Category:Everyone Is Born Foolish
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda frankly asserts that every human being enters the world in a state of ignorance, technically termed abodha-jatah. This is because the living entity, having evolved through millions of animal species, naturally identifies with the material body upon birth. This bodily identification is the hallmark of foolishness. In this initial state, there is no difference between a human child and an animal cub; both are driven by instincts and lack spiritual discrimination. This condition is synonymous with being a sudra—one who laments and lacks intelligence. However, unlike animals, humans have the capacity to be educated. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that the purpose of human life is to move from this born foolishness to enlightenment through spiritual culture and the guidance of a guru. If one remains in the state of a born fool, their life is considered a defeat (parabhava).
- The Definition: Abodha-jatah means one born without knowledge, a fool who identifies with the body.
- The Cause: The soul carries the impressions of previous animal lives into the human form.
- The Symptom: Thinking "I am this body" and claiming material possessions as one's own.
- The Status: Everyone is born a sudra (unintelligent); one becomes a brahmana (intelligent) only through training.
- The Consequence: Without spiritual knowledge, all activities result in defeat and waste of time.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: We Are All Born Foolish.
Pages in category "Everyone Is Born Foolish"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- A man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture
- A sisya, a disciple, comes to the guru for enlightenment. Everyone is born foolish. Everyone. Even the human being, because they are coming from the animal kingdom by evolution, so the birth is the same, ignorance, like animal
- Abodha-jatah means one who is born fool. Every one of us is a born fool. Why? From the beginning of our life I know that "I am this body," although I am not this body. Therefore we are all born fools, everyone
- All men, they have been declared in the Bhagavata abodha-jata (SB 5.5.5), born fools and rascals. But these are very strong words. But if we state this strong, that is another foolishness
B
- Bhagavata says, parabhavas tavad abhodha-jatah (SB 5.5.5). Abodha-jatah. Abodha-jata means every living entity is born fools. Therefore there are so many educational institution
- Born rascal, fool. He has to be enlightened, he has to be given knowledge, and he has to receive knowledge to make his life perfect. Therefore parabhavah means one who does not make his life perfect, he's being defeated
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- Every conditioned soul is inexperienced. Everyone is abodha jata - born a fool and rascal
- Every one of us is a born fool. Why? From the beginning of our life I know that "I am this body," although I am not this body. Therefore we are all born fools, everyone. And therefore, according to Vedic civilization, one has to take his second birth
- Every one of us is born foolish because we identify with this temporary body as myself. Therefore we are foolish. Everyone knows that the body does not exist, and still, everyone identifies himself with this body. This is called ignorance, or illusion
- Everyone is born fool. So fool's activities means defeat. So human life, although born fool, they should have knowledge. Without knowledge all their activities are defeat of life, parabhava
- Everyone is born foolish. Everyone. Even the human beings, because they are coming from the animal kingdom by evolution, so the birth is the same, ignorance, like animals. Therefore, even though one is human being, he requires education
- Everyone is born rascal and fool. Unless one is rascal and fool, one does not take birth in this material body. One who is actually in knowledge, he becomes liberated
- Everyone is uneducated. Everyone is born rascal and fool. He should be enlightened, elevated, by vijnana-vidhuta. Vijnana-vidhuta-vibhramah. This can be achieved when one is interested in the matter of self-realization. If one is interested. Atma-tattvam
J
- Janmana jayate sudrah. Everyone is born a sudra, a foolish. Sudra means a foolish man who simply laments. That is the real meaning of sudra. Anyone who has no intelligence, he is sudra
- Just like we see the behaviour of small children and household cats and dogs, their behaviour is almost the same, no distinction. Because in that stage everyone is abodha-jata, born fools and rascals
T
- The sastra says, everyone is born a fool: because he has this body, therefore he was born a fool. No being, either American or Indian, cat or dog, is free from this. You have come to disease, that's all
- These rascals, they are born fools and rascals, and they are working in rascaldom. Therefore, whatever they are doing, it is defeat. Therefore this crisis has come
W
- We are all born foolish. So if we are not properly educated, then we remain fools and rascals, and the activities of fools and rascals, this is simply waste of time
- We are all born fools and rascals. That is a fact. We know. Therefore we are sent to schools for education, because we are fools and rascals
- We are born all fools and rascals, abodha-jata, without any sense. So we require education. What is that education? Atma-tattvam