Category:Young People
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda observes the deep frustration and confusion prevalent among modern young people. Despite having physical beauty, wealth, and access to prestigious universities, Western youths are often bewildered, aimless, and addicted to sinful activities, sometimes degrading themselves to the point of worshiping hogs or becoming hippies. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda sees immense potential in this younger generation. Because their brains are receptive and they are often innocent of deep spiritual offenses, they readily take to the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra. By accepting the strict regulative principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, thousands of young boys and girls have transformed their lives, giving up intoxication, illicit sex, meat-eating, and gambling. Śrīla Prabhupāda considers rescuing these fallen young people from the clutches of maya to be the greatest achievement of his movement and constantly urges his disciples to preach in colleges and schools, emphasizing that these spiritually awakened young people are the ultimate hope for the future of the world.
- The Bewilderment of Modern Youth: Despite massive societal advancements and material advantages, the atheistic education system has left young people frustrated, aimless, and entangled in degraded behaviors.
- Receptivity to the Holy Name: Young people naturally possess receptive brains. Because many were free from the philosophical offenses of older generations, they were easily attracted to the pure chanting of the maha-mantra.
- Transformation and Discipline: By embracing the principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, thousands of previously confused youths have adopted highly regulated, disciplined lives, completely rejecting cheap material thrills and the dictates of maya.
- The Ultimate Future Hope: Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that rescuing these young people and training them to distribute this spiritual knowledge is the primary mission of his movement and the only true hope for society.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Hope for Modern Young People in Śrīla Prabhupāda's Mission.
Pages in category "Young People"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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- All this is going on (worshiping hogs) in a country where the young people have good looking bodies, a great deal of money and so many other advantages over the young people of other nations
- At the present moment, despite so many arrangements by the government for good schools and universities, the civilized countries of the world are producing hippies, young people who are so frustrated that they even worship hogs
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- Because they are on the spiritual platform, they forget the material designation. Young people, they have got brain, receptive
- Boston is a very good city for there are many, many young people and a Hare Krishna Restaurant where we serve delicious Prasadam will be appreciated there
- By the grace of Krishna I have many thousands of disciples, young American and European boys and girls. Many of them have come to me bewildered, rebellious, and addicted to all sorts of sinful activities. Like so many of the young people today
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- I have got ambition to start at least 108 centers. My disciples are already scattered from Hamburg to Tokyo, and from Tokyo to Sydney. And more youngsters are joining us daily in this movement
- I want to see the youngsters in your country to be happy. Everyone wants that, but not only in your country, I want to see everywhere. Because that is the duty of every human being, to give information of highest happiness
- I wanted that many sannyasis would travel widely in the Western countries and preach to the young people, especially in the schools and colleges, and spread our Krsna philosophy in these places
- In the West also, the parents of the young people who join this movement have also become enemies. We have no business creating enemies, but the process is such that nondevotees will always be inimical toward us
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- The atheistic, demoniac education imparted to the young in modern universities is simply producing a bunch of demons with titles
- The disciples of this KC movement do not go to cinemas, restaurants or clubs, and they do not smoke or drink. In European and American countries all these things are available and are very cheap, but these young people are not interested in them
- The spreading of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in the West has become successful because the young people were not offenders
- The young people in the Hare Krsna movement chant the Hare Krsna mantra all the time. If this mantra were material, how long would they chant it
- Their new names are: Bhojadeva das, Taraka dasi and Mukhara dasi respectively. Now it will please me very much if you all can work together nicely and recruit many more young people to join our movement, it is their only future hope
- There are many young people searching after the real path of spiritual realization, and you simply have to make it readily available to them
- Through the Krsna consciousness movement we are trying to train young people to become devotees and return home, back to Godhead by following rigid regulative principles, but our service is appreciated neither in India nor abroad in the Western countries
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- We invited people to our storefront to join in chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, and the Lord’s holy name is so attractive that simply by coming to our storefront in New York, fortunate young people became Krsna conscious
- Western country youngsters giving up illicit sex, intoxication, meat eating and gambling is certainly a great reverse in the activities of maya. Therefore she took advantage of my old age weakness and gave me a death dash
- When we go walking by the beach in the early morning, we see many young people sleeping or loitering there, aimless, confused, and not knowing what to do
- Why the young people go to the university? Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why