Category:Advised In the Scriptures
Theme Analysis
Scriptural advice gives the conditioned soul a higher intelligence than ordinary social habit, material calculation, or personal preference can provide. Śrīla Prabhupāda presents śāstra as the merciful voice of Kṛṣṇa, guiding the living entity from pravṛtti-mārga toward nivṛtti-mārga, from sense enjoyment toward devotion, and from scattered worldly duties toward the real aim of human life.
- Scriptural Authority: Śāstra does not merely give religious sentiment; it gives authoritative direction for every stage of life. When the living entity accepts this guidance, duty becomes connected with Kṛṣṇa rather than with personal ambition.
- Devotional Direction: The scriptures advise chanting, worship of the arcā-vigraha, association with sādhus, and steady remembrance of Kṛṣṇa. These practices awaken attachment for the Supreme Personality of Godhead and gradually free the heart from material dependence.
- Regulated Detachment: Śāstra teaches that the body should be maintained, but not worshiped through unnecessary expansion of comfort. By accepting only what is needed for service, one weakens the tendency for sense gratification and strengthens spiritual purpose.
- Human Life's Aim: The human form is meant for pursuing the highest substance, love of Godhead. Scriptural advice therefore directs the sober person to use this rare opportunity for realizing Kṛṣṇa and returning to Him.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Advised In the Scriptures - By Following Śāstra One Learns the Real Aim of Life.
Pages in category "Advised In the Scriptures"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- A devotee may not be expert in materialistic activities. It is therefore advised in the sastra that materialistic activities are not at all suitable for the living entities, especially the devotees
- As meditation on any form of the Lord is valuable, so is chanting of different names of the Lord, such as Hari, Govinda and Narayana. But in this age we are especially advised to chant the Hare Krsna mantra as enunciated in the sastra
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- In all the sastras they advise that to associate with the sadhu
- In all the Vedic scriptures, faith in the Supreme is advised. In the pursuit of all Vedic instructions, the ultimate goal is the understanding of Krsna. No one can obtain success without following this principle. BG 1972 purports
- In essence the grhastha should be engaged in occupational duties advised by the spiritual master and sastra. Specifically a grhastha should engage in agricultural activities to earn money
- In the material world, every living entity has a desire to lord it over the material world as much as possible. This is called pravrtti-marga. All the sastras, however, advise nivrtti-marga, or release from the materialistic way of life
- 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 the Vedic scriptures, the neophyte devotees are advised to engage in nine kinds of devotional service
- Increased attachment for the Supreme Personality of Godhead is advised in all sastras. That is the only way of detachment from material existence and is explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.59) as param drstva nivartate
- Instructions from family members and society should be accepted superficially, but in essence the grhastha should be engaged in occupational duties advised by the spiritual master and sastra
- It is advised in the authorized scriptures that a brahmana may, under awkward circumstances, accept the profession of a ksatriya or even a vaisya, but never is he to accept the profession of a sudra
- It is advised in the scriptures that the householders should treat the mendicants as their family children and should provide them with food, clothing, etc., without being asked
- It is advised in the Vedic scriptures that one should perform yajnas to appease the demigods. But one who is devoted to the Supreme Lord has no need to appease the demigods
- It is the duty of every sincere devotee to accept the arca-vigraha at home or in the temple and worship the form of the Lord as advised in authorized scriptures and directed by the spiritual master
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- Sadhu, saintly person, or a spiritual master or the scripture, what do they advise? As it has been stated, that by the instruction of saintly person, by the instruction of spiritual master, one gets out of this kicking problem
- Sadhu-sanga, sadhu-sanga-sarva-sastre kaya: this is the advice of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. All sastras advise us to associate with a sadhu. Even Canakya Pandita, the great politician, recommended: tyaja durjana-samsargam bhaja sadhu-samagamam
- Sadhu-vaidya, sadhu, saintly person, or a spiritual master or the scripture, what do they advise? The instruction is very simple, that you give up the service of this sense gratification - you just engage yourself to the service of Krsna
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- The living entity is suffering due to his ignorance of the hidden treasure of his Supreme Father, Krsna. That treasure is love of Godhead, and in every Vedic scripture the conditioned soul is advised to find it
- The revealed scripture advises that, "You have to maintain your body. That's all right. But for simply material comforts you should not devote time more than it is absolutely required." That means don't increase your bodily necessities
- The sastras advise that a living entity should accept only those sense-enjoyable objects necessary for the upkeep of the material body and reject those that are just for sense gratification. In this way he will reduce the tendency for sense enjoyment
- The sastras advise that when such a woman (who is attractive and has a beautiful face and sweet voice) comes to serve a man, she should be considered to be like a dark well covered by grass
- 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
- Thus it is the duty of every sincere devotee to accept the arca-vigraha at home or in the temple and worship the form of the Lord as advised in authorized scriptures and directed by the spiritual master
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- Various sastras advise that for material convenience one should keep his wife always satisfied by giving her ornaments and by following her instructions. In this way there will be no trouble in family life
- Vedic scripture, advises you manusyam artha-dam apiha dhirah. But if you are dhira - dhira means sober, intelligent - then how you shall utilize it? You should try to utilize your this human form of life to achieve the highest substance very soon