Category:God Simply
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the supreme ease, detachment, and absolute power with which the Personality of Godhead operates, emphasized by the word "simply." Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that unlike the conditioned souls who must struggle for existence, God has nothing to perform (na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate). He creates the entire cosmic manifestation simply by desiring or casting a glance over material nature. Within the material world, He resides in the heart of every living entity as the Paramātmā. In this feature, He is compared to a bird sitting on a tree, simply witnessing the activities of the individual soul and awarding the karmic results without ever becoming entangled Himself. Even when He descends to annihilate formidable demons, He does so as simply as a child breaking a toy. Because the Lord is full of compassion, He simply wants the conditioned souls to return to the spiritual world, and to facilitate this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has simply prescribed the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
- Effortless Creation: The Supreme Lord does not labor to create the universe. He simply glances over the material energy, and by His supreme will, all material manifestations are immediately activated.
- The Supreme Witness: As the localized Supersoul, the Lord is a neutral observer. While the conditioned soul struggles to enjoy the fruits of material activities, the Lord simply witnesses and awards the corresponding reactions.
- Supreme Detachment: Even during the annihilation of the cosmos or the killing of massive demons, the Lord remains completely aloof and unaffected, executing His will effortlessly.
- The Simple Path of Devotion: God does not demand complicated rituals. He simply wants the living entities to return to Him, providing an easy and direct path through devotional service, specifically by chanting the holy names.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Simply - The Effortless Potencies of the Supreme Lord.
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Pages in category "God Simply"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- Again, when the cosmic manifestation is annihilated, it rests in Him (SPG). Nonetheless, He is infallibly the supreme observer. Under any circumstances, the Supreme Lord is changeless. He is simply a witness & is aloof from all creation and annihilation
- Although a demon may be very powerful and extraordinary in the eyes of an ordinary man in the material world, to the Lord, killing such a demon is no difficulty. He can kill millions of demons as simply as a child plays with dolls and breaks them
- Although Maharaja Prthu was simply enthroned on the royal seat and was not at that time exhibiting his godly powers, the reciters like the suta, the magadha and the vandi understood that King Prthu was an incarnation of God
- As stated in the Vedas, He simply glanced over it (material creation), and the agitation of matter immediately began
- As the supreme transcendental Lord, He simply casts a glance over the material principle, and thus the agitation of matter begins, and the resultant actions are manifested one after another by six kinds of gradual differentiations
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- One can directly approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply by executing these (hearing, chanting, remembering, serving, worshiping etc.) nine kinds of devotional service, of which hearing about the Lord is the most important - sravanadi
- Our definition of God is, na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8). "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopis, that's all
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- The living entity's enjoying the fruit of the tree, and the other living entity, Supreme, Paramatma, He's simply witnessing. Witnessing, and giving you the result of your fruitive activities. That is called karma
- The Lord does not want the living entity to become entangled in the reactions of activities, be they good or bad. He simply wants everyone to go back home, back to Godhead
- The Lord in His incarnation of Dhanvantari very quickly cures the diseases of the ever-diseased living entities simply by his fame personified, and only because of him do the demigods achieve long lives
- The Lord is not directly attached to this material creation. He simply glances over material nature; material nature is thus activated, and everything is created immediately. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord simply witnesses and gives the living entity sanction for sense enjoyment. It is the Paramatma also who gives the intelligence by which the bees can construct a hive, collect honey from various flowers, store it and enjoy it
- The merciful Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has simply advised us to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra: harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam - CC Adi 17.21
- The Mundaka Upanisad completely distinguishes the Lord from the living entities. The living entity is subjected to the reactions of fruitive activity, whereas the Lord simply witnesses such activity and bestows the results
- The Veda says that two birds, just like friends, they are sitting on the same tree. One bird is eating the fruit of the tree, and the other bird is not eating the fruit but is simply observing the activities of the other bird
- There are two birds sitting on the branch of the same tree. One bird is eating the fruit of the tree, and the other bird, simply witnessing. This is the Vedic statement
- These are the Vedic information. God means na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. He has nothing to do; He has simply to desire. I think in Christian Bible also it is said, "God said, 'Let there be creation,' and there was creation." He has to simply desire
- This one tree is this whole body, and the two birds - one the individual soul and the other is the Supersoul - both of them are sitting as friends. One bird is eating the fruits of the tree, and the other bird is simply onlooker
- Two birds are sitting in one tree in friendly terms. One bird is eating the fruit of the tree, and the other bird is simply witnessing