Category:A Man in Knowledge
Theme Analysis
The teachings compiled in this category illuminate the profound characteristics of a true jñānī, or a man in perfect knowledge. As Śrīla Prabhupāda explains, such a person clearly understands the distinction between the eternal soul and the temporary material body, remaining undisturbed by the dualities of happiness and distress. By recognizing the stringent laws of karma and the inevitability of birth, death, old age, and disease, a man in knowledge abandons false material pride and ultimately surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Reality of Karma and Destiny: A person conversant with the reactions of past deeds understands that one cannot be happier or more distressed than what is already destined. This realization brings equanimity, preventing the wise individual from being aggrieved by temporary material incidents.
- The Futility of Bodily Designations: Material achievements such as wealth, fame, and academic qualifications are ultimately useless if they do not lead to spiritual realization. A true man in knowledge rejects the illusion of bodily honor and dishonor, focusing instead on the eternal nature of the soul.
- Conquering the Rogue Senses: The material senses act like thieves that plunder spiritual intelligence and drag the living entity into nescience. Even an intellectually advanced person can fall down if he fails to subdue his senses, making sense control and surrender to Kṛṣṇa essential for attaining supreme peace.
- The Culmination in Devotional Service: Dry philosophical speculation is incomplete without bhakti. After many births of cultivation, the actual man in knowledge realizes that the highest perfection is to become eternally engaged in the loving service of the Supreme Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How a Man in Knowledge Ultimately Surrenders to Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "A Man in Knowledge"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- A faithful man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses quickly attains the supreme spiritual peace. BG 4.39 - 1972
- A jnani knows, "So why shall I bother myself for these temporary designation?" That is jnani. He is jnani. He is man in knowledge
- A man in knowledge, he never commits any mistake lawfully. So he is not a member or subjected to be punished in the prison house, because he has got full knowledge of the law
- A man in perfect knowledge knows that one cannot be happier than he is destined to be. In this material world, everyone is destined to suffer a certain amount of distress and enjoy a certain amount of happiness
- A man with defect in knowledge cannot impart instructions. Therefore the whole Vedic process is parampara system. Parampara system means that I cannot deviate. I cannot make any interpretation
- A person in knowledge should be in, I mean to say, happiness. That is a sign of knowledge. So one who is in knowledge, he is not disturbed
- Anyone who is very much inquisitive and, at the same time, eager to understand his relationship with God, he is called a jnani, a man in knowledge, and he is very dear to Krsna
- As soon as you surrender to Krsna, all this maya, misconception, will go. You'll become right person, in knowledge. That is Krsna consciousness, to become perfect man
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- Even a man in knowledge, he knows that "If I go to prostitute, I'll be attacked with syphilitic poison, and last time I had the same trouble, I had to spend so much money." But still he'll go, because he has no knowledge
- Everyone is subjected to his past deeds, and one who is conversant with the philosophy of karma and its reactions is a man in knowledge. Such a person will not be aggrieved at any incident, happy or miserable
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- I have approached the Supreme, the supreme brain, Krsna. He is the perfect person in knowledge
- If a man is the greatest man in richness, greatest man in power, greatest man in fame, greatest man in knowledge, greatest man in beauty, then where is the impersonality? These are all personal qualification
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- The fact is that man's knowledge should be developed to explore that difference between a living man and a dead man, a living body and a dead body. That spiritual knowledge was imparted by Krsna to Arjuna in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita
- The first category is the brahmana, the man in knowledge. He knows what is the value of life, how life should be directed this way and that way
- The material conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge-who knows that he is not this body-anything, honor or dishonor, pertaining to this body is useless. BG 1972 purports
- The person in knowledge, he must see that, I cannot avoid death, I cannot avoid birth, I cannot avoid old age, I cannot avoid disease so long I have got this material body
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is realized according to the proportion of one's surrender. Full surrender, however, occurs when a man is perfectly in knowledge. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate - BG 7.19
- These senses are compared to rogues and thieves within the forest. They take away a man's knowledge and place him in a network of nescience. Thus the senses are like rogues and thieves that plunder his spiritual knowledge
- Those who are devotees, they are not fools; they are actually a man in knowledge
- Those who are distressed has come to God, and those who are in poverty-stricken has come to God, why they are also welcome? They are welcome because they have come to God, in course of time they will also become as good as the man in knowledge