gives it
- God knows everything, but we do not know what is God. That is our position. Our position is not knowing. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61). Isvara, God, Krsna, is situated in everyone's heart
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- He (God) is the witness of everyone's body, nothing is unknown to Him. He knows what we need. Our duty, therefore, is to execute devotional service sincerely, under the direction of the spiritual master
- He (God) knows everything. In the Bhagavad-gita also He says that, "I know past, present, future everywhere." So consciousness is there. One is the supreme consciousness, and the other is this limited consciousness
- He (Hiranyaksa) also addressed Him (PG) as ajna. Sridhara Svami says that jna means "knowledge," and there is no knowledge which is unknown to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Indirectly, therefore, the demon said that Visnu knows everything
- He (The Supersoul) knows. I may forget my past activities due to the change of body, but because the Supreme Lord as Paramatma is sitting within me, He knows everything; therefore the result of my past karma, or past activities, is awarded to me
- He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) knows past, present and future and everything that is happening in everyone's heart
I
- I know something about my body or I know something about this world. Similarly, there is another atma, supreme atma, who knows everything of this universe. He is sometimes called God or the Paramatma or Krsna, according to different language
- 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
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam we also find that the Supreme Lord is defined as one who knows everything. This is not the case with even the most elevated living entities, such as Brahma and Siva. Only Visnu or Krsna knows everything
- In the Vedic literature (Mundaka Up. 1.1.9) we find that the Absolute Truth knows everything perfectly, but we also learn that not only does He know everything, but He also acts accordingly by utilizing His different energies
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- Since He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) knows everything, He knows how things are to be adjusted, and He does the needful to relieve the suffering of His devotee
- Since You are the supreme spiritual master and You know everything, we have sought shelter of Your lotus feet for instruction. Please give us relief by counteracting our present distress
- Speaking before Dhruva Maharaja, He used the word vedaham because when Dhruva Maharaja demanded material benefits, the Lord was present within his heart and so knew everything
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- The dealings between a devotee and the Lord are very simple. The young brahmana said to the Lord - You know everything, but if You do not bear witness, You will be involved in sinful activities
- The devotee endeavors to apply everything in the service of the Lord because he knows that everything is the property of the Lord and that no one can claim anything as one's own
- The Lord always knows everything a man is thinking. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita also: vedaham samatitani
- The Lord is addressed here (in SB 8.5.27) as vipascitam, one who is full of all knowledge or who knows everything. The Lord is the Supreme Soul, and He knows everything about the living entities and their senses
- The Lord is the origin of all emanations, and He directly and indirectly knows everything about all the activities within His creation
- The Lord says, "I know everything - present, past and future - in every corner of the universe
- The omnipotent Supreme Lord knows everything, but the living being does not actually know the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The Supreme Lord is present as the localized Paramatma in the heart of every living being, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 13.23), and therefore he knows everything of our activities in every stage of our lives
- The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not formless; He is purusam, or the enjoyer, the original person. He is the time element and is all-cognizant. He knows everything - past, present and future - as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
- There are two kinds of research to find the original cause of creation. One conclusion is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the all-blissful, eternal, all knowing form, is indirectly the cause of this cosmic manifestation
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- We may forget the misdeed for which we may suffer at this present moment, but we must remember that Paramatma is our constant companion, and therefore He knows everything, past, present and future
- Whatever happens to the body quickly becomes known to the embodied. Similarly, the creation is the body of the absolute whole. Therefore, the Absolute knows everything directly and indirectly that happens in the creation