Category:Activities in the Mode of Passion
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda provides a comprehensive analysis of activities influenced by the mode of passion, describing them as the active engagement in material life driven by intense desire. In this state, the living entity is not inert like in ignorance, but is feverishly engaged in fruitive labor, seeking personal gratification, economic development, and social prestige. While superior to the lethargy of ignorance, the mode of passion is characterized by unlimited longings that bind the soul to the cycle of karma and result in ultimate misery.
- Unlimited Desires and Binding: The fundamental cause of activities in the mode of passion is unsatisfied desire and longing. This unceasing thirst for sense gratification binds the living entity to material fruitive work, forcing them to labor hard for temporary results.
- The Nature of Misery: Unlike the mode of goodness, which brings illumination and happiness, activities in the mode of passion are inherently miserable. Although they may appear dynamic, they ultimately lead to distress because they are disconnected from the spiritual satisfaction of serving the Supreme Lord.
- Perverse Intelligence: Under the influence of passion, one's intelligence becomes misguided. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that such persons often accept irreligion as religion and reject actual spiritual principles, leading to a confused and distorted worldview.
- Renunciation Based on Trouble: Even renunciation can be situated in passion. If one gives up prescribed duties merely because they are difficult, troublesome to the body, or out of fear, this is not true detachment but a reaction born of the mode of passion.
- Evolution from Ignorance: Activities in passion represent a step up from the inertia of ignorance. It is a state of evolution where the living entity begins to act, similar to an animal, but without the purifying knowledge found in the mode of goodness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Nature of Activities in the Mode of Passion.
Pages in category "Activities in the Mode of Passion"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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- According to their previous activities in the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, they (who do not follow rules and regulations of the scriptures out of laziness or indolence) acquire a nature which is of a specific quality. BG 1972 purports
- Activities performed only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord are pure and are not contaminated by the modes of material nature. All other activities are contaminated by the modes of ignorance and passion, as well as goodness
- Afterwards the mode of passion, being generated in due course by material activities of different varieties, becomes prominent, and the living entities are thus involved more and more in ignorance
- Any person who is always desirous of fruitive results in religious or economic activities, whose only desire is sense gratification, and whose mind, life and senses are thus engaged, is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports
- At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and passion, and later - due to the mode of ignorance-matter, its knowledge, and different activities of material knowledge come into play
B
- Because of his past pious activities mixed with devotional service, the first-class living entity is influenced by the mode of passion within his mind
- By pious activities in the mode of goodness one is purified; therefore the sages, who are free from all illusion, are situated in happiness. Similarly, activities in the mode of passion are simply miserable. BG 1972 purports
I
- If by rising early in the morning one can advance his transcendental Krsna consciousness, one should not desist out of fear or because such activities are considered troublesome. Such renunciation is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports
- If these modes (goodness, passion, or ignorance) were not acting, then we would not have observed in the phenomenal world different varieties of activities. These different varieties of activities are conditioned by the different modes of nature
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, the activities of passion, the activities of ignorance
- Intelligence in the mode of passion is always working perversely. It accepts religions which are not actually religions and rejects actual religion. All views and activities are misguided. BG 1972 purports
- It is gradual evolution, from mode of ignorance to mode of passion. And passion, there is little activity. Just like animal, they have got activity
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- The best among the fools who are thus deluded are those who engage in altruistic activities under the spell of the material mode of passion
- The great sage Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, in this material world there are three kinds of activities - those in the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of ignorance
- The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities. BG 14.7 - 1972
- The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities are predominantly products of the mode of passion
- They (contaminated persons) cannot understand that the Vedas deal with activities of the material modes of nature - goodness, passion and ignorance