Category:Becoming Pious
Theme Analysis
This category presents piety as the essential prerequisite for understanding the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while sinful life leads to abominable conditions, piety leads to happiness and spiritual clarity. In this difficult age of Kali, the unique contribution of this category is the "automatic" nature of piety found in devotional service. Rather than performing difficult penances or sacrifices, a person becomes pious simply by giving an aural reception to the message of the Lord. This devotional piety is the highest standard because it transcends the material cycle of promotion and demotion.
- Effortless Purification: Piety is achieved automatically through hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, or participating in Deity worship.
- The Standard of Piety: Real piety is defined as being Kṛṣṇa conscious and avoiding the four pillars of sinful life: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling.
- Piety vs. Devotion: While material piety brings temporary happiness, the goal of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to transcend both piety and impiety for pure love.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Becoming Pious - The Easiest Method for a Difficult Age.
Pages in category "Becoming Pious"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- If we actually want to become pious and develop our devotional life, we have to associate unflinchingly with a sadhu. Then we can acquire some taste for Krsna
- If we become sinful every moment, how we can become happy? It is not possible. If you want to become happy, you have to become pious. And the standard of piety is to become Krsna conscious, devotee of Krsna. That is the highest perfection of life
- If we simply sit down and hear, we become pious. And as soon as we become pious, then we can understand what is Krsna, what is God. If we are involved or implicated in sinful activities, there is no chance
- If you are most sinful, then you are going to become abominable living creatures. You go down. And if you become pious, then you are promoted. But our program is not to become pious, not to become sinful: to become Krsna conscious. That will save us
- If you simply hear and chant, then you will be purified. One who is chanting and one who is hearing, both of them will be purified. And gradually, as soon as one is purified, he becomes pious
- In Kali-yuga people have lost all their stamina. They are so sinful that there is no question of becoming pious through all these prescribed methods. The only means is hearing about Krsna and chanting His names
- It is not necessary to give money or bathe in the Ganges. There are many pious activities and many processes recommended in the sastras for becoming pious
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- So Caitanya Mahaprabhu has prescribed a very easy method to become pious. That is the chanting of Hare Krsna maha-mantra
- Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah (SB 1.2.17). The word punya means "pious," sravana means "hearing," and kirtana means "chanting." One who chants or hears the verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam becomes pious automatically
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- The honesty, to become pious, to become religious, these are simply primitive idea. - We have to open this
- The Krsna consciousness movement is meant to educate sinful men so that they may become pious simply by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra
- The more you glorify the Lord, you become pious simply by kirtana. It is not necessary that you understand, but if you go on chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra, then you become pious
- The words of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the greatest authority, herein (CC Adi 17.111) clearly indicate that one becomes pious simply by keeping cows and protecting them
- To become pious one generally has to endeavor a great deal, but if one simply hears the verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita one becomes pious automatically
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- We do not encourage impious activity. That is not the meaning. But phalena pariciyate. Because you offer the result of your activities to Krsna, that becomes pious. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje
- We must try to become pious. And that pious means no sinful activities. Therefore we proscribe four sinful things, the pillars of sinful life: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling - four pillars