What does Godhead mean?

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What is the meaning of the word godhead? Why did Shubhrant Prabhupad use it? I’m referring to Krishna. And what does the combined phrase supreme personality of godhead mean? Prabhupad himself did not give any specific and, succinct explanation of his usage of the term.

Different Propath disciples have, based on their understanding of Propath’s overall work and mood, given some explanations. My understanding is comparably from understanding given by Tamal Krishna, Maharaj, and. Now the word god headed. Technically, theology refers to the divine nature, the essence of god. A particular moods and in particular senses, which It is used in certain Christian traditions where it refers to Trinity, but that’s a specific usage.

A proper use, the word godhead also refer to refer to a place back home, back to godhead, he would say. So godhead could refer to a state of consciousness that we obtain divine consciousness. But in con in the context of home, it doesn’t refer to seem to refer to a a place. Now overall, the way Prabhupada uses it is that in the in the broad vedic context, it refers to the spiritual nature of God or the highest spiritual level of reality in which God resides and resides. So supreme personality of Godhead, we consider supreme refers to the fact that there are multiple.

There are many divinities at one level, but Krishna is the supreme divinity. Personality emphasizes the idea that god is not impersonal. Prabhupad, you frequently use the word personality more in the sense of personhood. So the normal parlance when the word personality is used, it refers to often the peculiar characters or a specific characteristics of person. He has a he has a domineering personality, or she has a jealous personality or whatever.

She might use like that. He has an unappealing personality or appealing personality. So, generally, it is used in the sense of the defining characteristics of a person, the defining or striking characteristics of a person. But generally use personality in sense of personhood. That means it’s being somebody being a person.

Somebody having a characteristics of a person broadly in general. Not specific or defining characteristics, but the the characteristic of being a person. So that is that obviously refers to the fact that the absolute truth is not impersonal. And then godhead, broadly speaking, refers to the spiritual level of reality where where the divine exists, where, as I said, the divine resides and resides. So in the Christian specific Catholic tradition where or it refers to the trinity, What it means is that the father, son, and the holy spirit, they all three share a divine nature or essence, and thus they are referred to as godhead.

So we could say supreme personality of godhead is broadly referring to the status of being supreme, the status nature of being a person, and, characteristic of being divine. Ropa used the word spiritual much more than divine because divinity in the Vedic tradition can be referred to can be used to refer to various deities. So even the dev task can be considered divine. So Divya, Prohupad translates sometimes divine, sometimes transcendental. So in Prohupad’s parlance, we could say that it refers to the transcendental nature, transcendental and supreme the ultimate reality is transcendental, supreme and personal.

So supreme personality of. Somebody want to say that this refers to Bhagwan, which could be true. However, Bhagwan is one level of realization, one or three levels of realization of. Now When specific meanings have not been given, we could conceivably see certain meanings in those terms which might not have been originally given, but are not contradictory to the overall teaching. So that is with respect to that.

Can this refer to Brahman, Brahman, and Bhagwan? Well, not necessarily because when he’s a personality, it does indicate that he’s not not Brahman. So is it that one supreme personality of all it? Each of these refers to one one of those two, the one, Brahman, Brahman, Bhagwan, unlikely, unless we do some significant conceptual and verbal stretches. But overall, this storm is probably a way of communicating the distinctive nature and position of the ultimate reality within the way the question of tradition.

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