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'''Theme Analysis''' | |||
This category collects Śrīla Prabhupāda's definition of true intelligence. He explains that intelligence is not merely academic ability, but the sharp discrimination required to distinguish between the temporary and the eternal. The central theme urges the living entity to use their intelligence to reject material misery and surrender to Krsna immediately. | |||
* '''Recognizing Material Misery:''' True intelligence is the ability to perceive the bitter taste of material existence and refuse the illusion of temporary happiness. | |||
* '''The Urgency of Surrender:''' An intelligent person does not wait for millions of births to evolve; realizing that Krsna is the ultimate goal, they surrender immediately. | |||
* '''The Intelligent Action:''' In the age of Kali, intelligence is demonstrated by performing sankirtana-yajna rather than useless rituals or material endeavors. | |||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:If One Is Intelligent He Surrenders to Kṛṣṇa|If One Is Intelligent He Surrenders to Kṛṣṇa.]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:36, 24 December 2025
Theme Analysis
This category collects Śrīla Prabhupāda's definition of true intelligence. He explains that intelligence is not merely academic ability, but the sharp discrimination required to distinguish between the temporary and the eternal. The central theme urges the living entity to use their intelligence to reject material misery and surrender to Krsna immediately.
- Recognizing Material Misery: True intelligence is the ability to perceive the bitter taste of material existence and refuse the illusion of temporary happiness.
- The Urgency of Surrender: An intelligent person does not wait for millions of births to evolve; realizing that Krsna is the ultimate goal, they surrender immediately.
- The Intelligent Action: In the age of Kali, intelligence is demonstrated by performing sankirtana-yajna rather than useless rituals or material endeavors.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: If One Is Intelligent He Surrenders to Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "If One Is Intelligent"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- If one is a little intelligent he can cultivate Krsna consciousness and be freed from the miserable conditions of material life
- If one is intelligent enough to take instructions from the SP of Godhead, as enunciated in Bhagavad-gita or the Sankhya philosophy of Kapiladeva, one can very soon attain liberation and be situated in his original position of spiritual life
- If one is intelligent enough, he will understand by association of sadhus that this material life is not happy at all, but we want happiness. That is a fact. Every one of us, we are searching after happiness
- If one is intelligent enough, if he has got actually the bitter taste of this material world, he'll never agree. But those who have not advanced to such knowledge, oh, they think, - Oh, this material enjoyment is very nice
- If one is intelligent to apply his arguments and logic to the subtle understanding of the fundamental spiritual substance, he'll be able to know that a poor fund of knowledge on the basis of material logic can't help one understand the Absolute Truth
- If one is intelligent, he can think of his wife's body as nothing but a lump of matter that will ultimately be transformed into small insects, stool or ashes
- If one is intelligent, let him perform service to the government, and after paying the government, he can spend whatever money is left
- If one is intelligent, then his intelligence is used for wrong things. Duskrtina. Krtina. Krtina means intelligent, but duskrtina, badly intelligent, for doing wrong things
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in Bhagavad-gita, everything is there about Krsna. Anyone can understand if he's little intelligent. And as soon as you understand Krsna, then you are liberated person
- Instead of spending money unnecessarily on performing yajnas impossible to perform in this age of Kali because of the scarcity of yajnika-brahmanas, one who is intelligent performs sankirtana-yajna
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- The transcendental position cannot be attained by wandering up and down from Brahmaloka and Satyaloka to Patalaloka. If one is actually intelligent and learned, he should endeavor for that rare transcendental position
- To come to that Krsna consciousness rightly and surrender to Krsna, it takes many millions of births. But if one is intelligent, if this is the ultimate goal, that one has to come to this point, to surrender to Vasudeva, why not do it immediately?