Category:Visnu's Glance
Theme Analysis
The compiled instructions within this category deeply explore the activating and merciful power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's vision. As clearly delineated by Śrīla Prabhupāda, the glance of Lord Viṣṇu serves a dual absolute function. In His cosmic feature as Mahā-Viṣṇu, His glance effortlessly agitates the dormant material nature and impregnates it with the innumerable living entities, thereby setting the entire creation into motion. Simultaneously, the loving, transcendental glance of the Lord bestows ultimate protection and fulfills the pure desires of His surrendered devotees.
- Agitating the Material Energy: Before creation, the total material energy lies dormant. It is exclusively the glance of Mahā-Viṣṇu (Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu) over this unmanifested nature that agitates the modes and creates the active mahat-tattva.
- Impregnation with Living Entities: The material world is completely barren without the touch of the supreme spirit. The Lord's glance serves as the transcendental semen, impregnating the womb of material nature with the spiritual atoms known as the living entities.
- Electrifying the Cosmos: Matter is inert by nature, but through the Lord's superintending glance, it becomes electrified and dynamic. This is compared to a piece of iron becoming red-hot and burning simply by being placed in a fire.
- The Supreme Cause of All Causes: The Lord does not need to physically labor to create or maintain the universes; His absolute consciousness and powerful vision alone are sufficient to direct the vast cosmic manifestation.
- Bestowing Causeless Mercy: Beyond universal creation, the beautiful, moon-like glance of Lord Viṣṇu is reserved for His devotees. This sidelong look pacifies their hearts, creates and protects their spiritual desires, and floods them with transcendental bliss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Lord Viṣṇu Impregnates Material Nature With His Powerful Glance.
Pages in category "Visnu's Glance"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- All these universes are collectively produced by the Karanodakasayi Visnu, called also the Maha-visnu, who simply throws His glance to impregnate the material sky
- Another significant feature of the Visnu forms was that all of Them were looking transcendentally beautiful. Their smiling resembled the moonshine, and Their glancing resembled the early rising of the sun
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- In His form as Karanodakasayi Visnu the Lord impregnates material nature by His glance. The transcendental molecules of that glance are particles of spirit, or spiritual atoms
- It is the function of Maha-sankarsana in the form of Karanodakasayi Visnu to glance over the material creation, which is situated beyond the limits of the Causal Ocean
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- Just as a woman can deliver a child after being impregnated by the semen of a man, so material nature can supply the material elements after being glanced upon by Maha-Visnu
- Just by the Visnu forms glancing They showed Themselves to be the creators and maintainers of the modes of ignorance & passion. Visnu represents the mode of goodness, Brahma represents the mode of passion, and Lord Siva represents the mode of ignorance
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- Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Purusottama, Lord Krsna, who is always free from the contamination of the six material dualities; whose plenary expansion, Maha-Visnu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation
- Lord Maha-Visnu, who is lying on the Causal Ocean, is a manifestation of Sankarsana. He is the original Personality of Godhead who glances over the material and efficient causes of the cosmic manifestation
- Lord Visnu activates material nature by the power of His glance, and then the ironlike material nature becomes a material-supplying agent just as iron made red-hot becomes a burning agent
- Lord Visnu, being the ultimate objective of such sacrificial ceremonies, was requested by the wives of the priests to glance over the yajna arena (of Daksa) with His causeless mercy so that the routine work of the yajna might be continued
- Lord Visnu, in His efficient aspect, glances over the material energy, and Sri Advaita, as the material cause, creates the material world
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- Similarly, the chunk is also, we can accept, the total material energy. You can take it as chunk. But this material energy in the form of chunk is agitated by the glance of Maha-Visnu
- Simply by the glance of the Maha-Visnu, consciousness is created, and this consciousness is known as mahat-tattva, The predominating Deity of the mahat-tattva is Vasudeva
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- The field or the earth is not exploding with the vegetation. It is due to the sunshine. Therefore it is coming out. It is the real cause. Similarly, accepting that chunk, the total material energy, it is agitated by the glance of Maha-Visnu
- The Maha-Visnu, throws His glance over prakrti, or material nature, but the Purusottama existed even before that. The Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad therefore confirms the statement of the Bhagavad-gita that Lord Krsna is the Supreme Person (Purusottama)
- The total material energy is agitated by the glance of Maha-Visnu, and only then does the interaction of the three material qualities begin
- The wives of the priests (in Daksa's sacrificial arena) requested that the animals be brought back to life by the glance of Lord Visnu to make a pleasing yajna
- The word svakarthanam refers to great desires. As mentioned in this verse (SB 10.13.50), the glance of Lord Visnu creates the desires of the devotees. A pure devotee, however, has no desires
- They (the Visnu forms) glanced upon Their devotees, embracing them and protecting them by smiling. Their smiles resembled the mode of goodness, protecting all the desires of the devotees, and the glancing of Their eyes resembled the mode of passion
- This impregnating process is performed by the first purusa incarnation, Karanarnavasayi Visnu. Simply by His glance over material nature, the whole matter is accomplished
- Those Visnu forms (Krsna's cowherd boy and calf expansions), by Their pure smiling, and by the sidelong glances of Their reddish eyes, created and protected the desires of Their own devotees, as if by the modes of passion & goodness - SB 10.13.50
- Those Visnu forms blessed the devotees with Their clear glances and smiles, which resembled the increasingly full light of the moon - sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam
- To glance over that material energy and empower her, Lord Sankarsana first incarnates as Lord Maha-Visnu
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- Visnu is the cause of creation. From Bhagavad-gita also we learn that prakrti begins to work and is still working under Krsna's, or Visnu's, glance of superintendence, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unchangeable
- Visnu said: In due course of time Prsni became pregnant and gave birth to the child. The Lord spoke to Devaki and Vasudeva: At that time My name was Prsnigarbha
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- When agitated by the glance of Karanodakasayi Visnu, material nature produces the total elements, which are eight in number and which gradually evolve from finer to gross
- When the first purusa-avatara, Maha-Visnu, glances over the material nature, material nature becomes agitated, and the purusa-avatara thus impregnates matter with living entities