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This category delves into what Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies as the "real problem of life": the soul's conditioned state of being subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the soul is | This category delves into what Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies as the "real problem of life": the soul's conditioned state of being subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the soul is sanātana (eternal) and pure spirit, it accepts a diseased material condition due to the desire to dominate material nature. This law of nature spare no one; from the tiny insect to the administrative demigods like Lord Brahmā, every living entity within the material universe is subjected to these painful transformations. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that neither mundane science nor pious material activities can stop this cycle. The only path to true perfection is the purification of one's existence through devotional service. By dedicating one's life to the order of Kṛṣṇa, the living entity transcends the laws of material nature and attains an immortal, spiritual body, never again to be subjected to the inconveniences of the material world. | ||
* '''The Real Problem of Life:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that the fundamental struggle for every living being is not political or economic, but the fact that the eternal soul is subjected to birth and death. | * '''The Real Problem of Life:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that the fundamental struggle for every living being is not political or economic, but the fact that the eternal soul is subjected to birth and death. | ||
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* '''The Cause of Subjection:''' The desire to be a controller and the subsequent contact with material nature causes the soul to lack its spiritual identity and accept a temporary, fallible body. | * '''The Cause of Subjection:''' The desire to be a controller and the subsequent contact with material nature causes the soul to lack its spiritual identity and accept a temporary, fallible body. | ||
* '''The Failure of Material Solutions:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that no scientist or material advancement can solve the problem of birth and death; it is a law of nature that cannot be dominated. | * '''The Failure of Material Solutions:''' Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that no scientist or material advancement can solve the problem of birth and death; it is a law of nature that cannot be dominated. | ||
* '''The Path to Immortality:''' By purifying one’s existence and acting according to the directions of the Supreme Lord, the conditioned soul is freed from the chains of | * '''The Path to Immortality:''' By purifying one’s existence and acting according to the directions of the Supreme Lord, the conditioned soul is freed from the chains of karma and regains an eternal, blissful body. | ||
Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Freedom from Being Subjected to Birth and Death|Freedom from Being Subjected to Birth and Death]]. | *Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Freedom from Being Subjected to Birth and Death|Freedom from Being Subjected to Birth and Death]]. | ||
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Theme Analysis
This category delves into what Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies as the "real problem of life": the soul's conditioned state of being subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the soul is sanātana (eternal) and pure spirit, it accepts a diseased material condition due to the desire to dominate material nature. This law of nature spare no one; from the tiny insect to the administrative demigods like Lord Brahmā, every living entity within the material universe is subjected to these painful transformations. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that neither mundane science nor pious material activities can stop this cycle. The only path to true perfection is the purification of one's existence through devotional service. By dedicating one's life to the order of Kṛṣṇa, the living entity transcends the laws of material nature and attains an immortal, spiritual body, never again to be subjected to the inconveniences of the material world.
- The Real Problem of Life: Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that the fundamental struggle for every living being is not political or economic, but the fact that the eternal soul is subjected to birth and death.
- Universality of the Law: No one is exempt from this cycle; even those in the higher planetary systems or the mode of goodness are eventually subjected to returning to the cycle of birth and death.
- The Cause of Subjection: The desire to be a controller and the subsequent contact with material nature causes the soul to lack its spiritual identity and accept a temporary, fallible body.
- The Failure of Material Solutions: Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that no scientist or material advancement can solve the problem of birth and death; it is a law of nature that cannot be dominated.
- The Path to Immortality: By purifying one’s existence and acting according to the directions of the Supreme Lord, the conditioned soul is freed from the chains of karma and regains an eternal, blissful body.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Freedom from Being Subjected to Birth and Death.
Pages in category "Subjected to Birth and Death"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- Being carried away by the waves of nature, and subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. No scientist can stop it. But still, they are very much proud of advancement. They do not know the real problem and how to solve it
- Both of them (those in mode of goodness and those in ignorance) are subjected to the repetition of birth and death. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated that even one who is very pious returns to earth after his enjoyment in the higher planetary systems is over
- By accepting the chain of birth and death, the soul accepts a diseased condition. The soul is not subject to birth, death or disease because it is pure spirit. In BG Krsna says that a soul has no birth - na jayate and that it has no death - mriyate
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- If even the higher planets in this universe are subject to birth and death, why do great yogis strive for elevation to them? Although they may have many mystic powers, these yogis still have the tendency to want to enjoy the facilities of material life
- If I am eternal as God is eternal, then why I am subjected to birth and death? This is real question
- If I am eternal, then why I shall remain in this material body which is subjected to death, birth, old age and disease? Therefore Krsna instructs that this miserable condition of life is due to this material body
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- One who can rise to that position (rising their attention to the top of the head) is understood to have become perfect and to be no longer subjected to birth and death. Even if such yogis come in contact with pure devotees, they also render causeless DS
- One's aim of life should be to go back home, back to Godhead, and not be subjected to repeated births and deaths in the material world by getting good or bad bodies for temporary existence
- Other life forms are also subject to the cycle of birth and death, but when the living entity attains a human life, he gets a chance to get free from the chains of karma
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- Sannyasis who first consider that the body is subject to death, when it will be transformed into stool, worms or ashes, but who again give importance to the body and glorify it as the self, are to be considered the greatest rascals
- Spiritually, when you get your spiritual body, there is no such material inconveniences. The material inconveniences means so long you have got this material body, you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease
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- The body is subjected to birth, death. The body is forgetful. The body is suffering old age. So this is not blissful body. But Krsna's body - just opposite. His body is blissful, full of knowledge, and eternal. So how can you compare with Krsna?
- The body of the ordinary living being is made of material elements and is therefore subject to birth and death. But the Lord's body, being all spiritual and thus eternal, neither takes birth nor dies
- The conditioned soul is subjected to birth and death, either by pious or sinful activities
- The difference (for a devotee) is, however, that for one who surrenders to Krsna fully and who is protected by Krsna, the present body is his last; he will not again receive a material body to be subjected to death
- The life of Lord Brahma covers millions of earth years, yet he is also subjected to birth and death. That is the way of conditional life
- The living entity who is subjected to birth and death attains immortality when he gives up all material activities, dedicates his life to the execution of My order, and acts according to My directions
- The real problem of life, that we are eternal, as eternal as God, but we are subjected to birth and death
- This material world is not for the purpose of the Lord Himself, but is for the conditioned souls who wanted to be controllers due to misuse of their God-gifted minute independence. Thus the conditioned souls are subjected to repeated birth and death
- Those who attain the highest material planets or the planets of the demigods are again subjected to repeated birth and death. BG 1972 purports
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- We are imperfect. Whatever I may be, you may be, but if I am subjected to birth, death, old age and disease, then I am imperfect. Therefore the perfectional..., perfection of life is when you haven't got to take birth or die or become diseased and old
- We have got all the information, that what is the spiritual world, what is the material world, why we are in the material world, why we are subjected under birth, death, old age and disease. So as we go on hearing, nityam bhagavata . . . in the Bhagavata