Category:Cannot Deny
Theme Analysis
Honest spiritual inquiry begins by accepting what cannot be dismissed by whim, fashion, or speculative denial. The living being cannot deny dependence on the laws of nature, the existence of the soul within the body, the authority of Bhagavad-gītā, or the fatherhood and proprietorship of Kṛṣṇa. Scriptural authority, saintly acceptance, and direct experience all point toward truths that remain valid whether or not the conditioned mind prefers them. Denial becomes ignorance when it rejects the Lord's order, the guru's instruction, the dignity of living beings, or the obvious fact that death will take away all material positions. Real intelligence means accepting Kṛṣṇa's authority, recognizing the soul's reality, and acting accordingly.
- Kṛṣṇa's Authority Cannot Be Denied: Bhagavad-gītā establishes Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and saintly persons accept this authority. To deny Kṛṣṇa whimsically is not intelligence but misfortune born of sinful life and rejection of disciplic knowledge.
- The Soul's Reality Cannot Be Denied: Whether one follows Vedic knowledge or modern science, the presence of the spirit soul in the body cannot be dismissed. The science of the soul is explicitly explained in Bhagavad-gītā by the Personality of Godhead.
- Nature's Laws Cannot Be Denied: Every living being is dependent on the laws of material nature. Death, bodily necessities, and the ruling system of nature compel the sane person to admit that there is higher control.
- Instruction and Mercy Cannot Be Denied: A disciple cannot deny the instruction of guru, and Kṛṣṇa's mercy is never denied to one who renders service. Spiritual life requires acceptance of authority, compassion toward living beings, and obedience to the Lord's order.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: We Cannot Deny Kṛṣṇa’s Authority and the Soul’s Reality.
Pages in category "Cannot Deny"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- A friend can deny to accept the instruction of the other friend, but a disciple cannot deny. That will be guror avajna (Padma Purana). Therefore Arjuna submitted himself, that - Now I become Your (Krsna's) disciple. You guide me
- Any man who is going to purchase a new shirt and coat, he considers before going to the tailor's house what kind of shirt he will have, what kind of coat. Everyone thinks. That is natural. You cannot deny it
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- I cannot deny. I cannot say that "You are woman. You are condemned."
- If the medical practitioners accept, then that is authoritative medical book. Similarly, if saintly persons are accepting Bhagavad-gita as scripture, you cannot deny it
- In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord (Krsna) says that He takes His birth in the material world, although He is the Lord of all creations and He is unborn. So there cannot be any denial of the birth of the Unborn because He Himself establishes the truth
- In the Bible it is said, "All things were made by Him, created by Him." Therefore He is the father of everything. "Without Him was not anything made that was made." So you cannot deny the authoritative statement of Vedas or Bible by your whimsical way
- It is a dilemma for our Society that we cannot deny these girls, and at the same time they are a great dangerous allurement to the young boys
- It is said that the moon does not withhold its shining from the courtyard of a crooked person. Similarly, Krsna's transcendental mercy is never denied to anyone who has rendered service unto Him, whether through lust, anger, fear or pure love
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- Sex life is not denied, because eating, sleeping, mating and defending, that is the necessity of the body. You cannot stop it. So there is concession that you can have sex life only for begetting children - for no other purpose
- Suppose a son has committed something, "Yes, I shall give you something," a father cannot deny it. If it is a good family, the father will say that - Although my son should not have promised it, but he has done it. All right, it will be given
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- The girl Yamuna knew it well that Arjuna was a great devotee of Lord Krsna and that if he would pray, Krsna would never deny his request
- The order of Krsna is to chant His name incessantly. Therefore one who is chaste and adherent to the husband Krsna must chant the Lord's name, for she cannot deny the husband's order
- The people amongst whom Buddha preached, they were mostly atheistic people; therefore he did not preach about God. But he did not deny also
- The seed comes from the father, that you cannot deny. Mother, without seed, cannot be pregnant and cannot give child. That is our experience. Nature is mother, and the seed is given by the father
- Theoretical knowledge that we have got a particular type of relationship with God, that you cannot deny
- There are gradations of Brahman, and no one can deny this fact. Therefore the words atmesa-brahma-sambhavan indicate that Dattatreya was directly part and parcel of Visnu, whereas Durvasa and Soma were parts and parcels of Lord Siva and Lord Brahma
- This doggish civilization, nasta-buddhaya, lost all intelligence. Kamam duspuram. So kamam . . . on account of this body there is lusty desire. We cannot deny it. But don't make it duspuram, never to be satiated. Then finished. Make it limited
- Today I may be in good position, I may be millionaire, I may be prime minister, but when death will come it will take everything from you, and it will oblige you to go to a species form of life which you cannot deny
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- Unless one is duskrtina, always miscreants, full of sinful life, he cannot deny Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Unless there is rationality, how can an animal maintain its body by working so hard? That the animals are not rational is untrue; their rationality, however, is not very advanced. In any case, we cannot deny them rationality
W
- We are dependent on the laws of nature. That nobody can deny, even the greatest scientist, he cannot also deny. And because we are under the control of the laws of nature, we must admit, if we are sane man, that there is a system of ruling
- We cannot deny the existence of the ocean of milk as stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam unless and until we have experimentally seen all the planets hovering in space
- We sometimes see mock-fighting, because that fighting spirit is there. The father and son, the little son is fighting with the father. That is not fighting, but the mock fight. But the fighting spirit is there. You cannot deny it
- Whether one follows Vedic knowledge or modern science, one cannot deny the existence of the spirit soul in the body, and the science of the soul is explicitly described in the Bhagavad-gita by the Personality of Godhead Himself