Category:Worshiper of God
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies the exalted position of a true worshiper of God, or a Vaiṣṇava, in contrast to those who worship material energies or demigods. He explains that a pure worshiper of the Supreme Lord seeks eternal loving service rather than temporary material benedictions. Through the guidance of the spiritual master, who serves as the worshiper God, one learns to properly revere the worshipable God. While demigod worship yields only perishable results and sometimes temporary material opulence, the sincere worshiper of God achieves spiritual elevation, purification from material desires, and ultimately returns back to Godhead to render eternal service.
- The Gifts of a Pure Devotee: By associating with a genuine sādhu, one is taught the ultimate perfection of life—how to become a sincere worshiper and servitor of the Supreme Lord.
- The Worshiper God: The bona fide spiritual master is respected on the level of the Supreme Lord as the sevaka-bhagavān (worshiper God) who teaches by example how to serve the sevya-bhagavān (worshipable God).
- Worshiping the Supreme Lord vs. Material Energy: While śaktas worship the Lord's material energy for temporary power and demigod worshipers seek perishable benedictions, Vaiṣṇavas directly worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead for eternal life.
- Transcendental Motivation and Opulence: The Lord gradually purifies His worshipers of material desires, which is why worshipers of Viṣṇu sometimes see a decrease in material opulence compared to the materially affluent worshipers of Lord Śiva.
- Authorized Methods of Worship: A true worshiper does not imagine the Lord's form but worships the authorized arcā-vigraha, the sound incarnation in the scriptures, and participates in congregational chanting.
- The Eternal Destination: Unlike mundane worshipers, pure devotees maintain their identity as worshipers of God even after liberation, entering the Vaikuṇṭha planets to serve the Lord eternally.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Exalted Position of a True Worshiper of God.
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Pages in category "Worshiper of God"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- A sadhu will teach one to become a devotee, a worshiper and a sincere servitor of the Lord. These are the gifts of a sadhu
- Although sakti-tattva & jiva-tattva within the category of Panca-tattva, represented by Gadadhara & Srivasa - are worshipers of the Supreme Lord, they are in the same category because they eternally engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord
- Attachment to a devotee is attachment to the service of the Lord because if one associates with a sadhu the result will be that the sadhu will teach him how to become a devotee, a worshiper & a sincere servitor of the Lord. These are the gifts of a sadhu
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- Generally the Lord does not fulfill anyone's material desires for sense enjoyment, but He awards such benedictions to worshipers of the Lord, for they ultimately come to the point of not desiring material enjoyment
- Guru will never say: "Now I have become God." No. God does not become. God is always God. So God is God and guru is guru. But, as a matter of etiquette, God is the sevya God, worshipable God, and guru is the worshiper God
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- In the Brahma-samhita, which is compiled by Brahmaji, he repeats the aphorism govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami: "I am a worshiper of the original Personality of Godhead, Govinda, the primeval Lord
- In the material world, the same reciprocations of feelings (with Krsna) are there, and they are equally exchanged by the Lord with the different types of worshipers. BG 1972 purports
- In this way, Kamalakara Pippalai became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his family members have been designated as Adhikari, which means - one who is empowered to worship the Lord.These Adhikaris belong to a respectable brahmana family
- It is generally found that the worshipers of Lord Siva are Mayavadi followers. Lord Siva himself says, mayavadam asac-chastram
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- Lord offers the worshipers the benedictions they desire even if they worship only part of His transcendental body because the He is complete
- Lord Siva's worshipers sometimes appear more opulent than worshipers of Lord Visnu because Durga, or Sati, being the superintendent in charge of material affairs, can offer all material opulences to worshipers of Lord Siva in order to glorify her husband
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- One who becomes a devotee and worshiper of the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not need to go to the demigods for any benediction because he obtains everything by the grace of the Supreme Lord
- Out of the above three (worshiper of himself as one with God, worshiper of concocted form of God, & worshiper of visvarupa of God), the lowest, those who worship themselves as the SG, thinking themselves to be monists, are most predominant. BG 1972 pur
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- Since the Supreme Lord is full in six opulences, He can bestow any one of them upon the worshiper
- So we invite everyone to join this movement, accepting Krishna as the tangible God for all practical purposes, and the worship of God is made easy by chanting the Mantra Hare Krishna, which is accepted even in far Western countries
- Sometimes the Lord gives a spiritual body to such ambitious worshipers. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is unlimitedly merciful, bestow upon me the benediction of liberation from this present danger and from the materialistic way of life
- Such persons (who are fully Krsna conscious) enter directly into kingdom of God, Vaikuntha planets, or, if they are worshipers of the plenary portion Garbhodakasayi Visnu, they remain within this universe until its dissolution, and after that they enter
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- The difference between worshiping the Lord and worshiping the demigods is that the worshiper of the Lord also becomes eternal, whereas whatever benedictions one can get from the demigods are impermanent
- The Lord is not imaginary, nor is His holy name. There are persons with a poor fund of knowledge who think the Lord to be an imagination of the worshiper and therefore think His holy name to be imaginary
- The Madhvacarya-sampradaya and Ramanuja-sampradaya are mainly worshipers of Lord Ramacandra, although the Sri Vaisnavas are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Narayana and Laksmi and the Tattvavadis are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Krsna
- The place where the Pracetas arrived was the abode of Lord Siva. Impersonalists are generally worshipers of Lord Siva, but Lord Siva is never without variety in his abode
- The propaganda that a very great man is worshiped as God after his death is misleading because a man after his death cannot be made into God. Nor can the SPG be a human being, even when He is personally present. Both ideas are misconceptions
- The pure devotees of the Lord are worshipers of the Lord both in the beginning and also in the perfect stage of salvation, eternally
- The virat-rupa is conceived for those who are just neophyte worshipers. For them the material virat-rupa is presented, and it will be explained in the Second Canto
- The worshiper of Lord Visnu renders better service by worshiping the devotee of Lord Krsna
- The worshipers of Visnu are meant for spiritual elevation, and therefore their material opulence is sometimes found to decrease. These points are very nicely discussed in the Tenth Canto
- This perfect conception of oneness helps the worshiper in being engaged in His (God's) loving service, whereas the impersonalist, being falsely puffed up, remains a nondevotee forever, without being recognized by the Lord
- Those who are simply astonished by the powers of anything in the creation of the Lord, without any factual information of the Lord Himself, are known as saktas, or worshipers of the great powers
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- We should always understand that granthas, or the scriptures, should be worshiped as God. That is sound incarnation of God. It should not be neglected. Don't neglect Bhagavad-gita or Bhagavata as ordinary books
- Worship of the Lord is also performed by the ingredients born from the bodily limbs of the Lord, and yet the worshiper, who is himself a part of the Lord, achieves the result of devotional service to the Lord