Category:Against Devotional Service to God
Theme Analysis
Devotional service must be protected from teachings, habits, and authorities that turn the heart away from Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that opposition to devotional service appears in many forms, including impersonalism, false gurus, anti-devotional literature, demonic mentality, and careless decisions that weaken the mission of bhakti. The devotee therefore learns to reject whatever opposes viṣṇu-bhakti and to act only in ways that strengthen service to the Supreme Lord.
- Rejecting Opposition: Those who are against devotional service remain bound within the material world. Opposition to bhakti is not a harmless opinion, because it turns the soul away from its natural service to God.
- False Guidance: A guru who goes against viṣṇu-bhakti must be rejected, even if accepted by social custom. Spiritual authority is genuine only when it leads the disciple toward devotional service.
- Protecting the Bhakti Mission: Temples, teachings, and literature must support devotional service rather than undermine it. Anything against the bhakti cult weakens the purpose for which spiritual institutions exist.
- Devotional Strength: Philosophical attacks cannot disturb the great ocean of devotional service. The devotee remains steady by refusing to act willfully against the bhakti process.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Devotees Reject Whatever Goes Against Devotional Service to God.
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Pages in category "Against Devotional Service to God"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- If one has falsely accepted such a guru (who goes against the principle of visnu-bhakti), one should reject him. Such a guru is described in Mahabharata Udyoga 179.25
- Impersonalists can only mislead their disciples, for their ultimate aim is to become one with the Lord. This is against the principles of the devotional cult
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- Srila Jiva Gosvami has advised that such a useless guru (one who goes against the principle of visnu-bhakti), a family priest acting as guru, should be given up, and that the proper, bona-fide guru should be accepted
- Svarupa Damodara, the Lord’s (Caitanya's) secretary, did not allow him (Bhagavan Acarya) to do so - he wanted to recite a drama before Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu which was against the principles of devotional service written by his friend of Bengal
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- The pure devotee does not endeavor for anything which is against the principles of devotional service. BG 1972 purports
- The word asura refers to one who is against devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu
- Those who are completely against the service of the Lord (Krsna) are considered to be in abject darkness and those who ask for the Lord's favor only at the time of necessity are partial recipients of the mercy of the Lord