Category:Gliding Toward Hell
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda illuminates the sobering reality of the soul's downward journey when human life is misspent on temporary material pursuits. By analyzing the symptoms of a society drifting away from spiritual values, he reveals how subtle yet certain this descent becomes.
- The Illusion of Progress: While modern civilization celebrates technological and social advancement, Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that without a God-centered foundation, these achievements are merely artificial. Those who take pride in such false honor are often unconsciously gliding toward a hellish destination, unaware that their actions are binding them further to material nature.
- The Role of Misguided Leadership: Much of the current spiritual crisis is attributed to leaders who are themselves blinded by the bodily conception of life. Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that when the blind lead the blind, both the leaders and their followers fall into the ditch of hellish existence, highlighting the urgent need for genuine spiritual guidance.
- Misuse of Independence: The soul possesses a small degree of independence which, when misused to serve the senses rather than the Supreme, leads to nescience. Śrīla Prabhupāda describes how the Lord initially tries to protect the soul from the trap of illusion, but eventually allows the living entity to follow its chosen path of descent if it persists in ignoring spiritual truth.
- The Necessity of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: The only effective safeguard against this downward slide is the reestablishment of authentic spiritual culture. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that by practicing Kṛṣṇa consciousness and following the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma, human society can be protected from the darkest regions of existence and redirected toward its eternal home.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Preventing Human Society from Gliding Toward Hell.
Pages in category "Gliding Toward Hell"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- A proud person is deceived in transcendental life and, despite having attained a human form, will again glide into hellish conditions
- A puffed-up person cannot understand the science of Krsna. A proud person is deceived in transcendental life and, despite having attained a human form, will again glide into hellish conditions
- Although demoniac people are most abominable in the world, still, by artificial means, the world creates a false honor for them. Although they are gliding toward hell, they consider themselves very much advanced. BG 1972 purports
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- Demoniac people are most abominable in the world, by artificial means the world creates a false honor for them. Although they are gliding toward hell, they consider themselves very much advanced
- Devotional service and attachment (of prakrta-sahajiya) are false, and those so engaged are actually gliding down a hellish path. This is not the standard of ragatmika, or devotion. The prakrta-sahajiya community is actually cheated and very unfortunate
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- If a person is lacking in devotion or Krsna consciousness, he cannot be released from material bondage, even if he executes his prescribed duty. On the contrary, even by discharging his prescribed duty he will glide down into hell
- If a sincere devotee somehow does fall down, the Lord corrects him and saves him from gliding down to the darkest region of hellish life
- If one gets another chance in a human body and wastes his valuable time in the association of persons who are concerned with sexual life and palatable dishes, then naturally he again glides down to the same Andha-tamisra and Tamisra hells
- It is not that Krsna is sending them. He is making his own path clear, either back to home, back to Godhead, or glide down to the darkest region of hell. Two things are there, and that opportunity is in the human form of life
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- King Rahugana began to offer his respectful obeisances unto them (all kinds of brahmanas and self-realized persons) so that the offensive royal dynasties might not glide down into a hellish condition
- Krsna consciousness is the purest life, and it protects all human beings from gliding down to hell to take birth in a family of dogs or hogs
- Krsna said: Narada Muni has saved you from gliding down into the lowest condition of hellish life. All these facts are already known to Me. You are very fortunate because not only were you cursed by him, but you had the great opportunity to see him
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- Pariksit Maharaja anxiously wanted to know from Sukadeva Gosvami how humanity can be saved from gliding down to hell
- Persons who are demons, enemies of the SPG, are called asuras. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, the asuras, because of their enmity toward the SPG, take birth after birth in asura families and therefore glide down to the darkest hellish regions
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- So more and more I am urging my students to recognize the grave responsibility which is theirs for saving this fallen human society from gliding down into hell
- So-called social, national and government leaders mislead people more and more, under the bodily conception of life, with the result that all the leaders, with their followers, are gliding down to hellish conditions birth after birth
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- The household children are taken to practice what the parents practice, and therefore the whole generation glides towards hell. Nothing good can be expected from them unless they associate with sadhus
- The Krsna consciousness movement is being propagated all over the world to reestablish the varnasrama-dharma system and thus save human society from gliding down to hellish life
- The result is that, without their (demoniac men's) knowledge, they are gliding toward hell. Here (in BG 16.16) the Sanskrit word mohajala is very significant. Jala means net; like fishes caught in a net, they have no way to come out. BG 1972 purports
- There is still time, and if the inhabitants of Bharata-varsa take this movement of Krsna consciousness seriously, the entire world will be saved from gliding down to a hellish condition