Category:Condemned Civilization
Theme Analysis
A condemned civilization is characterized by its deviation from the laws of nature and the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies the primary symptoms of such a society as the lack of respect for cows and brāhmaṇas, and the unrestricted killing of unborn children and animals. He critiques the modern industrial focus where innocent people are dragged from villages to work in factories, creating unemployment and a hellish standard of living. This "hog and dog" civilization prioritizes hard labor for sense gratification—eating, sleeping, and mating—while ignoring the spiritual purpose of human life. The remedy is not to reject civilization entirely, but to reject the "suicidal" path of godlessness and return to a life of simple living, high thinking, and brahminical culture.
- Violence and Irreligion: A civilization that permits cow slaughter and abortion (killing of children) is ruled by uncivilized asuras. Without protection for cows and brāhmaṇas, society is doomed.
- Economic Slavery: The drive for economic development (prāyāsa) forces people to work incessantly like animals for basic necessities, destroying the peaceful agrarian lifestyle recommended in the Gītā.
- Animalistic Goals: A society that teaches people only to work hard for sense enjoyment (eating, sleeping, mating) is condemned. Real civilization aims to minimize material labor to save time for spiritual realization.
- The Alternative: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement does not condemn civilization itself but condemns the price paid—the loss of the soul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Symptoms of a Condemned Civilization.
Pages in category "Condemned Civilization"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- A civilization in which there is no respect for the cows and brahmanas is condemned
- Any civilization not based on brahminical culture or guided by brahmanas is certainly a condemned civilization
- At the present moment, the killing of cows and the killing of children is going on unrestrictedly, and therefore this civilization is not at all human, and those who are conducting this condemned civilization are uncivilized asuras
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- If we practice to sit on the floor, there is no necessity of this couch. We are not refusing couch if available, but not that without couch I cannot sit. This kind of civilization is condemned
- In European and American cities we have seen how people are working very hard, beginning from morning at five o'clock till four o'clock next night, for sense gratification. So this is not civilization. This is condemned civilization
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- People are being taught in this way, that "Work very hard day and night, earn money, and enjoy senses, nothing more." So this sort of civilization is condemned. The real civilization is that one has to control
- People are simply are engaged for eating, sleeping, mating. They have no time for Krsna consciousness. This condemned civilization must be stopped
- People cannot even follow systematically the material system so that you can live peacefully so long you are in this material world. The modern civilization is so condemned. They do not know even how to live peacefully
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- Such (materialistic) a civilization is condemned because it does not lead humanity toward knowing the real goal of life
- Such a form of human civilization (based on the principles of sleeping and sex indulgence at night and earning money in the day and spending the same for family maintenance) is condemned by the Bhagavata school
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- The modern civilization is a condemned civilization. The innocent people are being dragged from the villages and exploited in the cities. But in the Bhagavad-gita Krishna recommends them to remain where they are and produce grains: annad bhavanta bhutani
- The rascals have no knowledge how to become happy. They are thinking, they will be happy by drinking wine and eating meat and having sex life unlimitedly. They're thinking like that, so rascal. The whole civilization is condemned
- The system of civilization who is encouraging them to do this without any information, what kind of condemned civilization is that? Pulling by force to the darkest region of hell. They do not know, although the hellish condition of life is in the front
- The whole civilization is condemned and producing fourth-class men. And that's a fact
- Their (demonaic people's and non-Aryans) method of civilization is condemned in the previous verse (SB 6.16.43). Kah ksemo nija-parayoh kiyan varthah sva-para-druha dharmena: "What is the meaning of a civilization that kills oneself and others"
- This prayasa, endeavor for economic development, na kartavyam, don't do it. Here is a revolution against this modern civilization. They are simply after economic development, and here it is condemned
- To learn how to control senses, that is brahmacari. Where is that civilization? So establish. Give them food. Give them shelter. Give them knowledge. Don't be entangled in vagina civilization. It is most abominable civilization, condemned civilization