Category:Forgetting the Purpose
Theme Analysis
This category diagnoses the fundamental disease of modern civilization: collective amnesia. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while humanity is busy with economic development, scientific advancement, and social adjustment, we have forgotten the *only* reason we were given a human body.
- The Distraction of Details: The quotes highlight how the expansion of "society, friendship, and love"—finding a wife, an apartment, and wealth—gradually erases the memory of our real duty.
- Thieves of Nature: A powerful theme is the concept of the "thief." Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that if we use nature's supplies without fulfilling the spiritual purpose, we are technically stealing from God and will be punished.
- The Sudra Mentality: He attributes this forgetfulness to the prevalence of the śūdra mentality, where human life is equated only with comfort and survival, ignoring the higher mission of self-realization.
- The Solution: The texts clarify that Kṛṣṇa descends specifically to remind us of this forgotten purpose, and our activities (like Gurukula and book distribution) are meant to "revise the nasty situation."
Pages in category "Forgetting the Purpose"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- Actually human life is meant for understanding spiritual values, but because everyone in this age is a sudra, no one is interested. People have forgotten life's real purpose
- Although Bharata Maharaja was awarded the body of an animal, he did not forget what had previously happened due to his purposeful mistake
- Although we are advancing according to such concocted methods, we are forgetting our real purpose
I
- I have very great hope for these travelling parties, our Gurukula school, and all our other projects, that by engaging ourselves in these ways, so long we do not forget the purpose of such activity then we shall very much revise the nasty situation
- If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification and become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation, certainly we become thieves
- If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification we become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation. BG 1972 purports
- If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification, certainly we become thieves, and therefore we are punished by the laws of material nature. BG 1972 purports
- Impelled by false prestige and infatuated by material opulences, human society, instead of striving for Krsna consciousness, creates havoc and disrupts peaceful living. Thus men forget the real purpose of life: to attain the favor of Lord Visnu
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- The Bhagavata says that you can make economic development as far as it maintains your body and soul together. Not that making whole life economic development and real purpose of life forget
- The constitutional position of the living entities are that he is eternally servant of God. That is his position. He's meant for that purpose, but he forgets
- The first combination is with wife, and then we want some apartment or place to live together, then produce children, then we want society; then we want money, wealth. In this way go on increasing, the real purpose of life is forgotten
- The so-called scientific advancement is simply expanding the influence of maya's illusory energy. They're already rascals and fools, and still they are being made rascals and fools. So they're forgetting their real purpose of life