Category:Condemned in the Bhagavad-gita
Theme Analysis
The Bhagavad-gītā, while being a guide for liberation, explicitly condemns certain practices and mentalities that lead the soul astray. Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights that Lord Kṛṣṇa condemns the worship of demigods, labeling such worshipers as "men of small intelligence" (alpa-medhasām) who have lost their senses due to lust. Similarly, the impersonalist conception—thinking of Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary human or His body as material—is severely criticized; such persons are called mūḍhas (fools/rascals). The text also condemns ostentatious sacrifices, severe fasts undertaken for political or material ends, and the bodily concept of life. These condemned path are described as temporary (antavat) and leading to ignorance, whereas the path of pure devotional service is eternal and authorized.
- Demigod Worship: Worshiping demigods for material outcomes is condemned as the practice of those who have lost their intelligence (hṛta-jñānāḥ). The results are temporary and limited.
- Deriding the Lord: Thinking Kṛṣṇa to be an ordinary human being or considering His form material is the mentality of a fool (avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ).
- Unauthorized Austerities: Fasting or penances performed for political purposes or to cause pain to others, without scriptural authority, are condemned as demoniac.
- The Bodily Concept: The very beginning of the Gītā condemns the bodily concept of life ("I am this body"), which prevents one from understanding spiritual reality.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Practices Condemned in Bhagavad-gītā.
Pages in category "Condemned in the Bhagavad-gita"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- A system of religion in which animal sacrifices are recommended is inauspicious for those who perform the sacrifices and for the animals. Envious persons who perform ostentatious animal sacrifices are condemned in Bhagavad-gita - BG 16.17
- Actually these persons who are worshipers of demigods have been condemned in the Gita
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- Demigods depend on the protection of Visnu; they are not independent. Bhagavad-gita, therefore, condemns the worship of demigods because there is no need of it and clearly states that only those who have lost their sense go asking favors of the demigods
- Demons, who are never interested in praising the Supreme Personality of Godhead because they have no information of Him, go to the demigods, and in Bhagavad-gita this is condemned
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- Fastings which are meant not for self-realization but for some other purposes are condemned in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 17.5-6). Similarly, cleanliness is necessary both for the mind and for the body
- For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifested, impersonal feature of the Supreme, advancement is very troublesome. To make progress in that discipline is always difficult for those who are embodied - Krsna has condemned meditators in BG 12.5
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- Impersonalists not knowing the Supreme Truth, think Krsna to be only the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, or a prince, or a powerful living entity. This is also condemned in Bhagavad-gita: "Only the fools regard Me as an ordinary person". BG 1972 purports
- In Bhagavad-gita the Lord condemned the material conception of Krsna's body which arises because He is apparently present like a man
- In Bhagavad-gita, First Chapter, illicit sex life is very much condemned, and it is said that one who produces children by illicit sex life is sent to hell
- In the Bhagavad-gita the worship of demigods is condemned but not forbidden; there it is clearly stated that less intelligent men worship the demigods for material benefit
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- Maya is very strong, and to begin devotional service is to declare war against maya. Some of the devotees in this Krsna consciousness movement may fall down, but whatever is done sincerely is to their permanent credit. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
- Mayavadi philosophers, they abuse that Visnu's body is. Visnu comes, appears, He accepts a material body. That is condemned by Bhagavan in Bhagavad-gita
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- The atheists, who do not (execute their prescribed duties), are condemned in Bhagavad-gita (BG 16.19) by the following statement: tan aham dvisatah kruran samsaresu naradhaman
- The benedictions of the demigods, however, are condemned in Bhagavad-gita. Antavat tu phalam tesam tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam: (BG 7.23) "Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary"
- The Bhagavad-gita (7.20) condemns demigod worship: Only persons whose intelligence is lost and who are mad with lusty desires worship the demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures
- The Bhagavad-gita (7.28) condemns demigod worship: But persons who are freed from all sinful activities and the duality of delusion engage themselves in the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with determination
- The materialists are always worshiping some minor demigods, although this is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita
- The Mayavadi argues that the plurality mentioned in this verse (BG 2.12) is conventional and that it refers to the body. But previous to this verse such a bodily conception is already condemned. BG 1972 purports
- The worshipers of demigods are condemned both in Bhagavad-gita and in Srimad-Bhagavatam
- They mistake the Lord and His pastimes in the material world to be one with the conditioned souls and their activities. The Lord condemns such less intelligent persons in the Bhagavad-gita
- This (accepting Krsna as an ordinary human being) is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.11): Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be
- This material civilization, they're decorating this body. So the bodily concept of life is condemned in the very beginning of Bhagavad-gita. This knowledge was given to Arjuna by Krsna when he surrendered. When he was talking friendly, He did not say
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- Udara-dhih means one who has a broader outlook. People with desires for material enjoyment worship small demigods, and such intelligence is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20) as hrta jnana, the intelligence of one who has lost his senses
- Udara-dhih means one who has a broader outlook. People with desires for material enjoyment worship small demigods, and such intelligence is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita as hrta jnana, the intelligence of one who has lost his senses
- Unfortunately the impersonalists or the atheistic class of men consider Krsna to be an ordinary man like themselves, and so they deride Him. This is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself when He says, avajananti mam mudhah
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- We cannot compare that Krsna's body and my body, this body, material, is the same. That is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita, avajananti mam mudha (BG 9.11): "Those who are fools, rascals, they deride at Me, thinking Me as ordinary human being."
- Whenever Krsna incarnates personally or as a devotee, Mayavadi philosophers accept Him as an ordinary human being. This is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita
- Without referring to the sastras, so-called meditators aim at impersonal objects. Lord Krsna has condemned them in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 12.5