Category:Becoming Implicated
Theme Analysis
This category illuminates the precarious position of the living entity who, through the misuse of independence and the pursuit of sense gratification, risks becoming implicated in the complex laws of material nature. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that this implication is not accidental but is the direct result of sinful activities such as meat-eating, illicit sex, and a general forgetfulness of one's relationship with God. The quotes detail the severe consequences of such entanglement, ranging from immediate anxiety to the long-term cycle of repeated birth and death. Ultimately, the analysis points toward the necessity of Kṛṣṇa consciousness as the only means to halt this dangerous progression.
- The Misuse of Independence: The living entity is originally free, but due to the misuse of this minute independence, one chooses to enjoy separately from the Lord. This initial deviation leads one to become implicated in the conditions of cosmic creation, earning the status of a conditioned soul.
- The Trap of Sense Gratification: Specific actions drive this implication deeper. Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights that activities like meat-eating and unrestricted sex life are primary causes. Whether one is killing animals for the tongue or engaging in sex for pleasure rather than procreation, these acts bind the soul to the laws of karma and inevitable punishment.
- The Cycle of Transmigration: The ultimate consequence of becoming implicated is the continuation of material existence. Driven by unsatisfied lust and greed, the soul is forced to wander through various species of life, accepting different bodies and suffering the reactions of past fruitive activities without finding true happiness.
- Liberation through Devotion: The only escape from this implication is the revival of God consciousness. By following Vedic injunctions—such as restricted marriage life and offering the results of one's work to the Lord—one can stop the cycle of sinful reaction. Devotional service automatically vanquishes the desire for material enjoyment, freeing the soul from further entanglement.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Causes and Consequences of Becoming Implicated in Material Life.
Pages in category "Becoming Implicated"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- According to Daksa's philosophy, one should become implicated in material enjoyment so that after experiencing the distress of such enjoyment, one will automatically renounce
- Actually those who are meat-eater, beef-eater, they are killing their father and mother and become implicated in sinful life
- Although there may be sufficient cause for being unhappy, one should avoid counteracting such reversals, for the more we become implicated in rectifying such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest regions of material anxiety
- Anyone who is preparing rasagulla for himself or expanded himself, so they simply become implicated with sinful activities
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D
- Dharmaviruddhah kama, that is all right, but if you use sex life for sense gratification and becomes implicated in so many sinful activities, then how he'll be happy? A sinful man cannot become happy. That is not possible
- Due to misuse of this independence some of the living entities have become implicated in the conditions of cosmic creation and are therefore called nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls
- Due to sinful activities, one becomes implicated in the process of transmigration and thus has to accept one body after another. Being thus absorbed in a distressed condition, one never attains happiness
I
- If you do not act, or if you do not engage yourself in Krsna consciousness business, then you are becoming implicated with so many sinful activities. That is sure
- If you eat meat, that means you become implicated in sinful activities. You have to be killed by your enemy, and he will eat you, or enemy . . . or you become a goat or a hog or a cow, and your other person will kill you
- If you make tamasika dana, then you become implicated with his sinful activities
- In the Western countries they are killing so many birds and beasts, especially cows, thousands and thousands. They are all becoming implicated. You have no right. Even Christ said, - Thou shall not kill
- In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life, there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness
- Initiation means seriously take up the... And if you make it a fun business, then I become implicated, you become implicated
S
- Simply for the tongue we are committing so much sinful activities and becoming implicated, because implication means there is no God consciousness, no Krsna consciousness
- So long we are influenced by the two material modes of nature, rajo-guna and tamo-guna, then we will be pushed for fulfilling our lusty desires and greediness. And that will help us to become implicated in sinful activities
- Speculators may fall down and become implicated in fruitive activities. If one becomes attached to devotional service, however, his desires for material enjoyment are automatically vanquished without separate endeavor
T
- The living entity is wandering throughout the universes in various forms of body and becomes implicated in different situations, partaking of the reactions of fruitive activities
- The man can have sex life just after the menstrual period over, after five days, he can sex life, have sex life with his wife under garbhadhana-samskara, responsibility. Otherwise he becomes implicated in sinful activities. That is Vedic injunction
- The more we try to defeat the arrangement of Krsna, the more we become implicated in Krsna's maya
- The people are becoming implicated in sinful activities only for this kama-lobha. He is never satisfied, and his greediness increases and we create sinful life
- They are adopting so many sinful activities, so much so that they are now killing their own child within the womb and becoming implicated in sinful activities and prolong the life in this material world very miserably
W
- We are now utilizing instruments without fulfilling the desire of Aniruddha, or the Hrsikesa. That means we are using it for sense gratification unlawfully. Therefore we are becoming implicated in sinful activities
- When one is captured by sexual attraction, he becomes implicated in so many ways and cannot understand the real aim of life
- When we forget our position and try to satisfy ourselves, we become conditioned materially. When we forget that our duty is to serve Krsna, we fall into the material world and become implicated in personal sense gratification
- Without marriage, sex life is unrestricted. As soon as it comes to the Vedic principles, it becomes restricted. The idea is to restrict. People are accustomed to this, and on account of this habit, they gradually become implicated with the laws of nature