Category:Advancement of Material Civilization
Theme Analysis
Material progress becomes dangerous when it promises freedom while leaving the soul bound to repeated suffering. Śrīla Prabhupāda exposes the illusion that comfort, technology, prestige, and economic expansion can substitute for self-realization, because none of them can overcome birth, death, old age, and disease. The real question is not whether civilization can build more, consume more, or travel farther, but whether it can restore remembrance of Kṛṣṇa and free the living being from māyā.
- False Progress: Advancement centered on sense gratification only extends material bondage and increases dependence on temporary arrangements.
- Spiritual Neglect: A civilization that ignores the soul and God may appear dazzling, but its achievements remain like decoration on a dead body.
- Māyā's Expansion: Artificial necessities, pride in technology, and pursuit of material enjoyment deepen forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa.
- The Real Direction: Human energy should be used for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, self-realization, and freedom from the miseries of material existence.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Advancement of Material Civilization Cannot Save the Soul.
Pages in category "Advancement of Material Civilization"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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- A yogi, especially a bhakti-yogi, is callous to the opinions of this material world. He is not interested in traveling to the higher planetary systems of the demigods to enjoy a long life in an advanced materialistic civilization
- Advancement of material civilization on the basis of sense gratification means increasing the duration of the material existence of a living entity. BG 1972 purports
- Advancement of material vision or material civilization is a great stumbling block for spiritual advancement. Such material advancement entangles the living being in the bondage of a material body followed by all sorts of material miseries
- All materialistic men are mad after possessing all these material opulences, and this is known as the advancement of material civilization
- Any aristocracy, any social prestige or any advancement of material civilization without Krsna consciousness is as good as the decoration of a dead body
M
- Material advancement of civilization means advancement of the reactions of the threefold miseries due to celestial influence, earthly reactions and bodily or mental pains
- Material advancement of civilization necessitates creating objects of enjoyment by mental concoction just to become happy on the basis of these two principles: pleasures for the genitals and pleasures for the tongue
- Material civilization is very proud of being advanced, but it is actually the useless trunk of a body without a head
P
- Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge
- Present advancement of material civilisation, in the opinion of the Indian sages, is going in the wrong way because it has neglected the spiritual side of human constitution
- Present advancement of material civilization, in the opinion of the Indian sages, is going in the wrong way because it has neglected the spiritual side of human constitution
T
- The advancement of materialistic civilization is just like a mirage in the desert
- The drug shop is full with various types of up-to-date medicine, but none of the medicine is sufficient to make a man not to die. So this advancement of civilization, material civilization, without God, is like that
- The effect of this advancement of material civilization means stopping one's relationship with God
- The history of the world has factually proved that attempts to increase economic development for bodily comfort through the advancement of material civilization have done nothing to remedy the inevitability of birth, death, old age and disease
- The modern civilization is simply meant for creating unnecessary necessities of life. That's all. So we are becoming deviated from God. The more we are advancing in so-called material civilization, we are more becoming far away from God
- The modern civilization, they are so rascals, they are expecting something utopian, that by material advancement of civilization they will be happy
- The youth of America who are so searching I am very much sympathetic with them and their qualification of detachment to the material advancement of civilization will alone help them to advance in Krishna or God consciousness
- They are very much proud, advancement of material civilization, but instead of gold, we find plastic
- This advancement of material civilization is mayara vaibhava. Therefore the Vedic civilization is voluntarily accepting poverty
- This advancement of material civilization means entrapping the entrapped. The living entity is already entrapped, and he is allured by further entrapment
- Those who are addicted to sex life are also materially advanced because sex life or passionate life is the impetus for the material advancement of civilization
- Those who are bereft of all good sense, or those whose intelligence is withdrawn by the deluding energy of maya, aspire to achieve all sorts of material enjoyment in life 2) by advancing in material civilization under the heading of scientific progress
- Those who are captivated by the illusory advancement of material civilization (following the way of phantasmagoria) are certainly madmen
W
- We can see in the material world that the conditioned soul acts so powerfully that he is playing wonderfully in creating the so-called advancements of material civilization for sense gratification
- When the living entity is a victim of the illusory energy, he works as a great hero in the material world, as a great leader, politician, businessman, industrialist, etc., and his heroic activities contribute to the material advancement of civilization