Category:What Mayavada Philosophy Says about God
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category highlight how Śrīla Prabhupāda systematically dissects and defeats the various misconceptions of the impersonalists regarding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He exposes the dangerous offenses of the Māyāvādī philosophers who claim that God is originally formless, that He assumes a material body when He descends, or that the individual living entity is actually God covered by illusion. By denying the Lord's transcendental senses, opulences, and personal form, Māyāvāda philosophy indirectly insults Him and is ultimately equated with atheism. Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that a true Vaiṣṇava must be equipped to defeat these false contentions with rigorous logic and uphold the eternal, spiritual reality of the Supreme Lord and the path of pure devotion.
- The Myth of the Formless God: The impersonalist idea that the Absolute Truth lacks a personal form or sensory organs is ultimately an insult, defining God as deaf, dumb, and blind.
- The Fallacy of a Material Incarnation: The offensive theory that the Supreme Lord accepts a material body composed of the three modes of nature when He descends is completely rejected by scripture.
- The Absurdity of the Covered God: To claim that the infallible Supreme Lord can become bewildered by His own illusory energy is a profound logical contradiction.
- The Degradation of Monism: By falsely equating the minute, conditioned living entities with the Supreme Lord, impersonal philosophy covers the true glory of God and leads society toward atheism.
- The Duty to Defeat Impersonalism: A sincere devotee must not only serve the Lord but also use sound logic and philosophy to actively refute monistic misconceptions.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: What Mayavada Philosophy Says About God Exposing Impersonalism.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
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Pages in category "What Mayavada Philosophy Says about God"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- A Vaisnava, or devotee, must not only be fixed in the service of the Lord, but, if required, must be prepared to argue with the impersonalist Mayavadis with all logic and philosophy and defeat their contention that the Absolute Truth is impersonal
- According to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Lord is full in six opulences & the rascal impersonalists says that the Lord has no form & the most dangerous accusation for the Lord that He assumes a material form when he descends
- According to such Mayavada philosophy, the Personality of Godhead, His abode, His devotional service and His emotional devotees are all under the spell of maya and are consequently subjected to the material condition
- According to the Mayavada philosophy, the cosmic manifestation is an illusory transformation of the Absolute Truth, which has no separate existence outside the cosmic manifestation. This is not the message of the Vedanta-sutra
- According to the Mayavada philosophy, the Supreme Truth, being all-pervasive, does not need a transcendental form. The Mayavadis suppose that since His form is distributed everywhere, He has no form. This is untrue
- Acyuta means infallible. God cannot be entrapped by maya. The Mayavadi philosopher says that "I am God. Now I am under illusion of maya. I have forgotten myself, that I am God, and by meditation I shall become God." This is all nonsense
- As long as one adheres to the philosophy of duality, thinking one person a friend and another an enemy, he should be understood to be in Maya. The Mayavadi philosopher who thinks that all living entities are God and are therefore one is also mistaken
- As stated in Bhagavad-gita, the Lord appears through His internal potencies. We should therefore reject the Mayavada explanation that the Lord appears in a body given by the external potency, the material energy
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- If the Lord gives enlightenment from within, how can one be in ignorance? Therefore the allegation of the Mayavadis that the devotional path is for the unintelligent or uneducated is untrue
- In this Mayavada philosophy I (Siva as Sankaracarya) have described the jivatma and Paramatma to be one and the same
- Isvara cannot be many. That is not isvara. The Mayavada philosophy that everyone is God, that is not very right conclusion. That is rascaldom
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- Mayavada philosophy says that the Lord is originally impersonal but assumes a human form and many other forms when He descends. Actually, however, He is originally like a human being, and the impersonal Brahman consists of the rays of His body
- Mayavada philosophy simply informs us of the consciousness of the Absolute Truth but does not give us information of how He acts with His consciousness. That is the defect of that philosophy
- Mayavada philosophy tries to designate the Lord as contaminated by a material body when He accepts forms of incarnation. This sort of interpolation is completely denied herein (SB 2.6.40-4) by the explanation that the Lord's position is pure and unalloyed
- Mayavadi philosophers say that the impersonal God appears in this material world by accepting a body in the sattva-guna
- Mayavadi philosophers say that we have to imagine the form of the Lord, but here Narada Muni does not say that. Rather, he gives the description of the Lord from authoritative sources
- Mayavadi philosophers wrongly think that because the Supreme Person has entered the body of a poor man, the Supreme Lord has become daridra-narayana, or poor Narayana. These are all blasphemous statements of atheists and nondevotees
- Mayavadis generally allege that the bhakti path is for women and illiterates. This is a groundless accusation. The bhakti path is followed by the most learned scholars, such as the Gosvamis, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramanujacarya
- Mayavadis say that if the living entity is pleased, the Lord is also pleased, and if the living entity is displeased, the Lord is also displeased
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- The God of the monists, or Mayavadis, cannot eat, see, or hear. Such a concocted, formless God can never bring peace to the world. How can a God who has no sensory organs see the miseries of the people or hear their heartfelt prayers?
- The Mayavada Philosophy has played havoc in spiritual understanding leading to Atheistic tendency. The interpretation that one has to be naked before the Lord is also mayavada philosophy
- The Mayavada philosophy is so degraded that it has taken the insignificant living entities to be the Lord, the Supreme Truth, thus covering the glory and supremacy of the Absolute Truth with monism
- The Mayavada philosophy is that everything is God; therefore there is no separate existence of God. That is impersonalism
- The Mayavada theory holds that the living entity was formerly God but has now become overwhelmed by the influence of maya
- The Mayavadi philosophers' thesis that God and the individual soul are one and the same cannot be accepted because the individual soul has to develop his power according to the development of different types of bodies
- The Mayavadis are to be considered mayayapahrta-jnana, or bereft of all knowledge, because they do not recognize the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or they claim that His existence is a product of the material conception (maya)
- The Mayavadis' proposition that God has no legs, no eyes, no ears and no hands is an indirect way of insulting Him by defining Him as blind, deaf, dumb, lame, helpless, etc
- The most dangerous theory of the impersonalists is that when God comes as an incarnation He accepts a material body created by the three modes of material nature. This Mayavada theory has been condemned by Lord Caitanya as most offensive
- The nondualist Mayavadi philosopher who falsely believes that he is nondifferent from the Lord is unable to call Him like Advaita Prabhu
- Thinking the Absolute Truth to be without form, the Mayavadis say that the word bhakti can apply to any form of worship