Category:Becoming Naked
Theme Analysis
This category critiques the modern trend of nudism and contrasts it with civilized human standards and spiritual etiquette. Śrīla Prabhupāda argues that the propensity to become naked is a regression to animal life; animals naturally roam naked, but human beings are meant for covering and culture. The quotes issue severe warnings about the karmic reactions for such behavior—specifically, that those who desire to be naked will take their next birth as trees, standing naked for thousands of years. However, the category also addresses the vastra-haraṇa pastime, clarifying that Kṛṣṇa asked the gopīs to become naked only to fulfill their vow of accepting Him as their husband, which is the only authorized context for such intimacy.
- Regression to Animalism: Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that "human body is meant for covering." The modern trend of nudism is described as a decline from human civilization to the status of cats and dogs. Even aborigines wear covering; thus, voluntary nakedness is seen as a loss of basic intelligence.
- The Karmic Reaction: Nature is witnessing our desires. If a human being misuses their independence to become naked, nature grants that wish in the next life by awarding the body of a tree. In this form, the soul must stand naked for thousands of years, exposed to all elements.
- The Spiritual Exception: The vastra-haraṇa pastime is distinguished from mundane lust. Kṛṣṇa stole the gopīs' clothes because they prayed for Him as their husband. According to Vedic culture, a woman can be naked only before her husband; Kṛṣṇa validated their prayer by creating that specific situation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Why Human Life Is Not Meant for Becoming Naked.
Pages in category "Becoming Naked"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- Flatly said, "Yes, yes, I will be happy." All right, say it. Krsna is so kind - You want to be naked? All right, you become naked for ten thousand years and stand up
- For a nice citizen, government is there. He's taking all advantage offered by the government and he's obeying the laws. No trouble. But one who says "I don't care for the government. I am free. I shall become naked..." Just like that John Lennon
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- He (Karna) advised that "Make her (Draupadi) naked in this assembly." To become naked in the . . . so many people, that is a great insult for woman. So actually, they tried to insult. Not tried, it was fact. But Krsna saved
- Human body is meant for covering, not to become naked. But if anyone develops the idea of becoming nudie, naked, - All right, next life you get tree. Stand up
- Human life is not meant for becoming naked. That is according to Vedic civilization a great sin. You see. So their, their propensity they are increasing to become naked like... What's his name? Lennon, Lennon
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- If we do not decorate Krsna, if we decorate our personal body, then gradually it will be finished. You'll be forced to become naked, what to speak of decoration? This is the way of nature
- If we simply live and try to become naked like the cats and dogs and bark, then where is the difference? Where is the difference? No difference. So we must take to religious system. That is humanity
- If you are simply dressed, and if you want to enjoy sense gratification, it is not possible. You have to undress yourself, you have to become naked yourself. Similarly, if you want to sense gratify, then you have to purify your this material existence
- If you think that natural life, animal life, to become naked and do all nonsense, then "All right. You, next life you become a tree, naked. Stand up naked for ten thousands of years." You want to be naked? That's all right
- In the Western countries especially, they are now trying to become naked, nudies. So nature will give them to stand naked like a tree, or tree, for many years - You're so fond of become nudie. All right, you stand up here for 10000 years without any dress
- In this child body, she is naked, but people enjoy it. But when she is grown up and she is ladylike, she is young girl, if she becomes naked, oh, that is ridiculous
- It is up to you to make your choice whether you are going to dance with Krsna or you want to become naked tree standing for ten thousands of years. That is your choice. A living entity has got this independence
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- Nobody can ask any woman or girl to become naked except the husband. That is the moral etiquette of Vedic culture
- Now they are imitating animals, becoming naked. That is they, that is their advancement of civilization, to become naked, nudist. So actually decline, from human life they are decline to animal life
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- So many trees are standing naked. Nobody protests. But in human society, if you become naked, then you'll be punished by law. But they are thinking they are advancing by becoming naked. This is the knowledge: ignorance
- So the stage of Sukadeva Gosvami is atma-rati, self-satisfied, doesn't care for anything of the world. He is aloof from the world. We should not imitate Sukadeva Gosvami and become naked
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- The animals wander naked, so man is also trying to become naked, nudyism. This is life. So their extra intelligence is being used like that - very, very abominable condition of the human society
- The life was meant for understanding Krsna, but he is cultivating the culture of naked civilization, how to become naked. "So all right, next time you'll remain naked for many thousands of years, standing in one place as tree." This is going on
- The same jungle - I don't speak of the city life - even in jungle life, the aborigines, still they have got some cover. Now they are becoming naked, natural life, nudism
- The vastranam-lila means that according to any human civilization, system, a woman can become naked only before husband. So Krsna fulfilled that
- There was no necessity of formal marriage. But still Krishna played like husband by asking them to become naked. In the spiritual world there is no cohabitation; simply by such emotion in transcendental ecstasy the desire is fulfilled
- These senseless, shameless persons who are advancing in their knowledge by becoming naked, they are going to be tree next life. The naked tree is standing naked for many thousands of years. Or animals - they have no shame
- They lost their kingdom, they lost their wife - insulted. The wife was endeavored to become naked. Never, the Pandavas never said that "Krsna, You are our friend. Why we are suffering so many troubles?" Never. Never. This is pure devotee
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- You haven't got to make such renunciation that you have to live underneath a tree or give up your dress, become naked. No. That is not... You have misunderstood. You should dress himself properly, you should eat properly
- You know, Draupadi's vastra-harana. She was tried to become naked, but these people could not make her naked
- You'll become hippie after going to the college. So they are saved. You'll become naked and you'll have, like cats and dogs, sex on the street. But these children are saved