Category:Cannot Change
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly explains that faith, social customs, political systems, material positions, and bodily conditions may change, but dharma, the constitutional function of the soul, cannot change. The living being is eternally the servant of Kṛṣṇa, and this truth remains fixed beyond country, time, circumstance, or social convention. At the same time, the quotes show that consciousness can and must be changed: sinful consciousness, forgetfulness, and material absorption can be purified by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore the proper reform is not to alter scripture, God's word, or spiritual principles, but to restore the living being to pure consciousness and faithful service.
- Dharma Is Unchangeable: Dharma is not a temporary faith or social custom but the constitutional duty of the living being. Because the soul is eternally the servant of Kṛṣṇa, this spiritual function cannot be changed by time, place, or personal preference.
- Scripture and Authority Must Be Preserved: God's word, śāstra, and the spirit of disciplic succession cannot be changed. Adjustments may be made for time and circumstance, but the meaning, authority, and basic guiding principles must remain intact.
- Consciousness Can Be Purified: Although eternal truth cannot be changed, polluted consciousness can be changed. Human life is meant to transform forgetfulness and sinful consciousness into Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Material Destiny Is Limited: One cannot freely change material destiny, bodily condition, or karmic allotment simply by personal desire. The real change to seek is freedom from material condition through self-realization.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Consciousness Can Be Purified but Dharma Cannot Change.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "Cannot Change"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- Dharma does not mean a particular type of faith. Faith is different thing. Faith is followed blindly or by social custom or something else. Faith is different. But dharma, either you change social custom, country, time, space, it cannot be changed
- Don't change from this to that. That is your American disease. This is very serious that you always want to change everything
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- If it was decided by vote that Hansadutta would select the president then Hansadutta is right. Without authority Hansadutta cannot change the election
- If somebody asks us to sell intoxicants or similar things, we cannot do that. The pipes are meant for persons who are already addicted to intoxication
- If you take stone, the quality of stone, it is hard, it is not liquid. If somebody says: "I have brought some liquid stone," is it possible? No, what is this nonsense? So dharma means that quality which cannot be changed
- In Russia the authority was the czar. Now, after this Bolshevik revolution, Lenin became authority. That was his point. I said that you have to accept one authority. That you cannot change
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- One may become a Christian from Hindu, or from a Hindu to Christian. Generally, we find these changes. But a dharma does not mean like that. Dharma means which you cannot change. It is the constitutional part of your life
- One should work for self-realization, not for economic development, which is impossible to improve. Without endeavor, one can get the amount of happiness and distress for which he is destined, and one cannot change this
- One who is engaged in sinful activities cannot change his consciousness. Our real function is to change our consciousness from kasmala, sinful consciousness, to Krsna, the supreme pure
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- That which is never created cannot change in formation and quality, even though He (the Lord) is the seedling source of everything
- The "religion," word "religion," translation of the Sanskrit word, dharma, is not perfect. Is not perfect. Religion is a kind of faith. That we can change. But dharma, dharma means your occupational duty. You cannot change. You have to execute it.
- The president, secretary and treasurer (of Calcutta) elected by the members of the center cannot be changed at least for one year; better to continue it for three years. All combined together should be responsible for keeping correct accounts
- The principles of religion: thinking of God, worshiping God, offering obeisances to Him, and to become devotee of God, that cannot be changed. That is real religion
- The sastra cannot be changed. God's word cannot be changed. Then what will be the difference between God and ourself? He is always perfect. He is always perfect
- The Spirit Soul is certainly eternal and changeless; and the fall is superficial, just like the relation between father and son cannot be broken ever
- These rascals (who criticize the boys and girls in Krsna consciousness for intermingling) should consider that one cannot suddenly change a community's social customs
- They are manufacturing their own ways of understanding Bible and ethical principles. Therefore it is becoming valueless. It is becoming valueless. No value. One cannot change the words of the authority
- This position, forgetfulness, can be changed, and human life is meant for that purpose. So far improvement of economic condition or other condition, that is already fixed up. One cannot change it
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- We are already destined to have a certain amount of happiness and a certain amount of distress, and we cannot change that. The change we should make, therefore, is to get free from this material condition of life. That should be our only business
- We preach exactly as we have heard from our Spiritual Master, but there are changes due to the time, circumstances, and the trainees. The spirit of the disciplic succession may not be changed
- Whatever a brahmana speaks cannot be nullified or changed in any circumstance
- Woman is meant for certain activities and man is meant for certain activities. So how this can be changed? Artificially if you change it, it cannot be changed. Then, just like woman becomes pregnant, man does not become pregnant
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- You are citizen of this Australian state, so you must have to abide by the laws of the state. You cannot change it. If you say that, "I don't want these laws," you will be forced to abide by the laws
- You cannot change your destiny. If you have to be, have to work like a coolie, even after becoming Ph.D. you'll have to work like a coolie. You cannot change it
- Your study aids that you are using to help the children learn the meaning of Bhagavad-gita slokas fully seem to be alright. You must see that the meaning of the verse is in no way altered or changed. Simplification is alright but do not change anything