Category:Engaging People
Theme Analysis
The ultimate welfare for any society lies in the proper engagement of its citizens according to their inherent qualities and spiritual needs. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a true leader or government should train and engage people as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, and sudras, helping them progress toward Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This analysis contrasts the modern industrial "hell" of factory life—which leads to unemployment, sleep deprivation, and sense gratification—with the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement's goal of engaging people twenty-four hours a day in the service of the Lord. By some way or other engaging people in hearing the activities of God, chanting the holy name, and honoring prasada, the acarya provides a protest to a civilization that treats humans like dogs and hogs. This systematic engagement according to guna and karma is the only way to eradicate sinful actions and establish a peaceful, god-conscious society where everyone receives their necessities easily and remains freed from the dualities of delusion.
- The Responsibility of Leadership: A president or king renders the best service to citizens by engaging them in devotional service, rather than allowing them to drift into irreligious activities under the guise of secularism.
- Redirection of Expertise: Intelligent leaders should engage people in the work they are expert in, while teaching them to use the fruits of that labor in Kṛṣṇa’s service to uncover their eternal relationship with the Lord.
- The Art of the Acarya: An acarya adjusts the means of engagement to suit the time and place, always with the goal of providing the real benefit of life to the people through practical service to the Deity.
- The Power of Sankirtan: Engaging the masses in the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra and the distribution of remnants is the most effective way to help people stop harmful activities and come to their spiritual senses.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Best Service to Citizens – Engaging People in Devotional Service.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Engaging People"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
A
- A ksatriya government should engage people in performing yajna, studying the Vedas and giving charity. Thus the people will receive their necessities for life very easily, and there will be no disturbances in society
- A leader should train the people as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras and engage them in various occupational duties, thus helping them progress toward Krsna consciousness
B
- Because most people are fallen and because there is no time to elevate them by a gradual process, the best course, according to Caitanya, is to let them remain in whatever condition they are in but to engage them in hearing of the activities of the God
- Before leaving, Madhavendra Puri made all arrangements for regular Deity worship, and he engaged different people in various duties. Then, taking up the order of Gopala, he started for Bengal
D
- Devotees should preach the gospel of devotional service and thus engage people in practical service to the Deity
- Dharma-yuddha means right, righteous fighting, and adharma-yuddha means political. That is... One politician, he wants to keep his position, he engages the people in fighting, declares war. That is another thing
I
- In the name of secular government, the king or governmental head remains neutral and allows people to engage in all sorts of irreligious activities. In such a state, people cannot be happy, despite all economic development
- In this godless civilization, if a president engages people somehow or other in devotional service or the awakening of Krsna consciousness, he renders the very best service to the citizens
- Intelligent person should engage them (karmis) in doing what they are expert in and using the fruits in Lord Krsna's service. Such a course of action will automatically uncover the fruitive workers' eternal relationship with Lord Krsna
- It is a fact, however, that these innocent people carrying your palanquin without payment are certainly suffering due to this injustice. Their condition is very lamentable because you have forcibly engaged them in carrying your palanquin
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- Let people be engaged. Machine means one man or two man working... That will mean unemployment
- Lord Caitanya made this process (of reaching the highest perfection of knowledge) very easy: He asked people simply to chant Hare Krsna & to engage in the devotional service of God & eat the remnants of foodstuff offered to the Deity. BG 1972 purports
M
- Mayavadis greatly fear the Krsna consciousness movement and accuse it of spoiling the Hindu religion because it accepts people from all parts of the world and all religious sects and scientifically engages them in the daiva-varnasrama-dharma
- My Guru Maharaja is described as rupanuga-viruddha-apasiddhanta-dhvanta-harine. He was strictly to follow the rupanuga principle. Rupanuga principle, Srila Rupa Gosvami directs in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu - You some way or other engage people in KC
- My Guru Maharaja was lamenting, "So only kanistha-adhikaris, we are keeping simply people in the kanistha-adhikara and engaging them in the arcana-marga." So that is not required
O
- One must give people good engagements, and then they will automatically give up the bad ones. For example, we instruct our students, "No intoxication," and they immediately give it up, even though the government has failed to stop them. This is practical
- Our Krsna consciousness movement aims at engaging people in Lord Krsna's service. That will help them become freed from all material contamination and sinful activity. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.10): vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
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- People should be trained, as Krsna said in the beginning, that catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah (BG 4.13). The four classes of men, according to quality, they should be engaged in different types of occupation, guna-karma
- Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose sinful actions are completely eradicated and who are freed from the duality of delusion, engage themselves in My (Krsna's) service with determination
- Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose sinful actions are completely eradicated and who are freed from the duality of delusion, engage themselves in My service with determination
- Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life, whose sinful actions are completely eradicated and who are freed from the duality of delusion, engage themselves in My service with determination. BG 7.28 - 1972
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- The acarya knows how to adjust things, at the same time keep pace with the spiritual injunction. It is not that the same thing to be applied everywhere. He is eager to engage actually the people in the real benefit of life, but the means may be different
- The Blessed Lord said: Time I am, destroyer of the worlds, and I have come to engage all people. With the exception of you (the Pandavas), all the soldiers here on both sides will be slain. BG 11.32 - 1972
- The modern economy is, "Engage people in hard working to produce, and by artificial cheating, secure the goods, commodities" This is modern economy. So a worker is getting three thousand dollar per month, but he is getting paper
- There is no philanthropic work within this material world but Krsna consciousness that can engage a person twenty-four hours a day
- These wars are not right wars, righteous wars. No. They are play of the diplomats, politicians. They engage. When they cannot manage things very nicely, they engage people into war. That's all
- This Krsna consciousness movement means to engage a person in the service of Krsna
- This Krsna consciousness movement was started to engage people twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord and in His glorification
- To enable people to reach the stage of activities that are not tinged by fruitive results, great saints first engage people in fruitive activities