Category:Modern Society
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies the fundamental defect of modern society as its rejection of God consciousness in favor of worshiping matter. This misplaced focus leads to a "cumbersome way of life" where human intelligence is misused for mere animal propensities—eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. The social structure is fractured by the "international quarrel" between laborers and capitalists, while the moral fabric is torn by the exploitation of women and the institutionalized slaughter of animals. Lacking true spiritual leadership (brāhmaṇas), society follows a "suiciding policy," drifting blindly toward destruction without knowing the ultimate goal of life.
- Worship of Matter: Society creates a cumbersome life by manipulating matter for skyscrapers and cars rather than understanding the spirit.
- Misguided Intelligence: Human intelligence is wasted on animalistic concerns (eating, sleeping) rather than self-realization.
- Social Conflict: The world is endangered by the perpetual clash between laborers and capitalists due to a lack of class cooperation.
- Exploitation: Women are exploited in the name of freedom; animals are slaughtered despite their right to existence.
- Leadership Vacuum: Leaders are spiritually blind, defined by salaries rather than the brahminical qualities of control and austerity.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Defects of Modern Society.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Modern Society"
The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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- Activities of the living being involve engagements in these four different principles of life. Especially in modern society, all activities are more or less dependent on hearing and glorifying
- Although in modern society the dog is accepted as part of one's household paraphernalia, in the Vedic system of household life the dog is untouchable
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- Even the so-called philosophers of modern society are captivated by material name and fame, and so they do not lead the general populace in the proper direction
- Every day the so-called leaders of modern society invent something contributing to a cumbersome way of life that implicates people more and more in the cycle of birth, death, old age and disease
- Every living entity should be kindly treated and should not be subjected to any violence. In modern civilized society, slaughterhouses are regularly maintained and supported by a certain type of religious principle
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- In modern civilization, human society is too busy in discharging national duties. Actually, national duties, social duties and humanitarian duties are obligatory only to those who are bereft of spiritual duties
- In modern so-called scientific society the idea is very prevalent that there is no life on other planets but that only on this earth do living entities with intelligence and scientific knowledge exist
- In modern society the prajas are not protected from the hands of thieves and miscreants. The modern democratic state, which has no ksatriyas, is a government of the vaisyas and sudras, and not of brahmanas and ksatriyas as formerly
- In modern society there is always a great quarrel between the laborers and the capitalists
- In modern society there is always a great quarrel between the laborers and the capitalists. This quarrel has taken an international shape, and the world is in danger
- In modern society there is practically no education in spiritual matters. Some of the people may appear to be atheistic or agnostic or philosophical, but actually there is no knowledge of philosophy. BG 1972 purports
- In the modern society there is no idea of first-class man, what is first-class man. They take it, a minister is first-class man. A first-class man is by these qualities, samo damo titiksa. It is not by the fat salary
- In the modern society they have given women freedom. That I have already explained. In the name of freedom of woman, they are being exploited
- In the modern society, even a boy thinks himself self-sufficient and pays no respect to elderly men. Due to the wrong type of education being imparted in our universities, boys all over the world are giving their elders headaches
- Instead of worshiping Lord Visnu, people have been educated to worship matter. According to the direction of modern society, men think they can advance in civilization by manipulating matter to build skyscrapers, big roads, automobiles and so on
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- Many business concerns publicly advertise that topless girls are available in this club or in that shop. Thus women have become instruments of sense enjoyment in modern society
- Modern society does not aim at fulfilling the mission of human life, which is to go back home, back to Godhead. To fulfill this mission, the system of varna and asrama must be followed
- Modern society enjoys sex life with contraceptive methods or more abominable methods to avoid the responsibility of children. This is not in the transcendental quality but is demoniac. BG 1972 purports
- Modern society even enables one to forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead's grace and mercy. Consequently modern civilized man is always unhappy and in need of things
- Modern society has practically encumbered the whole human activities, and therefore they have no time for spiritual culture
- Modern society is going on on the asuri-bhava. They have rejected God consciousness, and they're simply interested in sense gratification
- Modern society is in dire need of intellectual persons or brahmanas who can broadcast real spiritual knowledge all over the world. That is an absolute necessity for a society which is working hard simply to exploit nature
- Modern society is involved in various types of philanthropic works, humanitarian works and so on, but people do not know that these activities will never be successful unless Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is brought in
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- People have been educated to worship matter. According to the direction of modern society, men think they can advance in civilization by manipulating matter to build skyscrapers, big roads, automobiles and so on
- Poor cows, they deliver milk, and later on they become slaughtered. How much sinful the modern society is, and they still want peace and prosperity. That is not possible
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- That (chanting God's holy names) is the technique of driving away the personality of Kali from the world. In modernized human society there are great advancements of material science, and they have invented the radio to distribute sound in the air
- The defect in the modern society. They imagine. This business should be given up. He must follow. Sadhu-marganugamanam, which is prescribed by the sadhu, guru, you have to accept that. You cannot manufacture your own way
- The modern materialistic society is detached from its relation to the Supreme Lord. And all its plans which are being made by atheistic leaders are sure to be baffled at every step. Yet they do not wake up to this
- Try to understand the philosophy (read 'Nectar of Devotion' repeatedly) nicely & spread it to your best capacity so that these suiciding men can be saved as far as possible. It is not, however, possible to check the suiciding policy of the modern society
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- Unfortunately, modern society has devised many means for killing animals in different forms of life
- Unfortunately, the modern rascal society, they utilizing that extra intelligence than the cats and dog for the same purpose: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. That is the defect of the modern civilization
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- We are trying to, I mean, to introduce in the modern society Krsna consciousness, and that will make us all-perfect, happy, and after leaving this body we shall enter into the kingdom of God
- Without the spirit, the body is nothing but lump of matter. The spirit is there, the matter is there, but we are so dull, we do not understand what is that spirit. That is the difficulty of the modern society