Category:Must Learn to Tolerate
Theme Analysis
In the endeavor to spread spiritual knowledge, the path is often fraught with obstacles and opposition. Through the realized instructions of Śrīla Prabhupāda, we learn that a preacher of Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot expect a smooth journey in a world dominated by illusion. To successfully deliver the message of Godhead, one must cultivate profound tolerance to withstand all external dualities and personal inconveniences.
- The Instruction of Bhagavad-gītā: Lord Kṛṣṇa establishes that the dualities of happiness and distress are merely temporary manifestations of sense perception. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a transcendentalist must endure these changes, just as one tolerates the changing of the seasons, without being deviated from spiritual duty.
- Enduring the Frailties of the Body: The material body is inherently subjected to disease, pain, and old age. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that expecting a life of unbroken pleasure is a misconception, and a serious spiritual practitioner must learn to patiently tolerate the inevitable distresses of the physical form.
- The Role of Austerity and Tapasya: Voluntary acceptance of inconvenience for a higher spiritual purpose trains the mind and senses. As Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights, the practice of tapasya, such as bathing in severe cold, conditions the living entity to remain undisturbed by the extremes of material nature.
- Perseverance in Preaching: Distributing transcendental knowledge is the highest welfare work, yet it frequently meets resistance from the atheistic class. Śrīla Prabhupāda mandates that devotees must learn to tolerate the asuras and push the mission forward, showing supreme mercy despite the difficulties encountered.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Preaching Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Means We Must Learn to Tolerate.
Pages in category "Must Learn to Tolerate"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- A devotee should lead a very simple life and not be disturbed by the duality of opposing elements. He should learn to tolerate them
- Another difficulty is that in modern civilization everyone is independent spirited. The girls are no longer very much humble and submissive to their husbands. So you must be prepared to tolerate such whims of your future wife
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- Because I am accustomed to think like that (my son or my grandfather is dying). So there must be grief. - So Krsna replied, "Yes, that's a fact. So that you must have to tolerate, that's all. There is no other remedy." Tams titiksasva bharata - BG 2.14
- BG 2.14 - They (happiness & distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed
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- Even though one is sometimes absorbed in such external movements, he has to learn to tolerate them. The living entity should be always indifferent to the action and reaction of the external body
- Everyone in the material world is more or less an asura, an atheist. If one preaches, one has to learn to tolerate the asuras and speak in such a way that they can also become devotees
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- For the devotees of the Lord there always many difficulties for propagating Krsna Consciousness among the nondevotee demons. But we must learn to tolerate all the difficulties and push on regardless of whatever obstacles we may be presented with
- For the present we must tolerate such conditions (polluted soil, air and man's motives). Actually, these are material considerations only
I
- In the proper discharge of duty, one has to learn to tolerate nonpermanent appearances and disappearances of happiness and distress. BG 1972 purports
- Insofar as one strives to get out of bodily conceptions - not out of the body but out of bodily conceptions - one has to learn to tolerate such dualities
- It (bhakti) does not even finish with the end of the body, but it continues eternally. And it is joyfully performed. At first, though, there may be some inconveniences, but we must tolerate them and we shall realize the goal
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- Lord Krsna advised Arjuna: They (happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed - BG 2.14
- Lord Krsna thus informed Arjuna: "They (happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." All the distresses brought about by the body come and go
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- The first training is given to become austere, tolerate, how to tolerate, how to call other women as "mother." He is learning from the beginning, a small child. He is trained up to call any woman, even of his own age, not "sister" - mother
- The girl who has got health problems must learn to be tolerant. As long as the material body will be there, there will only be pain. Pleasure is a misconception
- The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them
- There is severe cold, chilly cold, but my duty is to take bath in the morning. So we must tolerate. I must tolerate that chilly cold, and still, I take my bath. This is called tapasya
- They (happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, & one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed
- They (happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed
- They (happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. BG 2.14 - 1972
- They (heat and cold, happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed - BG 2.14
- They (non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress) arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed