Category:Mold Your Life
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that human life is not meant for drifting aimlessly or pursuing flickering bodily pleasures. Instead, it requires a deliberate structural adjustment—"molding"—to ensure spiritual success. The primary objective of molding one's life is to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that one is never diverted from the memory of the Lord. This involves following the direction of authorized scriptures and personalities to ensure a "profitable next life." Importantly, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that one need not necessarily change their occupation or family status; rather, one must dovetail these aspects with Kṛṣṇa's service. By regulating activities such as eating, sleeping, and chanting, one can transform an ordinary life into a yoga practice where Kṛṣṇa is remembered twenty-four hours a day.
- The Goal: To secure a profitable next life and return back to Godhead.
- The Method: Following the directions of the Vedas and authorized personalities (Guru).
- Family Life: One can mold family life by chanting and following principles, removing the need for formal renunciation.
- Constant Remembrance: The perfection of life is to mold it so that Kṛṣṇa is not forgotten for even a single moment.
- Contrast: Bodily pleasure is momentary and intoxicating; true pleasure comes from molding life for the soul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Molding Life for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Mold Your Life"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- Family members can sit down morning & evening & chant Hare Krsna. If one can mold his family life in this way to develop Krsna consciousness, following these 4 principles, there is no need to change from family life to renounced life. BG 1972 purports
- For this body which will not go with me I am working so hard. But the spirit, as I am, I do not know wherefrom I have come, where I am going. Therefore we have to follow the direction of authoritative persons, scriptures, to mold our life how to work
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- I tell you the that impression will never go. It is such a thing. But if we take it up very seriously and go on molding our life in that way, then it becomes quickly successful
- If one can mold his family life in this way to develop Krsna consciousness, following these four principles, then there is no need to change from family life to renounced life
- If one wants success in life, he should immediately understand from the right sources what his self-interest is and how he should mold his life in spiritual consciousness
- If we mold our life in connection with Krsna, then in every activity there is Krsna consciousness and therefore this yoga perfection is there automatically
- In this verse (SB 4.18.3) the word amusmin is very explicit. It is the duty of everyone to mold his life in such a way that he will have a profitable next life
- It is the duty of everyone to mold his life in such a way that he will have a profitable next life
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- Of course second initiation does not depend upon passing an examination. How one has moulded his life--chanting, attending arati, etc--these are essential. Still, brahmana means pandita. Therefore I am suggesting examinations
- One has to take advantage of this knowledge and mold his life in such a way that at the end, especially in the human form of life, he may go back home, back to Godhead, by practicing Krsna consciousness
- One should mold his life in such a way that he cannot live in peace without drinking the nectar of the glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari. One can be thus elevated by being disgusted with the taste for sense enjoyment
- One should not become an official meditator. Life should be so molded that one will always have the chance to think of Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- One should therefore not indulge in hearing and speaking of the rubbish activities of worldly politicians and so-called big men in society but should mold his life in such a way that he can engage in godly activities without wasting a second
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- The best way to mold one's life is to follow in the footsteps of the authorized personalities like those mentioned herein (SB 4.21.28-29) by Prthu Maharaja, beginning with Svayambhuva Manu
- The Lord is also addressed here (in MM 1) as Bhava-lunthana-kovida, "He who is expert at plundering the status quo of repeated birth and death." A sensible man understands his position as the eternal servant of the Lord and molds his life accordingly
- The Vedas give the right direction to the people so that they can properly mold their lives and come back to Godhead, back to home. BG 1972 purports
- The whole thing is that life should be molded, molded in such a way that in every step or action, we shall feel the presence of the Lord. That is spiritual life. That is spiritual life. You need not change your present occupation
- There is no question of economic problem, that one has to become learned to get some service in some big school or college and get some big salary. This is not our aim. Our only aim is how to mold the life of the children to become Krsna conscious
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- We have to mold our life, and the Krsna consciousness movement is the best process. Therefore those who are sinful, those who are atheist, they have become little afraid of this movement
- We have to practice remembering the Lord always, twenty-four hours a day, by chanting His names and molding our life's activities in such a way that we can remember Him always. BG 1972 Introduction
- We should always try to mold the activities of our lives in such a way that we will constantly remember Visnu, or Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness