Category:Actually Intelligent
Theme Analysis
In the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda, the definition of one who is "actually intelligent" transcends academic qualifications or material cleverness. True intelligence is characterized by the spiritual acumen to recognize the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as the ultimate source of everything. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that an intelligent person does not blindly accept the miserable conditions of material existence—birth, death, old age, and disease—but actively inquires into their cause and seeks the permanent solution through surrender to the Lord. This analysis highlights that real intelligence is demonstrated by engaging in devotional service, chanting the holy names, and understanding the distinction between the automatic workings of nature and the superior spiritual energy.
- Recognizing the Supreme Source: Actual intelligence is marked by the realization that Kṛṣṇa is the origin of all existence. After many lifetimes of inquiry, the truly wise person understands vasudevah sarvam iti—that Vāsudeva is everything—and surrenders unto Him.
- Inquiry into the Existential Predicament: A symptom of intelligence is the refusal to accept suffering passively. The intelligent person asks fundamental questions: "If I am eternal, why am I forced to die? Why am I subject to miserable conditions?" This inquiry, athato brahma jijnasa, marks the beginning of spiritual life.
- Engagement in Devotional Service: Theory culminates in practice; therefore, one who is actually intelligent engages in bhakti-yoga. Regardless of whether one has material desires or seeks liberation, the intelligent path is to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the saṅkīrtana movement and constant chanting.
- Distinguishing Matter from Spirit: Unlike less intelligent observers who believe life arises automatically from matter, the actually intelligent person perceives the soul as the cause of the body's growth and understands the distinct natures of the material and spiritual energies.
- Rejection of Temporary Pleasure: True intelligence involves refraining from flickering sensual enjoyment. Understanding the futility of wandering up and down the planetary systems, the intelligent soul endeavors solely for the transcendental position and the association of pure devotees.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Characteristics of One Who Is Actually Intelligent.
Pages in category "Actually Intelligent"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- After many, many births of sincere inquiry, when he is actually intelligent, he will see, "Oh, vasudevah sarvam iti (BG 7.19). Here is Vasudeva. He is everything." That is stated
- After many, many births, one who is actually advanced in intelligence surrenders unto the Supreme Lord
- Anyone who is actually intelligent can understand that the Supreme Lord Krsna is the source of everything and thus engage in His service
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- If a person is actually liberal and intelligent, he can advance and become perfect in devotional service even if he has material desires and serves the Lord with some motive
- If I am eternal, why there are so many miserable condition of life? And why I am forced to die?" So this is actually the intelligent question
- If such a person actually becomes intelligent, he takes to Krsna consciousness by engaging himself in intense devotional service to Lord Sri Krsna
- In the human form of life, if we are actually intelligent, we shall try our best how to get that life or body where there is no more death, birth, old age and disease. So this Krsna consciousness movement means to educate people for that purpose
- In this way, everyone is thinking that he is very happy, although he is in a horrible and fearsome condition. However, one who is actually intelligent can understand that he is not actually happy, that he is suffering
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- Less intelligent men think that plants and grass grow out of the earth automatically, but one who is actually intelligent and has realized the self can see that this growth is not automatic
- Less intelligent persons do not agree to this great instruction of the Lord, as ill luck would have it, but one who is actually intelligent catches up this sublime instruction and is immensely benefited
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- One who is actually intelligent and has realized the self can see that this growth is not automatic; the cause is the soul, and the forms come out in material bodies under different conditions
- One who is actually intelligent gives up all material desires and engages in the transcendental service of Krsna
- One who is actually intelligent will refrain from the flickering sensual enjoyment of this material body and fix his enjoyment in spiritual life. His participation in spiritual life with the Supreme Lord is called rasa-lila
- One who is actually intelligent, although he may be a devotee free from material desires, a karmi desiring all kinds of material facilities, or a jnani desiring liberation, should seriously engage in bhakti-yoga for the satisfaction of the S P of God
- One who is actually very intelligent must join the Krsna consciousness movement, realizing his own self as an eternal servant of Krsna, and thus practice constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord - Hare Krsna
- Only an animal can give up the practice of chanting Hare Krsna. Those who are not animals but actually intelligent, advanced, human, civilized men cannot give up this practice of continually chanting Hare Krsna
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- Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet (Brahmaloka) down to the lowest planet (Patala)
- Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet (Brahmaloka) down to the lowest planet - Patala
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- The Mayavadi philosophers cannot understand these two prakrtis, or natures - material and spiritual - but one who is actually intelligent can understand them
- The question is that "If I am eternal, why there are so many miserable condition of life? And why I am forced to die?" So this is actually the intelligent question
- The sastras advise, yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi su-medhasah (SB 11.5.32). Every householder, who is actually intelligent should introduce the sankirtana movement home to home and live peacefully in this life and go back to Godhead in the next
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of everything. Everything is emanating from Him. When one understands this fact, he becomes budha, or intelligent. And when one is actually intelligent, budha, bhava-samanvitah
- The transcendental position cannot be attained by wandering up and down from Brahmaloka and Satyaloka to Patalaloka. If one is actually intelligent and learned, he should endeavor for that rare transcendental position
- There are five kinds of liberation, the least important of which is called sayujya, to become one with the Supreme. Devotees don't care for such liberation because they are actually intelligent
- There are so many questions, and the person who is actually intelligent should simply inquire about the supreme source of everything: athato brahma jijnasa
- These four principles (dharma, artha, kama, moksa) form the transcendental path for the less intelligent. Those who are actually intelligent engage in Krsna consciousness, not caring for these four principles of the transcendental method
- They (who are actually intelligent) at once elevate themselves to the transcendental platform which is above liberation
- Those who are actually intelligent, they should not neglect this movement, KC movement. It is the greatest welfare movement for the whole human society to make people God conscious, KC, without which there will be so many troubles. It is already there
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- When actually one becomes intelligent, then the enquiry is: "Why? Why I am put into this miserable condition of life? I do not want this, and it is forced upon me. I do not want to die; death is there. I do not want disease; the disease is there"
- When one is intelligent actually, then he considers that "If I am eternal, why should I accept repetition of birth and death?" That is intelligence