Category:Krsna Consciousness Movement Is Not A Religious Movement
Theme Analysis
One of Śrīla Prabhupāda's most consistent and emphatic philosophical clarifications is that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not a religious movement in any conventional sense of the word. Across lectures, letters, and conversations addressed to scholars, government officials, seekers, and disciples, he distinguishes it sharply from sectarian religion, sentimental faith, and denominational competition, identifying it instead as a science, an educational and cultural program, and fundamentally a movement of the eternal soul. This distinction is not semantic but deeply philosophical: religion as commonly understood belongs to the platform of social convention and temporary faith, whereas Kṛṣṇa consciousness addresses the eternal nature of the living entity and the scientific understanding of the soul's relationship with the Supreme.
- Not Sentiment but Science: Śrīla Prabhupāda is unequivocal that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a science, not a religious sentiment or a matter of blind faith. It is the science of understanding Kṛṣṇa, the science of the soul, and the science of how to love God, and it can be studied, examined, and verified. He repeatedly invites educated persons to approach the movement's books with an open and critical mind, confident that they will find in them a satisfying and philosophically rigorous body of knowledge.
- Not Sectarian but Universal: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement does not compete with other religions or seek to replace them with another denomination. Śrīla Prabhupāda describes it as the postgraduate position of all religions, welcoming those who identify as Christians, Muslims, or followers of any other tradition. It is meant for all-embracing welfare activities for the world, with no discrimination based on caste, creed, religion, or nationality, and its aim is the happiness of all living beings, not only human beings.
- A Cultural and Educational Institution: Rather than presenting the movement as a religious institution, Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently describes it as a cultural program and an educational movement. It is specifically designed to educate human beings about the spirit soul, to cultivate good character, and to provide the essential knowledge of life that modern civilization so gravely lacks. Everything found in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, including politics, sociology, philosophy, and science, confirms that this movement operates on a comprehensive educational platform far beyond the scope of ordinary religion.
- The Function of the Soul, Not of Social Convention: At the deepest level, Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is neither Hindu religion nor any other religion but the function of the soul itself. Just as the natural function of fire is to burn and give light, the natural function of the soul is to serve and love the Supreme. Factually, it is not a social, political, or religious movement but a movement to awaken every living entity to its own eternal nature and thereby rescue it from the disastrous condition of material existence.
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Pages in category "Krsna Consciousness Movement Is Not A Religious Movement"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- Do not take this movement as a sectarian, religious movement. It is practically a movement to bestow the essential knowledge of life to the human society
- Don't take this movement as something sentimental, religious faith. No. It is a very scientific, educational movement. Take advantage of it. That is our request. You can understand this movement by reading so many books
- Don't think that Krsna consciousness it is a sentimental so-called religious movement. But you come to the right conclusion to the spiritual platform by this easiest method introduced by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
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- If anyone is proud of his education, let him come and study our books, understand this philosophy, and I'm sure he'll find satisfying. Don't take it as something sentimental, religious. It is a scientific, educational movement
- It (Krsna consciousness movement ) is not religious; it is scientific. It is to save the human society from gliding down to the abominable condition
- It (Krsna consciousness movement) is not a sectarian religious movement, no. It is a science, how to understand God, how to love Him
- It is not sentiment. It is not religious sentiment. It is a science. Krsna consciousness means to understand the science of Krsna
- It is very good that you have registered the society. It is very important. Actually we are not a religious institution. We are presenting a cultural program, making men of good character. Therefore it is a cultural institution
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- Krsna consciousness is not a sectarian religious movement. Rather, it is meant for all-embracing welfare activities for the world. One can enter this movement without discrimination in terms of caste, creed, religion or nationality
- Krsna consciousness is the necessity. It is not a religious formula or some spiritual recreation. No. It is the most important thing that we should imbibe in our life
- Krsna consciousness movement is meant for taking into account of the nonperishable. So it is the movement of the soul, not the movement as political movement, social movement or religious movement
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- Our Krishna Conscious movement is not a religious movement; it is a movement for purifying the heart
- Our Krsna consciousness movement is no religious movement or any sectarian movement. This movement is to see everyone, every human being - not only human being, even the animals - everyone be happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. And the process is very simple
- Our movement is not a religious movement; it is a movement for advancement of knowledge. And this knowledge, God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, is especially meant for this human body
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- The Krsna consciousness movement is not a sentimental religious movement; it is a movement for the reformation of all the anomalies of human society
- There is great necessity of spreading this Krsna consciousness movement to actually educate the human being to the highest perfect of life. That is required. It is not a religious system, competing with some other religion
- This is Krsna consciousness movement, that we are inducing people to understand the problem. It is not a sectarian movement or so-called religious movement. It is not a religion. It is educational cultural movement
- This Krsna consciousness movement is a scientific movement. It is not a religious faith. That is not. The beginning is that as the child grows to become a boy and boy grows to become a young man.... This is scientific. It is not the question of religion
- This Krsna consciousness movement is an educational propaganda. Don't take it as a sectarian faith or religion
- This Krsna consciousness movement is educational movement. It is not a religious sentiment; it is a science. And as we have got our books also. You have seen. There is demonstration of the book. We have got already twenty books of four hundred pages each
- This Krsna consciousness movement is not a sentiment, so-called religious movement. It is a scientific movement to solve all the problems of life. This is Krsna consciousness
- This Krsna consciousness movement is postgraduate position of all religions. It is not any sectarian religion. You accept Christianity - very good. You accept Muhammadanism, Islamism - very good
- This Krsna consciousness movement is specifically meant for educating people about the spirit soul. It is not a sectarian religion. It is a science. Don't take it as a type of religion. It is a course of education which is understandable
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- We are giving the right information how human being can be really happy. This is end. It is not religious sentiment. Religion means a kind of faith
- We are trying to save the living entity from disastrous condition. This is the aim and mission of Krsna consciousness movement. It is not a religious sentiment. No. It is very scientific
- What I have introduced into Western countries, the pure love for Godhead process of LC, will go on increasing more & more to have effect to save others; otherwise, it will gradually become mechanical & fade away like other so-called religious movements