Category:Taking from God
Theme Analysis
A central pitfall in the material world is the conditioned soul's persistent attempt to exploit and take from God, viewing the Supreme Lord merely as an order supplier for sense gratification. True spiritual realization demands a fundamental shift in this mentality, moving away from constantly demanding material benedictions and instead embracing a mood of complete surrender and unalloyed service. Furthermore, perfectly understanding the Absolute Truth requires taking instructions and knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord and His bona fide representatives, rejecting all speculative, manufactured philosophies.
- The Exploitative Mentality: Conditioned souls, driven by ignorance, act like thieves by constantly trying to extract resources from God's property for their independent enjoyment.
- The Purity of Real Love: A genuine devotee has no motive to take anything material from the Lord; real love begins when one desires only to give everything for the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa.
- Taking Direct Instruction: To avoid delusion, the sincere seeker must take spiritual knowledge and direction solely from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His authorized disciplic succession.
- The Highest Perfection: Obtaining direct contact with the Supersoul and gratefully accepting His dictation without any ulterior motives constitutes the ultimate success of human life.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Taking From God and the Mentality of a Pure Devotee.
Pages in category "Taking from God"
The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
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- A pure devotee will never try to take anything from Krsna. He will try to give everything to Krsna. So dui lagye hura huri. So here is a trial between the devotee and Lord Krsna, and Arjuna has passed the examination
- After he remained silent for some time, Lord Caitanya asked him, "My dear Bhattacarya, don't be confused by this explanation. Please take it from Me that the devotional service of the Supreme Lord is the highest perfectional stage of human understanding"
- Although Kapiladeva is her son, Devahuti does not hesitate to take instructions from Him. She does not say, "Oh, He is my son. What can He tell me? I am His mother, and I shall instruct Him." Instruction has to be taken from one who is in knowledge
- Any process for self-realization, you cannot manufacture. That is to be taken directly from God and His representative. That is the verdict of Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Atheistic men sometimes criticize a devotee by saying, "If you do not want to take any benediction from the Lord and if the servant of the Lord is as opulent as the Lord Himself, why do you ask for the benediction of being engaged as the Lord's servant?"
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- Because the Lord is situated in everyone's heart, He knows everything. Therefore, knowing that we still want something material, He will give us another material body - Yes, take it
- Both Indra and Vrtrasura were certainly devotees of the Lord, although Indra took instructions from Visnu to kill Vrtrasura
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- If anyone is intelligent, he takes God's direct instruction and he becomes happy. Otherwise, go on making plan. He'll give you facility. That is God's kindness
- If the raw material is taken from God's stock, then how the paper becomes yours? This is God consciousness. This is . . . everything we'll find that nothing is our
- If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification we become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation. BG 1972 purports
- If you manufacture any definition of God, then you cannot define. But if you take the words of God, then it is possible to define God
- If you persist that, "I must go and enjoy independently," so God says: "All right, you can go." This is the position. You have to take sanction. That is a fact. When you persist, God sanctions. And you come and enjoy
- In his sleeping condition, Brahma dreams about the Garbhodakasayi Visnu and takes instruction from the Lord for the rehabilitation of the devastated area of space
- It is because of this foolishness that one cannot take instructions from the Lord, although the Lord is ready to instruct everyone both externally and internally
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- Kapiladeva was not irresponsible, but was always ready to please His mother. Kapiladeva was a brahmacari, and His mother took lessons from Him. That is the prerogative of the male
- Kapiladeva was one son, and when He was grown up He also said, - My dear mother, My father has left home. I will also leave home. If you want to take some instruction from Me, you can take. Then I shall go away
- Karmi is trying to simply take from God's property and putting in his own pocket. That is karmi: "Bring me more. Bring me more. Bring me more
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- The devotee, on the positive side, wants to possess something, and this is very nicely described by Prahlada , who says, "If I must take some benediction from You (Nrsimhadeva), I pray that within the core of my heart there may be no material desires"
- The state law is that "Keep to the right" or "left." Everyone accepts. There is no disunity. So if we actually take the words of God, then there is unity. But if we do not take, if we create our own system of religion, that is a different thing
- The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him
- To become father of God means to give everything. Even the state, even his money, his bank balance, everything. That is the idea. And to become son of God means to take everything
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- We are small gods, we can say, small gods. Teeny, sample gods. Therefore, we are so much proud. But we should not be proud because we should know that all our qualities are taken from God
- We're not following imagination. Why don't you understand this? We are taking the words of God. This is not my imagination
- When Dhruva Maharaja saw Lord Visnu, he declined to take any benedictions from Him, for he was fully satisfied by seeing the Lord
- When God is speaking that "You take from Me perfect and complete knowledge of God," so why don't you take it
- Why not take it as God's land and produce enough foodstuff. There will be no scarcity. There will be no skeleton. And distribute it. Where is that consciousness?