Category:Nivrtti-marga
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that Vedic knowledge directs human activities through two distinct paths: pravṛtti-mārga and nivṛtti-mārga. Pravṛtti-mārga is the path of materialism, which involves satisfying the propensity for sense enjoyment according to regulative principles. However, the ultimate goal of all Vedic injunctions is to bring one to nivṛtti-mārga, the path of spiritualism, renunciation, and liberation. While animals and demons blindly follow their impulses for sense gratification, intelligent human beings are meant to voluntarily negate material enjoyment to cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement practically trains its followers in nivṛtti-mārga by teaching them to say "no" to destructive habits like illicit sex, meat-eating, gambling, and intoxication, thereby stopping the cycle of birth and death and preparing the soul to return back home, back to Godhead.
- Two Paths of Action: Vedic literature prescribes pravṛtti-mārga for regulated material enjoyment and nivṛtti-mārga for spiritual advancement. The ultimate advice of all śāstras is to transition to nivṛtti-mārga.
- Materialism vs. Spiritualism: Pravṛtti-mārga is synonymous with material civilization and the desire to lord over material nature. Nivṛtti-mārga is synonymous with spiritual civilization and returning to Godhead.
- The Demonic Mentality: Atheists and demons have no conception of either path. They act whimsically, seeking pleasure at any cost, which guarantees their continuous rotation within the cycle of birth and death.
- Practical Training: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not brainwashing; it is the practical, Vedic training of nivṛtti-mārga. By strictly avoiding the four pillars of sinful life, one effectively minimizes sense gratification.
- The Path of Liberation: Sincere practice of nivṛtti-mārga ends the ongoing path of repeated birth and death (saṃsṛti). By stopping the material way of life, one easily advances toward the spiritual world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Nivṛtti-mārga is the Path of Negating Sense Enjoyment.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Nivrtti-marga"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
A
- According to Vedic instructions, there are two paths for human activities. One is called pravrtti-marga, and the other is called nivrtti-marga. The basic principle for either of these paths is religious life. In animal life there is only pravrtti-marga
- Asura, demons, demonic civilization, demonic people, they do not know what is pravrtti and what is nivrtti. Pravrtti means material civilization, and nivrtti means spiritual civilization
I
- If you want to go back to home, back to Godhead, then you have to follow the nivrtti-marga. Pravrtti is there, my inclination is there, but if you practice nivrtti-marga, then you overcome the cycle of birth and death, samsrtih
- If you want to solve this real problem, then you should take up this nivrtti-marga. Nivrtti-marga means stop this way of sense gratification and take to Krsna consciousness. That is the way
- In the material world, every living entity has a desire to lord it over the material world as much as possible. This is called pravrtti-marga. All the sastras, however, advise nivrtti-marga, or release from the materialistic way of life
- In this verse (SB 4.25.39) the woman is advocating pravrtti-marga only and is discouraging the path of nivrtti-marga
- In this verse (SB 7.15.52), it is explained that one who has perfect brahminical knowledge rejects the process of elevation to higher planets and accepts nivrtti-marga; in other words, he prepares himself to go back home, back to Godhead
N
- Nivrtti-marga is the path of negating sense enjoyment, and pravrtti-marga is the path by which the living entities are given a chance to enjoy and at the same time are directed in such a way that they can go back home, back to Godhead
- Nivrtti-marga means stop material way of life; begin spiritual way of life and come to Godhead, Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead
- Nivrtti-marga means stopping the material way of life and go to the spiritual world, back to home, back to Godhead
O
- One should take lessons from these Vedic literatures (Vedanta-sutra, the Upanisads, Bhagavad-gita, Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and learn how to practice nivrtti-marga. Then one's life will be perfect
- Our Krsna consciousness movement is training devotees to give up the pravrtti-marga and accept the nivrtti-marga in order to return home, back to Godhead
- Our this Krsna consciousness movement is not pravrtti-marga - nivrtti-marga. Because if we go to the pravrtti-marga, increasing the propensity of sense gratification, then that is very dangerous
P
- Pravrtti-marga means he has got intention, desire for material enjoyment. So he's regulated, "Do like this," so that he may come to the point of nivrtti-marga
- Pravrtti-marga means if you want to enjoy the senses whimsically, as much as you like, that is called pravrtti-marga. And the other marga, way is the crossing, the nivrtti-marga: no more sense gratification. That is called nivrtti-marga
- Pravrtti-marga means increasing the propensity of sense enjoyment. That is called pravrtti-marga. And there is another way, nivrtti-marga: decreasing the propensity for sense gratification
- Pravrtti-marga means sense enjoyment, and nivrtti-marga means spiritual advancement. In the life of animals and demons, there is no conception of nivrtti-marga, nor is there any actual conception of pravrtti-marga
- Pravrtti-marga or nivrtti-marga, so we have to become fixed about these things. We cannot be deviant
T
- The modern man does not know. They are neither educated about this pravrtti and nivrtti. And we are speaking on nivrtti, and all of them are in the pravrtti. So they cannot understand. It is foreign to them. They have no idea what is spiritual life
- The synopsis of Srimad-Bhagavatam was given before the detailed description under instruction of Narada. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the science for following the path of nivrtti-marga
- The Vedas give direction to civilized human beings to enable them to satisfy their propensities for sense gratification. In the nivrtti-marga, however, on the path of transcendental realization, sex is completely forbidden
- The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravrtti-marga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivrtti-marga, or the path of renunciation
- The word asamsrti is very important. Samsrti refers to continuing on the path of birth & death. Asamsrti, on the contrary, refers to nivrtti-marga, or the path of liberation, by which one's birth and death cease and one gradually progresses to Brahmaloka
- These (pravrtti-marga and nivrtti-marga) are directions for enjoying the material world according to regulative principles and then giving up the material world for higher spiritual understanding
- These are important instructions given directly by Lord Krsna (Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.20.31). Sri Uddhava asked the Lord about the two kinds of instructions given in the Vedas. One instruction is called pravrtti-marga, and the other is called nivrtti-marga
- This (nivrtti-marga) is a little difficult to understand, but it is very easy if one takes to Krsna consciousness seriously and tries to understand Krsna
- This human form of life is meant for nivrtti-marga, not to indulge the sense gratification but minimize sense gratification, as far as possible. Try to make it zero
- Those who are not brahmanas but atheists do not know what is pravrtti-marga or nivrtti-marga; they simply want to obtain pleasure at any cost
- To bring these fools and rascals from the pravrtti-marga to nivrtti-marga, this is Krsna consciousness. Therefore we have got . . . (indistinct) . . . sense gratification. Then we cannot imitate. That is the whole Vedic process
W
- We are demons, and therefore we take pleasure in so-called material activities. And that means we are doomed. We should stop this nonsense and take to the principles of nivrtti-marga. Then our life will be success
- When one becomes intelligent he takes to nivrtti-marga, the path of liberation, and thus instead of rotating within this material world, he returns home, back to Godhead. This is necessary
- When one gives up voluntarily for higher status of life, that is called nivrtti-marga. Pravrtti-marga and nivrtti-marga. Pravrtti-marga means to fulfill these desires. But when one is trained up to give up these habits, that is called nirvrtti-marga
- When we say so many no's they think it is brainwash. Not brainwash. It is actual. If you want to develop your spiritual life, then you have to stop so many nuisance. That is nivrtti-marga
- Why studying so many books? For the sake of establishing real religious life. Sad-dharma. There are two kinds of dharmas, religious, religions: pravrtti-marga, nivrtti-marga. Pravrtti-marga means materialism, and nivrtti-marga means spiritualism