Category:Animalistic
Theme Analysis
To be animalistic means to operate entirely within the bodily concept of life, completely ignoring the existence of the eternal spirit soul. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the modern world has mistakenly defined progress in terms of economic development and increased sense gratification. However, because these endeavors simply refine the basic activities of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, they are entirely animalistic. A man without religion, who uses his higher intelligence merely to further these lower propensities, is fundamentally no different than a two-legged beast. The tragic irony of modern education is that it trains people exclusively for this animalistic lifestyle, leaving them utterly incapable of answering the most important questions of human existence: "Who am I? Why am I suffering?"
A significant theme in this category is the severe consequences of remaining in this degraded state. Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that nature does not excuse a human being for living like an animal. Those who refuse to elevate their consciousness are subjected to immense suffering, including punishment in hellish planets like Mahāraurava. Furthermore, when an entire society becomes grossly animalistic, nature ultimately responds with total dissolution. To counteract this, Śrīla Prabhupāda presents the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement as the ultimate educational and purificatory institution. Through the chanting of the mahā-mantra (saṅkīrtana-yajña) and association with mahātmās (great souls), the dirty things accumulated in the heart over lifetimes of animalistic existence are cleansed, allowing true, enlightened human civilization to flourish.
- The Bodily Concept: Believing that the self is the physical body is the foundation of the animalistic mentality. This ignorance prevents any true spiritual culture or understanding.
- Misdirected Intelligence: Man is considered a "rational animal," but when he uses his rationality only to increase bodily comforts rather than seeking liberation, his education is purely animalistic.
- The Failure of Economics: Despite vast economic development globally, society remains chaotic and deeply unhappy because people's dealings with one another are based on animalistic envy rather than spiritual equality.
- The Supreme Cure: The only way to save human society from the dangers of animalism is to cleanse the heart through the systematic process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, specifically the chanting of the holy names.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Curing the Animalistic Mentality Through Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Animalistic"
The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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- A civilization which is based on these (eating, sleeping, defending and mating) activities should be known to be animalistic
- A man without religion is nothing but an animal and being every man is irreligious, therefore, the whole human society is certainly animalistic
- According to the Vedic sastras, everything must be done according to regulative principles, but here it is stated that the thieves and rogues devised their own process for killing an animalistic man
- After this, all the thieves, according to their imaginative ritual for killing animalistic men, bathed Jada Bharata, dressed him in new clothes, decorated him with ornaments befitting an animal, smeared his body with scented oils
- An animal does not know that he is subject to death or that he is going to have to take another body. Human life, however, should be more elevated. One should not simply be interested in the animalistic functions of eating, sleeping, defending and mating
- Animalistic envy exists in human society as long as there is no performance of sankirtana-yajna, the chanting of the holy names - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
- Animalistic persons are themselves evidence of the supremacy of the Vedic regulations
- Animals and animalistic human beings are simply interested in continuing the process of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, but in actuality this process is forced to break down
- Any person who is not expert in understanding this science (of the soul) or is unwilling to understand it remains in the bodily conception of life, or the animalistic conception of life
- Atha means now. Atha, hereafter. That means after passing through all animalistic way of life, when a man comes to the stage of civilized life, perfect civilized life, at that time his business is to inquire what is the Absolute Truth
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- If parents simply give birth to children like cats and dogs but cannot save their children from imminent death, they become responsible for the activities of their animalistic children. Lately, such children are turning into hippies
- If we increase our quality of humanity, then our life is perfect. But if we remain in animality, then our life is imperfect. So we have to increase our human consciousness. That is Krsna consciousness
- In some parts of India, animalistic men are still sacrificed before the goddess Kali. However, such a sacrifice is only performed by sudras and dacoits
- In the English proverb it is said: "A man is known by his company." So similarly, if the subject matter is animalistic, ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna, then, however he may be big man, we will take him amongst the categories of cats and dogs
- In this age, neither parents nor their children are trained; both are animalistic and simply eat, sleep, mate, defend, and gratify their senses. This disorder in social life cannot bring peace to human society
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- Krsna says that stop work means stop working this nonsense work. What is that nonsense work? This material activities - sense enjoyment - it is nonsense. Why nonsense? Because it is animalistic
- Kuvera was the treasurer of the demigods, a very responsible man, and Nalakuvara and Manigriva were two of his sons. And yet they became so animalistic and irresponsible that they could not understand, due to intoxication, that they were naked
- Kṛṣṇa, when (He) says "Stop work," means stop working like animals, but not to stop working like Kṛṣṇa conscious people are doing—not to stop chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Stop your animalistic life and begin your spiritual life
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- On the material platform animalistic leaders are worshiped by animals
- One must learn this (the duty of a human being is to understand his relationship with God), otherwise he is simply wasting his time by engaging in animalistic propensities. We must all try to love Krsna or God
- One who has connected himself with spiritual knowledge can understand that there is a spiritual soul within the body. However, one who is in an animalistic conception of life and has no spiritual culture cannot understand
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- Saintly people preach God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, because they are anxious to save the general populace from the dangers of animalistic life
- So whole world at the present moment is going on under this animalistic concept of life, animal civilization. Everyone is busy to take care of the body, but nobody knows how to take care of the proprietor of the body. That he does not know
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- The animalistic person who lives simply in the bodily concept of life is not excused. He is put into the hell known as Maharaurava and attacked by ruru animals known as kravyadas
- The beginning is cleansing the heart, because we are impure on account of dirty things within our heart accumulated life after life in the animalistic way of life. So everything, advancement of spiritual life, culture, tapasya means cleansing the heart
- The beginning is cleansing the heart, because we are impure on account of dirty things within our heart, accumulated lifetime after lifetime in the animalistic way of life
- The difference between animality and humanity lies in this process only. A human being can hear properly, whereas an animal cannot
- The word pasu refers to the animal as well as to the human entity. Lord Siva is always interested in protecting the animals and the animalistic living entities, who are not very advanced in the spiritual sense
- Their (sudras' and dacoits') business is to plunder the wealthy, and to become successful they offer an animalistic man before the goddess Kali. It should be noted that they never sacrifice an intelligent man before the goddess
- There is no education of the real living force. That education you will get - this Krsna consciousness movement. Therefore it is unique. It is the education to get people of the human society liberated from the animalistic ignorance
- There is no education system, there is no university, nothing of the sort. Simply animalistic way of life: "How we can increase our eating capacity, our sexual capacity, and this . . ." This is going on
- This Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement is to give chance to this animalistic civilization to associate with devotees and mahatmas so that they can also become devotee and mahatma
- Those who are animalistic try to find peace in the desert of material life. It is repeatedly said in different sastras that there is no pleasure in this material world. Furthermore, even if we agree to live without pleasure, we are not allowed to do so
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- When everything becomes grossly animalistic, dissolution takes place. This dissolution is to be accepted as isa-vidhvamsitasisam
- When these questions (why have I been put into this miserable condition? etc.) are asked, and steps are taken to answer them, our human civilization is the result. If the questions never arise, then that civilization should be known as animalistic