Category:Main Purpose
Theme Analysis
In these instructions, Śrīla Prabhupāda outlines the ultimate, defining objective behind the material creation, human life, Vedic knowledge, and the global Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. By contrasting the divine purposes of the Supreme Lord and His pure devotees with the envious motives of demons and mundane scholars, he provides absolute clarity on how we should direct our life's energy. The central and unifying "main purpose" of all genuine spiritual endeavor is simply to understand God, reestablish our loving relationship with Him, and ultimately return back to Godhead.
- The Mission of the Movement: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness was established with the explicit purpose of systematically propagating spiritual knowledge and awakening humanity to its original relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- The Goal of Human Life: While materialists strive for temporary economic development, the true purpose of human existence is to purify one's consciousness, achieve liberation, and strictly follow the instructions of the Supreme Lord.
- The Reason for Creation and Incarnations: The material cosmos is created to give conditioned souls a chance to return to Godhead. When the Lord descends, His primary purpose is to give solace to His devotees and annihilate the miscreants.
- The Objective of Vedic Wisdom: All sacrifices, austerities, and studies of the Vedas and Vedānta-sūtra have a single, unified purpose: to understand Kṛṣṇa and satisfy Him completely.
- The Dedication of Pure Devotees: A pure devotee's every action is meant to please the Supreme Lord. Whether traveling as a mendicant or establishing temples, their only purpose is to remember Kṛṣṇa and spread His glories.
- The Destructive Motives of Demons: In stark contrast, demons like Hiraṇyakaśipu and mundane scholars act with a completely different main purpose: to disturb the devotees, attack the Lord's expansions, or intellectually "kill" Kṛṣṇa in the scriptures.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding the Main Purpose of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement.
Pages in category "Main Purpose"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- Having acquired such a wonderful airplane, Salva flew it to the city of Dvaraka, because his main purpose in obtaining the airplane was to attack the city of the Yadus, toward whom he maintained a constant feeling of animosity
- Hiranyakasipu's main purpose was to disturb the demigods. He planned first to kill Lord Visnu so that with Lord Visnu's death the demigods would automatically weaken and die. Another of his plans was to disturb the residents of the planet earth
- How they are worshiping Krsna. So Bhagavad-gita, main purpose is that. Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66). So who has preached this? Nobody spoke that, Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You worship Him
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- One's main purpose in human life should be to purify his existence and achieve liberation
- One's main purpose should be to advance in Krsna consciousness. This will include dharma, artha and kama. However, because one's family members expect some profit, one should also satisfy them by giving them a portion of one's accumulated wealth
- Our main purpose for keeping a large temple, however, is for inviting the public. I came to the U.S.A. just to try to give a chance to as many people as possible to take to Krishna Consciousness, because it is the only hope for humanity
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- The cosmic manifestation gives the conditioned souls a chance to go back home, back to Godhead, and that is its main purpose. The Lord is so kind that in the absence of such a manifestation He feels something wanting, and thus the creation takes place
- The incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead all function differently, but their main purpose is to protect the devotees & annihilate the miscreants. Yet even though the duskrtis, or miscreants, are annihilated, this is ultimately good for them
- The main purpose of asrama-dharma is to awaken knowledge and detachment. The brahmacari asrama is the training ground for the prospective candidates. In this asrama it is instructed that this material world is not actually the home of the living being
- The main purpose of life is to follow the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is such instructions that constitute one's religion or occupational duty
- The main purpose of life was brahminical culture. Brahma-druha. When the kings were neglectful to see that the people are being enlightened about spiritual self-realization, that was (not) good administration. Without that aim, no nation can become happy
- The main purpose of performing sacrifices is to satisfy the Supreme Personality Hari
- The main purpose of sannyasa life is to be in constant companionship with the Supreme Lord
- The main purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement is to enlighten the forgetful living entity and remind him of his original KC. In this way the living entity can be saved from the catastrophe of ignorance as well as bodily transmigration
- The main purpose of the society is to understand the nature of God and our relationship with Him
- The main purpose of this (Buddha) religion was to stop animal slaughter. Ahimsa paramo dharmah. Ahimsa means nonviolence. Nonviolence
- The main purpose of understanding the Vedas, performing Vedic sacrifices and speculating on the Vedanta-sutra is to understand Krsna
- The main purposes of this institution are as follows amongst others: 1) To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all peoples in the techniques of spiritual life
- The main purposes of this institution is to develop the idea, within the members and humanity at large that each soul is part and parcel of the quality of Godhead Krishna
- The success of human form of life is to understand this thing: our relationship with God. And we should act in relationship with God. Then our success of life will be achieved. This is the main purpose of Krsna consciousness movement
- This verse (SB 10.2.29) explains why the SPG appears as an incarnation again and again. The incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead all function differently, but their main purpose is paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam - BG 4.8
- To save human civilization from the darkness of ignorance, this movement was started. The main purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement is to enlighten the forgetful living entity and remind him of his original Krsna consciousness
- Try to get knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord, as Bhagavad-gita is being spoken by the Supreme Lord, or statements of the pure devotees, just like Brahma is speaking. This way. Hearing. The main purpose is hearing, hearing from the right source
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- We are preaching all over the world, and there is little response. We are selling our books very nicely. So our main purpose is to spread Krsna consciousness. That is our mission
- What is the main purpose of meditation?
- Whatever we do and whatever our occupation, our main purpose should be to please the Supreme Lord
- When He (God) appears, His main purpose is to give solace to His devotees
- When one is serious about advancement of spiritual consciousness, he must live under the control of the guru to learn how to become brahmacari. This is the main purpose