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* '''Preaching Cannot Be Stopped:''' The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement cannot be checked by asuras or men of Kaṁsa's class because Kṛṣṇa and His movement are non-different. If devotees dedicate life and soul to spreading it, the movement goes forward without limits. | * '''Preaching Cannot Be Stopped:''' The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement cannot be checked by asuras or men of Kaṁsa's class because Kṛṣṇa and His movement are non-different. If devotees dedicate life and soul to spreading it, the movement goes forward without limits. | ||
* '''Love and Surrender Are Always Possible:''' If one wants to love God or surrender to Kṛṣṇa, no material circumstance can stop that desire. Eagerness for Kṛṣṇa is the essential qualification, and it can be cultivated in any position. | * '''Love and Surrender Are Always Possible:''' If one wants to love God or surrender to Kṛṣṇa, no material circumstance can stop that desire. Eagerness for Kṛṣṇa is the essential qualification, and it can be cultivated in any position. | ||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Cannot Check Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Material Circumstances|Cannot Check Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Material Circumstances.]] | * Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Cannot Check Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Material Circumstances|Cannot Check Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Material Circumstances.]] | ||
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Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that material destiny, death, old age, sinful reactions, social upheaval, and the laws of nature cannot be checked by ordinary human arrangements. Governments, relief funds, family planning, police vigilance, and material plans may address symptoms, but they cannot stop the deeper forces of karma and material nature. Yet devotional service, love of God, surrender to Kṛṣṇa, preaching, and saṅkīrtana-yajña cannot be checked by material circumstances when performed sincerely and without ulterior motive. This is the meaning of apratihata: Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be practiced in any condition because it belongs to the soul's eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.
- Devotional Service Is Uncheckable: Bhakti must be ahaitukī and apratihatā, without motive and without obstruction. When devotional service is sincere, sickness, hardship, social position, or external conditions cannot prevent the soul from serving Kṛṣṇa.
- Material Laws Cannot Be Stopped: Death, old age, destiny, sinful reactions, and nature's transformations cannot be checked by human plans. The living being must recognize superior authority and seek shelter beyond material arrangements.
- Preaching Cannot Be Stopped: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement cannot be checked by asuras or men of Kaṁsa's class because Kṛṣṇa and His movement are non-different. If devotees dedicate life and soul to spreading it, the movement goes forward without limits.
- Love and Surrender Are Always Possible: If one wants to love God or surrender to Kṛṣṇa, no material circumstance can stop that desire. Eagerness for Kṛṣṇa is the essential qualification, and it can be cultivated in any position.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Cannot Check Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Material Circumstances.
Pages in category "Cannot Check"
The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
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- Ahaituki, apratihata. Devotional service must be without ulterior motives; then material conditions cannot check it
- Although the Krsna consciousness movement and Krsna are not different and no asuras can check it, we are afraid that at any moment the asuras can stop this movement in any part of the world
- Although the Kumaras were right in such acts of refusal (refusal to generate progeny, in order to aim at liberation), Brahma, being absorbed in the mode of passion, could not check his passionate anger
- As Krsna could not be killed by Kamsa, this (Krsna consciousness) movement cannot be checked by men of Kamsa's class
B
- Because it (sex urge) is an old habit we are unable to check it unless we can understand the nature of feeling, willing and then action, and how by proper use of intelligence and prevent thoughts which must come from maturing into actions
- Because people are without Krsna consciousness, they have become thieves, and consequently they are being punished by the laws of material nature. No one can check this, not even by introducing so many relief funds
- Bhakti, or devotional service is not such a thing which can be checked. "Sir, I was feeling very sick, therefore I could not chant." No, that is not bhakti. We are subjected to all these tribulations utterly
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- Generally we go to temple or perform religion with a motive, some material purpose. But bhakti should be without any motive, ahaituki, no cause. Apratihata, and it cannot be checked
- God's servant has got the right to go anywhere. Nobody can check. If he checks, then he'll be punished. Because everything belongs to God
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- He (Prahlada Maharaj) didn't care about his father's attempts to make him suffer. That state of existence is called apratihata: if you want to execute KC, your material condition of life cannot check it. That is the real platform of progress
- He must be conscious that - I do not want all these things, miserable condition of life, and they are enforced upon me. I cannot check them; they are coming. No, there must be somebody superior whose law is being forced
- Here is child. You cannot check to become young man. That is not in your power. She must become or he must become
- Householders who beget children without restriction, like weeds in the rainy season, become solitary as soon as they attain to the stage of devotional service. The family planning of a godless civilization cannot check weedlike unwanted population
- How the Deity will be kept from being mishandled or kept in a dirty place or even thrown away at the whim of the child? You cannot always check her. Therefore to such a small child the Deity of Lord Jagannatha should not be given
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- I can also pass away at any moment. That is nature's law. Nobody can check it. So that is not very astonishing, but my appeal to you on this auspicious day of the departure of my Guru Maharaja, that at least to some extent you have understood the essence
- If the Americans remain godless in the name of so-called trust in God, they will not be able to check this communistic movement
- If the devotees continue to spread this movement, dedicating life and soul to the lotus feet of Krsna, no one will be able to check it. The movement will go forward without limits. Chant Hare Krsna
- If you are determined that "I shall always chant Hare Krsna mantra," nobody can check. But we do not feel so much attached to the chanting. Therefore it is checked
- If you want to become devotee of God, Krsna, no material things can check
- If you want to love God, there is nothing throughout the whole world which can check you. Simply you have to develop your eagerness: "Krsna, I want You." That's all. Then there is no question of checking
- If you want to surrender to Krsna, there is no checking, there is no hindrance. You can do it in any position. You can do it
- In America you are all fortunate. You have got very nice roads, very nice cars, very nice skyscraper building, government, food, everything very nice. But in due course of time everything can be taken away. You cannot check it
- In any condition we can execute this yajna, sankirtana-yajna. There is no need of money. Ahaituky apratihata. This sankirtana-yajna is so nice that it cannot be checked by any material condition
- In our daily experience we find so many transformations of matter from one form to another, but we do not lament such changing features. the force of divine energy is uncheckable, and thus there is no cause of grief
- In this world, in this temporary material world, the spiritual energy is there. That is prominent. But it is covered by the material energy. Just like there is sunshine - sunshine, nobody can check - but it is sometimes covered by cloud
- Instead of wasting your time trying to change your economic condition or material destiny apart from Krsna consciousness, you should employ your priceless human energy for attaining Krsna consciousness, which cannot be checked
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- Loud (kirtan), they are very good. How can you stop it? As soon as you chant, somebody... That you cannot check. You may stop mrdanga. That's all
- Love means without any personal profit. If I love God for some profit, that is business; that is not love. Ahaituky apratihata. And such love of God cannot be checked by any material cause
O
- On the full moon there are some spots which may appear to be pockmarks. Still, the illumination spread by the full moon cannot be checked. Similarly, a little fault in the midst of volumes of devotional service is not at all to be counted as a fault
- Ordinarily destiny cannot be checked. Therefore instead of wasting your time for change your economic condition or material destiny, you employ this energy for Krsna consciousness. That cannot be checked
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- The cult of Krsna consciousness, based on the nine principles of devotional service will never be stopped. It will go on without distinction of caste, creed, color or country. No one can check it
- The fire can be extinguished only by the mercy of the Lord, who sends clouds to pour water on the forest. Similarly, undesirable happenings in life cannot be checked by any number of plans
- The government cannot check the resultant actions of sinful life, namely war, pestilence, famine, earthquakes and similar other disturbances
- The members of a demoniac civilization endeavor to make their living conditions very comfortable, but they cannot check death. The influence of the Sudarsana cakra will not allow their so-called material happiness to endure
- The same judge who gave the verdict cannot check it. But if the man begs for the mercy of the king, the king can check the execution. He can go totally above the law
- The so-called philosophers, they simply concoct ideas, "I believe. I believe." Whatever you believe, that is your business, but the ruling of the Supreme Lord must go on. You cannot check it. You cannot avoid it
- To cross over the material world is to cross over the stringent laws of material nature. The stringent laws of material nature cannot check the progress of one who is attracted by the spiritual nature. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita
- Try to understand the philosophy (read 'Nectar of Devotion' repeatedly) nicely & spread it to your best capacity so that these suiciding men can be saved as far as possible. It is not, however, possible to check the suiciding policy of the modern society
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- We have to understand that fighting spirit is there in everyone. You cannot check it, you cannot stop it. We do not say stop. The Mayavadi philosopher says that "You stop this thing," but that is not possible. You cannot stop
- We should remember saubhagam, opulence, can be taken away in due course of time. You cannot check it
- When I heard the sound of Krsna's flute, I tried to hide myself from the reaction of the vibrations. But still I could not check the trembling of my body
- When Krsna desires that "This man should be killed now," or "He must die now," nobody can check. Rakhe krsna mare ke mare krsna rakhe ke. If Krsna desires to kill somebody, nobody can give him protection - no power