Category:Becoming Zero
Theme Analysis
Humanity often fluctuates between two material platforms: the desire for full sense enjoyment and the desire for total cessation or voidism. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that both positions are based on a misunderstanding of the self. This analysis clarifies that to become zero is not a spiritual possibility for the eternal living entity, whose very nature is to be active and attached. Instead of seeking the nirvana of the soul, one should seek to make their material desires become zero. By replacing selfish hankerings with Kṛṣṇa’s service, the soul attains its real, self-effulgent nature and escapes the dangerous pitfalls of sunyavadi philosophy.
- The Impossibility of Voidness: The mind is naturally designed to accept and reject; therefore, it is fundamentally impossible for the living entity to remain in a state of zero.
- Real Purification: True spiritual success means that material pride and desires become zero, allowing the individual to exist fully as a servant or friend of the Lord.
- Active Devotion: The cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejects the idea of becoming zero in favor of being always active in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Why the Soul Can Never Become Zero.
Pages in category "Becoming Zero"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- If one becomes falsely proud, then where is his spiritual qualification? Everything is lost, everything gone - immediately. So in spite of his all good qualifications, if he is simply proud, then everything becomes zero
- If we dismantle the house of the material body and become zero, we attain nirvana. Nirvana means the cessation of pleasure and pain
- If you become zero, no body, then you are free from pains and pleasure. This is their philosophy, nirvana philosophy, sunyavadi: "Make it zero." But that is not possible. That is not possible
- If you have got one rupee, if you take one anna, then it is fifteen annas. Or if you take two annas, it is fourteen annas. If you take sixteen annas, it becomes zero. But Krsna is not like that. He can expand Himself unlimited forms
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- The Buddhists, they say there is no God - sunyavadi. "Everything, at the end, everything is zero. You have got this body. When the body is finished, then everything becomes zero." Because they do not believe in the soul, not in God
- The Mayavadi philosophers, they are thinking, "Again attraction like this? So make it zero, no attraction. Become zero." So their philosophy is zero philosophy. That is also no information of the spiritual world
- They (Buddhists and Mayavadis) say, - Let the earth go to earth, let the water go to water, let the fire go to fire and become zero
- They are accustomed to get up, two o'clock. Because they think "The more we sleep, we enjoy life." Therefore, they are sunyavadi. They want to become zero, sleeping always. Sunyavadi. "Make everything zero." That is called sunyavadi. No, that is not life
- They gave up this, but that does not mean he became zero. Zero is sunyavadi, voidism. No, you cannot remain in zero. That is not possible. If you accept this void philosophy, to make everything zero, that is artificial. Then again you'll fall down
- This is the highest perfection - to give up one’s material body and not accept another but to return home, back to Godhead. It is not that perfection means one’s existence becomes void or zero
- Transcending the material nature, then he becomes zero? No. That is the real nature. Now, the philosophy which preaches that "After our liberation, after nirvana of this material existence, there is zero," oh, that is very dangerous theory
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- We are manufacturing so many religious system on these two platforms. One platform is how to enjoy to the fullest extent, and another platform is how to become zero, voidism. But actually, neither you are enjoyer, nor you are zero
- When a devotee is completely purified, he becomes anyabhilasita-sunya. In other words, all of his material desires become zero, being burnt to ashes, and he exists either as the Lord's servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover
- When we transcend material nature through the rendering of service unto Krsna, what is our status? Do we become zero