Category:Engaging in Sinful Activities
Theme Analysis
Engaging in sinful activities is described by Śrīla Prabhupāda as the natural state of those who have forgotten their relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Using the term "duskṛtina," he explains that such persons may possess great intelligence or merit, but because they are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they use their "good brains" (kṛti) for mischievous or sinful acts. This cycle of sin is fueled by uncontrolled senses and a misconception of identifying the self with the material body. In the modern age, these activities are concentrated in four pillars: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling. Such engagement acts as a total barrier to spiritual understanding; one who is currently sinning cannot surrender to Kṛṣṇa. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda offers hope, stating that even the most sinful are "corrigible" if they take shelter of the Lord's devotees and adopt the "medicine" of the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra.
- The Merit of the Miscreant: A "duskṛtina" is one who has merit but uses it for destruction, such as a scientist who uses his brain to manufacture weapons of mass killing.
- The Barrier to God Consciousness: Sinful activities contaminate the consciousness to such an extent that the individual becomes a "mudha" (rascal/ass), unable to cite scripture or understand the Truth.
- Degradation and Hell: Failure to undergo "prāyaścitta" (purification) for constant sinful acts leads to a "body full of suffering" in the next life, such as that of a tree, dog, or hog.
- The Process of Recovery: By voluntarily breaking the pillars of sin and engaging in pious activities, specifically the service of the Tulasi plant and the holy name, one's sinful consciousness is transformed into Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Engaging in Sinful Activities - The Anatomy of Misplaced Merit.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Engaging in Sinful Activities"
The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
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- A living entity is similarly engaged in the material world in sinful activities. These sinful activities may be compared to King Puranjana's hunting in the forest
- A man engages in sinful activities because he does not know what he did in his past life to get his present materially conditioned body, which is subjected to the threefold miseries
- A person may be relieved from sins once, but it is a practice among Christians to confess sins and yet commit them again. By getting freed from sins and again engaging in them, one cannot attain freedom from the pangs of material existence
- After his (Nisada's) birth, he immediately took charge of all the resultant actions of King Vena's sinful activities. As such, this Naisada class are always engaged in sinful activities like stealing, plundering and hunting
- All these activities are sinful, and because we are engaged in such sinful activities constantly we are constantly reaping the result of our sinful work, which is suffering in one way or another
- Although Ajamila engaged in sinful activities, he never chanted the holy name of Narayana to counteract them; he simply chanted the name Narayana to call his son. Therefore his chanting was effective
- As long as one is under the clutches of maya in the material energy, one has to engage in sinful activity. Bhagavad-gita describes such people as duskrtinah, which indicates that they are always engaged in sinful activity
- At the present moment some missionary institutions, without referring to the Vedic rituals, have introduced some sannyasis who engage in sinful activities
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- Due to neglecting one's good intelligence, or Krsna consciousness, one becomes bewildered and engages in sinful activities. Upon realizing this, a man becomes repentant
- Duskrtina means always engaged in sinful activities. They have got brain, but their brain is being utilized only for sinful activities. Krti means good brain, and duskrti means brain is being utilized for sinful act. Therefore they are mudha
- Duskrtina means miscreants or always engaged in sinful activities. If you are not religious, then you must act sinfully
- Duskrtinah means one who has got merit, but the merit is being engaged for sinful activities. Just like the atomic bomb. One who has manufactured this, he has got merit, certainly, great scientist. But how he has used his merit? To kill men, that's all
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- Even those who are constantly engaged in sinful acts are all corrigible to the standard of perfect human beings if they take shelter of the devotees of the Lord
- Every one of them, all these rascals, are . . . they're engaged in four kinds of sinful activities. They'll search after illicit sex, they will eat meat, and they will drink and they will play gambling. Just one after a . . . you just study
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- Foolish person thinks he is independent of any law. He thinks there is no God or regulative principle and that he can do whatever he likes. Thus he engages in different sinful activities, and as a result, he is put into different hellish conditions life
- Foolish persons are engaged in committing all sorts of sins due to the misconception of identifying the material body with the self. But one should be intelligent enough to understand to whom the body belongs
- Forgetting that however one may try to maintain the body, the body is subject to birth, death, old age and disease, such foolish rascals (influenced by passion and ignorance) engage in sinful activities, one after another
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- If you do not prepare yourself in this life, if you simply become engaged in sinful activities, then you'll be degraded
- In Bhagavad-gita materialistic persons are described as duskrtinah, which indicates those who are always engaged in sinful activities
- In the conditioned stage of the living entities, there are two kinds of results of fruitive activities: the conditioned living entity who is constantly engaged in sinful activities has suffering as his result
- In this material world, when the conditioned soul forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and does not care for Krsna consciousness, he simply engages in different types of mischievous and sinful activities
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- Karmis who engage in sinful acts and who do not know the true objective of life are called mudhas, asses
- King Puranjana repented that he had neglected his intelligence and had engaged himself in the forest in killing animals. In other words, when one's good intelligence is separated or neglected, he fully engages in sinful activities
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- O Janardana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one's family or quarreling with friends, why should we (Arjuna and Krsna), who can see the crime in destroying a family, engage in these acts of sin?
- On the basis of asuri bhavam, one is always constantly engaged in duskrtina, I mean to say, sinful activities, and mudha, falsely thinking that he is God. Therefore he is a mudha. That is the sign. A big mudha
- One must have activities, and if one engages in pious activities one's sinful activities will naturally vanish. On one side, one should voluntarily try to break the pillars of sinful life, and on another side one must engage himself in pious life
- One who has finished sinful activities, he can be engaged in God consciousness. One who is engaged in sinful activities, he cannot. Devil citing scripture. A devil cannot cite scripture. Angel can cite scripture
- One who is always engaged in sinful activities must utilize the process of ablution called prayascitta. Without doing so, one surely will be transferred to hellish planets to undergo miserable lives as the result of sinful activities. BG 1972 purports
- One who is engaged in sinful activities cannot change his consciousness. Our real function is to change our consciousness from kasmala, sinful consciousness, to Krsna, the supreme pure
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- Rascals and fools, the lowest of men, who engage in sinful activities, cannot suddenly surrender to Krsna. Nevertheless, if they begin chanting the Hare Krsna mantra and rendering service unto the tulasi plant, they will very soon be able to surrender
- Rascals have been described in Bhagavad-gita as duskrtino mudhah. Nondevotees, those who are not Krsna conscious, must engage in sinful activities, and therefore they are mudhas - fools and rascals
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- The atheist class men are described as the lowest of the mankind. Why? Naradhamah, na duskrtinah: always engaged in sinful activities, that na mam duskrtino mudhah, and rascals
- The intention is to save everybody from engaging in sinful activities internationally & the diet and medicine is to chant HK maha-mantra. Therefore you all follow this & you, you will get quick result and will get mercy of Krsna this very life to go BTG
- The leaders incite them toward false, illusory gain and thus engage them in various acts of sin. In temporarily benefiting themselves, such leaders sacrifice the real interest of their followers and destroy the followers
- The mind becomes sinful because we are always engaged in sinful activities. Anything not connected with Krsna consciousness should be understood to be sinful
- The Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita fully explains how the demons engage in sinful activities for the destruction of the populace
- The so-called learned scholars and philanthropists are actually karmis and jnanis, and some are actually misers engaged in sinful activity. All are condemned because they are not devotees of Lord Krsna
- There are many contaminations within the heart, and the people in this age are engaged in many sinful activities - illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling
- There are many so-called devotees passing themselves off as devotees while engaging in these sinful activities - illicit sex, intoxication, gambling, and meat-eating
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- We are so much in this age engaged in sinful activities. The sinful activities are generally . . . the four pillars of sinful activities are illicit sex life, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. So this whole world is now full of all this business
- When a person comes to his senses and understands how he is engaging in sinful activities, he returns to his conscience, which is herein (SB 4.26.11) figuratively described as the palace
- When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all kinds of sinful activity
- When a person loses his Krsna consciousness and loses interest in self-realization, he must engage in sinful activities