Category:God Simultaneously
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which allow Him to exist and act in seemingly contradictory ways simultaneously. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that material logic is insufficient to understand God; the Absolute Truth must be accepted as acintya-bhedābheda-tattva—inconceivably, simultaneously one with and different from His creation. Because of His infinite energies, the Lord can be localized in His supreme abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana, while simultaneously being all-pervading in every atom of the universe. He is both personal and impersonal simultaneously, manifesting His spiritual form to His devotees while expanding as the impersonal Brahman effulgence and the all-pervading Paramātmā. Furthermore, the Lord's actions are multidimensional. Through a single act, He can simultaneously annihilate envious demons and deliver His surrendered devotees, proving His absolute efficiency and supreme compassion.
- Acintya-bhedābheda-tattva: The foundational philosophy of Lord Caitanya establishes that God is simultaneously one with His energies (as the cause of everything) and different from them (maintaining His distinct, supreme personal identity).
- Localized and All-Pervading: By His inconceivable potency, the Lord remains eternally situated in His spiritual abode, yet He is simultaneously present everywhere, within every atom and within the heart of every living entity.
- Personal and Impersonal: The Absolute Truth is not exclusively a formless void nor just a localized person. He is simultaneously personal (as Bhagavān) and impersonal (as the Brahman effulgence), resolving all philosophical contradictions.
- Simultaneous Actions: The Lord executes multiple purposes with a single action. When He incarnates, He simultaneously destroys the demonic miscreants and offers loving protection to His devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Simultaneously - The Inconceivable Potencies of the Supreme.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God Simultaneously"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- Although Govinda is always present in His abode (goloka eva nivasati), He is simultaneously present everywhere. Nothing is unknown to Him, and nothing can be hidden from Him
- As such, He (the Supreme Lord) is everyone's master. He is sometimes manifest on the surface of the globe, but He is simultaneously within all matter
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- He (God) is simultaneously personal and impersonal by His inconceivable potency, or He is the one without a second, displaying complete unity in a diversity of material and spiritual manifestations
- He (God) is the same person, with the same potency, the same eternity and the same spiritual existence, but He can simultaneously assume various forms
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- In the original Islam the form is not accepted. That is Vedic description, form and formless. Formless means no material form and form means spiritual form, simultaneous
- It is very difficult to conceive that the Lord can be simultaneously localized and all-pervasive, because the materialistic philosophers and scientists think of everything in terms of their own experience
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- One should realize that in the fire, in the spiritual master, in one's self and in all living entities - in all circumstances and conditions - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, has simultaneously entered and not entered
- One who knows God knows that the impersonal conception and personal conception are simultaneously present in everything and that there is no contradiction. BG 1972 purports
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- Simultaneously He (God) is present as the Supersoul, an expansion of Baladeva, in the heart of all living entities
- Simultaneously the Lord is present in everything; yet the common man cannot understand how He is also present personally. BG 1972 purports
- Since (God's) His body is the complete whole of everything that be, one cannot assert that He is impersonal only. On the contrary, the perfect description of the Lord holds that He is both impersonal and personal simultaneously
- Since all the Lord's energies are simultaneously existing, one must understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But although He is everything, He is not present in everything
- Srila Jiva Gosvami states in his Bhagavat-sandarbha (16) that by His potencies, which act in natural sequences beyond the scope of the speculative human mind, the ST, the summum bonum, eternally and simultaneously exists in four transcendental features
- Stated in Brahma-samhita: "I worship the SPG, Govinda, who, by expansion of His internal potency of transcendental existence, knowledge & bliss, enjoys in His own & expanded forms. Simultaneously He enters into every atom of the creation"
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- That (God is expanded in everything, but He is not everything, simultaneously one and different) is explained in this (BG 9.4) verse. In the material condition we have a conception of beginning, end and middle, but for the SPG there are no such things
- The Lord can fulfill many purposes through one action. Thus the killing of Hiranyakasipu and the saving of Prahlada were enacted simultaneously to prove the truthfulness of the Lord's devotee and the fidelity of the Lord Himself to His own purpose
- The Lord is simultaneously both in Vaikuntha and everywhere within and without Vaikuntha
- The Lord simultaneously assumed different bodily expansions exactly matching each and every princess
- The Lord simultaneously pushed the demon to the earth and superficially broke the handcart
- The Lord's omnipotency is displayed by His simultaneous presence in every place. He is present always in His eternal abode Goloka Vrndavana, and still He is present in everyone's heart and even within every invisible atom
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one, whether He alone acts with the modes of material nature, or simultaneously expands in many forms, or expands consecutively to direct the modes of nature
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His original form, has not entered everything (apravistah), but in His impersonal form He has entered (pravistah). Thus He has entered and not entered simultaneously
- The Supreme Transcendence, the summum bonum, eternally and simultaneously exists in four transcendental features: His personality, His impersonal effulgence, particles of His potency (the living beings), and the principal cause of all causes
- The Vaisnavas following Caitanya stress the doctrine of acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, which states that the Supreme Lord, being the cause and effect of everything, is inconceivably, simultaneously one with His manifestations of energy & different from them
- The virat-rupa manifestation of the Lord is simultaneously a challenge to the atheist and a favor for the asuras
- The whole creation is the Lord Himself, and the creation is also nondifferent from Him, but simultaneously He, as the original Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, is aloof from the created manifestation
- The word anuja, meaning "the younger sister," is significant. When Visnu, or Krsna, took birth from Devaki, He must have simultaneously taken birth from Yasoda also. Otherwise how could Yogamaya have been anuja, the Lord's younger sister
- There is no difference between Lord Sri Rama, Lord Sri Krsna and His incarnations as a fish and hog. He is all-pervading and simultaneously localized at any and every place
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- When His incarnation is present on this planet or in this universe, the Lord kills the demons & protects His devotees simultaneously. Sometimes Visnu appears in His person as Lord Krsna or Lord Rama. All of these appearances are mentioned in the sastras
- When this knowledge (that the energy of the Lord is simultaneously one with and different from the Lord) is factually understood, one sees the conceptions of monism and dualism to be imperfect