Category:God and Religious Principles
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda clearly explains that true dharma, or religious principles, cannot be manufactured by any human being, philosopher, or politician. The codes of religion are directly enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because the living entities have a tendency to deviate from these divine laws, the Lord periodically descends into the material world—often in a royal ksatriya family—to vanquish demoniac influences, eradicate pretentious religiosity, and reestablish the pristine order of the universe. To ensure these principles are preserved and properly disseminated, the Lord empowers twelve great authorities, or mahajanas, to guide human society. Ultimately, the highest religious principle is bhagavata-dharma, which teaches that the supreme goal of all religious execution is unalloyed devotional service and complete surrender to the Supreme Lord.
- The Divine Lawmaker: No ordinary living entity can formulate religion; the codes of dharma are the direct orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Purpose of Descent: The Lord appears in various millenniums specifically to annihilate disturbing elements and reestablish the perfect order of religious principles.
- Eradicating Pretension: By speaking supreme scriptures like the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord personally eradicates all false, speculative, and pretentious paths of religiosity.
- The Twelve Authorities: The Lord authorizes specific, highly elevated agents—such as Brahma, Narada, and Lord Siva—to flawlessly propagate His religious principles throughout the universe.
- The Ultimate Conclusion: True religion is not merely about pious moral conduct; its ultimate purpose is to develop an attitude of pure surrender and rendering direct service to the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Principles of Religion Are Laid Down by God Himself.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God and Religious Principles"
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- Lord Balarama had avoided taking part in the Battle of Kuruksetra, and yet because of His position as an incarnation, the reestablishment of religious principles was His prime duty
- Lord Sri Krsna, the supreme authority of all religious principles, the Vedas, has personally pointed out these differences, and He is about to explain the reason for this in the following slokas
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- The devotees of the Lord or the faithful are persecuted by all means. All these symptoms indicate the time of an incarnation of the Lord to reestablish the principles of religion and to vanquish the maladministrators. This is also confirmed in the BG
- The Lord comes here to reestablish the principles of religion, and the basic principle is the development of an attitude of surrender to Him
- The Lord is the personality of religious principles. In three millenniums religious principles are protected by three kinds of spiritual culture, namely austerity, cleanliness and mercy. The Lord is called tri-yuga in that way also
- The Lord, being infallible, is not forced by material nature to take birth in this material world. He appears in order to reestablish the perfect order of religious principles and to vanquish the demoniac influence in human society
- The principles of religion are laid down by the Lord Himself, and the executor of such laws is Dharmaraja, or Yamaraja
- The principles of religion by which one can actually understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called bhagavata-dharma. In this narration, therefore, which deals with these principles, actual transcendence is properly described
- The Vedas are also accepted as originally spoken by the Lord Himself to Brahma, from within his heart. Therefore, the principles of dharma, or religion, are the direct orders of the SP of Godhead (dharmam tu saksat-bhagavat-pranitam). BG 1972 purports
- There are different opinions as to why He (Krsna) takes His birth. That is also declared in the Bhagavad-gita. He appears by His own internal potency to reestablish the principles of religion and to protect the pious and to annihilate the impious
- Twelve personalities - Brahma, Narada, Lord Siva, Kumara, Kapila, Manu, Prahlada Maharaja, Janaka Maharaja, Bhisma, Bali, Sukadeva Gosvami and Yamaraja - are agents of the Lord authorized to speak and propagate the principles of religion
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- When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He generally appears in a ksatriya family because He comes to establish religious principles and the life of righteousness. According to the Vedic system, the ksatriya family is the protector of human race
- While He (Krsna) was present (in this world), He exhibited everything by His different activities. He spoke the Bhagavad-gita specifically and eradicated all pretentious principles of religiosity
- Without transgressing the religious principles, Lord Ramacandra, whose lotus feet are worshiped by devotees in meditation, enjoyed with all the paraphernalia of transcendental pleasure for as long as needed