Category:Yogamaya the Internal Potency
Theme Analysis
These collected quotes reveal Yogamāyā as the Supreme Lord's internal potency, working under His direction to arrange His divine appearance, protect His pastimes, and deepen His loving exchanges with pure devotees. As Śrīla Prabhupāda explains through these teachings, Yogamāyā is not a material covering but a spiritual potency that both reveals and conceals Kṛṣṇa's unlimited opulence according to the purpose of His transcendental pastimes. Through her influence, the Lord appears like an ordinary human being, while His activities remain fully divine and beyond the reach of material speculation.
- The Lord's Descent by Internal Potency: Kṛṣṇa appears by His own personal potency, and Yogamāyā arranges His descent so that He can perform His earthly pastimes while remaining unborn and infallible.
- The Protection and Arrangement of Divine Pastimes: Yogamāyā acts under the Lord's order to facilitate His activities, including His transfer from the prison house and the bewilderment of Kaṁsa's guards.
- The Concealing and Revealing of Kṛṣṇa's Glory: Through Yogamāyā, the Lord may conceal His unlimited potencies from the unintelligent while revealing His exalted position to qualified devotees and sages.
- The Deepening of Pure Devotional Love: Yogamāyā intensifies the loving sentiments of devotees such as mother Yaśodā and the damsels of Vraja, allowing them to relate to Kṛṣṇa in intimate transcendental mellows.
- The Spiritual Nature of the Lord's Exchanges: The activities arranged by Yogamāyā, including the rāsa dance and the Lord's confidential relationships, are completely beyond mundane lust or material comparison.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Yogamāyā the Internal Potency Reveals Kṛṣṇa’s Transcendental Pastimes.
Pages in category "Yogamaya the Internal Potency"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- Because of her (mother Yasoda's) deep affection for Krsna, she could never think that her very son was Narayana, the Personality of Godhead Himself. That is the action of yogamaya, the internal potency of the Supreme Lord
- Being covered by the spell of Your (Krsna's) internal potency, yogamaya, You are now temporarily concealing Your unlimited potencies, but still we can understand Your exalted position, and therefore all of us (sages) offer You our respectful obeisances"
- Being ordered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva prepared to take his son (Krsna) from the delivery room, and exactly at that time, a daughter was born to Nanda and Yasoda. She was Yogamaya, the internal potency of the Lord
- By the influence of this internal potency, Yogamaya, all the residents of Kamsa’s palace, especially the doorkeepers, were overwhelmed with deep sleep, and all the palace doors opened, although they were barred and shackled with iron chains
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- In Bhagavad-gita (BG 4.6) Lord Krsna says, sambhavamy atma-mayaya: "I appear by My internal potency. "The word atma-maya refers to the Lord's personal potency, yogamaya
- In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.25) Lord Krsna states: I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My internal potency (yogamaya), and so they do not know Me, who am unborn and infallible
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- Revealed the multiglories of the Supreme Personality through His internal potency, yogamaya
- Rsabhadeva, the master of all mystic power, understood King Indra's purpose and smiled a little. Then, by His own prowess, through yogamaya (His internal potency), He profusely poured water upon His own place, which was known as Ajanabha
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- The Divinity and His (Krsna's) associates are on the same transcendental plane, and their glories are always sanctified by the action of yogamaya, or the internal potency of the Lord
- The four brahmana sages were nevertheless extremely delighted to behold Him, and they experienced a thrill throughout their bodies. They then spoke as follows to the Lord, who had revealed the multiglories of the SP through His internal potency, yogamaya
- The froggish philosophers may go on with their mental speculations on the subject matter of the virat, the gigantic form exhibited by the yogamaya internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead but no one can measure such a vast exhibition
- The Lord exchanges transcendental relations in five ways, as proprietor, master, friend, son and lover, and in each of these pastimes He plays fully by the potency of yogamaya, the internal potency
- The rasa dance is arranged by Krsna’s internal potency yogamaya, and it is beyond the grasp of the materially affected person
- This yogamaya potency (the internal potency) creates a spiritual sentiment in the minds of the damsels of Vraja by which they think of Lord Krsna as their paramour. This sentiment is never to be compared to mundane illicit sexual love
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- Yogamaya is the internal potency of the Supreme Lord; she also works under the Lord's direction, but she works in the spiritual world
- Yogamaya is the name of the internal potency that makes the Lord forget Himself and become an object of love for His pure devotee in different transcendental mellows
- You (The Supreme Lord) have descended to this earth by the use of Your own internal potency, yogamaya, and to reestablish the Vedic principles of life You have appeared just like an ordinary human being
- Yudhisthira said, "Out of Your (Krsna's) independent will only, You have descended to this earth by the use of Your own internal potency, yogamaya, and to reestablish the Vedic principles of life You have appeared just like an ordinary human being"