Category:God and Earth
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes the foundational truth of all existence: the earth belongs to God entirely. The planet earth is not a random congregation of material elements floating independently in space; it is a manifestation of the Lord's external energy, directly maintained by His supreme potency. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the absolute proprietor, He intimately interacts with the earth in various magnificent ways. To protect her from demonic exploitation, He assumes gigantic incarnations, such as Lord Varāha, to physically rescue the earth from the filthy regions of the universe, proving His inconceivable power over gravity and weightlessness. Furthermore, He repeatedly descends in humanlike forms, such as Lord Rāma and Lord Mukunda, to alleviate her burdens and reestablish cosmic order. Whether He is playfully covering Himself in her mud as baby Kṛṣṇa, extracting her hidden resources as King Pṛthu, or manifesting as a Deity made of her elements, the Lord's relationship with the earth displays His perfect, absolute dominion and loving protection.
- Absolute Proprietorship: The earth and all its elements belong completely to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; the planet is considered the lotus feet of His universal form.
- The Supreme Rescuer: When the earth was hidden in the darkest, filthiest region of the universe by demons, the Lord assumed the form of a gigantic boar to gently lift and save her.
- Inconceivable Potency: It is only by the omnipotent will of the Lord that the massive, heavy planet earth is able to fly and float weightlessly in space.
- Relieving Her Burdens: The Lord mercifully descends to the surface of the earth in various incarnations to annihilate the miscreants and remove the heavy burdens placed upon her by demonic administrators.
- Sacred Interactions: The earth is purified and beautified by the Lord's direct touch, whether through His childhood pastimes in the mud or by providing the physical elements for His worshipable Deity form.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Earth Belongs to God.
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Pages in category "God and Earth"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- Akrura continued, "My dear Lord, fire is Your mouth, the earth is Your feet, the sun is Your eye, the sky is Your navel, and the directions are Your ears"
- All glories to the Personality of Godhead, the hue of whose soft body resembles the blackish color of a new cloud! All glories to Lord Mukunda, who removes the burdens of the earth
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- The demon's derision of the Lord was just like the barking of dogs; the Lord did not care about it, since He was doing His own work in delivering the earth from the midst of the water
- The earth belongs to God. Everything belongs to God
- The incarnation of the boar was to take the earth out of Pluto's region of filthy matter
- The Lord is known as Dharadhara, meaning, "He who keeps the planet earth on His tusks as the boar incarnation."
- The Lord's birth on the face of the earth is certainly very mysterious, & therefore it is difficult for ordinary men to believe in His birth. How can the all-powerful God take birth, seemingly like an ordinary man? The matter is explained in the BG - 4.6
- The Lord's eight separated material energies, the three modes of material nature & the sixteen transformations (the eleven senses & the five gross material elements like earth and water) - within all these, the one spiritual soul exists as the observer
- The Lord, as maintainer of the whole creation of the material world assumed the gigantic form of a boar with a proportionate snout and picked up the earth from within the water of Garbhodaka
- The Pankajanabhi Lord (Krsna) accepts the arca-vigraha in different elements, namely a form within the mind, a form made of wood, a form made of earth, a form made of metal, a form made of jewel, a form made of paint, a form drawn on sand, etc
- The Personality of Godhead Sri Rama assumed the form of a human being and appeared on the earth for the purpose of doing some pleasing work for the demigods or the administrative personalities to maintain the order of the universe
- This is the omnipotence of the Lord: even though He is situated in His own abode, far, far away from earth, He can extend His hand to accept what anyone offers. That is His potency. BG 1972 purports
- Those who are demons cannot understand how the Supreme Personality of Godhead floated the earth on water, but to devotees of the Lord this is not a very wonderful act