Category:Cheating of a Conditioned Soul
Theme Analysis
The philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness clearly delineates the profound difference between the conditioned soul and the liberated soul. The conditioned soul is hampered by four specific defects: the certainty of committing mistakes, the certainty of being illusioned, the possession of imperfect senses, and the propensity to cheat others. Among these, the cheating propensity (vipralipsā) is particularly prominent in daily life. It arises from the original false ego—the unnatural desire to lord it over the material world and enjoy independently of the Supreme Lord. Because of this defect, every material interaction, whether in business, marriage, or friendship, is tainted by the underlying desire to exploit. This mutual cheating inevitably leads to enmity, frustration, and karmic retaliation. To become free from this cycle, one must recognize their own imperfect nature and seek guidance from sources that are entirely free from these four defects: the authorized śāstra (scripture) and the bona fide spiritual master.
- The Four Defects: Every conditioned soul is strictly bound by mistakes, illusion, imperfect senses, and the desire to cheat.
- The Root of Exploitation: The desire to cheat stems from the soul's forgetfulness of God and the false attempt to become the master of the material world.
- The Destruction of Relationships: The cheating propensity ruins all mundane relationships, turning friends and family members into enemies over temporary material gains.
- The Flawless Alternative: Perfect knowledge can only be acquired from liberated persons and transcendental literature, which are completely free from the cheating propensity.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Propensity to Cheat - A Defect of the Conditioned Soul.
Pages in category "Cheating of a Conditioned Soul"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 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
- A conditioned soul in the material world has the disqualification of cheating. He has four disqualifications: he is sure to commit mistakes, he is sure to be illusioned, he is prone to cheat others, and his senses are imperfect
- A conditioned soul is hampered by four defects: he is sure to commit mistakes, he is sure to become illusioned, he has a tendency to cheat others, and his senses are imperfect. Consequently we have to take direction from liberated persons
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- Especially amongst businessmen, when there is conference, so each one is trying, "Now how much I have cheated him." So this cheating, vipralipsa, is one of the qualification of the conditioned soul
- 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
I
- In order to acquire these things (apartment, house, food, friends) he has to cheat others, and this creates enmity even among the most intimate friends. Sometimes this enmity is created between the conditioned soul and the father or spiritual master
- In the conditioned state the living being is not satisfied even if he actually becomes the lord of all that he surveys, which he never becomes, and therefore he becomes the victim of all kinds of cheating, even with his nearest and most intimate relations
- It (transcendental literature) must have none of the defects of conditioned souls, namely mistakes, illusions, cheating and imperfect sense perceptions
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- Sastra is without the four principal defects that are visible in the conditioned soul: imperfect senses, the propensity for cheating, certainty of committing mistakes, and certainty of being illusioned. BG 1972 purports
- Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny profit, the conditioned souls cease to be friends and become enemies
- Sometimes, being in need of money, the conditioned soul steals and cheats, although he may apparently be associated with devotees for spiritual advancement
- Stealing or cheating another person out of his money, the conditioned soul somehow or other keeps it in his possession and escapes punishment. Then another man, named Devadatta, cheats him and takes the money away
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- The conditioned soul has a tendency to cheat; therefore this quality is also visible in a person like King Indra. It is understood that even King Indra is not liberated from the clutches of material contamination
- The conditioned souls who have come to this world on account of forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with God is prone to be cheated, but a person who is sincere is not cheated
- The defects of a conditioned soul are: (1) he must commit mistakes; (2) he must be illusioned; (3) he must possess the tendency to cheat others; and (4) all his senses must be imperfect. We must understand that God is transcendental to all these defects
- They (fulfilled prophecies) will indicate the positive standing of Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is without trace of mistake, illusion, cheating and imperfection, which are the four flaws of all conditioned souls
- This cheating practice is there in the conditioned souls because the conditioned souls are primarily in the material world imbued with an unnatural desire to lord it over the material world