Category:Success of Human Life
Theme Analysis
In the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda, the human form of life is described as a rare and critical junction in the evolution of the soul, offering the unique opportunity to break free from the cycle of birth and death. Unlike lower species, which are driven solely by instincts of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, the human being possesses the higher intelligence required to inquire into the Absolute Truth. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that true success is not measured by material acquisition or political power, but by the reawakening of one's eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.
- Distinction from Animal Life: The fundamental difference between a human and an animal is the ability to inquire about the purpose of existence; a human life dedicated only to bodily maintenance is considered a wasted opportunity akin to animal life.
- The Ultimate Goal: The specific aim of this existence is to understand one's relationship with God (sambandha), act in that relationship (abhidheya), and ultimately return back to home, back to Godhead (prayojana).
- Role of Authority: Success cannot be manufactured mentally; it requires accepting the authority of the spiritual master (guru) and revealed scriptures (sastra) like Bhagavad-gita to guide one’s activities.
- Practical Application: Perfection is achieved through yajna (sacrifice) and utilizing one's life, wealth, intelligence, and words for the satisfaction of Krsna.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Success of Human Form of Life.
Pages in category "Success of Human Life"
The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
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- All of these seasonal times are considered extremely auspicious for humanity. At such times, one should perform all auspicious activities, for by such activities a human being attains success in his short duration of life
- As far as possible live, for we have got rooms like that. Live there and take little prasadam, and fully devote time how to advance in Krsna consciousness. That is success of life. So it is authorized by the sastras
- As soon as one is cleansed of the dirty things in the heart, then he can understand that, I am part and parcel of Krsna. My duty is to serve Krsna. So let me be engaged in His service and become successful in this human form of life
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- Human life is meant for understanding position of Visnu, and his position, what is the relationship with Visnu, and how to achieve the highest success of life. Sambandha, abhidheya, prayojana
- Human life is meant for yajna, sacrifice for the satisfaction of the Supreme Person. We may perfect our activities, but our success lies in satisfying Krsna by our talents
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- If I take the process, how to get out of this cycle of birth and death, then our human life is successful. This is Krsna consciousness movement
- If one wants to achieve the highest success in life, one must accept Bhagavad-gita as spoken by the Supreme Lord. By accepting Bhagavad-gita in this way, all of human society can become perfect and happy
- If we become intelligent enough to understand the sastras, then our life is successful, human life
- If we know what is our actual aim of life . . . the actual aim of life should be back to home, back to Godhead. Then this human form of life is successful
- If we simply follow these instructions however, spiritual life becomes very simple and we can go back to Krsna in the spiritual world at the end of this life, which is the success of the human life
- In order to know all this transcendental subject matter, it is recommended, "One must approach to the proper guru to understand this subject matter." And that is success of human life
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- One who is faithfully engaged in his own business, particular type of business, janma-labhah parah puman, his human birth, his human life is successful
- Out of many thousands of such persons who have thus attained success in human life, one may know scientifically about the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna
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- People simply work like animals, not knowing how to make a success of human life. One's human life is successful when one understands Krsna; otherwise one remains an animal
- People, they are interested for success of this human form of life. They are called brahmin. And the next class of men, they are interested for political power, next important class
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- That is the success of human form of life, to execute Bhagavata-dharma. Dharma, as we have several times explained, dharma means the codes of Bhagavan
- The Bhagavatam enjoins that even without practicing Deity worship one can achieve the complete success of human life by any of the other devotional processes, such as simply offering oneself at the God’s feet for His protection
- The Bhagavatam enjoins that even without practicing Deity worship one can achieve the complete success of human life by any of the other devotional processes, such as simply offering oneself at the Lord’s feet for His protection
- The person who actually wants perfect fulfillment of the mission of human life should simply worship Lord Krsna, and that will simplify the matter and completely guarantee the success of his human life
- The real success or fulfillment of the mission of human life can be achieved in India, Bharata-varsa, because in Bharata-varsa the purpose of life and the method for achieving success are evident
- The success of human form of life is to understand this thing: our relationship with God. And we should act in relationship with God. Then our success of life will be achieved. This is the main purpose of Krsna consciousness movement
- The success of human life is considered when one fully surrenders his life, his wealth, his intelligence and his words for the benefit of the Lord
- These things (what is the value of life, goal of life, how to revive our eternal life) are to be known, and then your life, human life, is successful. And that chance is present before you in this form of KC movement. Take advantage of it and be happy
- They had the opportunity to take advantage of the contribution of great sages, rsis, to study and to become a successful human being, but you are, by force, dragging them from that attitude to this materialistic way of life. This is violence
- This statement (of SB 6.16.58) is confirmed in Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Adi 9.41). Lord Caitanya said: Everyone born in India, especially as a human being, can achieve the supreme success through the Vedic literature and its practical application in life
- To become successful in this human form of life. The success of human form of life is to understand this thing: our relationship with God
- To understand Krsna is not so easy job. First of all, so many millions and millions of living entities are there. They are not interested. They are just like animals: "Eat, drink, be merry and enjoy." Nobody's interested what is the success of life
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- We are giving them all important Vedic literature, translated into English and other. This is the greatest boon to make human life successful. But if the people want to remain in darkness, then what can we do
- We offer our children the highest opportunity to become trained up in Krsna consciousness very early so as to assure their success in this life to go back to Godhead for sure. That is real affection
- We request that to make your life successful, this human form of life, you practice this Krsna consciousness, or God consciousness. That is the success of life, not to live like animals, simply eating, sleeping, sex intercourse and defense