Category:Animosity
Theme Analysis
The material world is characterized by constant struggle, and at the root of this conflict lies animosity. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the fundamental cause of all animosity is the false sense of proprietorship. Because conditioned souls falsely claim God's property as their own, continuous wars and social conflicts automatically erupt, blazing like a forest fire (saṁsāra-dāvānala). In the conditional state, envy and animosity are unavoidable, even infiltrating the realm of religion when it is pursued merely for mundane name and fame rather than genuine spiritual purification.
A prominent theme in this category is the contrast between the perpetual animosity of the material world and the peaceful nature of the pure devotee. Historically, there has always been a deep animosity between the demigods (devas) and the demons (asuras). Demoniac personalities like Kaṁsa and Śālva dedicated their entire lives to harboring intense animosity toward the Supreme Lord and His devotees. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights that pure devotees, such as Nāraḍa Muni and Prahlāda Mahārāja, remain completely free from such dualities. Even though bold preaching can sometimes generate animosity from the materialistic public or bewildered parents, the preacher risks everything out of pure compassion. Ultimately, Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that true spiritual life requires strict self-control to practice freedom from animosity, a transcendental state beautifully demonstrated when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu induced the wild animals of the Jharikhaṇḍa forest to abandon their natural animosity and dance together in pure love of God.
- The Root Cause: Animosity arises from the false ego and the illusion of proprietorship. Claiming the Supreme Lord's property as one's own guarantees perpetual conflict.
- The Cosmic Struggle: The material universe is defined by the permanent animosity between divine personalities (demigods) and envious, materialistic demons.
- The Preacher's Compassion: Speaking the absolute truth often provokes animosity from an ignorant society. A pure devotee accepts this risk to save the conditioned souls.
- The Liberated State: Freedom from animosity is the hallmark of a liberated soul. By practicing self-control and devotional service, one transcends material duality and sees everyone with spiritual equality.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Animosity - The Disease of the Material World.
Subcategories
This category has only the following subcategory.
Pages in category "Animosity"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- Actually the land is there. It belongs to God, and we are claiming, "This is my land," "This is my land," and therefore there is struggle, there is war, there are animosity and so on
- Although there is perpetual animosity between the demons and demigods, Narada Muni is welcomed everywhere
- Animosity between parents and the Krsna consciousness movement has existed since time immemorial. Even Narada Muni was condemned, not to speak of others. Nevertheless, Narada Muni never gives up his mission
- Animosity between the demigods and the demons
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- For Narada Muni, the door of every house is open. Although there is perpetual animosity between the demons and demigods, Narada Muni is welcomed everywhere
- Formerly there was no such animosities between the Hindus and the Buddhists. They were practically on the same platform, but philosophically they were different
I
- If one is related to the Lord in fear and animosity, he also becomes purified by the spiritual attraction of the Lord
- In materialistic life, people must certainly engage in activities of animosity. Materialistic life is therefore compared to samsara-davanala, a blazing forest fire that automatically takes place
- In order to follow in his (Prahlada's) footsteps, saintly persons will try to emulate his character by practicing freedom from animosity, just as the purifying processes rectify gold of inferior quality
- In the conditional state, every living being is envious of another living being, but in the liberated state there is an absence of animosity
- In the days of yore, many long years ago, there was animosity between the devas and the asuras, and the same spirit still continues, for the devotees of Lord Siva and Goddess Durga are always envious of Vaisnavas, who are devotees of Lord Visnu
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- Kamsa finally decided not to kill Devaki right away but to wait for the inevitable future. But his mind became absorbed in animosity against the Personality of Godhead
- Krsna continued, "I can understand that the marriage of Rukmini with Sisupala has been arranged by her elder brother in a spirit of animosity toward Me; so I am determined to give a good lesson to all of these princes"
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- The moon and the sun, however, because of permanent animosity toward Rahu, understood the situation. Thus Rahu was detected
- The pure devotee is the noblest of all, and he has no feelings of animosity towards anyone. Duality due to animosity is a creation of this material world. There is no such thing in the spiritual world, which is the absolute reality
- This was actually proved by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself when He passed through the forest of Jharikhanda. At that time the tigers, snakes, deer and all other animals abandoned their natural animosity and began chanting and dancing in sankirtana
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- When enemies come to their opponent's place, they should be received in such a way that they will forget that there is animosity between the two parties. Bali Maharaja was well conversant with the arts of peacemaking and fighting
- When one preaches he must tell the truth. Just like Lord Jesus Christ. The people did not like his preaching, but he did not stop his preaching. That is another point. You see? So in the preaching propaganda there is possibility of creating animosity
- Without self-control one cannot practice freedom from animosity