Category:Nitya-baddha
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the living entities are divided into two primary categories: the nitya-muktas (eternally liberated) and the nitya-baddhas (eternally conditioned). The nitya-muktas never leave the spiritual world, whereas the nitya-baddhas have misused their minute independence to rebel against the Supreme Lord. Because of their desire to enjoy separately from Kṛṣṇa, they are placed in the material world, which serves as a reformatory cradle for these rebellious souls. In this conditioned state, they are bound by the strict laws of material nature, subjected to the threefold miseries, and forced to wander through various planetary systems. However, through the causeless mercy of the Lord, the Vedic literatures, and the association of pure devotees, the nitya-baddhas are given the ultimate opportunity to awaken their dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness and return to their original, eternal home.
- Two Classes of Souls: Living entities are either nitya-mukta (eternally liberated) or nitya-baddha (eternally conditioned). The liberated souls never fall, while the conditioned souls struggle in material existence.
- The Cause of Conditioning: The nitya-baddhas have forgotten their eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead due to a false sense of individuality (ahankara) and a desire to be independent.
- The Material Prison: The material world was created specifically to accommodate the independent whims of the eternally conditioned souls, acting like a playing cradle for naughty children.
- The Struggle for Existence: Covered by illusion, the conditioned souls foolishly make plans for material happiness but are repeatedly frustrated by the strict laws of nature and the threefold miseries.
- The Path of Deliverance: The supreme will provides Vedic wisdom and saintly representatives so that the nitya-baddhas can control their minds, overcome illusion, and gradually return to the spiritual kingdom.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Nitya-baddha - The Eternally Conditioned Souls.
Pages in category "Nitya-baddha"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
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- Baddha-jiva, every moment he is under the strict laws of nature. Generally they think that.... They speak also. "I think." Do they not say? "I think," as if he is independently thinking. What you can think? Hm?
- Being covered by illusion, the living entity eternally continues conditioned life under different designations. Such living entities are known as nitya-baddha, eternally conditioned
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- Due to misuse of this independence some of the living entities have become implicated in the conditions of cosmic creation and are therefore called nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls
- Due to the gross and subtle bodies, he (nitya-baddha jivas) is subjected to the threefold miseries, miseries arising from the body and mind, other living entities and natural disturbances caused by demigods from higher planetary systems
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- If by chance he (nitya-baddha jiva) meets a saintly person who works on Krsna’s behalf to deliver conditioned souls, and if he agrees to abide by his order, he can gradually approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna
- In the Vaikunthalokas the Lord is merciful toward the liberated or nitya-mukta living entities, but in His pastimes in the mortal world He is merciful even to the fallen souls who are nitya-baddha, or conditioned forever
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- Nitya-baddha (Books)
- Nitya-baddha (Lectures)
- Nitya-baddhas are eternally forgetful of their relation with the Lord as parts and parcels
- Nitya-mukta means eternally liberated. They never come down in this material world. And we are nitya-baddha-ever conditioned, eternally conditioned
- Nitya-siddha means they never fall a victim of maya. Even though they are within this material world, they are never victimized. That is called nitya-siddha. And one who is victimized, he is called nitya-baddha
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- The baddhas are struggling very hard within this material world to become free from the threefold miseries of material nature and to enjoy life, whereas the muktas are already liberated. They never come into this material world
- The distinction is that the nitya-siddhas are eternally Krsna conscious without any forgetfulness, whereas the nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls, are forgetful of their relationship with Krsna
- The expansions of Vedic wisdom also give the nitya-baddhas, the conditioned living entities, a chance to improve
- The living entities are of two kinds: one class is called nitya-mukta, ever liberated, and the other is called nitya-baddha, ever conditioned. The nitya-mukta living entities are in the spiritual kingdom, and the nitya-baddhas are in the material world
- The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord. They are of two varieties, namely nitya-mukta and nitya-baddha
- The living entities belong to the eternal superior nature of the Lord, but due to contamination by the inferior nature, matter, their illusion is also eternal. The conditioned soul is therefore called nitya-baddha, or eternally conditioned. BG 1972 pur
- The living entities who are ever conditioned, or nitya-baddha, are thus given a chance for liberation under the guidance of His own representative like Brahma
- The living entity who is nitya-baddha, or eternally conditioned, sees the material varieties as being actually different from one another
- The major portion of the living entities, they are in the spiritual world. They are called nitya-mukta, ever-liberated. And we, in this material world, we are nitya-baddha, ever-conditioned
- The material world is created at certain intervals and then again destroyed. This creation and destruction is done by the supreme will because of the conditioned souls, or the nitya-baddha living beings
- The material world is created to satisfy the whims of the nitya-baddha, or everlasting conditioned souls, just as naughty boys are provided with playing cradles. Otherwise, there was no need of the material world
- The nitya-baddha, or the eternally conditioned souls, have the sense of individuality or ahankara, which dictates them sense enjoyment, which they are unable to have constitutionally
- The nitya-baddhas are always conditioned by the external energy, and the nitya-muktas never come in contact with the external energy
- The nitya-siddha never forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality, whereas the nitya-baddha is always conditioned, even before the creation. He always forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The six goswamis are not all eternal associates of Krishna. Only Rupa and Raghunath Goswami are eternal associates. You know there are two kinds of living entities: nityamukta or eternal associates of the Lord, and nityabaddha or eternally conditioned
- The word kuta-stha, meaning "without change," is also very significant. There are two kinds of living entities-nitya-mukta and nitya-baddha. A nitya-mukta never forgets his position as the eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- There are two classes of living entities - namely, nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha
- There are two kinds of living entities - nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha
- There are two kinds of living entities: nitya-baddha, nitya-mukta - eternally liberated and eternally conditioned. You see? So for the conditioned . . . they will never agree to abide by God
- There are two kinds of men: one is attracted, one is not attracted. Those who are not attracted, they are called nitya-siddha, eternally liberated. And those who are being attracted, they are called nitya-baddha, eternally conditioned
- There was no necessity to create this material world for the sufferings of the conditioned souls, but at the same time there are certain living entities, known as nitya-baddha, who are eternally conditioned
- They (Nitya-baddhas) are bewildered by the illusory energy as products of matter, and thus they are very busy in making plans in the material world for becoming happy
- They (Nitya-baddhas) go on merrily with plans, but by the will of the Lord both the planmakers and the plans are annihilated at the end of a certain period, as above mentioned
- This ordinary living being is of two kinds - nitya-baddha or nitya-mukta. One is eternally conditioned and the other eternally liberated
- Those living beings in the material world are conditioned souls, nitya-baddha. The nitya-baddhas can become liberated by controlling the mind because the cause of conditioned life is the mind
- Those who are conditioned, they are called nitya-baddha, ever-conditioned. Nitya-baddha means we do not know when our, this conditional stage has begun. It is impossible to trace out the history.