Category:Visnu's Glories
Theme Analysis
The compiled instructions within this category illuminate the supreme importance of understanding and glorifying the infinite opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As explained by Śrīla Prabhupāda, the highest perfection of human life is to engage in śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, the hearing and chanting of Lord Viṣṇu's glories, rather than wasting time on the glorification of demigods or mortal beings. His glories are so vast that they cannot be measured by any material estimation, yet by sincere glorification, the conditioned soul is purified and liberated from the clutches of māyā.
- The Essential Process: The foundational principle of devotional service is śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ. Genuine spiritual life must be centered on the glorification of Lord Viṣṇu in various rasas, completely distinct from the worship or chanting of demigod names.
- Unfathomable Greatness: The glories of the Supreme Lord are limitless. No one in the material world, regardless of their intelligence or lifespan, can count or fully comprehend the uncommonly glorious activities and forms of Lord Viṣṇu.
- The Supreme Maintainer: The Lord is glorified throughout the Vedas for His role as the ultimate maintainer of the cosmic manifestation. While Lord Brahmā creates and Lord Śiva destroys, Lord Viṣṇu's function of maintaining the universe demonstrates His supreme, unparalleled glory.
- Causeless Mercy: Of all the divine attributes possessed by Lord Viṣṇu, His most significant glory is His causeless mercy. By His grace, He reclaims fallen, conditioned souls from the grip of material illusion and elevates them back to the spiritual sky.
- Purification Through Glorification: Whether one is a great sage like Kapila or a fallen soul like Ajāmila, the act of glorifying the Supreme Lord immediately purifies consciousness and prepares the living entity for eternal liberation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Hearing and Chanting the Glories of Lord Viṣṇu.
Pages in category "Visnu's Glories"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- Garbhodakasayi Visnu is glorified in the Vedas in the hymns of Garbha-stuti, which begin with the description of the Lord as having thousands of heads, etc
- Garbhodakasayi Visnu, known within the universe as Hiranyagarbha and the antaryami, or Supersoul, is glorified in the Vedic hymns, beginning with the hymn that starts with the word 'sahasra-sirsa'
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- I have thus explained the truth of the first Personality of Godhead, Maha-Visnu. I shall now explain the glories of the second Personality of Godhead
- In relation to the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead, whose glory had been shown by the manifestation of all the four-armed forms of Visnu, Lord Brahma, the lord of Sarasvati, was mystified - SB 10.13.57
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- O King Pariksit, when Amsuman had glorified the Lord in this way, the great sage Kapila, the powerful incarnation of Visnu, being very merciful to him, explained to him the path of knowledge
- Of all His (Visnu's) glories, the most important is His causeless mercy upon the conditioned souls in reclaiming them from the clutches of maya
- One should glorify God in the adoration of santa-rasa or revive his eternal relationship with Visnu as a servant in dasya-rasa, a friend in sakhya-rasa, a parent in vatsalya-rasa or a conjugal lover in madhurya-rasa. All these are on the platform of love
- One who is subject to death cannot measure the glories of the SPG, Trivikrama, Lord Visnu, any more than he can count the number of atoms on the entire planet earth. No one, whether born already or destined to take birth, is able to do this
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- Sravanam kirtanam visnoh: one should chant about and glorify Lord Visnu, not any demigod. Unfortunately, there are foolish persons who invent some process of kirtana on the basis of a demigod's name. This is an offense
- Sri Maitreya said: After Lord Visnu was glorified by all present, Daksa, his consciousness purified, arranged to begin again the yajna which had been devastated by the followers of Lord Siva
- Sthana: the maintenance of the universe by the PG, Visnu. Visnu’s function is more important and His glory greater than Brahma’s and Lord Siva’s, for although Brahma is the creator and Lord Siva the destroyer, Visnu is the maintainer
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- The reciters continued: Dear King, you are a direct incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, & by His causeless mercy you have descended on this earth. Therefore it is not possible for us to actually glorify your exalted activities
- The visnu-murtis all had eternal, unlimited forms, full of knowledge and bliss and existing beyond the influence of time. Their great glory was not even to be touched by the jnanis engaged in studying the Upanisads - SB 10.13.54
- The Visnudutas made Ajamila aware of devotional service so that He might immediately become fit to return home, back to Godhead. To increase his eagerness to glorify the Lord, they disappeared so that he would feel separation in their absence