Category:Cheating Process
Theme Analysis
The concept of the "cheating process" in Kṛṣṇa consciousness serves as a sweeping critique of both mundane materialism and compromised spiritual paths. Because the conditioned soul is imperfect and harbors the desire to exploit, the entire material world functions on mutual deception. Economic development, paper currency, and even secular humanism (equality, fraternity) are ultimately cheating processes because they ignore the central reality of the Supreme Lord and fail to solve the actual problems of birth and death. In the realm of religion, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam famously declares that all kaitava-dharma—religious activities motivated by material gain (dharma, artha, kāma) or the desire for impersonal liberation (mokṣa)—must be completely kicked out (projjhita). Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently exposed the modern manifestations of this cheating, heavily criticizing so-called yogīs and svāmīs who falsely promise spiritual advancement without requiring the restriction of sinful habits like intoxication. Furthermore, within the devotional community, he warned against the subtle cheating of neophytes who prematurely retire to solitary places to chant, imitating exalted personalities like Haridāsa Ṭhākura to gain cheap adoration. The only non-cheating process is the pure, unmotivated, and public distribution of the holy name.
- Mundane Illusions: Worldly economic plans, banking systems based on paper, and godless philanthropy are fundamental cheating processes that keep souls bound in illusion.
- Rejecting False Religion: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam kicks out all religious activities aimed at fruitive results or merging into the impersonal Brahman.
- Fake Gurus and Yogīs: The modern age is filled with charlatans who cheat the public by teaching that one can simultaneously indulge the senses and achieve spiritual perfection.
- Premature Solitude: Imitating the solitary worship of highly advanced devotees while still harboring material desires is a dangerous cheating process for neophytes.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Kicking Out Deception - Supreme Religion versus Cheating Process.
Pages in category "Cheating Process"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- In your country there are so many transcendental yogis, and they say, "Yes, whatever you like, you can do. God has given you senses, you must enjoy." These are manufactured cheating processes
- It is understood that Maharishi Mahesa says that one can drink, and at the same time make advancement in meditation, is clearly a cheating process. But what can be done, your countrymen also wants to be cheated like that
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- Sacrifice undertaken in this age as a matter of show may simply be a cheating process by the clever priestly order. But such a show of sacrifices cannot be effective at any stage
- Somehow or other, if people stop animal killing and accept Lord Buddha, then he becomes at least one step forward to God realization. So in a cheating process he made good to others
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- The cheating process is going on. Unless you become God conscious, the cheating process will not stop. So there is no solution
- The cheating process is there in me, in you, everywhere, because we are imperfect. Therefore it is not possible to get perfect knowledge from an imperfect man
- The city people, they are getting supply from remote villages, and they have got money . . . money means paper. They are cheating. The whole process is cheating
- The dharma which is a type of cheating process, that kind of dharma is projjhita. Prakrsta-rupena ujjhita, means it is thrown out or kicked out. The real dharma is bhagavata-dharma, real dharma
- The foremost process of cheating is to desire to achieve liberation by merging into the Supreme, for this causes the permanent disappearance of loving service to Krsna
- The path of fruitive work (karma-kanda), even when decorated by religious ceremonies meant to elevate one’s material condition, is a cheating process because it can never enable one to gain relief from material existence and achieve the highest goal
- The Srimad-Bhagavatam has used the suitable word, dharma projhita. That means to kick out the so-called religious principles, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation. According to Bhagavata, these are all cheating processes
- There are many kinds of cheaters all over the universe. Of all cheating processes, gambling stands supreme and therefore represents Krsna. As the Supreme, Krsna can be more deceitful than any mere man. BG 1972 purports
- There are those who take the caste gosvamis’ opinions of such parties as bona fide, comparing these opinions to those of the six Gosvamis, headed by Sri Rupa and Sri Sanatana. This is simply another cheating process
- There is no need of talking with people who are interested in the Maharishi Mahesa, but if you have any sympathetic friends, you can let him know how the cheating process is going on
- They are cheating processes in the sense that the basic principle is for economic development, and if it is simply for solving the problem of bread, it is not true religion as described by Srimad Bhagavatam
- They do not know what is meditation. They are... Simply it is a farce. That is another cheating process by the so-called swamis and yogis. They do not know what is meditation
- This cheating process is going on under the misconception that "I am this body." The basic principle is cheating. Wrong
- This cheating process is going on. But you cannot cheat Krsna or maya, that is not possible
- This verse (SB 1.1.2) of Srimad-Bhagavatam rejects as cheating processes all religious activities that aim at achieving materialistic goals, including dharma, artha, kama and even moksa, or liberation
- Those who are not advanced prefer to chant the Hare Krsna mantra in a solitary place. Such activities constitute a type of cheating process in the sense that they imitate the activities of exalted personalities like Haridasa Thakura
- Those who aspire after liberation attempt to merge into the impersonal Brahman. To this end they execute ritualistic religious ceremonies, but Srimad-Bhagavatam considers this a cheating process
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- We want to be cheated. That is, cheating process is one of the items of conditional life. There are four defects of conditional life
- When we reach that stage, love of God, love of Krsna, then we love everyone because Krsna is everyone. Without coming to that central point, our love on the material conception of life - equality, fraternity, brotherhood - are all simply cheating process
- When you go to purchase the products, then you have to pay again. Whatever you have earned, you have to pay everything, pay to the bank or pay to the man. Simply cheating process is going on. There is no solution. People are cheaters
- Without coming to that central point, our love on the material conception of life - equality, fraternity, brotherhood - are all simply cheating process