Category:Supersoul Is Situated Within Our Heart
Theme Analysis
This category reveals the profound philosophical truth that the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself to accompany every living entity in their material journey. As the Paramātma, He resides within the core of the heart alongside the atomic soul, acting as the ultimate witness, guide, and internal spiritual master. From this localized position, the Lord directs the wanderings of the conditioned soul, providing the intelligence, memory, and material facilities necessary to fulfill their karmic desires. While mystic yogīs undergo severe physical and mental austerities to visualize the four-handed Viṣṇu form within, pure devotees constantly experience His loving presence. By engaging in devotional service, the devotee is directly inspired by the Supersoul, who acts as their supreme friend and well-wisher, guiding them back home, back to Godhead.
- The Anatomy of the Soul and Supersoul: Vedic science identifies the heart as the seat of consciousness, where both the individual atomic soul and the localized expansion of God reside together.
- The Ultimate Witness and Director: The Supersoul observes all our actions, remembers our past desires, and provides the exact material facilities necessary to act out our karma.
- The Internal Spiritual Master: As the Paramātma, Kṛṣṇa acts from within to guide the sincere seeker, confirming and working in tandem with the external guidance of the guru and scriptures.
- The Goal of Mystic Meditation: Practitioners of yoga perform severe austerities and breath control specifically to reach a state of trance where they can see the Supersoul within the core of their heart.
- The Supreme Friend and Well-Wisher: Pure devotees constantly feel the Lord's presence through loving service, receiving ever-fresh inspiration and ultimate satisfaction from the Supersoul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Supersoul Is Situated Within Our Heart as Our Supreme Friend.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Supersoul Is Situated Within Our Heart"
The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
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- A conditioned soul is always helped by the SPG in three ways - by the scriptures, the spiritual master and the Supersoul within the heart. The Lord is the deliverer of the conditioned soul and is accepted as the Supreme Lord of all living entities
- A devotee is always satisfied because he feels the presence of the Supersoul within his heart and thinks of Him twenty-four hours a day. That is real satisfaction
- A devotee is inspired by the Supersoul within the heart to advance in devotional service in a variety of ways. The devotee does not feel hackneyed or stereotyped, nor does he feel that he is in a stagnant position
- A highly advanced maha-bhagavata devotee sees in this spirit: he sees the same Supersoul, Paramatma, existing within everyone's heart, regardless of discrimination based on the different material forms of the living entities
- Above them (those who desire to merge into the Supreme Spirit Soul) are the mystic yogis, who by meditation see within their hearts the four-handed Visnu form of the Paramatma, or Supersoul
- According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- After his body was destroyed, he doubtlessly carried his plans with him by means of the subtle body, composed of mind, intelligence and ego. Thus he would get another chance by the grace of the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul, who is always within the heart
- All intelligence emanates from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul within the heart of everyone
- All one's activities depend on the will of the Supersoul, who is seated within the heart as a friend. BG 1972 purports
- Although the soul and the Supersoul both are situated within the heart, and the heart is the center of all vitality, energy of this body... That is accepted
- Always engaging in the activities of devotional service, devotees feel ever-increasingly fresh and new in all their activities. The all-knower, the Supersoul within the heart of the devotee, makes everything increasingly fresh
- As the Supersoul within the heart, He inspires all the activities of a transcendentally situated devotee. Those who possess true knowledge of the Absolute can render service to Lord Krsna in the mood of a servitor, a friend, and so on
- Atmani, within his heart, he can see the Supreme Soul, Krsna, atmanam bhaktya. There is the real process, bhaktya: by means of devotional service, not by speculation or mystic power
B
- Because the Supreme Lord, as Supersoul, sits within the core of every living entity's heart, the dictation by which one advances in scientific knowledge or creative faculties comes from Him
- Being forgetful of his real position, the conditioned soul may take help from sastra, guru and the Supersoul within his heart. Krsna is situated within everyone’s heart as the Supersoul
O
- O my friends, sons of the asuras, the SPG in His Supersoul feature always exists within the cores of the hearts of all living entities. Indeed, He is the well-wisher and friend of all living entities, and there is no difficulty in worshiping the Lord
- One can take instructions from the Supersoul directly. This is the duty of the pure devotee: to see the bona fide spiritual master and consult with the Supersoul within the heart
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- Situated on the vehicle given by material nature and reminded by the Supersoul within the heart, the living entity struggles all over the universe to fulfill his plans, thinking, "I am a brahmana," "I am a ksatriya," "I am an American," "I am an Indian,"
- Some of the sages in the disciplic succession from the great saint Aruna meditate on the heart, because the Supersoul stays within the heart along with the living entity
- Sri Krsna Caitanya is the basis of the impersonal Brahman. The Paramatma, or Supersoul, who is present within the heart of every living entity and within every atom of the universe, is but the partial representation of Lord Caitanya - CC Intro
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- The argument may be put forward, How can something the size of a thumb be accommodated within the heart of an ant? The answer is that this thumb measurement of the Supersoul is imagined in proportion to the body of the living entity
- The demoniac person, who has no faith in God or the Supersoul within himself, performs all kinds of sinful activities simply for sense gratification. He does not know that there is a witness sitting within his heart. BG 1972 purports
- The devotee tries to come directly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas the yogi tries to find the Supersoul within the heart by meditation. Thus, both directly and indirectly, yoga means bhakti-yoga
- The example of searching for the Supersoul within the heart by the less intelligent mystics is very instructive
- The legs move forward because the eyes see what is in front of them, and the hand touches because the eyes see touchable entities. Similarly, every living being acts according to the direction of the Supersoul, who is situated within the heart
- The Lord, as the Supersoul in the heart of every living being, knows what is in the mind of each living entity, and no one can do anything without the knowledge of the Lord within
- The medical science also says all the energy is coming from the heart. The heart stops to work, that means man is dead. So the soul and the Supersoul both are sitting in the heart
- The personified Vedas continued, "By this simple process of penance and austerity, the Supersoul within the devotee's heart is very much pleased and gives the devotee directions so that he may go back home, back to Godhead"
- The service of the Lord through purified senses is called bhakti-yoga, or devotional service. The sincere devotee is always helped by the Supersoul, who resides within the heart of every living entity
- The Supersoul lives within the heart to direct or control the individual living entity. Although both are dhruva, or eternal, the living entity is always under the direction of the Supreme
- The Supreme Lord, as the Supersoul, is situated within the heart
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead in His plenary expansion as the Paramatma, or Supersoul, sits in everyone's heart and can understand the attitudes and desires of His devotees
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul within the core of everyone's heart, gives inspirations for action according to one's mentality. All of these mentalities are merely facilities given by Krsna to the person acting
- The Vedic literature states that the Supersoul is sitting within the heart of every living entity’s body and is as big as a thumb
- The yoga system involves concentrating the mind and focusing it on the Paramatma or Supersoul seated within the heart
- There are many witnesses (of our sinful activities), including the sun, fire, sky, air, moon, demigods, evening, day, night, directions, water, land and the Supersoul Himself, who sits with the individual soul within his heart
- There are three stages of transcendental knowledge by which one realizes the localized aspect of God within the heart & within every atom (Paramatma or Supersoul realization) & the realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - Bhagavan realization
- There are two processes by which one may receive knowledge: One depends directly upon the SPG, who is situated as the Supersoul within the heart of all living entities, and the other depends upon the guru, who is an expansion of Krsna - CC Intro
- They (the great sages Kavi, Mahavira and Savana) could understand that the Supersoul within the heart is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and they could recognize their identity with Him
- This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities
- Those who are trying to visualize the Supreme Soul within the heart, they are called yogi
- Through the mystic yoga practice called pranayama, the yogi controls the airs within the body to maintain the body in a healthy condition. In this way, the yogi comes to the point of trance and tries to see the Supersoul within the core of his heart
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- We understand from the Brahma-samhita that the Supersoul is present within the universe, within the atom and within the heart of every living creature
- When this practice of yoga is perfect, one sees the Supersoul, the Paramatma feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, within the core of one's heart
- Within the heart of every living being the Lord Himself as the Supersoul (Paramatma) becomes the spiritual master, and from without He becomes the spiritual master in the shape of scriptures, saints and the initiator spiritual master
- Within the heart the Supreme Personality of Godhead resides as the Supersoul. This situation is also explained in Bhagavad-gita: the Supersoul rests beside the individual soul and acts as a witness
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- Yogi means those who are trying to focus all attention to the Supersoul which is within our heart. That is called yoga system
- Yogis try to concentrate their minds upon the form of the Supersoul, Visnu, within the heart, but this same objective is easily achieved when one's mind is absorbed in the Deity worshiped in the temple
- You (Krsna) are the original cause of this material manifestation. You are the Supersoul, and therefore You know everything within the core of the heart of every living entity - SB 10.10.30-31