Category:God Still
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the inconceivable nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, specifically focusing on how He perfectly reconciles apparent contradictions—expressed through the word "still." Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the limitations of the material world do not apply to the Absolute Truth. We are accustomed to a world where if you take a piece from a whole, the whole is diminished, or if something is all-pervading, it loses its localized form. However, God is so complete that even when He expands into unlimited universes and incarnations, He is still the complete original person. Although He creates and maintains the entire cosmic manifestation, He still remains completely aloof. Although He is eternally unborn and His body never deteriorates, He still appears to take birth in this world. By meditating on how the Lord is "still" perfect in all circumstances, a devotee grasps the magnitude of His supreme, infallible potencies.
- The Complete Whole: The arithmetic of the spiritual world dictates that even when the Supreme Lord expands into unlimited forms or emanates the entire creation, He is still the complete, original whole.
- All-Pervading yet Localized: Materially, something cannot be everywhere and in one place simultaneously. Yet the Lord pervades the entire cosmos and still remains eternally present as a person in His spiritual abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana.
- The Unborn Takes Birth: The Lord is eternally unborn and changeless. Nevertheless, out of His sweet will, He still appears to take birth and perform pastimes without ever accepting a material body or aging beyond youth.
- Aloof from the Creation: The Lord creates, maintains, and annihilates the material cosmos through His energies, but He still remains completely detached and unentangled by the material atmosphere.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Still - Reconciling the Inconceivable Opulences of the Lord.
Pages in category "God Still"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- Although born of his dead father, King Prthu would still remain just like fire. Just as fire is not easily approached, King Prthu would be unapproachable by his enemies, even though they would appear to be very near him
- Although born out of the so-called dead body of King Vena, King Prthu was still an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Although He (the Supreme Lord) is all-pervading, still He is a person. According to our material perception, if something is all-pervading, then it has no personality, no localized aspect. But God is not like that
- Although His body does not deteriorate like a material body, it still appears that Lord Krsna grows from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth. But astonishingly enough He never ages beyond youth
- Although I cheated him in My incarnation as Vamana, taking away his dominions throughout the universe, and although I still criticized him for not fulfilling his promise, I have just now seen him in his kingdom, and he feelingly expressed his love for Me
- Although the Lord is completely independent and no one can check Him, He still did not go without the permission of His devotees
- As confirmed in the Brahma-samhita (Bs 5.38), goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah: "Although the Lord always stays in His abode, Goloka Vrndavana, He is still all-pervading"
- As stated in the Brahma-samhita (BS 5.33): I (Brahma) worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who is the original person - nondual, infallible, and without beginning. Although He expands into unlimited forms, He is still the original
B
- Because the Lord is not an object that can be understood by speculation with our material senses, He is also called ajita; He will conquer, but no one can conquer Him. What does it mean, then, that still He can be seen
- By His (God's) will everything is being created, everything is being maintained, and everything is being annihilated. Still He is aloof from everything, as space is always aloof from the activities of the atmosphere. BG 1972 purports
E
- Even though Lord Krsna, the abode of all mellows, had previously in this way chewed the essence of the mellows of love, still He was unable to fulfill three desires, although He made efforts to taste them
- Experimental study, by research work by great saintly persons, sages, they have concluded, "Nobody is found . . ." samah means "equal to Him or adhikah," adhikah means "greater." That is the experience. And still, He has nothing to do
H
I
- It appears that formerly Dvaraka was also part of the kingdom of Mathura. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that Krsna constructed the fort in the midst of the sea. Remnants of the fort Krsna constructed still exist in the Bay of Dvaraka
- It is said, kali-kale nama-rupe krsna-avatara: Krsna descends in this Kali-yuga in the form of His holy name - Hare Krsna, Hare Rama. If we chant offenselessly, Rama and Krsna are still present in this age
O
- O Madhava, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord of the goddess of fortune, if devotees completely in love with You sometimes fall from the path of devotion, they do not fall like nondevotees, for You still protect them - SB 10.2.33
- One should not conclude that because He (the Lord) is spread all over He has lost His personal existence. To refute such arguments, the Lord says - I am everywhere, and everything is in Me, but still I am aloof
- One word in this verse (SB 3.21.33) is very significant. The Lord is stated here to be pratyag-aksaja. He is imperceptible to material senses, but still He can be seen. This appears to be contradictory
T
- The creation is nondifferent from the Lord, and still He is not in the creation. This is explained in the Bhagavad-gita
- The Lord says, "Although they (the planetary systems) are situated on My inconceivable energy, still, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I am aloof from them." This is the inconceivable opulence of the Lord. BG 1972 purports
- The Lord's potencies are so numerous that everything is nicely done. Therefore, He is naturally still and is not directly the doer of anything in this material world
- The spiritual soul is more important than the gross body, and the Supersoul, Paramatma, is still more important than the soul. The Supreme Godhead is absolutely independent, and His incarnations are transcendental
- The Vedas also confirm that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unborn, yet He still appears to take His birth in multi-manifestations. BG 1972 purports
- The Vedic supplementary literatures also confirm that even though the Lord appears to be taking His birth, He is still without change of body. BG 1972 purports
- The words (of CC Adi 1.53) pascad aham indicate that the Lord exists after the dissolution of the cosmic manifestation. When the material world is dissolved, the Lord still exists personally in the Vaikunthas
- There is nothing but the Lord, and still the Lord is different from all such manifestive activities. How it is so will be explained later on
- This is confirmed in the BG 4.6: Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, by My spiritual potency I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form