Category:False Things
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies the critical distinction between temporary material manifestations and actual falsehood. He strongly refutes the Māyāvādī philosophy that the cosmic creation itself is false, explaining instead that true illusion involves misidentifying the eternal self with the temporary material body. Conditioned souls waste their valuable human lives chasing false sensuous things, material wealth, and worldly adoration. Furthermore, they are easily misled by the false propaganda of mundane society and the cheap magical feats of so-called yogīs. To achieve real spiritual perfection, one must stop wasting time on these false things and shift their attraction to the ultimate reality (vāstava-vastu) by reestablishing their loving relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- The Real Meaning of Illusion: The cosmic manifestation is temporary, not completely false; the true illusion is identifying the self with the material body and accepting a false paradigm of enjoyment.
- Wasting Time on Sensuous Pursuits: The general populace wastes their valuable human life chasing false fortunes such as wealth and worldly adoration, while pure devotees seek the ultimate reality.
- Propaganda and Cheap Magic: Conditioned souls are frequently misled by the deceptive propaganda of materialistic society and the cheap magical feats of so-called yogis and false incarnations.
- The Supreme Reality vs. Temporary Manifestations: The ultimate goal of spiritual life is to reject the shadows of material existence and focus our attraction on the eternal substance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Shifting Our Attraction from False Things to Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "False Things"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- If you make propaganda, if he's not ghost, you can make him ghost. This is propaganda. This is called propaganda. By propaganda you can establish a false thing as real. That's all. This is going on. They know how to do it. They're expert
- If you take false thing, then you will be frustrated. If you take real path of God realization, there is no question of frustration
- In our ISKCON there are so many false things: "Prabhupada said this, Prabhupada said that.''
- In the deep forest it sometimes appears that there are big palaces and nice cities. That is technically called gandharva-nagara. Similarly, in dreams also we create many false things out of imagination
- It is to be understood by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guna. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation
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- Jnanis, they are trying to make it variety-less, and the Buddhists, they are trying to make it zero. Our philosophy is substance. This is difference: substance, reality. Vastava-vastu, real reality, not the false thing
- Just like in the desert, accepting the sand as water. That is called illusion. Similarly, every one of us who are identified with this body, he's under illusion. That is a false thing, but he has no knowledge. Even President Johnson, he's under illusion
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- Modern so-called yogis and yoga systems manifest some magical feats, and ignorant persons are attracted by such false things, or they accept the yoga system as a cheap healing process for diseases of the gross body
- My Guru Maharaja is tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge. People are suffering. They are simply fighting on some false thing, maya
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- The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish their lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead
- The fruitive worker aspires after a big fortune in the matter of wealth, woman and worldly adoration, but those who are fixed in perfect reality are not at all interested in such false things. For them it is all a waste of time
- The material creations are manifested for some time as perverted shadows of the spiritual kingdom and can be likened to cinemas. They attract people of less intelligent caliber who are attracted by false things
- The pure devotee of Lord Vasudeva, enlightened by the transcendental service attitude, has no attraction for such false things as religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, or salvation, the last snare of Maya
- The world or the cosmic creation is not false, as maintained by the Mayavada school. It simply has no permanent existence. A nonpermanent thing cannot be called false altogether. But the conception that the material body is the self is certainly wrong
- This (spreading of Krsna Consciousness movement) is marvelous. You give the real thing, and it will act. If you give false things, nasta, so superficially it is (Sanskrit), but if it is spoiled, it will create disease
- This verse (SB 5.18.32) completely rejects the theory of brahma satyam jagan mithya, which states that spirit, or Brahman, is real, whereas the manifested material world, with its great variety of things, is false. Nothing is false
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- You are attracted to something for getting some pleasure. So that pleasure is interrupted because we have posed our attraction in some false things. You have to change that attraction to the real thing, Krsna. Then you'll be happy
- You have got some false thing, you have to make propaganda to prove it that it is real