Category:Cheating Propensity
Theme Analysis
Vedic epistemology identifies four inherent defects that plague every conditioned soul in the material world: the certainty of committing mistakes, the certainty of being illusioned, the possession of imperfect senses, and the cheating propensity (vipralipsā). Among these, the cheating propensity is often the most prominent and destructive. It is the root cause of exploitation in mundane society, where even the closest friends or seemingly honest storekeepers are secretly driven by the desire to extract profit from others. Beyond ordinary transactions, this defect also manifests heavily in the realms of philosophy and religion. Those influenced by the cheating propensity twist the meanings of scriptures to support material sense gratification or impersonal liberation (mokṣa). Śrīpad Śaṅkarācārya's propagation of monism is cited as an extreme example of misleading others through this propensity. Because human beings are thoroughly disqualified by these four defects, they cannot manufacture their own religious rules or regulations. Perfect knowledge can only descend through sources completely free from these flaws: the authorized śāstra (like the Bhagavad-gītā) and the bona fide guru, who flawlessly repeats the Supreme Lord's teachings without any cheating motive.
- The Four Inherent Defects: Every living entity in the material world is bound by mistakes, illusion, imperfect senses, and the urge to cheat others.
- Mundane Exploitation: Ordinary business transactions and social relationships are inevitably tainted by the cheating propensity, often resulting in enmity.
- Philosophical Deception: The cheating propensity corrupts religion, causing people to alter scriptures for personal gain or to pursue the ultimate deception of merging into the Supreme.
- The Flawless Authorities: Only the authorized śāstra and the bona fide spiritual master are free from the four defects, making them the only reliable sources of absolute truth.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Cheating Propensity - A Defect of Conditioned Life.
Pages in category "Cheating Propensity"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- A conditioned living being is endowed with four principles of malpractice, namely errors, insanity, inability and cheating. These are signs of imperfection, and out of the four the propensity to cheat others is most prominent
- All conditioned souls have imperfect senses, they are subject to commit mistakes and become illusioned, and they are influenced by the propensity to cheat
- Although two friends may be living peacefully together, due to their propensity to cheat they become enemies when there is a transaction between them
- Authorized scriptures like Bhagavad-gita contain the transcendental teachings of the Lord Himself or of self-realized personalities. These scriptures are free from four human frailties: illusion, mistakes, limited senses, and the cheating propensity
E
- Even in ordinary transactions between two people, there is invariably cheating because the conditioned soul is defective in four ways - he is illusioned, he commits mistakes, his knowledge is imperfect, and he has a propensity to cheat
- Every conditioned soul has the propensity to cheat, even in marriage. Everywhere in this material world, one conditioned soul is envious of another
- Every one of us, anyone who is in this material world, they are subjected to these defects: he is sure to commit mistake - "To err is human" - he is subjected to be illusioned, and he has a cheating propensity
I
- In business you go to a storekeeper. He'll say, "Oh, you are my great friend. I am not taking a farthing profit from you." But you must know that he is taking profit, at least fifty percent. So this is called cheating propensity
- In the conditioned stage of existence, all living entities have four basic defects, of which one is the cheating propensity. Sankaracarya has carried this cheating propensity to the extreme to mislead the monists
- It is not difficult to compromise the real purport of the magnificent scriptural edicts by selfish motivations and cheating mentality. When this happens, people aspire for show-bottle religiosity, material gain, sense enjoyment, & impersonal liberation
P
- Pramada refers to inattention or misunderstanding of reality, and vipralipsa is the cheating propensity
- Purposely raise a controversy (nondevotees) to defeat the eternity of the transcendental body of the Lord. This is due to the defect called the cheating propensity of the imperfect living entities
T
- The prefix 'pra' in the word 'projjhita' specifically refers to those desiring liberation or oneness with the Supreme. Such a desire should be understood to be the foremost cheating propensity
- The propensity to cheat is the fourth defect of conditioned life. I may be a fool, but I will boast that I am very learned
- The rules & regulations as described in the sastra-being above these defects (imperfect senses, the propensity for cheating, certainty of committing mistakes, etc.) are accepted without alteration by all great saints, acaryas, & great souls. BG 1972 pur
- These four principal defects (imperfect senses, the propensity for cheating, certainty of committing mistakes, and certainty of being illusioned) in conditioned life disqualify one from putting forth rules and regulations. BG 1972 purports
- To err is human. Because we commit mistake, because we are sometimes illusioned, and because we have got a propensity of cheating others, and because our senses are imperfect, therefore, simply by mental speculation it is not possible to realize God
W
- We commit mistake, we are illusioned, our senses are imperfect and we have got a cheating propensity. We are possessing these four defects. However great a man may be, he makes mistake in calculation. To err is human
- We have got cheating propensity, we are prone to commit mistake, and we accept illusory things. These four principles of imperfect is in the conditioned soul. But who is liberated soul or who is God, they are not under these conditions
- We have often heard a storekeeper say, "Because you are my friend, I won't make any profit off you." But in actuality we know that he is making at least 50% profit. There are so many instances of this cheating propensity
- Why guru should be worshiped? Saksad-dharitvena samasta (Sri Gurv-astaka 7) - because he has no cheating propensity. That is guru
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