Category:Establishing Religious Principles
Theme Analysis
The establishment of religious principles (dharma) is the primary reason for the appearance of the Supreme Lord and His confidential associates. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that real religion is not a creation of human speculation or argument, which varies from person to person. Rather, true dharma consists of the codes given directly by God (dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam). Kṛṣṇa descends, often in a ksatriya family, to protect the devotees, annihilate the demons, and reestablish these principles. The Six Gosvamis of Vṛndāvana played a pivotal role in this mission by scrutinizing the Vedic scriptures to extract the essence of sad-dharma for the benefit of all humanity. Ultimately, the highest religious principle is simply to surrender to Kṛṣṇa and develop pure love for Him.
- The Lord's Mission: Kṛṣṇa comes specifically to establish dharma and destroy irreligion.
- The Role of the Gosvāmīs: They researched the scriptures to establish sad-dharma, or eternal religious principles.
- Definition of Dharma: Real religion is the order of the Lord; it cannot be established by mental speculation.
- The Highest Principle: Surrender to Kṛṣṇa (sarva-dharman parityajya) is the culmination of all religious rites.
- Ethical Foundation: Principles like nonviolence are based on seeing the happiness and distress of others as one's own.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Establishing True Religious Principles.
Pages in category "Establishing Religious Principles"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvamis, who are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the aim of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings
- In all Vedic literatures Krsna is described, and the Supreme Lord Himself also says in the Fourth Chapter, Although I am unborn, I appear on this earth to establish religious principles. BG 1972 purports
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- The 6 Gosvamis - Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami & Gopala Bhatta Gosvami - are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the purpose of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings
- The 6 Gosvamis - Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Rupa Gosvami, Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami - are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the purpose of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings
- The fifth excellence of Lord Krsna's appearance is that He established the most excellent of all religious principles by His one statement in the Bhagavad-gita that simply by surrendering unto Him one can discharge all the principles of religious rites
- The Lord has so distributed Himself all over the universe just to give pleasure to the devotees, to give the common man facility to eradicate his sins, and to establish religious principles in the world
- The Lord is situated in all the universes in different forms just to please His devotees. Thus the Lord destroys irreligious principles and establishes religious principles
- The purpose of the Vedas is to establish such (religious) principles under the order of the SG, and the Lord directly orders, at the end of the Gita, that the highest principle of religion is to surrender unto Him only, and nothing more. BG 1972 purports
- The six Gosvamis are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the aim of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings
- These Gosvamis were studying so many books, Vedic literature, and found out the cream, how to establish sad-dharma, not cheating dharma. Dharma means religion. Real religion, sad-dharma
- This Sudarsana cakra is the killer of the prowess of all other weapons, the killer of darkness, and the manifester of the prowess of devotional service; it is the means of establishing religious principles & it is the killer of all irreligious activities
- To curtail the activities of the demons and to give protection to the saintly person, I descend. Dharma-samstha . . . "And to establish dharma, the principles of religion." These are the three business for which Krsna comes
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- When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He (Krsna) generally appears in a ksatriya family because He has to establish religious principles, or the life of righteousness
- When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He generally appears in a ksatriya family because He comes to establish religious principles and the life of righteousness. According to the Vedic system, the ksatriya family is the protector of human race
- Whenever there are references to the avataras, religious principles are established, and demons who are against Krsna are killed
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- You cannot establish religion by arguing. What is the value of your argument? You can argue very nice, but I can argue better than you, I can defeat you. Then another man comes; he is better arguer than me, he defeats me
- You have got a different type of mind, I have got a different type of mind. It cannot agree. So by following these different types of mental speculation you cannot establish what is religion
- You'll find in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu evidences (Gosvamis making research from the Vedic literature) . . . nana-sastra-vicaranaika-nipunau sad-dharma-samsthapakau. What was the purpose? The purpose was to establish real religious principle