Category:God Resembles
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category focuses on the concrete, descriptive metaphors used in the Vedic literatures to help conditioned souls comprehend the supreme beauty of the Absolute Truth. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that although the Supreme Lord is entirely spiritual, He resembles a human being (narakṛti). To help us visualize His transcendental features, the scriptures compare His dazzling bodily hue to a blackish rain cloud or a marakata gem. His compassionate eyes resemble the reddish petals of a newly blossomed lotus flower, and His charming teeth resemble jasmine buds illuminated by His rosy lips. Conversely, when the Lord protects His devotees, He assumes fearsome features, such as Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, whose angry eyes resemble molten gold and who fights with the ferocity of a lion. By meditating on how the Lord resembles the most beautiful and powerful elements of nature, a sincere devotee cleanses their mind and loses all desire to look upon anything material.
- The Humanlike Form: The Supreme Person resembles a human being, confirming that our human form is made in the image of God, although His body is purely spiritual and completely different from ours.
- The Beautiful Complexion and Eyes: The Lord is repeatedly described as having a bluish or blackish hue that resembles a dense rain cloud, with enchanting eyes that resemble the reddish interior of a lotus flower.
- The Enchanting Smile: The Lord's gentle smile resembles the increasing light of the moon, and His tiny teeth resemble fresh jasmine buds.
- The Fierce Protector: When annihilating demons, the Lord's form becomes terrifying. As Nṛsiṁhadeva, He resembles a ferocious lion with eyes like molten gold and a tongue like a razor-sharp sword.
- The Plenary Expansions: The Lord expands into innumerable, equally powerful forms, which are compared to many candles lit from one original candle.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Resembles - The Concrete Beauty of the Supreme Form.
Pages in category "God Resembles"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- A concrete description of the eternal form of the Lord is given here (in SB 3.28.1). The Lord's sole is depicted with distinctive lines resembling a thunderbolt, a flag, a lotus flower and a goad
- All of the ornaments on the body of Lord Visnu resemble molten gold of the reddish-gold color of the morning sunrise
- As confirmed in the Brahma-samhita (BS 5.38), barhavatamsam asitambuda-sundarangam: the hue of the Lord's beautiful form resembles the blackish color of dense clouds - asita means "blackish," and ambuda means - cloud
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- He (the lotus-eyed Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead) resembled a bluish rain cloud with flashing lightning, and in two of His four hands He held a conchshell and disc
- His arms, which resembled flanks of soldiers, spread in all directions as He killed the demons, rogues and atheists with His conchshell, disc, club, lotus and other natural weapons
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- Licking the edge of His mouth with His tongue, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nrsimha-deva, decorated with a garland of intestines taken from Hiranyakasipu's abdomen, resembled a lion that has just killed an elephant
- Lord Brahma, along with Lord Siva, saw the crystal-clear personal beauty of the SPG, whose blackish body resembles a marakata gem, whose eyes are reddish like the depths of a lotus, who is dressed with garments that are yellow like molten gold
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- The exceptional beauty of the laughter of Lord Visnu is that when He smiles His small teeth, which resemble the buds of jasmine flowers, at once become reddish, reflecting His rosy lips
- The Lord is narakrti, exactly resembling the form of a human being, but His form is different from ours
- The Lord is situated in many forms, such as Rama, Laksmana, Bharata and Satrughna, and these forms may exist in any part of His creation. All these forms exist permanently, eternally, as individual PG, and they resemble many candles, all equally powerful
- The Lord's appearance is described here (in SB 3.28.13) as padma-garbharuneksanam. His eyes resemble the inside of a lotus flower, and in His four hands He holds the four symbols: conchshell, discus, mace and lotus
- The Lord's form was extremely fearsome because of His angry eyes, which resembled molten gold; His shining mane, which expanded the dimensions of His fearful face; His deadly teeth; and His razor-sharp tongue, which moved about like a dueling sword
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose eyes resemble the petals of a newly blossomed lotus, sat on the back of Garuda, spreading His lotus feet over Garuda's shoulders
- They (the Visnu forms) glanced upon Their devotees, embracing them and protecting them by smiling. Their smiles resembled the mode of goodness, protecting all the desires of the devotees, and the glancing of Their eyes resembled the mode of passion
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- When Krsna and Balarama, with the strength of Their legs, crawled in the muddy places created in Vraja by cow dung and cow urine, Their crawling resembled the crawling of serpents, and the sound of Their ankle bells was very charming - SB 10.8.22
- When the Supreme Lord (Visnu) is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi should no longer desire to see anything else