Category:Anxiety - devotional
Theme Analysis
In material life, anxiety is universally recognized as a disease born of false attachment to the perishable body. However, the Vedic literature reveals a completely different dimension of this emotion: devotional anxiety. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the goal of human life is not to simply become void or devoid of all feelings and anxieties, but to purify them. Spiritual anxiety means being constantly eager to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A sincere devotee is always anxious about how to organize the preaching mission, how to protect the Lord's property, and how to properly worship the Deity. This intense eagerness (avyartha-kālatvam) ensures that not a single moment is wasted outside of Kṛṣṇa's service.
A prominent theme in this category is the outward expression of this spiritual anxiety: compassion and eagerness to hear. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that great sages and Vaiṣṇavas carry a heavy burden of anxiety, not for their own sense gratification, but for the salvation of the crippled-minded conditioned souls. Simultaneously, the disciple exhibits anxiety through an intense eagerness to hear the transcendental messages of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Finally, Śrīla Prabhupāda elevates the discussion to the highest platform of pure love in Goloka Vṛndāvana. In the spiritual world, emotions such as fear, crying, and anxiety still exist, but they are entirely free from material contamination. The gopīs watching Kṛṣṇa sleep, Mother Yaśodā worrying about His safety in Mathurā, and the cows crying in agony when He is in danger all exhibit "love anxieties." These profound feelings of separation and protective care constitute the very zenith of ecstatic love of Godhead.
- The Nature of Spiritual Worry: Instead of worrying about personal, temporary affairs, a devotee utilizes the natural tendency to be anxious by constantly thinking of how to execute devotional service perfectly.
- Eagerness to Hear: True spiritual advancement begins with an intense, anxious desire to hear the absolute truth from the bona fide spiritual master and the Vedic scriptures.
- Compassion for Humanity: The purest form of social work is the Vaiṣṇava's constant anxiety to rescue conditioned souls from the cycle of birth and death by spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Transcendental Love Anxieties: In the spiritual sky, anxiety is a manifestation of pure bliss. The residents of Vṛndāvana experience ecstatic anxiety born of their unalloyed, protective love for Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Devotional Anxiety - The Ecstasy of Serving Kṛṣṇa.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Anxiety - devotional"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- A devotee may construct a temple for the Lord, and for that he may take all kinds of anxiety, but he does not construct a big house for his personal relations
- A devotee should always think of Krsna and how to render better service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That should be his only anxiety
- A person who has developed from faith to the stage of bhava, states that such a person is never agitated even if there are causes for agitation. Nor does such a person waste his time even for a moment; he is always anxious to do something for Krsna
- Advanced life in Krsna Consciousness means one should be always very much anxious to calculate whether every moment of his life has not been utilized in devotional service. This is called feeling of being afraid for misusing time
- After hearing about the activities of Prahlada Maharaja, a pure devotee should be very anxious to follow in his footsteps, but such a devotee might be disappointed, thinking that not every devotee can come to the standard of Prahlada Maharaja
- All the cows, bulls and small calves became overwhelmed with grief, and they began to look at Him with great anxiety. Out of fear they could only cry in agony and stand erect on the bank, unable to help their beloved Krsna
- Anxieties of the pure devotees
- Anyone who, because of his background of pious activities in previous lives, is anxious to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam immediately realizes the presence of the Supreme Lord within his heart and fulfills the mission of his life
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- Feelings of separation which are present under certain conditions even when the lovers meet are called love anxieties. Such love anxieties are exhibited in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.90.15) by the princesses who kept awake nights and watched Krsna sleep
- For devotional service nobody should be anxious to get some material power. Rather, we should be always anxious to acquire how we can advance our anxiety, our eagerness, to serve the Lord
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- I am glad to know that you are anxious to begin tending the Deities in grand style and fashion. Before I instruct you further in this matter, please send me a detailed list of what worshiping methods you are now performing
- I can see also that you are a very sincere and enthusiastic boy and are anxious for spreading this movement. Those are first class qualifications for making advancement in Krishna Consciousness
- If you are anxious to serve Krsna, that is the real asset
- If you hear, if you are anxious to hear, then mind has to be engaged. Without attention, you cannot hear
- In the spiritual world there is anxiety, there is crying, and there are other feelings similar to those of the material world
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- Sometimes disturbances come, but the agonies and anxieties of the devotees are at once mitigated when they think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His beautiful form or the smiling face of the Lord
- Sometimes symptoms like laziness, frustration, defamation, humility, anxiety, moroseness, eagerness, restlessness, madness, death, forgetfulness, disease and illusion are also visible with devotional service in compassion
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- That is Krsna anxiety. That is Krsna anxiety. If you become anxious how to worship Deity, how to dress Krsna nicely, how to do, if you remain, that will develop your anxiety for Krsna. Therefore Deity worship essential
- The effect of sadhu-sanga is to become anxious how to execute this devotional service properly
- The gopis were very anxious to know about Uddhava, and because they were simple, unsophisticated village girls, they surrounded him
- The great sages are always anxious to do good to the people in general
- The idea is to save more time from this materialistic business and utilize it for Krsna's service. When our anxieties are how to utilize life in that way, that stage is abyarthya kalatvam, utilizing life without spoiling it
- The Krsna consciousness movement is anxious to serve human society by teaching people to perform devotional service, which can save a human being from being degraded again to animal life
- The New York boys are very much anxious to start our own press immediately and we must have sufficient matter to print in the press continually
- The philosophy discourses we had years ago is now lying without any utility, so all your Godbrothers are very much anxious to publish it
- The sentiments which you have expressed are very much encouraging to me, that I have got such disciples as yourself who are more anxious to serve me than my own children
- This is the main thing - to always be anxious how to spread the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission
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- We are anxious how to protect a property, how to push on this movement, how people will take it, what line of action we shall take; this is also anxiety, but that anxiety is for Krsna
- We should be always anxious to save the cripple minded people with the science of Krishna Consciousness. This is the position of a Vaisnava
- When Krsna had been brought to Mathura, mother Yasoda, being very anxious and angry, began to rebuke the King of Mathura
- When the transcendental sound of Krsna's flute is heard, the devotee's anxiety to continue to hear that flute enables him to penetrate the covering of the material world and enter into the spiritual sky