Category:Wholesale
Theme Analysis
The category Wholesale shows how Śrīla Prabhupāda uses the word to describe both complete material consequences and complete spiritual reform. On one side, wholesale slaughter, wholesale criminality, abortion, animal killing, war, and social lawlessness reveal the terrible results of sinful civilization. These are not isolated accidents; they are presented as reactions arranged by material nature when human society becomes intolerably degraded. On the other side, Kṛṣṇa consciousness offers a wholesale solution, a thorough overhauling of human society based on spiritual science, compassion, and cessation of sinful activity. Thus the category contrasts the wholesale destruction created by godless life with the wholesale reform made possible by Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Sinful Civilization Produces Wholesale Reaction: When society tolerates slaughterhouses, abortion, violence, and godless material advancement, the reactions do not remain private. Nature answers through wholesale suffering such as war, famine, pestilence, criminality, and collective fear.
- Wholesale Slaughter Reveals Moral Collapse: Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly connects animal killing and abortion with a degraded human condition. When killing becomes lawful, organized, and ordinary, society loses compassion and prepares its own future destruction.
- Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Offers Wholesale Reform: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is presented as a complete, scientific overhauling of human society. It does not offer a partial adjustment but a spiritual solution to the root principles of disorder.
- Complete Vision Gives Complete Contribution: The word akhila means complete or wholesale, and real contribution comes from one whose vision is clear. Spiritual reform must therefore be rooted in purified vision, not sentimental or piecemeal planning.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Wholesale Reform Through Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Wholesale"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
A
- Akhila-bandha. Akhila. Akhila means complete, wholesale. And who can give this contribution? That is also stated that, atho maha-bhaga bhavan amogha-drk: whose vision is clear
- Americans are now regretting the wholesale criminality of American society and are wondering how America has become so lawless and unmanageable
- Asuras try to pacify the goddess Kali, or Durga, by worshiping her in material opulence, but when the asuras become too intolerable, goddess Kali does not discriminate in killing them wholesale
B
- Brahmanas go to marketplaces where grains are purchased and sold wholesale, and there they collect grains left by the merchants. In this way, such exalted brahmanas maintain their bodies and families
- By nature's law, when there is an unwanted increase in population, kala appears, and by some arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, people are killed wholesale in different ways, by war, pestilence, famine and so on
N
- Nature therefore creates a wholesale slaughterhouse in war, to cut throat all - finished. Many millions and millions are finished
- Now they are killing animals. That is separate from human being. But time will come, the human beings, they will kill themselves, one another. Not only one, two, but wholesale. Daily, millions or thousands will be killed
T
- The devotees are pained to see the hunting and killing of animals in the forest, the wholesale slaughter of animals in the slaughterhouses, and the exploitation of young girls in brothels that function under different names as clubs and societies
- The disturbance of the animal population by wholesale slaughter produces a catastrophic future reaction for the butcher, his land and his government
- The entire American nation has tried to advance in material opulence without striving to produce ideal human beings. The result is that Americans are now regretting the wholesale criminality of American society
- The shock she suffered because of the wholesale killing of her one hundred sons and her grandsons also was certainly too much for a woman. But she suffered all this just like an ascetic
- They can purchase books from the temple at regular wholesale price and sell, and whatever profit there is above wholesale price they must give at least 50% to the local temple out of good will. That will be nice
- They shall operate wherever they are allocated, that they shall only sell books, no collecting without selling books, and that, above the wholesale price of the book, any profit there is must be given at least 50% to the local temple
- This is the purpose of Krsna consciousness movement: wholesale, thorough, overhauling of the human society. We have not manufactured anything, concocted things. It is very scientific