Category:Becoming Free From Anxieties
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies anxiety as the defining characteristic of material existence. The Sanskrit word for the spiritual world is Vaikuṇṭha—literally meaning "no anxiety"—whereas the material world is a place of constant fear and worry. The analysis of these quotes centers on the Vedic analogy of two birds sitting on the same tree: the individual soul (eating the fruit and suffering) and the Supersoul (witnessing). The moment the individual turns their face toward the Supersoul (Kṛṣṇa), they are immediately becoming free from anxieties. This freedom is not achieved by accumulating wealth or insurance, but by surrender and entering the brahma-bhūta stage of joyful spiritual realization.
- The Definition of Vaikuṇṭha: Kṛṣṇa is known as Vaikuṇṭha because contact with Him removes all material distress. Freedom from anxiety is synonymous with liberation (mukti).
- The Two Birds Analogy: The root cause of anxiety is forgetfulness of God. The soul becomes free only when it stops focusing on the fruits of the material tree and looks toward its eternal friend, the Lord.
- Renunciation helps: Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that retiring from family responsibilities or remaining a brahmacārī are practical social methods to minimize anxiety, but the ultimate solution is spiritual consciousness.
- Tolerance of Duality: One must learn to tolerate happiness and distress without being disturbed; this equipoise leads to freedom from the anxiety of gain and loss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Surrender - The Path to Becoming Free From Anxieties.
Pages in category "Becoming Free From Anxieties"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A retired man, being freed from all responsibility of family affairs (namely, maintaining the home, wife and children) and taking completely to Krsna consciousness, becomes freed from all anxieties and looks as white as clouds in autumn
- Actually, to become free from all responsibility and anxieties, if one remains a brahmacari, that is very good. That is the recommendation of sastra
- As soon as he comes to the understanding of spiritual platform, then he becomes joyful, immediately - freed from all anxieties
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- I am asking them to become freed from all sorts of anxieties by practicing the transcendental sound vibration of Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare etc and I am asking them to join the ISKCON Inc
- If in some way or other he turns his face to his friend who is the Lord and knows His glories - at once the suffering bird becomes free from all anxieties. BG 1972 purports
- If you surrender to Krsna, from that moment you become free from all anxieties; therefore Krsna's name is Vaikuntha
- It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that one has to become full of joyfulness; this is not exactly joyfulness, but a sense of freedom from all anxieties
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- One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and distress, or cold and warmth, and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain and loss. BG 1972 purports
- One who gets out of this material existence automatically becomes free from all anxieties and fear. One who follows the path of devotional service enunciated by Lord Kapila is very easily liberated
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- The Lord advises in the Bhagavad-gita that one give up all so-called religious activities and completely engage in the devotional service of the Lord to become free from all anxieties due to the dangerous life of material existence
- The messenger began to relay a message from the kings, as follows "A slight portion of Your (Krsna) glories can be known by persons fully surrendered unto Your lotus feet, and, by Your grace only, such persons become freed from all material anxieties"
- The Vedas deal mainly with the subject of the three modes of material nature. O Arjuna, become transcendental to these three modes. Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and be established in the self
- There are two birds sitting on the same tree, and one of these birds is eating the fruit of this tree while the other bird is simply witnessing his activities. Only when the bird eating the fruit looks at the other bird does he become free from anxieties
- This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to bring everyone under the shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna, so that they may become free from all anxieties