Category:God and the Atheists
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the atheistic class of men, driven by sinful desires and false prestige, foolishly deny the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They reject the codes of dharma and rely on mundane science or mystic prowess, falsely claiming that they can become God. However, their defiance is ultimately futile. The Lord repeatedly incarnates to protect His faithful devotees and annihilate the disturbing atheists, just as Lord Rāmacandra destroyed Rāvaṇa and Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva bifurcated Hiraṇyakaśipu. Sometimes the Lord even cheats the atheists, as Lord Buddha did by denying God while secretly establishing His own worship. Even if an atheist proudly denies the Lord throughout his life, his defiance shatters at the time of death. The Supreme Lord appears before him as invincible time, or kala, stripping away all his material possessions and forcing him to submit to the supreme cosmic order.
- The Futile Denial: Driven by sinful habits and a fear of divine punishment, atheists foolishly deny the Lord's existence and rely on material science for happiness.
- The Purpose of Incarnations: The Supreme Personality of Godhead repeatedly descends into the material world specifically to protect His pure devotees and annihilate powerful atheistic demons.
- Divine Trickery: Sometimes the Lord mercifully cheats the atheistic class, such as when Lord Buddha outwardly denied God's existence just to bring the godless under His divine control.
- The Impersonalist Illusion: While outright atheists directly deny God, impersonalists achieve the same godless result indirectly by claiming the Supreme has no form.
- The Inevitable Surrender: An atheist may proudly declare that there is no God, but he will be forced to submit when the Lord inevitably appears before him as invincible death.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Atheist May Declare That There is No God, But He Will See God as Death.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "God and the Atheists"
The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
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- According to atheistics leaders, God and philosophical approaches to Him are merely leisure pursuits or parlor games to exercise the brain. By such discussions, however, the world does not gain anything of substance
- According to the atheists, dharma, or religious principles, are meant to establish an imaginary God to encourage one to become moral, honest and just so that the social orders may be maintained in peace and tranquillity
- All the incarnations appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists
- As explained here (in CC Adi 17.53), the real purpose of an incarnation of Godhead is to kill the atheists and maintain the devotees
- As in the Christian church they go and say, "O God, give us our daily bread." That is also good because he has gone to God. The atheists, they do not like to speak of God, what to speak of praying from God
- Asurah means they are also very powerful, but almost atheists. Just like in the modern world there are many powerful men and materially advanced, many powerful men. But because they are godless - they have no sense of God - they are called asuras
- At that time (during war, pestilence, famine and so on) even atheistic political leaders go to a church, mosque or temple for protection by God or gods and submissively say - God willing
- At the time of death, the atheist must submit to the supreme kala, and then the Supreme Personality of Godhead takes away all his possessions and forces him to accept another body
- Atheists do not want any God, and Lord Buddha therefore said that there is no God, but he adopted the means to instruct his followers for their benefit
- Atheists do not want God because they're always sinful, and if they think of God, that there is God, then there is a great risk of punishment. They shudder. Therefore they deny God
H
- He (Ravana) challenged the authority of Sri Rama, the Personality of Godhead, and kidnapped His wife, Sita. Of course Lord Rama came to chastise this atheist, answering the prayer and desire of the demigods
- His arms, which resembled flanks of soldiers, spread in all directions as He killed the demons, rogues and atheists with His conchshell, disc, club, lotus and other natural weapons
I
- In the eighteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as King Rama. In order to perform some pleasing work for the demigods, He exhibited superhuman powers by controlling the Indian Ocean & then killing the atheist Ravana, who was on the other side of the sea
- In the fourteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Nrsimha and bifurcated the strong body of the atheist Hiranyakasipu with His nails, just as a carpenter pierces cane
- In the twelfth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Dhanvantari, and in the thirteenth He allured the atheists by the charming beauty of a woman and gave nectar to the demigods to drink
- In your Bible also it is said that "Man is made after God," not that God is made after man. The atheist class, they say that "You have created a God according to your own feature," but no scripture says like that
M
- Mayavadi philosophers wrongly think that because the Supreme Person has entered the body of a poor man, the Supreme Lord has become daridra-narayana, or poor Narayana. These are all blasphemous statements of atheists and nondevotees
- Mayavadis and atheists accept the forms of the Deities in the temple of the Lord as idols, but devotees do not worship idols. They directly worship the Personality of Godhead in His arca incarnation
S
- Some atheists argue that the Supreme Lord can never descend upon this material world, but they are unable to give any tangible reasons as to why not
- Sometimes an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead cheats the atheists. Thus we see here (in SB 8.9.11) that although Mohini-murti was speaking factually to the asuras, the asuras took Her words to be facetious
- Sometimes great demons and atheists like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu and many others become very famous due to advancing material civilization by the help of material science and other activities with a spirit of challenging the established order of the Lord
T
- The atheist class of men foolishly inquire "Where is God?" And we present them Krsna - here is God, and if you have got sense and intelligence just try to understand Krsna, whether He is not God
- The atheist may declare like that, "There is no God," but he will see God as death. That is compulsory. There is no excuse. So at the time of death, the mentality which you have created by practice, sada tad-bhava-bhavitah (BG 8.6), will act
- The atheistic philosophers, who do not agree to accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the original cause of creation, think that the material world moves by the action and reaction of different material elements
- The atheists directly say there is no God, and the Impersonalists say there may be God, but He has no form. It is indirectly saying that there is no God
- The devotee of the Lord, because of manifesting godly qualities, is called a demigod, whereas the atheist is called a demon
- The Lord has sufficient energies and agents who can vanquish atheists, but it pleases Him to personally favor a devotee. Therefore He descends as an incarnation. Actually, He descends only to favor His devotees and not for any other purpose
- The people amongst whom Buddha preached, they were mostly atheistic people; therefore he did not preach about God. But he did not deny also
- The real qualification of an acarya is that he presents himself as a servant of the Supreme. Such a bona fide acarya can never support the demoniac activities of atheistic men who present themselves as God
- These atheists are not wise men: they are simply ordinary mortals who are offenders against the Lord
- This is the way, not whimsically accept any rascal as avatara. No. That is not the process. Or any rascal as God. This rascaldom has killed the whole human society to become atheist. You should be very, very careful of these rascals
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- We are concerned with three: with God, the devotees and the innocent. To love God, to make friendship with devotees and to teach the innocent. And those who are atheist, against God, avoid. Don't talk. Useless waste of time
- Why shall I approach God? - the atheist says. - I shall create my own wealth, and by advancement of science I shall be happy