Category:God Must Be
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the absolute qualifications that define what God must be. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that God cannot be manufactured by popular vote; He must possess specific supreme characteristics. He must be the original creator, transcendental to the material modes, and greater than everyone else. While impersonalists speculate that an unlimited God must be formless, the Vedic literatures confirm that God must be a person. Because we have forms, our original source must also have a form. Furthermore, God must possess all six opulences in full—He must be the most beautiful, wise, powerful, famous, wealthy, and renounced. Rather than being a very old man or an order-supplier for our material desires, God must be the eternally youthful, all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
- The Supreme Person: God cannot be a formless void. Since the living entities are persons with forms, the supreme source of all life must also be a person with a transcendental form.
- Full in All Opulences: To be accepted as God, one must possess all riches, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation in full. No one can compete with Him.
- Eternally Youthful: Although God is the oldest person and the primeval cause of creation, He does not age. He must be an eternally fresh, beautiful youth.
- Refuting Impersonalism: The Māyāvādī misconception that an unlimited God must be impersonal is rejected. God is unlimited, yet He maintains His original, transcendental personal form.
- The Supreme Controller: God is not our servant or order-supplier. He is the supreme independent controller who must be worshiped by the subordinate living entities.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Must Be - The All-Attractive Supreme Person.
Pages in category "God Must Be"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- Anyone who is against the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead must be killed, life after life. Ordinary living beings are subject to karma, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always victorious over the demons
- As soon as you find there are equals, or as soon as find there is greater, then you are not God. God - the great. He must be greater than everyone
- Atri Muni said, "That jagad-isvara, the Lord of the universe, must be one of you, but since three of you have appeared, I cannot recognize whom I have called. You are all so kind
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- God may have many thousands of names, but the most perfect name which we can give to the SPG is Krsna. Krsna means "All-attractive." God must be all-attractive. It is not that God is attractive for a certain class of men and not attractive for others
- God must be attractive and attractive for all. Therefore, if God has any name, or if you want to give any name to God, only "Krsna" can be given
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- If God does not do anything for me, then I don't want God. He must be my order-supplier. This is going on. This is going on in the name of religion
- If someone constructs a big building, this indicates that he must have existed before the building was constructed. The Supreme Lord, the creator of the universe, must be transcendental to the material modes of nature
- In the Brahma-samhita it is said that the Lord is the oldest person. Therefore a section of religionists imagine that God must be very old, & therefore they depict a form of God like a very old man. But in the same Brahma-samhita, that is contradicted
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- Making a material comparison, they (impersonalist) say that just as the sky, which we think of as unlimited, is impersonal, if God is unlimited He must also be impersonal
- Mayavadi will think, "What is this? The God has become a cowherd boy? How it is? He must be very exalted. How it is that He is cowherd boy?" But he does not know the nature of the Lord. He's free. He loves everyone
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- That (God must be impersonal because He is unlimited) is not the Vedic instruction. The Vedas instruct that God is a person. Krsna is a person, and we are also persons, but the difference is that He is to be worshiped whereas we are to be worshipers
- The Lord must be worshiped in His original form as Krsna. He can also present Himself in any one of His various expanded energies
- The Mayavada conception that because the Absolute Truth is everything He must be formless is rejected here. Rather, it is confirmed that the Absolute Truth has form, and yet He is all-pervading. Nothing is independent of Him
- The supreme living being must also be the supreme person. In the Vedic literatures the supreme person is properly claimed to be Krsna
- The Supreme Person must be present everywhere. His body existed before the creation; otherwise He could not be the creator. If the Supreme Person is a created being, there can be no question of a creator
- They (the gopis) addressed the deer, "It appears, that Krsna, who is the Supreme Narayana Himself, must have passed through this way along with His companion, Laksmi, the goddess of fortune
- To become God is not easy thing. There are some qualification, that He must be the richest, the most powerful, the most famous, He must be the most learned, He must be the most beautiful, and He must be the most renounced. This is the definition of God
- Transcendental, not only knowledge but practical application of knowledge in life. That is called suddha-sattva. There must be God, that is theoretical knowledge. Practical knowledge is when you engage yourself in the service of the Lord
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- We require the association of wife or girl because we feel the need, if God is in need, then He is not God. He must be full
- When we contemplate the form of God, we think that because God created millions and millions of years ago, He must be a very old man. Therefore God personally comes before us so that we can see what He is. This is His kindness
- Why God should not be angry? He must be angry. But He is angry on the nondevotee, not on His devotee. On the demons He is angry