Category:Nivrtti
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Vedic system categorizes human activities into two distinct paths: pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti refers to the natural inclination toward material enjoyment, which often involves raising oneself to a higher standard of materialistic life. In contrast, nivṛtti means the deliberate cessation of material desires and the rejection of unfavorable activities. While animals and demonic persons are completely driven by their pravṛtti propensities and do not know what should or should not be done, human life is exclusively meant for cultivating nivṛtti. By following the injunctions of the Vedas and the guidance of pure devotees, one learns to synchronize these tendencies—accepting what is essential and rejecting what binds the soul. Ultimately, through the process of nivṛtti, a person becomes freed from all material entanglement and perfectly qualified to discharge the eternal, blissful process of pure bhakti-yoga.
- Two Paths of Action: The Vedas describe positive and negative actions. Pravṛtti leads to further material entanglement, whereas nivṛtti is the negative action of withdrawing from material disease to attain spiritual health.
- The Demonic Mentality: Asuras (demons) lack the basic understanding of pravṛtti and nivṛtti. They act irresponsibly according to their own whims, falsely thinking they are independent of material nature.
- The Purpose of Human Life: Unlike cats and dogs who cannot control their senses, human beings have the intelligence to practice nivṛtti. Human civilization is meant to stop the endless pursuit of sense gratification.
- Vedic Guidance: The entire purpose of Vedic literature is to gradually bring the conditioned soul to the point of complete nivṛtti, curing them of the material disease.
- Qualification for Bhakti: When a living entity becomes nivṛtta-tṛṣṇā—completely freed from material hankering and necessities—they become fit to enjoy eternal life and engage in unalloyed bhakti-yoga.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Human Life is Meant for Nivṛtti.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "Nivrtti"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- A Vaisnava is nivrtta-trsna; that is, he has no material purpose, for his only purpose is to preach Krsna consciousness
- According to the Vedas, there are two kinds of activities-pravrtti and nivrtti. Pravrtti activities involve raising oneself from a lower to a higher condition of materialistic life, whereas nivrtti means the cessation of material desire
- After one is liberated from the conditions of material existence, i.e., when one is nivrtta, as previously stated herein (SB 2.2.12), or when one is freed from all material necessities, one becomes qualified to discharge the process of bhakti-yoga
- All living creatures, who are struggling for existence in this material world, that is their pravrtti, to enjoy this material world. But when one becomes inclined to nivrtti, he becomes devata
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- Demons, who are less than human beings but are not called animals, do not know the meaning of pravrtti and nivrtti, work to be done and work not to be done
- Dharma, occupational duty, there are two kinds of occupational duties according to Vedic system, pravrtti and nivrtti. Pravrtti means propensities, material propensities. We have come here within this material world to enjoy material resources
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- Especially in the Western countries, their only plan is how to satisfy the senses. They have no other plan. But real life is to stop this line of civilization - nivrtti. Nivrtti means - stop
- Everyone's aim is duhkha-nivrtti. It may be presented in a different way. So the Buddha philosophy is also duhkha-nivrtti, stop pains
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- In Sanskrit, these activities are called pravrtti and nivrtti-positive and negative action. There are many examples of negative action. For instance, a diseased person has to be cautious and take medicine in order to avoid some unfavorable illness
- In the Vedas two different types of injunctions are there for the pravrttas, or those who are engaged in material enjoyment, and for the nivrttas, or those who are liberated from material bondage
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- Pravrtti and nivrtti
- Pravrtti and nivrtti means which one, which path, we shall take and which path we shall reject. That they (demons) do not know
- Pravrttim nivrttim ca jana na vidur asurah, na saucam napi cacarah: "There is no cleanliness, nor good behavior." Na satyam tesu vidya...: "And there is no truth in their life." This is asuric
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- The activities are called pravrtti and nivrtti - positive and negative action. There are many examples of negative action. For instance, a diseased person has to be cautious and take medicine in order to avoid some unfavorable illness
- The asuras, nondevotees, cannot distinguish between pravrtti and nivrtti. Whatever they like they do. Such persons think themselves independent of the strong material nature, and therefore they are irresponsible and do not care to act piously
- The asuric, demonic, civilization, they do not know in which way we have to guide ourself for attaining the perfection of life, pravrtti, and nivrtti, and which we shall not take - favorable and unfavorable
- The human life is meant for nivrtti. The cats' and dogs' life is for pravrtti. The sex desire, they cannot stop it. It is not possible. If you teach some dogs that "You forget the sex life," it is impossible. That is not possible
- The Lord and the devotees are called nivrtta-guna-vrtti because they have no attachment for false enjoyment
- The opposite type of religious performance, which is called nivrtti, is to act for the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The purpose of Vedas is to gradually to bring him to the point of nivrtti. Nivrtti, he has to make. When he has got a slight desire for material enjoyment, he'll have to accept another body. Therefore nivrtti is required
- The sastra gives us direction that you should be accepting these things and you should be not accepting these things, sastra. Just like in our society, we have picked up the most essential nivrtti and pravrtti
- There is that inclination, pravrtti and nivrtti, but they should be synchronized, systematized, what things we should accept and what things we should reject. That we must learn
- Through pravrtti activities one suffers from material entanglement, but by nivrtti activities one is purified and becomes fit to enjoy eternal, blissful life
- To take the shelter of a pure devotee means he knows what is pravrtti and what is nivrtti. All our Vedic literature is meant for nivrtti
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- We don't want to stop the tendency of material enjoyment. No nivrtti. The human life is meant for nivrtti. The cats' and dogs' life is for pravrtti. The sex desire, they cannot stop it. It is not possible
- When one is nivrtta, as previously stated herein, or when one is freed from all material necessities, one becomes qualified to discharge the process of bhakti-yoga