Category:According to Vedic Principles
Theme Analysis
According to the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda, regulated human life based on Vedic principles is not merely a set of dogmatic rules, but a scientific arrangement designed to elevate human consciousness from animalistic propensities to spiritual perfection. The Vedic social structure, known as varnasrama-dharma, divides society into natural occupational and spiritual orders to ensure cooperation, peace, and gradual purification. Every aspect of life—from daily hygiene and marriage to governance and warfare—is codified by scripture (sastra) to guide the conditioned soul toward self-realization. Without these regulations, human life is considered no better than that of polished animals, but by following them, one satisfies the Supreme Lord and achieves the ultimate goal of existence.
- The Scientific Social Structure: Society is organized into four varnas (social divisions) and four asramas (spiritual stages) to facilitate cooperation and spiritual advancement, ensuring that everyone, from the brahmana to the sudra, engages in their prescribed duties for the satisfaction of the Lord.
- Sanctity of Marriage and Family: Family life is a responsible ashram meant for purification, where sex life is restricted to marriage for the purpose of begetting God-conscious children through the garbhadhana-samskara, and where women are respectfully protected.
- Daily Regulative Principles: A civilized human is distinguished by strict standards of cleanliness and spiritual discipline, such as rising early, bathing, worshipping the Deity, and maintaining a hygienic distance between residential quarters and sanitary facilities.
- Enlightened Governance: The ideal state is ruled by a king who follows the advice of learned brahmanas and sastra, ensuring that all citizens perform their respective duties and that the helpless—cows, women, children, and the elderly—are strictly protected.
- The Ultimate Goal: All Vedic injunctions and regulations ultimately aim at one purpose: to remember Narayana (Krsna) and to sever the attachment to material existence, allowing the soul to return home, back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Regulated Human Life According to Vedic Principles.
Pages in category "According to Vedic Principles"
The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total.
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- A pure breeze began to blow at the auspicious time for the appearance of God and when the brahmanas engaging in ritualistic ceremonies ignited their fires according to Vedic principles, the fires burned steadily, undisturbed by the breeze - SB 10.3.1-5
- A woman should always be protected. According to the Vedic rule, there is no scope for a woman's being independent (asamaksam), for a woman cannot protect herself independently
- According to our Vedic principle a brahmana is supposed to accept the four asramas, namely brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa
- According to our vedic principle, a person, especially a Brahmana, should leave home after the 50th year and accept the order of Vanaprastha
- According to our Vedic principle, nobody has got the right to question anyone unless that person is accepted as spiritual master
- According to religious principles, stool, urine, wash water, must be left at a long distance. Attached bathrooms, urinals, may be very convenient amenities of modern civilization, but they are ordered to be situated at a distance from residential quarters
- According to the principles of sanatana-dharma, one must retire from family life after half the duration of life is finished and must engage himself in self-realization
- According to the Vedas, there are two ways of passing from this world-one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns. BG 8.26 - 1972
- According to the Vedic principle, when something is offered to the deities to eat, it is offered in a fire. Therefore a fire sacrifice is necessary in all sorts of ceremonies
- According to the Vedic principles, one should rise early in the morning, take bath, chant Hare Krsna, offer mangala-arati to the Deities, study Vedic literature, take prasada and engage in dressing and decorating the Deities
- According to the Vedic principles, sex should not be indulged in outside of marriage. In human society there is therefore a system of marriage which distinguishes us from the cats and dogs
- According to the Vedic principles, the king should be advised by learned sages, brahmanas and scholars, who advise him according to the injunctions given in the dharma-sastra. The duty of the king is to follow these instructions
- According to the Vedic principles, there are three stages of spiritual advancement, namely, sambandha-jnana, abhidheya and prayojana
- According to the Vedic principles, there must always be a guest in a householder’s house
- According to the Vedic principles, when a worshiper worships a particular demigod, he also conducts some ritual for Narayana, Yajnesvara
- According to the Vedic regulative principles, one has to be celibate before entering a holy place of pilgrimage
- According to the Vedic rites, even in the worship of some demigods like Indra, Brahma, Sarasvati and Ganesa, the system is that in all circumstances the representation of Visnu must be there as yajnesvara, or the controlling power of such sacrifices
- According to the Vedic system of marriage for producing children, every man and woman was enlightened in spiritual knowledge, and at the time of their combination to produce a child, everything was scrutinizingly and scientifically done
- According to the Vedic system, a gift is offered to the spiritual master, which is called guru-daksina. Then the disciple should take to householder life and accept a wife according to religious rites
- According to the Vedic system, a saintly person takes the position of a mendicant so that on the plea of begging something from the householder, he can enter any house
- According to the Vedic system, once being touched by some boy, a girl cannot be married or given to any other boy. Nor would anyone agree to marry a girl who had already thus associated with another boy
- According to the Vedic system, the garbhadhana-samskara, or the ceremony for giving birth to a child, is observed. When the parents engage their minds in the lotus feet of the Lord & in such a state the child is born, naturally good devotee children come
- According to the Vedic system, the samskara, or the reformatory system, is maintained very rigidly. If one fails to observe the reformatory measures current in the family, one is immediately degraded to a lower standard of life
- According to the Vedic system, whenever there is an arrangement for sacrifice, the members participating are offered the juice of the soma plant, which is a kind of life-giving beverage
- According to Vedanta-sutra, we can understand that everything is generated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- According to Vedic conception woman is never offered leadership. But experience has shown that woman's leadership has not been successful
- According to Vedic principle, even one is fallen, he can be raised to the highest standard
- According to Vedic principle, everyone has some authorized duty. The classification is brahmin, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. They are followers of the enjoined duties. Others, they are called pancama; they are out of this core
- According to Vedic principle, the laws are given by Manu. From Manu, the word manusya has come, or "man." And there is Manu-samhita. In the Manu-samhita it is stated that if a man commits murder, then he should be hanged
- According to Vedic principle, the sudras, they should not be given more money, the worker class
- According to Vedic principle, without becoming a brahmana he cannot be accepted as disciple
- According to Vedic principles, a brahmana, an old man, a woman, a child or a cow cannot be killed under any circumstances. Vasudeva stressed that Devaki was not only a woman but a member of Kamsa's family
- According to Vedic principles, a householder, before taking lunch, should go outside and shout very loudly to see if there is anyone without food. In this way he invites people to take prasadam
- According to Vedic principles, a woman cannot have many husbands, although a husband can have many wives
- According to Vedic principles, a woman, a brahmana, an old man, a child and a cow should never be killed
- According to Vedic principles, bones and dung are generally considered very impure. If one touches a bone or stool, he must take a bath immediately. That is the Vedic injunction
- According to Vedic principles, everyone must act according to his classification as brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha or sannyasi
- According to Vedic principles, only a brahmana who is fully engaged in his occupational duties can be initiated. Sudras and women are not admitted to a vaidika initiation
- According to Vedic principles, only the Brahmacaris, the Vanaprasthas, and the Sannyasis are recommended to take to Krishna Consciousness seriously or to get free from the problem of earning money
- According to Vedic principles, sex life cannot be performed without a married life that is sanctioned by religion. Therefore in human society there is system of marriage
- According to Vedic principles, society is divided into four categories - brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra. After dividing society in this way, it is the king's duty to see that everyone executes Vedic principles according to his caste
- According to Vedic principles, the first part of life should be utilized in brahmacarya for the development of character and spiritual qualities
- According to Vedic principles, there are three different types of evidences. Everything must be proved by evidence. So these are primarily three evidences. Pratyaksa, direct perception. Pratyaksa, anumana and sruti
- According to Vedic principles, there must be divisions of human society (catur-varnyam maya srstam (BG 4.13)). There should be brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras, & everyone should learn to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead - tam abhyarcya
- According to Vedic principles, when retiring from family life, one can take his wife with him, for the husband and wife are considered to be one unit. Thus they can both combinedly perform austerities for liberation
- According to Vedic regulations, the ksatriyas were allowed to kill prescribed animals on certain occasions, either to maintain peace in the forests or to offer the animals in the sacrificial fire
- According to Vedic religion, Vedic conception, every planet contains living entities. That is also very natural to conclude because within this material world, everything is made of five elements, gross: earth, water, fire, air, and sky
- According to Vedic scripture, if some of my relatives or father and forefather did not get the body - are in the, what is called, ghost body . . . one has become a ghost
- According to Vedic system, girls 16 years and boys 25, they should be married. There must be difference of age 8 to 10 years. That is nice. And before that none of them should have sex life
- According to Vedic system, there is purificatory process. Janmana jayate sudrah: "By birth everyone is born a sudra." A sudra means without any knowledge and simply full of lamentation
- Amongst the impersonalist school, there are many great logicians and high class scholars. But according to Vedic principles, God realization does not depend on material intelligence or scholarship
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- I wish that the marriage will be suspended for the time being unless the father agrees to this marriage. According to the Vedic system marriage takes place according to the sanction of the parents
- In India there was agitation during Gandhi's political movement because the lowborn classes of men like street-sweepers and candalas are prohibited, according to the Vedic system, from entering the temple. Due to their unclean habits they are prohibited
- In the time of Maharaja Nabhi, a monarch was supposed to govern strictly according to Vedic principles under the guidance of learned brahmanas, who could advise Him according to the standard Vedic scriptures like Manu-smrti and similar sastras
- In Vrndavana the Lord killed many demons, and afterwards He returned to Dvaraka, where according to Vedic principles He married many wives who were the best of women, begot through them hundreds of sons
- It is the duty of the king to rule the citizens according to Vedic principles
- It is the king's duty to see that everyone engages in his occupational duty according to Vedic principles
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- Lord Rsabhadeva entered householder life and lived according to the principles of Vedic knowledge - sruti and smrti
- Lord Sri Krsna established the principles of grhastha life by marrying many wives and begetting many children just to show people in general how to be happy by living according to Vedic principles
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- One may argue that one may achieve the ultimate goal of life - realization of the Supersoul - by practicing the yoga system and ritualistic performances according to the Vedic principles, even without staunch devotion to the spiritual master
- Others interpret in this way: Krsna appeared in order to kill the demons and give protection to the devotees. The first demon to be killed was a woman. According to Vedic rules, the killing of a woman, a brahmana, cows or a child is strictly forbidden
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- People have manufactured so many dharmas, dharma without the principle of God consciousness. So, according to Vedic principle, that is not dharma
- Pleased to see their wives back home, the brahmanas sat together with them and executed the performances of sacrifices, as enjoined in the sastras. According to Vedic principle, religious rituals must be executed by the husband and wife together
- Pradyumna's chariot was being driven by the son of Daruka. According to Vedic military principles, the chariot driver and the hero on the chariot must cooperate during the fighting
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- Regarding sannyasa, yes, according to Vedic principles, as a married man, you must give your wife at least one boy child
- Regulated for cooperation among communities according to the Vedic principles
- Regulated human life according to the Vedic principles
- Regulated human life according to the Vedic principles, which are based on the system of knowledge called Sankhya philosophy, is the real way of enjoyment of the necessities of life
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- Since only a person who is completely educated according to the principles of Vedic knowledge deserves to be commander-in-chief, ruler of the state, the first to chastise and the proprietor of the whole planet
- So according to Vedic principles, the kings were very much highly trained to see how the people are advancing in the spiritual knowledge
- So the Vedic, according to the Vedic system, there is no equal right of the man and woman. The woman is always subordinate
- Sukadeva Gosvami said: In Vrndavana the Lord killed many demons, and afterward He returned to Dvaraka, where according to Vedic principles He married many wives who were the best of women, begot through them hundreds of sons
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- The abhiseka ceremony for the goddess of fortune was performed according to the regular Vedic principles
- The first basic principle of religious life, according to Vedic principle, the students are expected to go to the spiritual master's place and learn how to live without any sex life. For twenty-five years or at least for twenty years
- The process of reception according to Vedic rites is not at all dry
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, who is the original Narayana and eternal friend of all living entities, thus worshiped the sage Narada according to Vedic regulative principles
- They (the gopis), according to Vedic principle, it is sinful (going to a young man). But because it was related with Krsna, they became purified. That means any way, if one comes in contact with Krsna, he becomes purified. Even though he's sinful
- Those (brahmanas) who were not married were given wives, maidservants, grain, silver, utensils, garments, jewels, household furniture, chariots, etc. This charity was nicely performed as a sacrifice according to the Vedic rituals
- Three kinds of evidences. So pratyaksa and aitihya is neglected. According to our Vedic system, sruti-pramana, if it is statement, the statement is there in the sruti, in the Vedas, then we accept