Category:Not Serious
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category contrast the extreme seriousness materialists apply to temporary worldly gains with their tragic apathy toward self-realization. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that conditioned souls are fundamentally not serious about solving the real problems of life, namely birth, death, old age, and disease. This lack of seriousness prevents them from finding a bona fide guru, understanding the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and utilizing the rare opportunity of the human form of life. Ultimately, Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that if one is not serious about returning back home, back to Godhead, they risk remaining entangled in the cycle of transmigration for millions of years.
- The Disease of Materialism: Materialists are deeply anxious about temporary profits but remain completely apathetic toward curing the ultimate diseases of birth and death.
- Superficial Approach to the Guru: A person who is not seriously inclined to solve the problems of life will never find a genuine spiritual master, often settling for cheap, show-bottle imitations.
- Misusing the Human Form: By remaining callous and overly attached to bodily consciousness, unserious individuals grossly squander the rare opportunity of the human form of life.
- The Ultimate Test of Devotion: Success in spiritual life rests entirely on one's serious nature; a serious practitioner can achieve perfection in a second, while an unserious one will fail across many lifetimes.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Misusing the Human Form by Being Not Serious.
Pages in category "Not Serious"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- I understand that you are anxious to get me in New York. So if you like I can go immediately as I have no serious engagement now in the western part of your country
- If the offense unto a pure devotee of the lord is very serious, then one's attachment for Krsna becomes almost nil, and if the offense is not very serious, one's attachment can become second class or third class
- If you are actually serious about Krsna, then Krsna will send you some of His representative and he will take charge of you. That is the process. If you do not find a guru, that means Krsna is not yet pleased, either you are not serious
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- The fact that you have left our movement just on account of some minor disagreements shows that you are not actually serious about going back to home, back to Godhead
- The incident of Kirtanananda and Hayagriva chapter may now be closed. We shall always pray to Krishna for their recovery and we should not seriously take their counter propaganda
- The only test is how you have developed your attachment for Krsna. If you are serious about it, it can be done within a second. If you are not serious about it, it cannot be done in many lives. So that depends on your serious nature
- Their (caste gosvamis who professionally create some disciples) aim is to make the connection between the spiritual master and the disciple into a very cheap thing. They are not serious in wanting to understand spiritual life
- They (disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) were unsuccessful because within their minds they were not actually serious about preaching His (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) cult in foreign countries
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- Unfortunately in India they do no take it very seriously; it is up to you in America to actually accomplish something in terms of introducing the principles of Bhagavad gita As It Is into government
- Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppress it
- Unfortunately, the conditioned living entities, although suffering continually the threefold miseries of conditioned life, are not very serious about going back to Godhead
- Unserious about the horrible condition in the womb, such persons continue in materialism, grossly misusing the chance of the human form of life
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- We are trying to give this information (next life one should have better or eternal body) to the human society, but they are so callous, they are so bodily conscious, they are not very much serious about it
- Wherever we go, they accept (Hare Krsna mantra). If one is serious about understanding God, they will accept. If he is not serious - superficial - that is different thing
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- You have got this human form of life to complete Krsna consciousness, but if you are not serious, then again the gap will be millions of years
- You write to say also that everyone is awaiting my arrival, and they ask "When is Swamiji coming?'' So far as I am concerned, I can go immediately because I have no serious engagements here now