Category:Enlightened with Krsna Consciousness
Theme Analysis
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is essentially an educational and missionary endeavor aimed at awakening humanity from gross ignorance to the highest stage of spiritual understanding. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that pure devotional service is the highest enlightenment, acting like a blazing forest fire that consumes the poisonous snakes of material desire. This analysis explores the heavy responsibility placed upon parents, sannyāsīs, and devotees to enlighten others, thereby saving them from the cycle of birth and death. By receiving instructions from an unalloyed devotee and the spiritual master, the conditioned soul is cured of the material disease and restored to their normal, healthy condition. Whether one is born as a brāhmaṇa or a caṇḍāla, the path to enlightenment remains open and scientific, providing a thrill at every moment and releasing the living entity from the clutches of māyā and the three modes of material nature.
- The Duty of Enlightenment: Parents, fathers, and mothers have the primary duty to enlighten their children in Kṛṣṇa consciousness to save them from impending death and the miserable material world.
- The Missionary Spirit: Devotees and sannyasis are expected to move from door to door and town to town to carry the message of the Lord, showing compassion by enlightening fallen souls.
- The Forest Fire of Devotion: Pure devotional service provides the highest enlightenment, which effectively kills all inauspicious desires and reforms the character of even the most fallen individuals.
- Scientific and Authorized: Enlightenment in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a scientific process based on sastra; it requires approaching a guru to understand the real problems of life and return back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Highest Enlightenment – Awakened to Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Enlightened with Krsna Consciousness"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- A conditioned soul falsely thinks himself happy in the material world, but if he is favored by the instructions of an unalloyed devotee, he gives up his desire for material enjoyment and becomes enlightened in Krsna consciousness
- A highly enlightened parent can train a child in Krsna consciousness so that the child will not have to come back again to this miserable world. Parents should see to it that the child born of them does not enter the womb of a mother again
- A mendicant sannyasi should not live anywhere for more than three days. He must be always moving because his duty is to move from door to door and enlighten people about Krsna consciousness
- Any parents who cannot enlighten their offspring in Krsna consciousness cannot be accepted as a real father and mother
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- Because it is mixed up with that medicine of Krsna consciousness it will cure your material disease. That is the process. Because it is mixed up with some medicine which is called KC, it will not entangle you. It will give more and more enlightenment
- Behind everything there is a supreme controller. Modern civilization does not understand this due to lack of knowledge; it is the purpose of this Society for Krsna consciousness therefore to enlighten all people
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- I wish that from the very beginning of life everyone should be enlightened with Krsna Consciousness, because the human life is very important for fulfilling this mission
- If a Godbrother is more enlightened and advanced in Krsna consciousness, one should accept him as almost equal to the spiritual master, and one should be happy to see such Godbrothers advance in Krsna consciousness
- If you want to show any mercy at all to the living entities, then enlighten them in Krsna consciousness, as Prahlada Maharaja did. Otherwise, it is materially beyond your power to show mercy
- It is a very dangerous type of civilization without any spiritual knowledge. Very dangerous position. Risky. So this Krsna consciousness movement on authoritative basis trying to enlighten people to release him from these clutches of maya and ignorance
- It is the purpose of this Society for Krsna consciousness to enlighten all people who have been maddened by the influence of the three modes of material nature. In other words, our aim is to awaken mankind to its normal condition
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- Of course this is not possible for living entities who are lower than human beings, but in human society it is feasible that all living entities can be enlightened with Krsna consciousness
- One who hears the Gita from the right source, directly from Krsna, attains full KC. The result of Krsna consciousness is that one becomes increasingly enlightened, and he enjoys life with a thrill, not only for some time, but at every moment. BG 1972 pur
- Our Krsna consciousness movement is very scientific, authorized, so our business is to enlighten people as far as possible, and at the same time we must remain enlightened
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- Sastra, says tad-vijnanartham: "If you want to know the real problem of your life and if you want to be enlightened how to become Krsna conscious, how to become eternal, go back to home, back to Godhead, then you must approach the guru"
- So there is supreme control. The modern civilization, they do not understand it due to lack of knowledge. So our Krsna consciousness movement is trying to enlighten people to come to this point of knowledge
- Such a Vaisnava (a maha-bhagavata first-class devotee) is always aware of his Krsna conscious duty, and he is enlightened in self-realization
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- That is Krsna consciousness movement. It is an educational movement to enlighten the people from gross ignorance to the highest enlightenment of spiritual understanding
- The best solution is that of the Krsna consciousness movement. This movement is always kind to the poor, not only because it feeds them but also because it gives them enlightenment by teaching them how to become Krsna conscious
- The conditioned soul has to take direct instruction from the spiritual master, and thus he gradually becomes enlightened to the path of Krsna consciousness
- The people are suffering on account of illusory happiness of this material world, and we have got great responsibility to enlighten them with Krishna Consciousness
- The word candala actually refers to a dog-eater, who is considered the lowest of men. Even candalas can be enlightened in Krsna consciousness due to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's benedictions
- There are different kinds of men, beginning with the brahmana and going down to the lowest platform, candala. Whatever one’s position, everyone in this Age of Kali needs to be enlightened in Krsna consciousness. That is the greatest need of the day
- They (those who engage in the missionary activities of the Krsna consciousness movement) may go from door to door just to introduce a book about Krsna consciousness so that people can become enlightened by reading
- This is a missionary society for enlightening the people about God-consciousness, which we are preaching as Krishna Consciousness. Our main principles are as follows:
- This is the duty of father and mother to enlighten children in Krishna Consciousness and thus save them from the clutches of impending death
- To enlighten them (the poor, we are opening centers) in KC & reform their character by teaching them how to avoid illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling, which are the most sinful activities and which cause people to suffer, life after life
- Topics discussed in the Seventh and Eighth Chapters (of BG) are specifically related to devotional service, and because they bring enlightenment in Krsna consciousness, they are called more confidential. BG 1972 purports
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- We have to be karunikah - that is, we have to take compassion upon fallen souls by going from town to town to enlighten others in Krsna consciousness. This is a sadhu's duty
- When one is enlightened in Krsna consciousness, he can use these (the acceptance of the body, of others as kinsmen and of the land of one's birth as worshipable) for the service of the Lord. That is a very suitable proposition