God Is Full of Knowledge - Eternal, Blissful, and Omniscient
Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose eternal spiritual form is completely full of knowledge. Because the Lord possesses unlimited knowledge, He is the omniscient controller, perfectly independent and entirely transcendental to material nature.
The Eternal Sac-Cid-Ānanda Form
According to Vedic instructions, the body of the Supreme Lord is not material; it is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that this eternal form is the very embodiment of complete transcendental knowledge and eternal bliss.
- According to the Vedic instructions, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has His eternal, transcendental form, which is always blissful and full of knowledge.
- All the pastimes of the Lord are eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, just as the form of Krsna Himself is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge - sac-cid-ananda-vigraha.
- Because the Lord's body is full of knowledge, He always enjoys transcendental bliss. Indeed, His very form is paramananda. This is confirmed in the Vedanta-sutra: anandamayo'bhyasat.
- The Lord’s transcendental form, which is eternally blissful and full of knowledge, is unknown to Mayavadi philosophers. Although the term “Bhagavan” is explicitly described in Srimad-Bhagavatam, they cannot understand it.
The Omniscient Supreme Controller
Because God is full of unlimited knowledge, He is never affected by the illusory material energy. Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that this absolute omniscience makes the Lord completely independent and the supreme knower of everything in existence.
- Because of His (the Supreme Lord) full knowledge, He is never subjected to the influence of material nature.
- It is also stated that the Lord has full knowledge, directly and indirectly, that He knows past, present and future, and that His personal energy is separate from maya, the illusory energy.
- Bhagavatam says svarat. Svarat. Svarat means He is independent. His consciousness is not dependent on others' consciousness. Svarat. God, He has got all the knowledge.
- He has got full knowledge. That is God, omniscient. He has got full knowledge. We may not have because we are very tiny. A child may not have knowledge, but the father knows everything. Similarly, He is the supreme father.
The Source of All Vedic Wisdom
As the supreme sentient being, the Lord is the origin of all perfect knowledge and creation. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that one must receive transcendental knowledge directly from the Lord, as He alone possesses it in full.
- Creator must be sentient. Without brain, without creative power, how there can be creation? Where is your argument? No. That is not. These are false arguments. Therefore Vyasadeva gives you information that He (God) is sentient, in full knowledge.
- One should try to learn of the Transcendence from the Lord Himself, the supreme source of the Vedas, for the Lord alone has full knowledge of the Transcendence.
- We have to learn from Bhagavan, the Supreme Person, full knowledge. This Bhagavad-gita is therefore full knowledge from the full Personality of Godhead. We cannot change even one word in this Bhagavad-gita. That is folly.
- May God, who in the beginning of the creation amplified the potent knowledge of Brahma from within his heart, inspired him with full knowledge of creation and of His own Self, who appeared to be generated from the mouth of Brahma, be pleased with me.
Qualitative Oneness with the Living Entity
Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies the relationship between the Lord and the minute souls. Because the living entities are parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, they inherently share His spiritual qualities, possessing eternity, bliss, and knowledge in a minute quantity.
- God is eternal, God is blissful, God is in full knowledge, so we, being part and parcel of God, we have got the same quality.
- God's existence is sac-cid-ananda vigrahah (Bs. 5.1): eternal, blissful, knowledge. So we are part and parcel. Our knowledge, our blissfulness, our eternity may be very small, but we possess the same quality.
- The Lord says that His nature is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, and the living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme, as gold particles are part of a gold mine.
- The soul is eternal and blissful because part and parcel of Krsna, God, sac-cid-ananda, eternal, full of bliss, full of knowledge.
Conclusion
To understand the Supreme Lord, one must recognize that His absolute nature is perfectly full of knowledge. This inherent omniscience dictates that His eternal form is completely transcendental and aloof from material illusion. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the boundless reservoir of perfect wisdom, the living entities, as His minute parts and parcels, can only find true enlightenment by receiving His direct, supreme instructions.
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