Category:Modern Days
Theme Analysis
Modern days are marked by a significant decline in spiritual values, leadership, and education. Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that contemporary society is plagued by illicit habits, false scientific theories, and a lack of chronological history beyond a few thousand years. In this challenging environment, the role of the devotee evolves. Śrīla Prabhupāda declares, "We are modern day Vaisnavas," emphasizing the need to utilize all available mass media to preach vigorously. Unlike the dry receptions of today, Vedic culture offered rich spiritual hospitality. The modern day Vaiṣṇava stands as a beacon of true knowledge, countering the "rascal" professors and bogus spiritualists who mislead the public, offering the easy path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness as the only viable salvation in this disturbed age.
- The Mission: We are modern day Vaiṣṇavas who must use mass media to preach vigorously.
- Degradation: Modern days are prominent for illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling.
- Defective Leadership: Administrators are chosen by manipulated votes rather than royal training.
- False Knowledge: Scientists and "rascal" professors propagate false theories and imperfect history.
- The Solution: Since severe austerity is impossible today, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the only easy task for salvation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Modern Day Vaiṣṇavas.
Pages in category "Modern Days"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- All were offered to the Lord, and the remnants of the foodstuff were distributed amongst the gathering citizens. So it was not like a dry reception of these modern days
- As in the modern day there are many champions in sports, so in bygone days there were many learned scholars in India who were champions in learning. One such person was Kesava Kasmiri, who came from the state of Kashmir
- As much as possible try to increase our preaching programs by using all the mass media which are available. We are modern day Vaisnavas and we must preach vigorously using all the means available
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- I must explain my position because in these days, a person being worshiped as most exalted personality is something revolution. Because they like democracy, by vote somebody should be elevated however rascal he may be
- Impersonal meditation is a bogus invention of modern days
- In modern days people are very much inclined toward communistic ideas of society, but we do not think that there can be any better communistic idea than that which is explained in this verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam - SB 7.14.9
- In modern days so-called scientists are setting forth many false theories about the creation, backed up by seemingly logical arguments. This is all due to the influence of the Supreme Lord’s illusory energy
- In modern days the people in general occupy the administration by the strength of manipulated votes, but they are never trained in the primary duties of the king, and that is also not possible for everyone
- In modern days, it is not possible to give up one's home and go to the forest to practice austerity, but if people of all ages would take shelter of the Krsna consciousness movement, it would be a very easy task to get salvation from this material world
- In modern days, when the influence of Kali Age is so disturbing, practically everyone is untrained in this art (controlling the life air by the prescribed yogic process) of bodily exercise
- In modern days, wherever there is monarchy, sometimes the ministers and elderly members of the family select one member from the royal family to occupy the throne in preference to another
- In the modern day, the wife is never submissive, and therefore home life is broken even by slight incidents. Either the wife or the husband may take advantage of the divorce laws
- It is specifically mentioned here (in SB 9.18.2) that if one enters political life, especially in the modern day, one looses the chance for human perfection
- It is the general opinion that among modern-day spiritualists who have tried to know the Supreme through their own puny efforts, Sri Aurobindo has attained some degree of realization
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- The descendants of the sons of Prtha, like Maharaja Pariksit, were afraid of losing their reputations, but in the modern days the leaders are not even afraid of killing such offenseless animals - the bull and the cow
- The living entity is eternal, but somehow or other, when in contact with the material energy, he is subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. The physicians of the modern day should learn from Murari Gupta
- The process of understanding spiritual or transcendental knowledge from the realized person is not exactly like asking an ordinary question from the schoolmaster. The schoolmasters in the modern days are paid agents
- The schoolmasters in the modern days are paid agents for giving some information, but the spiritual master is not a paid agent. Nor can he impart instruction without being authorized
- There were great, great fighters, maha-ratha. These are just like in modern days they are given title, lieutenant, captain, commander, commander-in-chief, like that. Formerly these titles were for the military man: eka-ratha, maha-ratha, ati-ratha