Category:Natural Condition
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the living entity's true and original condition is to render loving service to Kṛṣṇa as His eternal part and parcel. Material existence, with its cycle of birth, death, disease, and old age, is not natural but an unhealthy deviation, comparable to fever in the body or clouds obscuring the sun. The path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is therefore not an imposition but the soul's return to its original, fulfilled, and healthy state.
- The Soul as Eternal Servant of the Supreme: The natural condition of the living entity, as part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, is to render service to the whole. When the soul serves God, it is in its healthy, natural state; when it cannot serve, it falls into the material condition of suffering and restlessness.
- Material Existence as an Unnatural Deviation: Śrīla Prabhupāda employs vivid analogies — fever in the body, a person lost at sea, clouds covering the sun — to illustrate that material existence is an uncomfortable and unnatural state that the soul instinctively recognizes as foreign to its true nature.
- Kṛṣṇa Consciousness as the Restoration of One's True Nature: Bhāgavata-dharma and Kṛṣṇa consciousness are not foreign impositions but the very natural condition of the soul. By serving the Lord of the senses rather than the senses themselves, the living entity is restored to its original position of peace and transcendental fulfillment.
- Reclaiming the Forgotten Relationship with Kṛṣṇa: The soul's restlessness in material life mirrors a child crying for its mother. Only by reestablishing the lost relationship with Kṛṣṇa through sincere devotional practice can the living entity reclaim its natural, unfettered condition of eternal happiness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Reclaiming Our Natural Condition - The Soul's Return to Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Natural Condition"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- So long we are not again reestablished in our lost relationship with Krsna, we shall remain restless. That is our natural condition. Just like child is crying, restless. But when the mother takes the child on the lap, the child is immediately pacified
- Some way or other, one must try to reestablish one's forgotten relation with the Lord if one at all desires to gain real happiness in life, and to reclaim his natural unfettered condition
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- The business of the part and parcel is to serve, render service, to the whole. This is natural condition
- The living entity is eternal, and the wakeful state of his consciousness, manifested by activities, is his natural condition of life. He cannot stop acting while awake, and thus he acts according to his diverse desires
- They are reading Bhagavad-gita, but they do not know how to get liberty. Neither they are interested. They want to stay here, and subjected to the natural . . . material condition, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi
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- We are advised to let these things come as predestined. We should engage our valuable time in prosecuting Krsna consciousness. In other words, one should be satisfied by his natural condition
- We are not so much disturbed in the land as we are disturbed in the ocean, because we know that our position in the ocean is not our natural condition. So we should note, that disturbance is due to our unnatural condition
- We are part and parcel of God, or Krsna. When we are engaged in transcendental loving service of God, that is our healthy condition. That is our natural condition. That is our situation in Brahman, aham brahmasmi
- When the sky is clear, we can see the sun's brilliant effulgence, but when it is covered by clouds, we cannot see it. We may be able to perceive the sunlight, but we cannot see the sun disc itself. When the sky is clear, it is in its natural condition