Category:Our Tolerance (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quality of tolerance is a fundamental pillar of spiritual advancement, essential for navigating the inevitable dualities of the material world. Throughout his teachings, the founder of the movement emphasizes that practically applying patience and forbearance is necessary to sustain one's devotional practice. By learning to tolerate bodily distresses, interpersonal conflicts, and the resistance of the conditioned souls, practitioners demonstrate their true surrender and establish a peaceful environment conducive to spiritual growth.
- Enduring Physical Frailties: The material body is inherently subjected to disease, inconveniences, and persistent urges. Developing the capacity to endure these physical miseries without becoming distracted ensures that one's primary focus remains on devotional service.
- Cultivating Radical Humility: True tolerance is born from genuine humility, where a devotee views themselves as the most faulty and graciously overlooks the discrepancies of both nondevotees and neophyte practitioners.
- Preserving Cooperative Unity: Personal differences and disagreements are inevitable when working together, but maintaining the society's unity requires adjusting these inebrieties through maturity, forgiveness, and a steadfast refusal to leave the association of devotees.
- Navigating Opposition in Preaching: Propagating spiritual knowledge to the conditioned masses invites criticism and numerous obstacles. A successful preacher must expect these challenges and patiently endure the lack of understanding from the general public.
- Achieving Brahminical Equilibrium: Forbearance, known as titikṣā, is a core qualification of a brāhmaṇa, allowing the devotee to remain fully absorbed in their relationship with the Supreme Lord without being agitated by temporary material phenomena.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Trains His Disciples to Develop Tolerance in Spiritual Life.
Pages in category "Our Tolerance (Disciples of SP)"
The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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- A brahmacari can tolerate any inconvenience, but women and children cannot. They will have difficulty
- A devotee is always very understanding if there is some discrepancy behavior on the part of nondevotees, and even some devotees misbehave, he is always very tolerant and understanding
- A leader must be peaceful, self-controlled, austere, pure, tolerant, honest, wise, learned and religious
- A preacher should always be tolerant
- According to Bhagavad-gita we have simply to tolerate all these temporary appearances and disappearance, our main function being to make steady progress in Krsna consciousness
- Another difficulty is that in modern civilization everyone is independent spirited. The girls are no longer very much humble and submissive to their husbands. So you must be prepared to tolerate such whims of your future wife
B
- Because we understand that Krishna is our Protector under all circumstances, we have no more any anxiety, so we become very liberal and tolerant of all kinds of seeing others' sinful activities, and we see them innocent victims of maya
- Brahmana qualification is truthfulness, cleanliness, satyam saucam. Sama, equilibrium of the mind, without any disturbance, without any anxiety. Satyam saucam samo dama. Dama means controlling the senses. Samo dama titiksa. Titiksa means tolerance
D
- Devotee means he is able to tolerate all kinds of discomfort and whims of the material nature, and because he is so much absorbed in serving Krishna, he takes no time to become angry or take offense with others or find out some fault, no
- Do not be agitated with the criticism of your friends because Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that one should be humbler that a blade of grass and should be more tolerant than a tree for chanting Hare Krishna Mantra
- Do not be puffed up but always be more tolerant than the tree. This is the prescription given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- Do not fight with anyone, try to remain always very humble and meek like the advanced Vaisnava devotee, always thinking yourself lower than the straw in the street and more tolerant than the tree
F
- For the devotees of the Lord there always many difficulties for propagating Krsna Consciousness among the nondevotee demons. But we must learn to tolerate all the difficulties and push on regardless of whatever obstacles we may be presented with
- For the present we must tolerate such conditions (polluted soil, air and man's motives). Actually, these are material considerations only
I
- I am pleased to learn of your spirit of protest, but sometimes we have to tolerate
- I am very much perturbed reading the contending points with Brahmananda. So I am enquiring in this matter. In the meantime, don't be agitated. Sometimes such moments come, but we have to tolerate. That is the instruction of Lord Chaitanya
- I know you are always experiencing difficulties in living with devotees, but we must be tolerant and endure the personal differences, being humbler than a blade of grass, and stick to our duties to the spiritual master
- If anyone becomes humbler than the grass and more tolerant than the tree, it is understood that he has accepted a Spiritual Master
- If anyone becomes spiritually advanced, the agents of maya will criticize. So therefore you have to become tolerant
- If you yourselves are suffering from the very ills we are trying to remove, how can the people be influenced favorably? Stop this fighting, tolerate, chant and read our books
- In the material world sex urge is the binding force for material existence. A determined person tolerates such sex urges as one tolerates the itching sensation of eczema
- Inebrieties can be adjusted by the cooperative spirit, tolerance and maturity so I request you to kindly remain in the association of our devotees and work together
- It (bhakti) does not even finish with the end of the body, but it continues eternally. And it is joyfully performed. At first, though, there may be some inconveniences, but we must tolerate them and we shall realize the goal
- It is very good news that your wife has taken to learn the Japanese language. So you should train your wife like that instead of fighting and creating misunderstanding. You must tolerate such misunderstandings
R
- Regarding your child, the vedic philosophy is that the miseries of the material body must be tolerated
- Regarding your illness - so long we have got this material body, the miseries will be coming and going, simply we have to tolerate them and try to make advancement in Krishna Consciousness as best we can
- Regarding your problem, first thing is that the philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita is that one must learn to tolerate the sufferings due to the frailties of the material body
- Regarding your trip to U.S.A. you say that you will be tactful and respectful in your dealings. That should be the motto of all GBC. Be tolerant, and if there is any deficiency, rectify it
S
- Sex urge is a symptom of every living entity, but in the SB it is advised that it is something like the itching propensity. If one can tolerate this itching, he can save himself from enormous troublesome business resulting from this itching sensation
- So you are all good souls, please do not be agitated in trivial things. Do your duty nicely, develop the center as nicely as possible. If you think that your personality has been minimized, you can tolerate it
- Sometimes there may be disagreement and quarrel but we should not go away. These inebrieties can be adjusted by the cooperative spirit, tolerance and maturity so I request you to kindly remain in the association of our devotees and work together
T
- That tolerant attitude must be there to a certain extent, but we must remain also always firm on this point, that the brahmacaris living in the temple shall not disobey the orders of the spiritual master
- The best thing for your wife is to try and tolerate the pains and to execute her devotional service to the best of her capacity. If this is difficult, then she should try to get the proper treatment for her problem
- There will be so many impediments in pushing on our movement, therefore Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has already advised us to be tolerant more than the tree and humbler than the blade of grass and give all respects to Karmis without expecting any respect
- Try to keep nice peace with the police as far as possible, because our method is to be tolerant more than the tree and humbler than the grass on the street. We don't mind for so-called prestige
- Try to keep nice peace with the police as far as possible, because our method is to be tolerant more than the tree and humbler than the grass on the street. We don't mind for so-called prestige. If keeping peaceful we can execute our KC
W
- We insist our students that "Don't go out." Even you are discomfortable, you should tolerate, but you should not go out of the society. Then you will surely fall down, surely fall down
- We must always remember this verse and be as tolerant as the tree, as we execute the Krsna consciousness movement. Without this mentality we cannot be successful
- We must be tolerant like the tree and humble like the blade of grass. Such persons can chant the Hare Krishna mantra and preach. In Bombay we are undergoing so many tribulations. What can be done?
- We recruit devotees with great difficulty. So they must be well-treated. New men may not always behave so nicely but we must be tolerant
- We should not be intolerant. Even somebody has done some wrong unto me, tapasvi
Y
- You are brought up in a different standard in Europe and America, and in India it may be difficult because you haven't got all the facilities. But you learn tolerance. Execute Krsna consciousness. That should be our business
- You cannot expect that your audience should be all highly brain. No. Preaching is required because they have no brain. Therefore your duty is to tolerate all difficulties and bring them to the sense of brain
- You have written that you are my disobedient son, but I think I am your disturbing father. I am putting more and more burden upon you but you are so tolerant that you have no hesitation to accept my demands even although sometimes they are unreasonable
- You must treat your father as respectful as myself; even if you are sometimes ill-treated, you should tolerate. You should follow the example of Prahlada Maharaja