Category:Darkest Regions of Material Existence
Theme Analysis
The "darkest regions of material existence" describe the destination of those who live without control over their senses. Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies the primary cause of this descent as adānta-gobhiḥ—uncontrolled senses. Like a vehicle with broken brakes, the unbridled senses push the living entity down into ignorance and repetitive suffering. This descent is accelerated by a lifestyle dedicated to gṛha-vrata (a vow to execute family duties based on sense gratification) and yositam sangi-sangam (association with those attached to sex life). Such persons "chew the chewed," repeating the same exhausted pleasures until they slide into lower species or hellish conditions. However, the path is not sealed; one can choose the "door of liberation" by serving great souls (mahat-sevā) and offering the objects of the senses to Kṛṣṇa, rather than consuming them for personal enjoyment.
- The Driver of Descent: The uncontrolled senses (adānta-gobhiḥ) are the driving force that drags the soul to the darkest regions.
- Household Bondage: The gṛha-vrata, or one vowed to materialistic family life, shackles themselves and their children, acting as playboys in the hands of women.
- Two Doors: There are two distinct paths: association with saintly persons (mahat-sevā) leads to liberation, while association with sense-gratifiers (yositam sangi-sangam) leads to darkness.
- Envy of God: Envy of Kṛṣṇa is akin to criminal disobedience; just as a lawbreaker is put in prison, the envious soul is pushed into the darkest material existence.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Descending to Darkest Regions of Material Existence.
Pages in category "Darkest Regions of Material Existence"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- Because their (those who want to remain in this material world) senses are uncontrolled, they gradually descend to the darkest regions of material existence to repeat the same process of birth and death in desirable or undesirable species of life
- Because we cannot control our senses, we are driving, we are being pushed towards the darkest region of material existence, very hard to leave
- By uncontrolled senses, one is going down and down to the darkest region of material existence
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- If one wants to go to the darkest regions of material existence, one may continue to associate with persons who are attached to women (yositam sangi-sangam). The word yosit means "woman." Persons who are too materialistic are attached to women
- If you utilize things for sense gratification, then you go to the darkest region of this material atmosphere. And the same thing, if you offer to Krsna, it becomes spiritual
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- One should give up his household, which is a place for going further and further down into the darkest regions of material existence. The first advice is that one must give up household life - grham andha-kupam
- Our senses are uncontrolled, so our senses are dragging to the darkest region of existence. We do not know that. But we are simply chewing the chewed
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- So-called householders keep themselves shackled in family life, and furthermore they want their children to be shackled in the same way. Playing the parts of playboys in the hands of women, they glide down to the darkest regions of material existence
- Sukadeva, out of compassion for those gross materialists who struggle to cross over the darkest regions of material existence, spoke this most confidential supplement to the cream of Vedic knowledge, after having personally assimilated it by experience
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- There are two doors: one door to the path of liberation, and one door to the path of the darkest region of ignorance
- They have been engaged in the lives of hogs and dogs, work very hard, get some money & enjoy for sense gratification. This is not human civilization. So following their own mental concoction they automatically fall down into the dark region of existence
- This is human life. But they are so much embarrassed with this uncontrollable senses that they are going to the darkest region of material existence. Adanta-gobhih. Adanta means uncontrolled
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- We must render service to the holy, saintly person. And if you want to go deeper and deeper in the darkest region of existence, then we should turn our face for sense gratification
- We want liberation. Then mahat-seva: we have to take shelter of mahatma. And, if you want to go to the darkest region of material existence, then yositam sangi-sangam (SB 5.5.2), sense enjoyment
- What is their position? They are unable to control their senses, and as such, they are entering into the darkest region of material existence
- When a living entity becomes envious of Krishna, he is put into the darkest region of material existence, exactly in the same way as when a citizen is disobedient, lawbreaker, he is put into the prison cells