Category:Brainwash
Theme Analysis
- The Accusation: In the 1970s, Western society accused the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement of "brainwashing" because devotees were suddenly giving up illicit sex, meat-eating, and intoxication.
- The Reversal: Srila Prabhupada argued that modern society is the one actually "brainwashed" by material misconceptions, leaving people in a state of confusion and unhappiness.
- Cleansing the Consciousness: The process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is indeed a "washing" process—vidhunoti—meant to cleanse the heart and brain of accumulated dirty things (lust, greed, anger).
- Brain-giving: Rather than removing free will, the movement is "brain-giving"—imparting real spiritual intelligence to those whose brains were previously filled with "cow dung" (ignorance).
- The Result: This "washing" turns confused individuals into first-class men and women, while the critics remain blind leaders leading the blind.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Brainwashing or Brain-giving.
Pages in category "Brainwash"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- A deaf man used to call his wife. She would reply, "I'm coming!'' But, he couldn't hear her. He would think, "The women's deaf.'' Actually he was deaf but he accused her of being deaf. Similarly these people are brainwashed
- As you are hearing the message of Srimad Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita, the process is vidhunoti, washing. Actually, it is brainwashing - but for good. Washing is not bad
- At the present moment there is great opposition to the Hare Krsna movement, which is being called a "brainwashing" movement. But actually the so-called scientists, philosophers and other leaders in the Western countries have no brains at all
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- Foolish fourth-class men. So we are trying to bring them to become first-class men, and they are accusing of brainwash. "It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss." We are teaching that - These boys, they are becoming first class
- For flickering happiness, people waste their human energy, not understanding the importance of the Krsna consciousness movement but instead accusing the simple devotees of brainwashing
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- If you want to end this suffering, then you must wash your brain - or heart, the same thing
- In Europe and America they are now combining to oppose this Hare Krsna movement, that we are brainwashing him, controlling the mind by hypnotism
- In relation to the KCM, we actually see that those who have tasted the nectar of krsna-katha lose all material desires, whereas those who cannot understand Krsna or krsna-katha regard the Krsna conscious life as "brainwashing" and "mind control"
- It is not brainwashing; it is heart-washing. Our heart is stacked with so many dirty things, so we are trying to wash it. And that is our movement. We are trying to cleanse the heart so that he can understand himself
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- One blind leader is leading other blind men. This is going on. And when we present the real solution, they say it is brainwash
- Our movement is being checked in the Western countries that this is a brainwash movement. Brainwash movement, that we are injecting some ideas by psychology, mental control, and our people they are taking to it, and it is spreading like epidemic
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- The American people have become wonderful, astonished how simply by chanting they becoming brainwashed. That is the actual fact. The rascals, they do not know how these people are giving up illicit sex, meat-eating
- The brainwash books are already there. Even if they stop externally, internally it will go on. Our first class campaign is book distribution. Go house to house. The real fighting is now. Krsna will give you all protection
- The real purpose of life, jivasya tattva-jijnasa (SB 1.2.10), that is missing. And when you present that "This is the most important business of life," they say - It is brainwashing
- They (the people in general) regard the Krsna consciousness movement as a form of "brainwashing." How can such envious persons be happy in their godless civilization
- This hoggish civilization is real civilization. To become like hog, that is real civilization. And to give up this process, thinking of soul, elevation of the soul, going back to Godhead - simply imagination, brainwashing
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- Unfortunately you have no brain; therefore you misunderstand. On this point the Bhagavad-gita will explain. What do you think? "Brainwash or brain-giving?" This should be the heading
- Unfortunately, because of gross ignorance, they (the so-called scientists and philosophers) regard the HKM as a brainwashing movement. They do not know that without God consciousness one is forced to continue transmigrating from one body to another
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- We are enforcing something by controlling the mind, some ideas, "There is God, and we have to go to back home, back to Godhead." They are accusing us of brainwash, "mental control." But this is the fact. We are not brainwashing; we are clearing the brain
- We are not brainwashing; we are clearing the brain. The rascal brain is full with cow dung. We are clearing. You see? That is our movement. But these rascals are understanding that we are enforcing some idea
- We have to prove to the world that it is not brainwashing; it is real knowledge. Why you should keep it suppressed and leave the people in ignorance? It is not your duty to bluff and cheat. That is not science
- When we say so many no's they think it is brainwash. Not brainwash. It is actual. If you want to develop your spiritual life, then you have to stop so many nuisance. That is nivrtti-marga
- When you say the right thing, that human life is meant for understanding God and prepare for the next life - "brainwash." This is life