Category:Good Health
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that good health is not meant for sense gratification, but for maintaining the body and soul together to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Living a prolonged, materialistic life is compared to the useless, extended life of a tree. Instead, it is better to live simply and healthily, dedicating one's energy to devotional service. A proper diet consisting of nutritious, natural foods like milk preparations is essential for keeping the body fit without unnecessary artificial endeavor. Furthermore, advanced devotees pray to leave this material world while still in sound physical and mental health, ensuring their minds remain fixed on the Supreme Lord at the crucial moment of death. Ultimately, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is designed to give human society the ultimate opportunity for peace of mind, physical well-being, and eternal spiritual happiness.
- The Purpose of Health: Maintaining a healthy body is essential for spiritual advancement, whereas a prolonged life without devotion is considered useless.
- Natural Diet: Good health naturally follows when society eats nicely prepared, nutritious foods and avoids artificial, unregulated consumption.
- Leaving the Body: Pure devotees desire to give up their bodies while their physical and mental health is still sound, allowing them to easily remember Kṛṣṇa.
- Holistic Happiness: Engaging in the devotional service of the Lord naturally brings about peace of mind, good health, and the development of all good qualities.
- The Preacher's Wellbeing: Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently prayed for the good health of his disciples, knowing their vitality was required to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Better Die Young, in Good Health, Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Good Health"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- Aggravation of the material disease is no sign of knowledge, but a sign of avidya, ignorance. For good health, a person should not increase his fever from 105 degrees to 107 degrees but should reduce his temperature to the normal 98.6
- All the devotees here (in Durban, South Africa) are very active in the service of Lord Krsna, and the results are obvious to see: happiness, good health, peace of mind, and the development of all good qualities. This is the nature of Vrndavana
- All the devotees here are very active in the service of Lord Krsna, and the results are obvious to see: happiness, good health, peace of mind, and the development of all good qualities. This is the nature of Vrndavana
B
- Better die young, in good health, chanting Hare Krsna. What is the use of prolonged life? The prolonged life . . . the trees are also prolonged life. Does it mean it is happy
- By your own example you have to keep all the devotees enthusiastic and that is done by strict adherence to the regulative principles. Hope this finds you in good health
I
- I am praying always to Krishna that the boys and girls who have stretched their helping hand in this country in this connection may always be in good health and continue to assist me in my missionary activities
- I shall always pray for your good health and prolonged life because at the present moment you are the only hope to us in the matter of spreading India's original culture, Krsna consciousness
- If you eat everything, whatever you like, then you cannot keep good health. The example is given that if we do not carefully live, we shall be liable to be punishment
- In the hellish condition within the womb, the living entity is very much afraid of being born again, but when he is out of the womb, when he is in full life and good health, he forgets everything and commits again and again the same sins
- It doesn't depend on my good or bad health. It is all spiritual news. Spiritually I become very much enlivened
- It has actually been seen that anyone who regularly worships mother Ganges simply by bathing in her water keeps very good health and gradually becomes a devotee of the Lord. This is the effect of bathing in the water of the Ganges
- It will be a great pleasure for me to meet with you either at Delhi or Vrindaban when I return the 26th of March, this month, to Delhi. More when we meet. In the meantime, I hope this meets you in good health
T
- The more you can reduce your sleep and eating, you keep good health, especially for spiritual purposes. But not artificially. But when you advance, naturally you'll not feel, just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami
- The yogic process practiced by Prthu Maharaja at the time of death accelerates the giving up of this body while one is in sound health physically and mentally. Every devotee desires to give up the body while it is sound physically and mentally
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- We have no other business. We want to see people live, eating very nicely nutritious food, keeping good health. But unnecessarily artificial things, bothering, that we don't want
- When the Lord asked about all the Vaisnavas at Mathura, Sanatana Gosvami informed Him of their good health and fortune
- Without KC, happiness is impossible; one may struggle, but one cannot have happiness. We are therefore trying to give human society the opportunity for a life of happiness, good health, peace of mind and all good qualities through God consciousness