Category:According to Vedic Culture
Theme Analysis
In the vision of Śrīla Prabhupāda, a civilized human society according to Vedic culture is not merely a social arrangement but a scientifically designed structure meant to elevate human beings from animalistic propensities to spiritual realization. This culture is rooted in the authority of the Vedas and is characterized by a distinct social hierarchy based on qualification rather than birth. The central focus is the protection of the vulnerable—cows, women, children, brahmanas, and the elderly—and the progressive regulation of sense enjoyment, particularly sex life, to facilitate the ultimate goal of self-realization and liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
- Social Divisions by Qualification: Society is divided into four varnas (social orders) based on qualities and work, not birth. A true brahmana is characterized by gentleness and learning, while the other classes follow specific duties to maintain social harmony.
- Protection and Chastity of Women: Vedic culture mandates that women must always be protected by a male family member—father, husband, or son—and never remain independent. Chastity and faithfulness to one's husband are upheld as the highest virtues.
- Restricted Sense Gratification: Unlike modern civilization which often encourages unrestricted indulgence, Vedic culture strictly regulates sex life, permitting it only within marriage for the purpose of begetting God-conscious children.
- Progressive Spiritual Stages: Life is divided into four asramas: student life (brahmacarya), household life (grhastha), retired life (vanaprastha), and renunciation (sannyasa), ensuring that one prepares for spiritual liberation by the age of fifty.
- Agrarian Economy and Real Wealth: True wealth is defined by the possession of food grains and cows, which are gifts from God, rather than by industrial development or paper currency.
- The Divinity of Leadership: The king or head of state is respected as a representative of the Supreme Lord, charged with the sacred duty of protecting all citizens, including animals, from harm.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Civilized Human Society According to Vedic Culture.
Pages in category "According to Vedic Culture"
The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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- A Brahmin, according to Vedic culture, a Brahmin is considered . . . Brahmin means vidya-vinaya-sampanne. He is very gentle and very learned. That is the first qualification of Brahmin. Not by birth but by qualification
- According the the Vedic culture a woman is always to be protected by a man
- According to the Vedic culture, a woman is not supposed to be naked before anyone except her husband. Therefore, because these men wanted to see Draupadi naked in that great assembly, they were all rascals
- According to the Vedic culture, brahmanas do not possess anything, whereas ksatriyas possess riches, but only for performing sacrifices and other noble activities as prescribed in the Vedic injunctions
- According to the Vedic culture, one is rich if he possesses a large stock of food grain and a very large number of animals. Dhanyena dhanavan gavaya dhanavan: one is rich if he possesses food grain, cows and bulls
- According to the Vedic culture, one should be trained in spiritual understanding as a brahmacari before entering household life to beget children. This is the Vedic system
- According to Vedic culture a girl must be married. This is the responsibility of her father. A girl may be given in charity, and a husband may have more than one wife, but a girl must be married. This is Vedic culture
- According to Vedic culture one has to take leave of his family members just after his fiftieth year so that the balance of his life may be completely devoted in search of Krsna consciousness
- According to Vedic culture one must give up association of woman which is known as renunciation or sannyas. For Krishna's sake Lord Chaitanya gave up the association of his wife, although she was never against Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- According to Vedic culture one must give up association of woman which is known as renunciation or sannyasa
- According to Vedic culture, a wife is considered the property of her husband, and a son born by illicit sex is called dvaja. The common word still current in Hindu society for such a son is dogla
- According to Vedic culture, a woman must accept the husband given to her by her parents and remain chaste and faithful to him. Therefore King Saryati was surprised to see a young man by the side of Sukanya
- According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed
- According to Vedic culture, anyone who does not follow the regulative principles observed by the higher castes (the brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas) or even those observed by the laborer class (the sudras) is called a mleccha or yavana
- According to Vedic culture, destroying the undeveloped embryo of the soul in the womb is as sinful as killing a cow or a brahmana
- According to Vedic culture, even if a young woman is given an old husband, she must respectfully serve him. This is chastity. It is not that because she dislikes her husband she may give him up and accept another. This is against Vedic culture
- According to Vedic culture, every respectable family has an acarya, or spiritual master
- According to Vedic culture, first protection: to the cows, to the women, to the brahmanas, to the children and to the old man. This is the first business of the government, to give protection
- According to Vedic culture, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. No one can manufacture these things in man-made factories, however scientifically advanced people may be
- According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. Spiritually cultured men feel obliged to the Lord when they get sufficient natural foodstuffs by the grace of the Lord
- According to Vedic culture, one has to judge by the result. Not by if you simply talk nonsense, one has to accept
- According to Vedic culture, one should leave home as soon as he has reached fifty years of age; one should not live at home and go on producing children
- According to Vedic culture, sex life is restricted
- According to Vedic culture, the body is burned into ashes. So when the body is burned into ashes, who is coming again and paying him back? "Don't think about it. Everything is finished." This is the atheistic knowledge
- According to Vedic culture, the higher class, in every home there is narayana-sila for worship, especially of the brahmins
- According to Vedic culture, the king is honored as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he represents Narayana, who also gives protection to the citizens. He is therefore natha, or the proprietor
- According to Vedic culture, there are four stages of life: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa. Brahmacari is student life devoted to training in spiritual understanding
- According to Vedic culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children, that's all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is already natural psychology for that
- According to Vedic culture, white teeth are very much appreciated. Devahuti's white teeth increased the beauty of her face and made it look like a lotus flower
- According to Vedic culture, woman is never to remain independent
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- Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body
- Everyone has the propensity for sex life, but in demoniac civilization sex is enjoyed without restriction. According to Vedic culture, sex is enjoyed under Vedic instructions
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- For a young girl to leave the care of husband, father, and go to another young boy, according to Vedic culture, it is the most abominable. So still, because, it was, the center was Krsna, it is accepted as the highest type of worship
- For spiritual advancement, according to Vedic culture, sex indulgence is always restricted
H
- He (Caitanya) accepted the King's son directly as the son of Maharaja Nanda, Vrajendra-nandana Hari. This is perfect vision according to the direction of the Vedic culture
- How to increase sex desires. This is not civilization. Civilization is how to cut down sex desire and ultimately become free, paramahamsa. That is civilization according to Vedic culture
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- The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya
- The poverty-stricken condition is a kind of austerity. According to Vedic culture, therefore, the brahmanas, as a matter of routine, keep themselves in a poverty-stricken condition to save themselves from the false prestige of material opulence
W
- We don’t accept any source of knowledge which is not authorized. So according to Vedic culture the Vedas are the authorities. Therefore among the learned circle even at the present age, if you can give evidence from the Vedas, then the truth is accepted
- We offer them the sacred thread although they are born, according to Vedic culture, in the families of other than Brahmanas or even than the Sudras
- Without being married, according to Vedic culture, no man or woman can mix very intimately. That is even in the ordinary dealings
- Woman requires protection. According to Vedic culture, woman has no independence. Because they cannot keep their independence. It is not possible