Category:Free From Miseries
Theme Analysis
The material world is fundamentally described as a place of suffering, or duḥkhālayam, where every living entity is pressed by the trident of the threefold miseries: those caused by the body and mind, those inflicted by other living beings, and those resulting from natural disturbances. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that no amount of material wealth or pious activity can grant immunity from the primary miseries of birth, death, old age, and disease. However, human life provides the unique opportunity to end this struggle. By approaching a bona fide spiritual master and submissively hearing the instructions of the Bhagavad-gītā, one can realize their original position as an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. This shift in consciousness—from bodily identification to transcendental service—acts as a shield, ensuring that while a devotee may appear to be in the material world, they are no longer affected by its miseries. Through the constant chanting of the holy name and the minimization of bodily demands, the soul attains a state of trance or samādhi, characterized by absolute freedom from material contact and the experience of transcendental bliss.
- The Universal Struggle for Happiness: In the material world, pure happiness is impossible because the threefold miseries are constantly pressed against everyone's chest. What is commonly called happiness is actually just a hard struggle to get free from the miseries of conditional life. Real freedom comes only when the living entity realizes their elevated, transcendental position.
- The Necessity of the Spiritual Master: Approaching a spiritual master is not a fashion but a necessity for anyone serious about becoming free from material miseries. Through submissive inquiry and following the instructions of a bona fide guru, the dust of material contamination is removed, allowing the soul to visualize its real self and escape the miseries of the body and mind.
- Realizing our Position as Kṛṣṇa-dāsa: As soon as a person understands their real position as an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, they immediately become free from all miseries. The miseries of material existence are rooted in the bodily concept of life; by reinstating oneself in pure spiritual service, one becomes like a person whose shirt is torn but remains unaffected because they know they are not the garment.
- The Process of Hearing and Chanting: The savior from all miseries is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and one can access His protection by hearing about, glorifying, and remembering Him. By carefully following the instructions of the Bhagavad-gītā and constantly chanting the holy name with devotion, a person can achieve the highest goal of life and ensure their next life is entirely spiritual.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Reclaiming the Soul's Happiness through Being Free From Miseries.
Pages in category "Free From Miseries"
The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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- Another meaning of the word dhrti is "to realize oneself as elevated." When one realizes his own elevation, he feels that he is free from all miseries and is elevated to the highest platform of life
- Approaching a spiritual master is not just a fashion but is a necessity for one who is seriously conscious of the material miseries and who wants to be free of them. It is the duty of such a person to approach a spiritual master
- As soon as one comes to know his real position as transcendental servant, he at once becomes free from all miseries
- As soon as one comes to know his real position in transcendental service, he at once becomes freed from all these miseries. The position of servitor is wasted in the material conception of life
- As soon as the dusts are removed the human being is able to visualize a clear conception of his real self and thereby he becomes free from the miseries pertaining to the body & mind
B
- Because a devotee is freed from all contaminated material association, he is not affected by the miseries of material existence. Even though he appears to be in the material world, he is not affected by the miseries of the material world
- Being situated in such a position (trance, or samadhi), one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact
- Bhagavad-gita is a transcendental literature which one should read very carefully. And the result will be, if he properly follows the instruction, then he can be freed from all miseries of life, all anxieties of life and all fears of life
- By remembering the Lord in acute distress one can be free from all varieties of miseries and anxieties
- By understanding the Lord's simultaneous oneness with and difference from His creation, one can immediately attain freedom from the threefold miseries - miseries inflicted by the body and mind, by other living entities and by acts of nature
I
- I am undergoing miseries, so many miseries. So the whole idea is that I have to get out of this material contact and reinstate myself in the pure spiritual life so that I shall not, I shall be free from all miseries
- If one always chants the holy name of the Lord with great devotion in the evening and in the morning, one can become free from all material miseries
- If one becomes free from the bodily concept of life, then where is material miseries?" Material miseries does not affect him. Just like I am putting on this shirt. If it is torn, so am I affected?
- If one engages in devotional activities - he can achieve the highest goal of life with freedom from miserable conditions. Considering this, one should cease from material desires
- If one is a little intelligent he can cultivate Krsna consciousness and be freed from the miserable conditions of material life
- If one properly follows the instructions of Bhagavad-gita, one can be freed from all miseries and anxieties in this life, and one's next life will be spiritual
- If we really want freedom from the miseries of material existence, we must minimize our bodily demands and pleasures
- If you really want freedom from this material existence and miseries of material existence, then we must minimize the bodily enjoyment. We must minimize. Just like a diseased man is given some liquid food. He is forbidden
- In order to become free from the miseries of material nature, one should approach a bona fide spiritual master inquisitively and submissively
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is confirmed that to be in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead by full surrender in transcendental love frees one from the miseries inflicted by the laws of material nature
- In the Narada-pancaratra it is stated by Lord Narayana that worship of the Deity within the mind is called manasa-puja. One can become free from the four miseries by this method. Sometimes worship from the mind can be independently executed
- It is not a fact that those who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth are free from the material miseries of birth, old age, disease and death. The conclusion is that one cannot be happy by simply executing pious or impious activities
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- Jiva krsna-dasa, ei visvasa, karle ta' ara duhkha nai: "Please therefore accept yourself as the servant of Krsna. Then you will be freed from all miseries."
- Just like our Krsna consciousness movement. We are trying to teach this perfection of life - how to become free from these four kinds of miserable condition: birth, death, old age and disease
O
- O descendant of King Bharata (Pariksit), one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify and also remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries - SB 2.1.5
- O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries
- One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with undeviating determination and faith. One should abandon, without exception, all material desires born of false ego and thus control all the senses on all sides by the mind. BG 6.24 - 1972
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- That does not mean any one of us is free from the miserable condition of this material world. Nobody. Therefore this material world is called duhkhalayam asasvatam
- The argument that unless one has proper knowledge one cannot be freed from material miseries is undoubtedly true. But because the lotus feet of the Lord are full of transcendental knowledge, acceptance of His lotus feet completes that necessity
- The baddhas are struggling very hard within this material world to become free from the threefold miseries of material nature and to enjoy life, whereas the muktas are already liberated. They never come into this material world
- The living entity can attain the transcendental happiness of being freed from the three kinds of material miseries - miseries arising from the body and mind, from other living entities and from natural disturbances
- The Lord was pleased by Sanatana's submissive behavior, and He replied, "You have already received benediction from Lord Krsna, and therefore you know everything and are free from all the miseries of material existence"
- The miseries and mixed happiness of all living beings are only of different degree and quality, but no one is free from the miseries of birth, death, old age and disease
- The perfect process of performing yajnas, or sacrifice, to please the Supreme Lord Hari (the Personality of Godhead, who gets us free from all miseries of existence) is to follow the ways of Lord Sri Caitanya in this dark age of quarrel and dissension
- This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact. BG 6.20-23 - 1972
- Thoughts of becoming one with the Lord, or being merged in the brahma-jyotir, can also be exhibitions of kama spirit if they are desires for one's own satisfaction to be free from the material miseries
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- Unless one is beyond the boundary of this nescience, one cannot get free from the threefold miseries of material life. That is the law of nature
- Unless one is self-satisfied, he cannot be free from the miserable conditions of material existence. Therefore it is essential to render service to the brahmanas and Vaisnavas to achieve the perfection of self-satisfaction
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- When he (the living entity) looks to the Supreme Lord and becomes the Supreme Lord's devotee, he becomes free from all anxieties and material miseries
- When such acknowledgement (no one can get nice facilities without mercy of God) is given, either by a family, nation or society, their abode becomes almost like Vaikuntha, and it becomes free from the operation of threefold miseries of this material world
- When the living entity now covered by the modes of material nature is freed from ignorance, passion, and so-called goodness, he becomes one with the Absolute Truth. Such oneness is called mukti, or freedom from the miseries of material life