Category:Good Chance
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the human form of life is an exceedingly rare and good chance to escape the cycle of repeated birth and death. While material opulence and worldly pious activities may provide good chances for temporary success in this world, they often foil one's spiritual energy. The true perfection of this life is realized by seizing the opportunity to practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness. By actively engaging in Deity worship, regularly chanting the holy names, and avoiding material entanglements, a devotee creates a good chance to constantly remember the Lord, even at the critical time of death. Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda stresses that spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement provides the best chance to uplift human society globally, and even if a sincere devotee does not achieve full perfection in one lifetime, they are guaranteed another good chance in the next birth to return back to Godhead.
- The Value of Human Life: The human form is the ultimate good chance to stop the continuous changing of bodies and achieve eternal life.
- Material Detachment: Possessing excessive material assets hinders spiritual progress; simplicity provides a better chance for self-realization.
- Practical Devotion: Engaging directly in the service of the Deity ensures a continuous chance to see and remember Kṛṣṇa at all times.
- The Test of Death: A lifelong practice of chanting provides the best chance to remember the holy name when the mind becomes disordered at death.
- Preaching Opportunities: There is a very good chance for spiritual success in spreading the Vaiṣṇava cult globally by adhering strictly to regulative principles and distributing transcendental literature.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: If One is Engaged in the Service of the Deity, There is a Good Chance of Always Seeing Him.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Good Chance"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A person who takes birth in such a family (of learned and devoted brahmanas or a family of rich vaisyas) has a good chance to practice devotional service and improve his spiritual condition
- A pure devotee is never lost. He gets another good chance to cultivate Krishna Consciousness, or if one is advanced he goes back to Home, back to Godhead
- About our tenants; most of them are employed. So, there is good chance of their vacating when they are transferred. You should be very vigilant to see that they do not transfer occupancy to someone else and cause unnecessary harassment
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- I got very, very good chance. But Krsna did not allow it. He wanted me to come to this point. That is my practical experience. And now I'm seeing that it is Krsna's so much favor
- I had good opportunities to become a very rich businessman. An astrologer even told me that I should have become as rich as the wealthiest man in India. There were very good chances
- If all the girls are not married there is a good chance of adultery, and a society in which adultery is allowed cannot be very peaceful or pure
- If one is engaged in the service of the Deity, there is a good chance of always seeing Him (Krsna), twenty-four hours a day
- It appears there is good chance we may get permission for our men to enter Jagannatha Puri temple if we can present the right documents. My idea is that you present the enclosed statement proving our men are bona fide Hindus
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- The son of a brahmana has a good chance to become a brahmana by the direction of his qualified father, as a son of a medical practitioner has a very good chance to become a qualified medical practitioner. So the caste system is quite scientific
- There are two kind of activities, good or bad. If you act nicely, pious activities, then you get good chance. And if you act sinfully, then you have to suffer
- There is very good chance for our success in India. We should follow the same principle; namely chanting the beads regularly, following the regulative principles, leading the Sankirtana Party on the street, try to sell our literature and books
- There is very good chance to open a branch there, and they have invited us, and 10 or 15 people are ready to attend our meetings, so I am thinking of sending Mahapurusa there, with some other assistant
- They (material assets) foil spiritual energy, and thus the less we possess such products of material nature, the more we have a good chance for spiritual progress
- This external world is controlled by the Mother Durga. She's in charge of this material world. So if you become a perfect devotee of Mother, you get all good chances in this material world but not eternal life