Category:Good Idea
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that all genuinely good ideas for the benefit of human society naturally manifest from God consciousness. Materialistic attempts at social welfare, such as the equal distribution of wealth or the artificial glorification of the poor, are fundamentally flawed because they fail to recognize Kṛṣṇa as the supreme proprietor. Within the devotional community, a good idea is directly measured by its capacity to please the Lord and expand His mission. Building magnificent temples, printing transcendental literature, and devising creative preaching programs are enthusiastically approved. Conversely, mixing commercial business with temple activities, diverting preaching energy into mundane sales, or artificially imitating advanced stages of devotion are strictly discouraged as poor ideas that hinder spiritual progress.
- The Root of Good Ideas: True intelligence and perfect societal organization naturally emerge when individuals awaken their dormant God consciousness.
- The Supreme Proprietor: Secular concepts like wealth distribution are only perfect when they are rooted in the understanding that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
- Practical Management: Building and purchasing temples are excellent endeavors, provided the focus remains entirely on satisfying the Lord rather than engaging in mundane commerce.
- Preaching Innovations: Śrīla Prabhupāda highly encouraged his disciples' creative ideas to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness, such as publishing children's books or utilizing classical music.
- Regulated Devotion: It is a mistake to prematurely imitate advanced spiritual practices; a truly good idea is to patiently follow the rules, regulations, and one's prescribed duties.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Everything Belongs to God - That is Very Good Idea.
Pages in category "Good Idea"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- All the good ideas we are manufacturing, they will be manifested in God consciousness automatically. Therefore our duty should be, if we want to make all human being well-behaved, then we must try to make every one of them God conscious
- Ayurvedic medicine is a good idea, provided we can get an expert manufacturer
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- I am fearful about what will happen here in my absence; I take this suggestion of yourself a manager of Hare Krishna Land as a very sound idea
- I understand Parivrajakacarya Swami is teaching a course combining both hatha and bhakti yoga to attract the people. This is a very good idea. Somehow or other inject the bhakti yoga. That will save them from the degradations of sense gratification
- If you like, you may contact the temple president in Paris and find out from him if he thinks it is a good idea for you to go there. Please chant 16 rounds and follow the 4 regulative principles strictly and read my books with great care
- If you make all classes one, very liberal - "Very good idea. There is no classification" - no, there must be classifi . . . But that classification is not by birth. That is not by birth. Guna-karma-vibhagasah
- If you wish to live separately you have to earn your livelihood by business, by taking some employment to maintain your home and family. But not by chanting in the street; this is not a good idea for householders
- Immediately we cannot imitate serving gopis. That's a good idea that you shall serve gopi, but it will take time. Not immediately. Immediately we have to follow the rules and regulations and routine work
- In every country, those who are supposed to be on the counselor in the matter of giving people good ideas how to conduct society, that class of men, is finished now. Similarly, the administrative class of men
- Indian classical songs are appreciated here and in foreign countries also. This program of presenting the Bhagavatam in classical song is a good idea
- It is a good idea to use the money which had been collected in Madras to complete the Hyderabad Temple. The immediate necessity must be met first
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- Regarding purchasing of temples, if within our means and estimation it is possible, that is a good idea
- Regarding your proposal that recommendations for initiations should be approved by the GBC members, that is not a good idea. Such recommendation is for the local President to make from first hand observation
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- Yes, it is very good idea to build a nice Temple for Krishna, apply all energy for Krishna. How one is successful in his work is tested by whether or not Krishna is satisfied. The Impersonalists cannot enjoy this bliss of how to satisfy Krishna
- Yes, to make a KC coloring book for children is a very good idea for serving and for spreading KC to the young children. Please do it. It will be a great service
- You are trying to prolong life. Very good idea. But what is the use of prolonging life while suffering? One side, you are trying to prolong life; the other side, for acute suffering one is committing suicide. So why this contradictory proposal
- You have got good ideas, you are intelligent and have got qualifications, but you must learn to be more responsible
- You make weekly inventories and pay weekly for the books sold. That is a good idea. You can take his help, how to do it. You must organize these things in such a way that things will go on automatically and increase more and more
- Your printing in Hindi in Mathura is a good idea. Do it in consultation with Gopala Krishna Prabhu. So you send me the translation and after seeing it, I shall approve
- Your program of life-membership is a good idea. Thank you very much
- Your temple attendance must continue. So if it is possible that you shall live with the boys at the temple, then that is very good idea, and work also with your father