Category:God Realization
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the primary and exclusive purpose of human life is God realization. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that without striving to understand the Supreme Lord, human civilization is no better than an advanced animal society focused only on eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. The Vedic literatures reveal that the Absolute Truth is realized in three progressive phases: the impersonal Brahman effulgence, the localized Paramātmā in the heart, and ultimately, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa. While mystic yogīs and empiric philosophers may struggle for lifetimes to attain partial realization, the path of bhakti-yoga makes complete God realization accessible and joyful. In the current age of Kali-yuga, this realization begins simply by engaging the tongue—chanting the holy names and honoring prasādam. Supported by authorized scriptures and the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, a sincere soul who achieves true God realization develops equal vision, loses all material desires, and finds complete, eternal satisfaction in rendering loving service.
- The Mission of Humanity: The distinguishing factor between humans and animals is the capacity for God realization. A society neglecting this pursuit is a failure.
- The Three Progressive Phases: The Absolute Truth is one, but it is realized in three distinct stages: Brahman (spiritual existence), Paramātmā (the localized witness), and Bhagavān (the all-attractive person).
- The Process for this Age: Mental speculation and severe austerities are impractical today. Complete God realization simply begins with the tongue—offenselessly chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and tasting spiritual food.
- Rejecting False Claims: God realization is a deep science. Mundane wranglers who falsely claim to be God, or those who use mystic yoga solely for physical miracles, have entirely missed the ultimate goal.
- The Symptoms of Perfection: A truly God-realized soul does not demand material benedictions or even liberation. Like Dhruva Mahārāja, they feel perfectly satisfied and exhibit boundless compassion for all living entities.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Realization - The Ultimate Purpose of Human Life.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "God Realization"
The following 206 pages are in this category, out of 206 total.
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- A brahmana is one who has understood Brahman, and a Vaisnava is one who has understood the Personality of Godhead. Brahman realization is the beginning of realization of the Personality of Godhead
- A devotee advances further and further toward complete understanding of the Lord as he awakens in realization of the Lord's holy name, transcendental form and qualities, His paraphernalia, and everything pertaining to Him
- A godless civilization is exclusively conducted by such false ideas, and such persons, without any factual realization of God, accept a false God or falsely declare themselves to be God to mislead persons who are already bewildered by the deluding energy
- A Krsna conscious person who has realized God, he is samah sarvesu bhutesu, he's equal to all living entities. He'll feel pain even for cutting a tree. He'll feel pain, he'll feel pain even he traverses over an ant
- A man should not live like cats and dogs, because he has got a mission. That mission is God realization. Cats and dogs cannot do it; human beings can do it. Therefore in any civilized human society, there is a type of religion
- A pure devotee also does not want liberation. He is a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord, and he does not demand anything from the Lord. This position was realized by Dhruva Maharaja when he saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead present
- A yogi should see the same soul in all manifestations, for all that exists is a manifestation of different energies of the Supreme. In this way the devotee should see all living entities without distinction. That is realization of the Supreme Soul
- Above realization of Narayana is realization of Baladeva, and above that is realization of Krsna. All these realizations are possible when one engages fully in devotional service
- According to the cult of devotion, generally known as the Vaisnava cult, there is no bar against anyone's advancing in the matter of God realization. A Vaisnava is powerful enough to turn into a Vaisnava even the Kirata
- According to the development of consciousness, God realization is present. In the human form of life it is recommended, therefore, that one undergo the different types of penances and austerities described in Bhagavad-gita
- According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- After trying this process for many, many births & remaining unattached to material contamination, placing themselves continually in trance & executing many types of austerities, many mystic yogis were unable to find the end of the path of God realization
- Akincana-gocara. That real God can be realized by a person who is humble and meek
- All of Me, namely My actual eternal form and My transcendental existence, color, qualities and activities - let all be awakened within you by factual realization, out of My causeless mercy
- Although Lord Caitanya accepted the highest realization of the Supreme Lord as conjugal lover, He nonetheless requested Ramananda Raya to proceed further
- Although the first realization of the Supreme Absolute Truth is impersonal Brahman, one should not remain satisfied with experiencing the impersonal effulgence of the Supreme Lord
- Although to a layman this appears to be a fabrication, Krsna reveals Himself from within to one who is serious about God realization
- Amongst the impersonalist school, there are many great logicians and high class scholars. But according to Vedic principles, God realization does not depend on material intelligence or scholarship
- Apparently He (Lord Kapila) left home for spiritual realization, although He had nothing to realize spiritually because He Himself is the person to be spiritually realized
- At that (Brahman realization) time, he realizes that all living entities, they are spirit soul, panditah sama-darsinah (BG 5.18). That is equal vision - not the bodily vision
- Attachment, greed and lust are three formidable forces that prevent one from concentrating upon the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These forces act because the Supreme Lord does not like to be realized by nondevotees and atheists
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- Because the Gayatri mantra is especially meant for God realization, it represents the Supreme Lord. This mantra is meant for spiritually advanced people. BG 1972 purports
- Because we want something, there is demand. So long there is demand, we will never be satisfied. When there is no demand, fully satisfied, that is God realization
- Brahma said, "My dear Lord, I have nothing to say about people who advertise that they have already realized God or that by their realization they have themselves become God"
- Brahman realization is also God realization, but it is partial
- Brahman realization is the beginning of liberation, and Paramatma realization is still further advancement toward the realm of liberation, but one achieves real liberation when he understands his position as an eternal servant of the SP of Godhead
- But since he (Kardama Muni) knew that the Lord Himself, as Kapila, had taken birth in his home as his own son, why was he preparing to leave home to search out self-realization or God realization?
- By chanting Hare Krsna mantra they (the boys) are becoming God-realized. Even last night we had meeting with the Christian Fathers; they very much appreciated
- By chanting Hare Krsna mantra they will be God-realized. Just like these boys. Four years ago they did not know what is meant by Krsna. So now they are so perfect
- By meditating on Aniruddha one can become free from the agitation of acceptance and rejection. When one's mind is fixed upon Aniruddha, one gradually becomes God-realized; he approaches the pure status of Krsna consciousness
- By simply attempting to realize God, one is guaranteed birth in a wealthy or aristocratic family
- By the process of self-realization or God realization through fruitive activities, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, one cannot actually approach the supreme source of everything
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- Directions for performing different types of yajnas are specifically arranged for the highest realization of the Supreme Lord, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself. Ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham - BG 4.11
- During the first yuga, Satya-yuga, people were very pious. Everyone practiced the mystic yoga system for spiritual understanding and realization of God. Because everyone was always absorbed in samadhi, no one was interested in material sense enjoyment
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- Every state and its administrators, regardless of the nature of the administration - monarchy or democracy, oligarchy or dictatorship or autocracy - have the prime responsibility to lead the citizens toward God realization
- Everyone means those who are actually seeking after God realization, they are following the same path, but on account of their distance of vision, they are realizing the Absolute Truth in different way
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- For God realization or self-realization, one generally has to undergo severe austerities and penances for many, many thousands of years, and then it may be possible to realize God
- For self-realization or God realization there is no need to take birth in a high family
- For self-realization or God realization there is no need to take birth in a high family. The only thing needed is development of ecstatic love of God
- For this age Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given an easy process for God realization. All that is necessary is careful listening. We have to listen to Bhagavad-gita, and we have to chant the names of Krsna and listen to them carefully
- For this age, Kali-yuga, the Lord has prescribed a special means of God-realization - the chanting of His holy name
- Formless is not the actual realization of God. That is the beginning. That may be beginning. To realize the energy of God, that is formless. Just like the sun. The sunshine is formless, but the sun globe is not formless
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- God is one, and to realize Him, the path is one. There cannot be two paths. Just like suppose in India. So India is from here to the eastern side? Yes. This is an example. But you cannot find in the western side. Just like Columbus
- God realization is not possible for animals or for persons who are almost animals, or for animals in the shape of human beings
- God realization is very easy, but at the same time it is very difficult. It is easy for those who accept Krsna's word as truth
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- He (Dhruva Maharaja) went to the forest and meditated for six months, and when he saw God, then he said: "My Lord, I am now fully satisfied. I don't want any benediction from You." That is the real realization of God, there is no more want
- He (Supreme Truth) can be known how? That is also described - sevonmukhe hi jihvadau: when you become in a submissive attitude and you chant. Jihvadau means the realization begins from the tongue. God realization begins from the tongue
- He was a God-realized soul and a well-wisher to all living entities. The Vedas did not at all sanction the killing of Jada Bharata by rogues and thieves. Consequently the goddess Bhadra Kali emerged from the deity to give protection to the Lord's devotee
- Hearing is the first step in God realization; therefore if we can simply convince these big men to hear, then gradually they will come to the point of accepting us
- Here in this material world, the calculation of friend and enemy, everything, is in the relationship with this body, or sense gratification. But realization of God or the Absolute Truth, there is no such material consideration
- Here we can see that the Lord is sufficiently pleased with Brahmaji, and therefore He offers His causeless mercy to him so that Brahmaji may have the factual realization of the Lord by His mercy only
- Human life is especially meant for God realization, as stated in the Vedanta-sutra: athato brahma jijnasa
- Human life is meant for God realization, and the human being is given higher intelligence for this purpose. Those who believe that this higher intelligence is meant to attain a higher state should follow the instructions of the Vedic literatures
- Human life is meant for God realization, but unfortunately the materialistic civilization is stressing only the senses of the body, not understanding the living force within the body
- Human society is the residential quarters for the Lord. This means that the human being is meant for God realization and association with God
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- If a person falls from the path of bhakti-yoga, God realization, due to attachment to fruitive activity, philosophical speculation or mystic yoga, he is given a chance to take birth in a high and rich family
- If one's senses cannot help him attain the highest perfection of life, realization of the Supreme, they are all useless
- If the chief aim is God realization, by any religion, the Bhagavata recommends that type of religion is first class which directly gives connection with God. That is first class
- If the government is careless in this matter, the citizens will act whimsically, without any sense of God realization or spiritual life, and thus become entangled in sinful activities
- If the mystic yogi is diverted by the accompanying feats of mystic control, then his mission of yogic success is a failure, because the ultimate aim is God realization
- If there is no God realization, simply working hard day and night for sense gratification, it is accepted as hog civilization, dog civilization
- If we actually find a spiritual master, bona fide spiritual master, and if we can make him satisfied by my service, then my path for realization of God is guaranteed
- If you accept this simple process, that "Chant Hare Krsna and realize God," that is also fact. And if you think, "What is this nonsense, chanting Hare Krsna?" then you read books. Both ways we are prepared. Come and take advantage of this movement
- If you accept this tapasya, or austerity, for God realization, then your existentional position will be purified
- If you actually want to be happy, and if you want, actually, you want to be God realized or Krsna conscious person, then the first thing is that you give up this nonsense habit—by speculation, you want to be God
- If you are in service attitude, then beginning from your tongue... Jihva, jihva means tongue. Jihvadau, beginning with tongue. The God realization begins with your tongue and ear
- If you do not know what is God realization, then how you can ask this question (have I realized God), and how you will be satisfied by the answer? You do not know
- If you take false thing, then you will be frustrated. If you take real path of God realization, there is no question of frustration
- Illicit sexual indulgence, meat-eating, gambling and intoxication, are an integral part of the lives of the mlecchas and yavanas. Being bound by such sinful activities, one cannot make any advancement in God realization
- In matter there are material miseries, and thus in the first realization of Brahman there is the negation of such material inebrieties, and there is a feeling of eternal existence distinct from the pangs of birth and death, disease and old age
- In order to go to the highest status of life, he has to accept some austerity, tapasya. Especially for God realization. Austerity required
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam also the Absolute Truth is described as the one without a second, but He is realized in three features - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam the Absolute Truth is described as the one without a second, but He is realized in three features - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma and the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam, the author, Srila Vyasadeva, has established that one will describe the Supreme Truth as Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan according to one's realization of Him
- In the Golden Age it was possible to realize God by meditation, when people were all cent percent pure
- In the uncontaminated condition, the living entity understands that he is the eternal servitor of the Supreme, and that is called Brahman realization, the spiritual perfection of the living entity
- In the Vedanta-sutra also it is stated, athato brahma jijnasa: this human form of life is meant for realization of the Supreme Brahman, the Absolute Truth, or, in other words, human life is meant for one's elevation to the post of a brahmana
- In the Vedic languages there are 2 kinds of householders. One is called grhamedhi, & the other is called grhastha. Grhastha means one who lives with family but his interest is realization of self and realization of God. Grhamedhi means he has no interest
- In this verse (SB 4.31.3) the words pare amale are significant. The realization of Brahman is explained in SB. The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases - impersonal effulgence (Brahman), localized Paramatma and the SP of Godhead, Bhagavan
- Ishopanishad says that such persons who accept Brahman or Paramatma as the final word of God-realization will be "still more" condemned. This is because they are offenders of God and are very stubborn to accept the Supreme Personality
- It (sunshine) is also light, and the sun globe is also light, heat. But this heat and light is not sufficient knowledge of the complete heat and light there. That is the difference between Brahman realization and God realization
- It is not that Caitanya teaches a long and elaborate path to God realization. He is completely spiritual, and He begins from the point of surrender to Krsna
- It is very dangerous civilization, because . . . dangerous in this sense, that this life, human form of life, is especially meant for God realization, but in that subject matter they are blind
- It is very good news that you are introducing courses in Krsna Consciousness in the Universities and the yoga institutes. As you know this is the only real yoga - bhakti yoga - and it is the only practical means for God realization in this age
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- Knowledge is dependent on devotional service for the ultimate realization of the Supreme Truth
- Knowledge of the self is the first step in spiritual realization, which is called confidential knowledge, and a step further is God realization, which is called more confidential knowledge
- Krsna reveals Himself from within to one who is serious about God realization. Both Krsna and the spiritual master help the sincere soul
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- Less intelligent men of the age of Kali, who had no faith in God, followed Lord Buddha's principle, and for the time being they were trained in moral discipline and nonviolence, the preliminary steps for proceeding further on the path of God realization
- Let him chant the God's holy name, he'll see God. There is no difficult process in the Kali-yuga especially, this is a special prerogative of this age because God realization is very, very difficult for them
- Liberation begins with merging into the Brahman effulgence of the Supreme Lord. This conception is held by the jnani-sampradaya, philosophical speculators, but realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is higher
- Living entities under a devotee's care get the opportunity for God realization by the management of a devotee-master
- Lord Caitanya desired that all who are born in India seriously understand such krsna-kathas and then after full realization preach the transcendental message to everyone in all parts of the world
- Lord Caitanya encouraged the Sankirtana Movement, or the chanting of Hare Krishna, as the means for God realization for this age and it is in pursuance of the revealed scriptures
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- Mayavadi philosophers, being educated in paltry knowledge, think all sorts of Brahman realization one and the same and do not consider varieties. But although Krsna is everywhere, by His inconceivable potency He is simultaneously not everywhere
- Meeting the Personality of Godhead includes the realization of the impersonal Brahman as realized at first in contrast with material inebriety. The Personality of Godhead is the third step of Brahman realization
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- Of course, bhakti-yoga is the topmost step on the staircase of realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Of course, if I die, there is nothing to be ruined. You are all participants. So organize this farm project, simple living. Human life is meant for God realization. Try to help them
- Of course, we require a living place and eating materials and sex arrangement or defense arrangement. That is required. You do that. But don't forget your main business. Then you are cats and dogs. Your main business is God realization
- One attains the ultimate realization of the Personality of Godhead when one gives up the activities of the mind - thinking, feeling and willing - or when mental speculation stops. This transcendental realization is above susupti, deep sleep
- One cannot transcend the limits of the material modes, and therefore realization of the Lord, who is always transcendental to the modes of material nature, becomes very difficult for the living entities
- One great commentator explained that desire for liberation is the most obstructive stumbling block on the path of God realization
- One has to make further progress for Paramatma realization, and further progress for God realization. If one finalizes everything by Brahman realization, certainly that is a catastrophe
- One may argue that one may achieve the ultimate goal of life - realization of the Supersoul - by practicing the yoga system and ritualistic performances according to the Vedic principles, even without staunch devotion to the spiritual master
- One path involves worshiping different demigods for promotion to the planets of the demigods, and another involves realizing the Absolute Truth and His impersonal feature and becoming one with Him
- One should not hear at least the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam from those who are not devotees of the Lord, who have no realization of God and who are envious of Him. Their touch renders it poison
- Our business should be, for God realization, to please Him. And that pleasing process is this devotional service
- Our real purpose is God-realization. That we are missing. That chance is in the human form of life. So if people are not educated to this goal of life, that is not helping the country or the society or the human being
- Our reality is God realization. There are different stages, I mean to say, direct perception, then receiving knowledge from authority, then personal experience between the two, then above that transcendental, and then, I mean to say, spiritual
- Our, this Gaudiya-sampradaya, Caitanya Mahaprabhu's descendants, our line of God-realization is that separation, feeling of separation. Not that we have got Krsna within our hand. No
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- Paramatma realization and Brahman realization are considered sujneyam, but realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is durjneyam
- Paramatma realization is but partial realization of Vasudeva, and if one is successful in that attempt, one realizes Vasudeva in full. But by ill luck most yogis are stranded by the powers of mysticism achieved through the bodily process
- Persons generally conducted by the modes of passion and ignorance cannot be bona fide candidates for being situated in the transcendental stage of God realization. Only persons conducted by the mode of goodness can have the knowledge of the Supreme Truth
- Places of pilgrimages are meant for eradicating the sins of the pilgrims, and they are distributed all over the universe just to give facility to all concerned for attaining pure existence and God realization
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- Real activity begins after Brahman realization. That is Brahman activity. That is bhakti-yoga
- Realization means you should write, every one of you, what is your realization. What for this BTG is? You write your realization, what you have realized about Krsna. That is required. It is not passive. Always you should be active
- Realization of the science of Godhead and relief from the unnecessary, useless struggle for existence are not at all difficult for the willing candidate. But they are for persons who are not surrendered souls but only simple, profitless speculators
- Realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's omnipresence is the perfect realization of the Absolute Truth to be attained through the study of the Vedic literatures
- Responsibility is that you have got this human form of life - realize God. This is your responsibility. Otherwise you are finished. Three words: "You have got this human form of life. Your only responsibility is to understand God
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- Simply by Brahman realization, you cannot stay on the platform of understanding that, "I am not this body." You'll fall down again. You'll fall down again and accept this body, - Yes, I am this body
- Simply performing pious activities does not make one eligible for God-realization
- Since death must take away the living entity without hesitation, it is the ultimate God realization of the atheists, who spoil their lives thinking of country, society and relatives, to the neglect of God consciousness
- Smrtis such as the Brhan-naradiya Purana say the same thing - that in this age of Kali-yuga, the only possible means of God-realization is chanting the Lord's name
- So-called civilized man, not caring for God realization, utilizes his intelligence to get more than necessary and simply eat to satisfy the tongue
- Somehow or other, if people stop animal killing and accept Lord Buddha, then he becomes at least one step forward to God realization. So in a cheating process he made good to others
- Sometimes a devotee gradually comes to the stage of Bhagavan realization, realization of the Supreme Person, after having attained the lower stages of realization - impersonal Brahman realization and localized Paramatma realization
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said to Raghunatha Bhatta, "When you return home, serve your aged father and mother, who are devotees, and try to study Srimad-Bhagavatam from a pure Vaisnava who has realized God"
- Srimad-Bhagavatam and Narada-pancaratra are authorized scriptures that are considered sat-sastra, or scriptures which lead one to the path of God realization. Asat-sastras are just the opposite
- Sukadeva Gosvami is beginning to talk about Krsna, and this book is The First Step in God Realization. How, for ordinary common men, how one can realize God, these things will be described. We shall describe
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- The Absolute Truth, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is realized by hearing about Him in all submission and love from a bona fide authority who is a representative of the twelve great authorities mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The aim of human society should be God realization. That is the distinction between an animal and a human being
- The aim of life is God realization, God realization, that "There is God, His name is Krsna, His address is Vaikuntha, His number is this, He has got so many friends, He has got so many lovers." Everything we are giving. But still, the rascal will not take
- The ascending approach to the Absolute Truth ends in the realization of impersonal Brahman and the localized Paramatma but not the Supreme Transcendental Personality
- The best is the spiritual world, and it is known as Brahman. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, is known as Parabrahman. Therefore paratah parat means "better than Brahman realization."
- The best process is to accept the instructions of the previous acaryas and follow them. Then God realization and self-realization become extremely easy
- The Brahman realization of the tantric cult is not the same Brahman realization as that of pure devotees. Unless one reaches the highest point of Brahman realization, Krsna consciousness, he is punishable
- The conception of impersonal Brahman realization is the first step, due to His distinction from the illusory conception of material existence
- The conception of the universal form of the Lord gives a chance to the materialist to think of the Supreme Lord, but the materialist must know for certain that his visualization of the world in a spirit of lording over it is not God realization
- The conclusion is that a serious devotee must first approach a spiritual master who not only is well versed in the Vedic literatures but is also a great devotee with factual realization of the Lord and His different energies
- The culmination of the knowledge of Bhagavad-gita is God realization, and when one attains this stage of God realization, he naturally, voluntarily becomes a devotee of the Lord to render Him loving transcendental service
- The devotee follows the best yoga system of God-realization, which is enunciated in the Bhagavad-gita. His activities are not selfishly motivated, aimed at realizing his own cherished dreams, but are directed toward fulfilling the will of God
- The empiricist philosophers, searching after the Absolute Truth, realize the importance of Vasudeva realization as all in all after many, many births
- The God realization begins with your tongue and ear. You chant Hare Krsna and hear the transcendental name, and gradually you shall realize
- The human form of life is especially meant for God realization
- The knowledge is distributed in so many departmental Vedic knowledge, but the whole process is aiming at God-realization
- The knowledge is distributed in so many departments of Vedic knowledge, but the whole process aims at God realization
- The ksatriyas, or the ruling administrators of any part of the universe, either on this planet or on other planets, are factually the representatives of the Almighty God, and they are meant to lead the subjects towards the path of God realization
- The level of realization of the Supreme Lord evidenced by Devahuti is possible when one is able to withdraw the senses from material activities
- The mundane wranglers are surprised that one can detach himself from the world of sense gratification, and thus any attempt to be fixed in God realization appears to them to be mysticism
- The objective of spiritual goal is realized in three different phases: Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan
- The only factual process of self-realization or God realization is devotional service, and one who takes to this process takes to the real process of God realization
- The passive relationship is simply realizing, "Oh, how God is great"
- The path of bhakti-yoga is especially suitable for this age because it is the most direct method of God realization. To be doubly assured, Arjuna is asking Lord Krsna to confirm His former statement. BG 1972 purports
- The Personality of Godhead is the complete form of sac-cid-ananda (full life, knowledge and bliss). By realization of the cit portion of the Complete Whole (unlimited knowledge), one can realize the localized aspect of the Lord, the Paramatma
- The Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, is paratah parat, beyond Brahman and Paramatma realization. In this connection, Srila Jiva Gosvami points out that paratah parat means "better than the best."
- The reading matter of Srimad-Bhagavatam is so arranged with its original Sanskrit text, its English transliteration, synonyms, translation and purports so that one is sure to become a God-realized soul at the end of finishing the first nine cantos
- The realization of the personal form of the Lord is the highest perfectional stage of yoga
- The same Absolute Truth, as He is revealed to students of different realizations, is called Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan
- The so-called leaders of societies, communities and countries cannot realize You (the Supreme Personality of Godhead). Only those who hear the vibration of the Vedic mantras can appreciate You
- The sum and substance of this process: that we should be freed from sinful activities. That's all. Then God realization will be very easy
- The Supreme Absolute Truth is one, but He's realized from different angles of vision. Those who are trying to realize the Supreme Absolute Truth by speculation, they come to the impersonal conclusion
- The tongue engagement is you chant the holy name of the Lord, and you take the prasadam, remnants of foodstuff given to the Lord. Then you become self-realized, God realized. By these two method
- The ultimate goal of cultivating the human spirit is God realization and surrender unto God with a full sense of His all-pervasive nature
- There are different stages of devotional service and God realization. Strictly speaking, anyone who accepts the existence of God is situated in devotional service. To acknowledge that God is great is something, but not much
- There are different stages of devotional service and God realization. Strictly speaking, anyone who accepts the existence of God is situated in devotional service. To acknowledge that God is great is something, but not much - CC Intro
- There are two stages of God realization. One is called sujneyam, or very easily understood (generally by mental speculation), and the other is called durjneyam, understood only with difficulty
- They (sannyasis following the principles of Sankaracarya) are undergoing, severe austerities.Why? Now, to rise up to the Brahman realization - aruhya krcchrena param padam (SB 10.2.32) - param padam, that impersonal Brahman effulgence
- This beautiful Bhagavatam, compiled by the great sage Sri Vyasadeva, is sufficient in itself for God realization - Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.2
- This beautiful Bhagavatam, compiled by the great sage Sri Vyasadeva, is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? - SB 1.1.2
- This beautiful Bhagavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyasadeva (in his maturity), is sufficient in itself for God realization
- This human form of body, is a great opportunity, because God realization begins by engaging the tongue
- This is realization of God. There is difference, varieties; at the same time they're one. Unity in variety
- This method is applicable both in the stage of sadhana (spiritual practices executed while in the stage of bondage) and in the stage of sadhya (God realization), when one is a siddha-purusa, or a spiritually perfect soul
- This realization (that God is all-pervasive and yet is situated in His own abode) is possible if one strictly follows the regulative principles of asrama - brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa
- This system of God realization is a great science. The materialistic sankhya-yogis can only analyze and meditate on the twenty-four factors of the material creation, for they have very little information of the purusa, the Lord
- This system of God realization, is so nice, you have seen on the stage - a small child is also dancing. He is not artificially trained up, but he is dancing because it is directly connecting with God consciousness
- This verse (SB 4.29.47) indicates, however, that such sacrifices are to be taken as illusory. Actually the aim of human life should be God realization, or Krsna consciousness
- Those persons who do not indulge in sense gratification but utilize this body or this life for God realization, Krsna realization, they are called gods
- Those who have attained the second stage of realization are called madhyama-adhikaris
- To acquire such a qualification of God realization in the personal feature, the neophyte impersonalist is given a chance to realize the relation of the Lord in everything by the philosophy of pantheism
- To satisfy the senses, that also requires tapasya, hard labor. But here Rsabhadeva says that you accept some painful condition - it is not at all painful, but it appears - tapo divyam, for God realization
- To understand Krsna is not so easy, but if you follow the mahajana, if you try to understand the philosophy through the parampara system, then you'll realize Krsna and your life will be successful
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- Vedic civilization is different. As Narada Muni says the learned, astute person will use this life to gain what he has missed in countless prior lives - namely, realization of self and realization of God
- Vivekananda said, "Why you are searching after God? Don't you see so many gods are loitering in the street?" You see. This is his God realization
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- We have missed the real point, that our life is meant for God-realization. We are simply increasing botheration
- We have to check to see if a person is capable of giving instructions in Bhagavad-gita and other literatures of God realization
- We have to study authorized books and Vedas, and we have to follow their example, then Krsna consciousness or God realization is not difficult. It is very easy. There is no, I mean to say, any stumbling block on the path of your understanding what is God
- When God-realization is there distinguished from material realization, this is called liberated stage of transcendental enlightenment
- When one realizes God and sees the Lord face to face, one certainly thinks that he has gained the best of all things
- When we are inspired by devotional service to the Lord, our original identity begins to manifest in us and ultimately brings us to God-realization
- When you are actually in service spirit, then He reveals. That is God-realization
- When you are transcendental to this material goodness, that stage is called Vasudeva stage. And Vasudeva stage, that means God realization
- Without God realization there is no difference between human life and animal life
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- You have to experience from authority what is Brahman. This is explanation of Brahman. So this Brahman realization is first, then Paramatma realization, then God realization
- You should present Krsna consciousness not as a religion, but a science of God realization. Try to convince them that it is not just a kind of faith
- You were asking, "Are you God-realized?" If I say: "Yes," then how you'll believe it? You do not know what is God realization. Then why do you put this question?