Category:Subject Matter of God
Theme Analysis
This category explores Śrīla Prabhupāda's definitive teachings on the ultimate subject matter of all Vedic literature: the science of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His energies, and His devotees. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the Bhagavad-gītā introduces the five fundamental truths—God, the living entity, material nature, time, and activity—the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam fully elaborates on the pastimes and glories of the Lord. He emphasizes that this transcendental science cannot be understood through direct material perception, mental speculation, or the imaginative theories of Māyāvādī philosophers. Rather, it is a sublime subject matter meant exclusively for devotees who wish to re-establish their eternal loving relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Ultimately, Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that the true purpose of human life and the only real solution to society's problems is the serious study of this supreme science.
- The Five Fundamental Truths: The core subject matter of the Bhagavad-gītā comprises the Supreme Lord, the living entities, material nature, eternal time, and karma.
- Beyond Empirical Speculation: God is not a subject for direct physical perception (pratyakṣa), mundane imagination, or the mental gymnastics of froggish philosophers.
- The Exclusive Realm of Devotees: While impersonalist Māyāvādīs reject the transcendental activities of God as mere stories, pure devotees relish these subject matters as the Absolute Truth.
- The Glories of the Bhāgavatam: The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the postgraduate study of this science, exclusively dedicated to the glorification of the Supreme Lord and His pure devotees.
- The Ultimate Solution for Society: Without educating humanity on the science of God, peace conferences are useless; understanding our relationship with Kṛṣṇa is the key to solving all material miseries.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding the Subject Matter of God.
Pages in category "Subject Matter of God"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- According to the verdict of all Vedic literature, the SP of Godhead, the living entity and the illusory energy (this material world) constitute the subject matter of knowledge. Everyone should try to understand the relationship between them
- All these subject matters (the Supreme Lord, the living being, nature, time and space and the process of activity) are concisely discussed in the Bhagavad-gita, & later the subject matters are elaborated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam for further enlightenment
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- Bhagavad-gita should be explained to persons who are ready to accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is a subject matter for the devotees only and not for philosophical speculators. BG 1972 purports
- Bhagavata means pertaining to God and His devotees. That is called bhagavata. Just like this book is called Bhagavata because it deals only with the subject matter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nothing more
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- God cannot be imagined. That is another foolishness. How you can imagine God? Then God become subject matter of your imagination. He is no substance. That is not God. What is imagined, that is not God
- God is not such a subject matter that you can see with this pratyaksa, direct perception. God's another name is Anubhava. Anubhava. Just like in this room we do not see the sun directly. But we know that there is sun
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- If we take the philosophers, so one philosopher differs from another philosopher. Na casav rsir yasya matam na bhinnam. Therefore, to approach the Absolute Truth, God, is very difficult subject matter
- In all subject matter - physics, chemistry, astronomy, religion, politics, sociology - everything has been fully described, and above all, the science of God is also described. Therefore it is called Bhagavatam
- In Bhagavad-gita five principal subject matters have been discussed: the Supreme Personality of Godhead, material nature, the living entities, eternal time and all kinds of activities. All of these are dependant on the SP of Godhead, Krsna. BG 1972 pur
- In the eleventh chapter of Bhagavad-gita, the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, discusses the subject matter of ksetra, ksetrajna, and also prakrti (nature, or the phenomenal world, which is enjoyed) and purusa - the enjoyer of the phenomenal world
- In this Bhagavad-gita the subject matter is comprehending five different truths. The first truth is what is God. It is the preliminary study of the science of God. So that science of God is explained here
- It is very dangerous civilization, because . . . dangerous in this sense, that this life, human form of life, is especially meant for God realization, but in that subject matter they are blind
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- Our subject matter is most sublime: the glorification of the holy name of God
- Out of these five basic subject matters in Bhagavad-gita it is established that the Supreme Godhead, or Krsna, or Brahman, or supreme controller, or Paramatma - you may use whatever name you like - is the greatest of all. BG 1972 Introduction
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- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, "Thus one's relationship with the Lord, activities in devotional service, and the attainment of the highest goal of life, love of Godhead, are the subject matters of Srimad-Bhagavatam"
- Srimad-Bhagavatam describes the glories of the Lord and His devotees. Because the whole subject matter is the glorification of the Lord, naturally the glorification of His devotees automatically follows
- Such subject matters (God's appearance and His disappearance) are certainly of increasing interest because the researchers have to search out the transcendental abode of the Lord, which He enters after finishing His pastimes in the mortal world
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- Taking advantage of all the facilities offered him, a human being who has taken birth in the land of Bharata-varsa should become a fully enlightened devotee and go back home, back to Godhead. This is the subject matter of the Krsna consciousness movement
- The complexities of the actions and the reactions of the diverse energies of the Absolute Truth constitute the subject matter of a vast science called the transcendental science of God
- The froggish philosophers may go on with their mental speculations on the subject matter of the virat, the gigantic form exhibited by the yogamaya internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead but no one can measure such a vast exhibition
- The Mayavadi philosophers completely reject them (transcendental activities of God) as stories, but actually they are great & worshipable subject matters & thus are relishable only for devotees. That is the difference between a Mayavadi & a pure devotee
- The Mayavadi Vedantists are all nonsense - they have no knowledge at all. The subject matter of ultimate knowledge, Vedanta, is Krsna, God
- The politicians' peace conferences cannot bring about peace in society. It can only be done by hearing the subject matter described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam about the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna
- The science of the Personality of Godhead is the subject matter for study by the postgraduate students in the spiritual line
- The subject matter of Bhagavad-gita is to know five things, to know what are these living entities, what is God, what is nature, and what is time, and what is work
- Theological science is a difficult subject, especially when it deals with the transcendental nature of God. It is not a subject matter to be understood by persons who are too much attached to material activities
- There is no educational institution all over the world to discuss this subject matter, how God is great, omnipotent, how I am servant of God. But when we forget our relationship with God, we become subjected to the threefold miseries of material existence
- These boys are after God. It is not that I have shown him God, but they are realizing, understanding. Otherwise they are not so fool they'll waste time. But it is not a subject matter to be seen like this