Category:Foolish Materialists
Theme Analysis
The category of foolish materialists highlights the tragedy of conditioned souls who waste their valuable human lives pursuing temporary bodily comforts, economic development, and familial attachments while completely ignoring the inevitability of impending death. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that such persons falsely think themselves independent, yet they are strictly controlled and punished at every step by the laws of material nature. Oblivious to the eternal, unobstructed spiritual happiness available to the soul, they are easily misled by bogus incarnations, manufactured theories of evolution, and mundane leaders. However, out of supreme compassion, genuine devotees take the immense responsibility of traveling the world to awaken these foolish materialists from the darkest regions of ignorance, offering them the ultimate relief of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Illusion of the Temporary Body The physical body is temporary, yet materially attached persons regard it as reality. They completely ignore the great danger of impending death and try to enjoy the acquired wealth of their deceased relatives instead of seeking spiritual awakening.
- The Futility of Economic Development A major portion of human life is wasted in acquiring money for sense gratification, sleeping, and maintaining a band of relatives. These manufactured material necessities are destined to be vanquished in due course of time, leaving the soul empty-handed.
- False Independence and the Laws of Nature Materialistic persons play at being independent leaders, but their false independence is crushed at every step by the superior laws of nature. Because they stick to family affairs without attempting to cut off material relations, they are forced to accept new gross bodies in their next life.
- The Compassionate Rescue Mission The material world is the darkest region of creation, yet people are so attached that they do not want to escape. Fortunately, confidential devotees of the Lord travel all over the world to awaken Kṛṣṇa consciousness, bringing a new order of life to those absorbed in mundane sense enjoyment.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Rescuing the Foolish Materialists from the Dark Region of Sense Gratification.
Pages in category "Foolish Materialists"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- Alas! How wonderful it is that the foolish materialist does not heed the great danger of impending death! He knows that death will surely come, yet he is nevertheless callous and neglectful
- All the brahmanas listed here (in SB 6.15.12-15), being devotees, travel all over the world to awaken Krsna consciousness in the hearts of such foolish materialists
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- Foolish material scientists have manufactured their own theories of evolution, which are simply concerned with the material body. But actually this is not the real evolution
- Foolish materialistic people collect money and steal from other thieves, but they cannot keep it. In any case, it must be spent
- Foolish materialistic persons do not know how they are being controlled and punished at every step by the laws of nature. They think they are very happy in the conditioned state of material life
- Foolish materialists have no information of how to obtain eternal happiness in the unconditional state
- Foolish materialists, in the garb of leaders of the people in general, stick to family affairs without attempting to cut off relations with them, and thus they become victims of nature's law and get gross bodies again, according to their work
- Foolish men of materialistic temperament do not take advantage of successive authorized knowledge
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- Material worlds are being created & vanished by the supreme will of the Lord. The poor foolish materialist can just imagine how ignorantly he puts forward an insignificant creature to become His rival incarnation simply on the allegations of a dying man
- Materialists foolishly make many plans to become happy in this material world. They do not stop to consider that they will live only for a certain number of years, out of which they must spend the major portion acquiring money for sense gratification
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- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami has described how the foolish materially attached men are wasting their valuable time 2) by developing economic conditions and maintaining a band of relatives who are to be vanquished in the air of oblivion
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami has described how the foolish materially attached men are wasting their valuable time in the improvement of the material conditions of life 1) by sleeping, indulging in sex life
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- The body is temporary, and only foolish, materialistic persons, who do not have full knowledge of the soul, regard the temporary body as reality and engage in decorating this body
- The devotees of the Lord who voluntarily take the responsibility of raising the foolish materialistic sense enjoyers are as confidential to the Lord as Lord Brahma
- The foolish materialists cannot understand that they are simply wasting time in producing material necessities, which are destined to be vanquished in due course of time
- The foolish, childlike materialists cannot reach beyond the conception of the maidservant, material nature
- The material world exists outside the spiritual sky, and a foolish materialist cannot estimate the extent of this material sky. What, then, can he know of the spiritual sky
- The materialistic world is called the darkest region of God's creation. Yet the unhappy materialists can get out of it simply by desiring to get out. Unfortunately they are so foolish that they do not want to escape
- The materialists foolishly play that they are independent, but such false independence is vanquished at every instance by the superiority of the material nature
- The poor foolish materialist can just imagine how ignorantly he puts forward an insignificant creature to become His rival incarnation, simply on the allegations of a dying man
- Then they (the so-called sadhus) declare themselves God, and foolish materialists are attracted to them for economic development
- This is (slaughterhouse becomes prominent) because foolish materialistic men do not care to listen to others who are actually in a position to explain the Vedic rites
- This poor fund of knowledge, even in the so-called learned circles of the world, is killing the vitality of human energy, & the awful result is being keenly felt. Yet the foolish materialistic men do not care about what is going to happen in the next life
- Transcendental activities of the devotees for the service of the Lord can bring a new order of life to the foolish society of materialistic men