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Original consciousness is compared to pure rainwater that becomes turbid upon touching the ground. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that "Becoming Polluted" occurs when the soul's desire shifts from serving Kṛṣṇa to lording it over material resources. This contamination manifests as anger, greed, and false ego, eventually degrading individual intelligence and social structures. However, the category also identifies transcendental elements—Kṛṣṇa, the Ganges, and prasāda—that remain unpolluted and serve as the only means to restore our original, distilled purity. | |||
* '''The Ground of Contamination:''' Pure consciousness becomes polluted the moment it develops the desire for material enjoyment and bodily identification. | |||
* '''Social and Administrative Decay:''' When religious principles are neglected or leaders become driven by greed and sudra-like qualities, the entire machinery of government and family becomes polluted. | |||
* '''The Path of Purification:''' Bhakti is the process of cleansing the mind and intelligence, which otherwise become fallen without the constant association of devotees. | |||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Becoming Polluted - The Contamination of Original Consciousness|Becoming Polluted - The Contamination of Original Consciousness.]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:06, 19 January 2026
Theme Analysis
Original consciousness is compared to pure rainwater that becomes turbid upon touching the ground. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that "Becoming Polluted" occurs when the soul's desire shifts from serving Kṛṣṇa to lording it over material resources. This contamination manifests as anger, greed, and false ego, eventually degrading individual intelligence and social structures. However, the category also identifies transcendental elements—Kṛṣṇa, the Ganges, and prasāda—that remain unpolluted and serve as the only means to restore our original, distilled purity.
- The Ground of Contamination: Pure consciousness becomes polluted the moment it develops the desire for material enjoyment and bodily identification.
- Social and Administrative Decay: When religious principles are neglected or leaders become driven by greed and sudra-like qualities, the entire machinery of government and family becomes polluted.
- The Path of Purification: Bhakti is the process of cleansing the mind and intelligence, which otherwise become fallen without the constant association of devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Becoming Polluted - The Contamination of Original Consciousness.
Pages in category "Becoming Polluted"
The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
A
- Advaita Acarya, My spiritual master, should never accept charity from rich men or kings, because if a spiritual master accepts money or grains from such materialists his mind becomes polluted
- Akrodha means to check anger. Even if there is provocation one should be tolerant, for once one becomes angry his whole body becomes polluted
- Akrodhah means to check anger. Even if there is provocation one should be tolerant, for once one becomes angry his whole body becomes polluted. BG 1972 purports
- All ordinary transactions and dealings became polluted with cheating, even between friends
- Although Krsna is the purest of the pure, mundane people, thinking of Krsna's pastimes that appear immoral, themselves become polluted. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore never publicly discussed Krsna's dealings with the gopis
- Apparently Arjuna's intelligence became polluted because otherwise there would not have been a chance to deliver the teachings of Bhagavad-gita for the good of all polluted conditioned souls engaged in material bondage
- As soon as our original consciousness becomes polluted with the consciousness of material enjoyment, that "I want to lord it over the resources of matter..." As soon as we turn our consciousness in this way, then our troubles begin
- As soon as the administrative class is turned into a gang of mercantile and laborer men, the whole machinery of government becomes polluted
B
- Because the system of religion has become polluted, we should not give up religion. That is our prime duty. Dharma hi tasya eka visesa. What is the difference between animal and man? The animal has no religion
- Before Krsna, he (Arjuna) was speaking that, - If I kill my family members, then such-and-such thing will happen. Then the women will become polluted and there will be unwanted children, varna-sankara
K
- Keep it in mind that unless there are four, five devotees experienced, we should not open a center. Because alone he becomes polluted. Without any association, he thinks otherwise and becomes fallen down
- Krsna consciousness is the original consciousness. Now it is polluted. Just like originally when the rain falls, it is pure distilled water. And as soon as touches the ground, it become polluted
M
- Mind and intelligence are already there in the soul, but in the conditional stage the same mind and intelligence become polluted as false egotism or enjoyer. The bhakti process is to purify everything
- My mind is full of lamentation and fear, and it always seeks more and more money. Thus it has become most polluted and is never satisfied in topics concerning You. I am therefore most fallen and poor
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- Since they (the followers of Lord Siva) were present in the sacrificial arena, the atmosphere became polluted, and it had to be sanctified by trikapala oblations, which indicated the invocation of Visnu's favor
- Sometimes the food (from Govardhana-puja) is thrown to the crowds, and they enjoy collecting it off the ground. From this we can understand that prasadam offered to Krsna never becomes polluted or contaminated, even if it is thrown on the ground
T
- That the ksatriyas had killed Parasurama's father was only a plea; the real fact is that because the ksatriyas, the ruling class, had become polluted, their position was inauspicious
- The attempt to directly become the father of Krsna is not recommended. Such a development can become polluted with Mayavada (impersonal) philosophy
- The consciousness of the soul becomes polluted by the material atmosphere, and thus various activities are exhibited in the false ego of bodily identification
- The Ganges waters do not become polluted. Those who are advanced in spiritual understanding will bathe in the Ganges without considering the condition of the water
- The husband, coming under the control of the wife, sacrifices his quality of goodness and becomes subservient to the qualities of passion and ignorance. In this way the whole situation becomes polluted
- The individual atma becomes polluted by sin, but the Lord is never contaminated by sins. The Lord is compared to the powerful sun. The sun is never contaminated by anything infectious because it is so powerful
- The ksatriyas had killed his father was only a plea; the real fact is that because the ksatriyas, the ruling class, had become polluted, their position was inauspicious
- The material world is itself a place always full of anxieties, and by encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more by war, pestilence, famine and many other unwanted calamities
- The president is selected by the votes of ignorant sudras; therefore another sudra is elected, and immediately the entire government becomes polluted
- The senses are transcendental in nature, but their activities become polluted when contaminated by matter
- The words dharmasya glanih mean "irregularities in religion." When there are irregularities, religion becomes polluted
- This (Arjuna decided not to fight) was due to a poor fund of knowledge, and therefore it is said here that his intelligence became polluted
- Thus (when the mind becomes polluted with desires for sense gratification) he begins his material existence, which means that he transmigrates from one body to another and becomes more and more entangled in material existence
W
- What is that glanih? The glanih is when we forget Krsna. Then our activities become polluted. Just like a servant. If he forgets that there is master, then he becomes polluted. He steals, he mismanages things, things become very disordered
- When disobedient leaders lead the disobedient people, the whole atmosphere of the administration becomes polluted and full of dangers, as when a blind man leads several other blind men
- When the mind becomes polluted by desires for sense gratification in the material world, the living entity drops into the material conditions, as explained in this verse - SB 4.29.75