Category:Becoming Sinful
Theme Analysis
The state of becoming sinful is defined as a violation of the laws of God, rooted in the mode of ignorance. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the moment an individual or a collective society disobeys spiritual authority, they immediately lose their good fortune and face the stringent reactions of nature. This analysis explores how human civilization is becoming sinful through the misuse of independence and the neglect of brahminical culture. The resultant effects are described as a heavy burden on the Earth, manifesting as scarcity, reduced longevity, and the eventual need for divine intervention to restore balance.
- The Root of Transgression: Ignorance is the primary cause of sinful life, leading individuals to violate the rules of God and act against their own spiritual welfare.
- Natural and Social Reactions: When a population becomes sinful, nature responds with pestilence, famine, and war, while the lifespan of the human being is systematically reduced.
- Leadership and Accountability: Heads of state become sinful when they permit or participate in illicit activities, making them responsible for the calamities that befall their citizens.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Burden of the Earth - The Consequences of Becoming Sinful.
Pages in category "Becoming Sinful"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
A
- A person in the mode of ignorance commits many sinful activities. In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Srila Rupa Gosvami explains that a man becomes sinful out of ignorance only. The resultant effect of sinful life is suffering
- According to the laws of nature, whether at the time of Parasurama or at the present, if the government becomes irresponsible and sinful, not caring for brahminical culture, there will certainly be an incarnation of God like Parasurama
- Anacara means not proper behavior. Proper behavior means to remain always pious, and improper behavior means to become impious, sinful. If you become sinful, then you cannot enter into the family of Krsna
- Anacara means sinful activities. You cannot associate with God if you become sinful. That is not possible. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, yesam tv anta-gatam papam: "One who is completely free from sinful life"
- Anyone who hears my name loses the results of his pious activities. Anyone who utters my name becomes sinful
- As soon as one disobeys authority, he immediately becomes very sinful and loses his good fortune
- As soon as you become sinful, there is reaction immediately. Immediately there will be war, pestilence, famine, flu and so on, so on
- As you violate the laws of the state and become a criminal, similarly, as you violate the laws of God, you become sinful. You become sinful. This is the definition of sin and piety. If you follow the rules of God, then you are pious
B
- Because human beings are becoming more and more sinful there will be a scarcity of rain, and naturally no food grains will be produced
- Because we are part and parcel of God - God is fully independent - so we have got also little particle of independence. As soon as we misuse that independence, disobey the words of God, we become sinful
I
- If a person, president, cheats his countrymen somehow or other, and why not others? They will also do that. "Oh, president does it. What I am? What can I know?" In this way, the more we are inclined to sense gratification, we become sinful
- If by chanting His holy name we become sinless, how God can become sinful? It is not possible
- If irreligious people vote on an issue, even though it be against the principles of the sastras, the bills will be passed. The president and heads of state become sinful by agreeing to such abominable activities - meat-eating and intoxication
- If one rejects spiritual master, he becomes a great sinner, most sinful
- If the government becomes irresponsible and sinful, not caring for brahminical culture, there will certainly be an incarnation of God like Parasurama to create a devastation by fire, famine, pestilence or some other calamity
- If the population of the world becomes sinful, demonic, then nature will not supply you sufficient food. She will diminish. We have got experience
- If the state head or king allows the citizens to become sinful by indulging in illicit sex life, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling, then the king is responsible
- 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 you don't repay your debts, then you become sinful. But Krsna says, "I shall protect for all kinds of sin." So if anyone has surrendered to Krsna, he is no more debtor to anyone. He is immune from all obligation. His only obligation is to Krsna
- In this Kali-yuga, people are becoming so sinful that there is no possibility of rescue unless one takes to Krsna consciousness. The entire human civilization is falling into the illusory fire of maya. People fly into the fire just like moths
T
- That (twenty to thirty years) will be duration of life, because people are becoming more and more sinful. So that is fixed up
- The idea is that there is no food problem. As the mother earth said to King Prthu that, "I am restricting," so the more you become sinful, the food supply will be stopped. This is the law of nature
- The mind becomes sinful because we are always engaged in sinful activities. Anything not connected with Krsna consciousness should be understood to be sinful
- These (not allowing the citizens to become sinful and godless) are the principles for a ruling power, and because Maharaja Prthu observed all the principles for a ruling chief, he is referred to here as adi-rajah
W
- We are creating our next body in this life. So if we become sinful, or if we act only sinful activities, then we get next body a very lower class of body, even as the germ in the stool. And if we act nicely, piously, then we get better body
- When a man commits murder he becomes sinful, and therefore he also must be killed; otherwise after death he must suffer many sinful reactions
- When people become too much sinful, the earth becomes overburdened by the sinful activities of the people. Therefore it is called bhuri-bharavatara. And Krsna comes to mitigate. This is the purpose of avatara