Category:Advancement of Human Civilization
Theme Analysis
Human civilization advances only when it moves toward self-realization and the restoration of the living being's lost relationship with God. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that industry, inventions, atomic energy, and material arrangements cannot define real progress if they make people forget their spiritual nature. A society may appear active and sophisticated, yet without the Lord's blessing it is like decoration on a dead body. True advancement depends on natural wealth, natural food, protection of the social body, control of animal propensities, God consciousness, and the cātur-varṇya system. Human life is the rare opportunity to recognize the presence of God in every living entity and use civilization for spiritual awakening.
- The Goal Is Relationship With God: Advancement of human civilization must lead toward reestablishing the lost relationship with God. This goal is possible only in the human form of life.
- Material Progress Without God Is Empty: Industrial enterprises, atomic energy, and material inventions cannot make civilization advanced if they increase violence, cruelty, and forgetfulness of spiritual identity.
- Civilization Needs Spiritual Order: The cātur-varṇya system and protection of brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, and vaiśyas help society function with a head, arms, and economic support for spiritual progress.
- Human Advancement Means Sense Control: Human beings have animal propensities, but real civilization means controlling them. Sense gratification alone is not human progress.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Advancement of Human Civilization Begins by Restoring Our Relationship With God.
Pages in category "Advancement of Human Civilization"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- A human civilization is advanced when its people follow the catur-varnya system, the system of four orders of life
- Advancement of human civilization depends not on industrial enterprises, but on possession of natural wealth and natural food, which is all supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that we may save time for self-realization
- Advancement of human civilization must be towards the goal of establishing our lost relationship with God, which is not possible in any form of life other than the human
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- Human civilization and all activities thereof must be dovetailed with the supreme blessing of the Lord, and without this blessing all advancement of human civilization is like decoration on a dead body
- Human civilization means we have got so many animal propensities, and if we can control them, that is advancement of human civilization. Just try to understand
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- If you think that you have discovered atomic energy to defend yourself, oh, that is not advancement of human civilization. The defending measure, that's all
- In the age of Kali material activities of different varieties, in the name of advancement of human civilization, take place, and the living entities become more and more involved in forgetting their real identity - the spiritual nature
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you will find everything, whatever is necessity, for the advancement of human civilization. Everything is there described. And knowledge also, all departmental knowledge
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- Materialistic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, cruel to animals and cruel to other human beings. BG 1972 purports
- Modern scientists are proud of their knowledge because they are discovering new methods to dominate the laws of material nature. They think that this is the advancement of human civilization
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- The four stages of advancement of human civilization are religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and, for some, the stage of liberation
- The leaders of the society, if they are serious about advancement of human civilization, they must take to Krsna consciousness, or God consciousness; otherwise, they'll be baffled
- The so-called advancement of human civilization has engaged a human being in the work of an ass
- The whole human civilization is challenged, that we have advanced human civilization, but we are less than animal. We cannot live even peacefully
- The whole materialistic advancement of human civilization is like the decoration of a dead body. Everyone is a dead body flapping only for a few days, and yet all the energy of human life is being wasted in the decoration of this dead body
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- We are serious about how to make our sense gratification very nicely. That is our seriousness. Human advancement, advancement of civilization means how nicely you can gratify your senses. This is going on
- Without knowledge of the presence of God in every living entity, any so-called advancement of human civilization, either spiritual or material, is to be understood as being in the mode of ignorance