Category:People Want to be Cheated
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the proliferation of bogus yogīs, false incarnations, and unauthorized gurus is a direct result of the public's desire to be cheated. Because conditioned souls want to avoid the responsibility of surrendering to God and following strict regulative principles, they actively seek out spiritual leaders who offer cheap, easy paths to perfection without any restrictions. In response to this demoniac mentality, Kṛṣṇa fulfills their desire by sending them cheaters. True spiritual life, however, demands absolute sincerity; if one genuinely seeks the Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa will direct them to a bona fide spiritual master through the authorized paramparā system, and they will never be cheated.
- The Society of the Cheaters and the Cheated: The material world is naturally filled with individuals who want to deny the existence of God to avoid the consequences of their sinful activities. Because they seek a false reality, society becomes a vast network of cheaters exploiting the cheated.
- Avoiding Spiritual Responsibility: Modern people are attracted to bogus teachers who promise spiritual advancement while allowing them to continue their sinful habits, such as intoxication and illicit sex. This desire for cheap magic over authentic surrender is the root of their delusion.
- The Lord Fulfills Material Desires: Kṛṣṇa is completely impartial and fulfills the desires of the living entities. If a person harbors a demoniac nature and wishes to be misled by unauthorized philosophies, the Supreme Lord deliberately sends them a cheating guru.
- The Sincere Soul Cannot Be Cheated: A person who sincerely desires to understand the Absolute Truth and adheres to the Vedic instructions can never be bluffed. By taking shelter of the genuine disciplic succession, the sincere seeker receives real spiritual knowledge.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: If People Want to be Cheated, Kṛṣṇa Sends a Cheater.
Pages in category "People Want to be Cheated"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- Because demoniac people want to be cheated, so many cheaters are present to cheat them
- Because people want to be cheated, men such as you mention have become very popular. They are preaching all nonsense and the people are accepting them, but if someone wants to be cheated, what can be done?
- Bogus Yogis they are cheating the public, but at the same time your countrymen also want to be cheated. They are cheating the public by words of extravagancy, saying that anyone can meditate even he is a drunkard
- By this process you'll be asammudhah. Nobody can cheat you. But if you want to be cheated there are so many cheaters. So don't make a cheater and cheated society. Just follow the parampara system as it is prescribed in the Vedic literature
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- Go to acarya. That is recommended. Why should you go to the magician? That is your fault. You go to the wrong person, and you are cheated because you want to be cheated. You want to see magic; you don't want to see God
- Guru is there, but unless you are actually serious, you cannot get real guru. If you want to be cheated or if you are a cheater, then you'll get a cheater guru
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- I know that all these Bogus Yogis they are cheating the public, but at the same time your countrymen also want to be cheated
- If people want to be cheated, then who can stop them? In Bhagavad-gita Krsna also says, vedanta-krd ... eva caham: "I am the compiler of Vedanta." Why do these rascals not consider who compiled Vedanta
- If we are sincere, we will get a sincere spiritual master by the grace of Krsna. If, however, we want to be cheated, Krsna will send us a cheater, and we will be cheated throughout our lives. That is actually going on
- If you want to be cheated, then do whatever you like and prolong your this term of repetition of birth and death. And if you want to stop it, then here, the tapasa brahmacaryena samena ca damena ca tyagena
- It is understood that Maharishi Mahesa says that one can drink, and at the same time make advancement in meditation, is clearly a cheating process. But what can be done, your countrymen also wants to be cheated like that
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- Maharishi Mahesa has left your land (America) with great disappointment - but his mission to cheat your people was successful. He wanted to collect some money and he cheated so many people because they wanted to be cheated
- My Guru Maharaj said that this materialistic society is a society of cheaters and cheated. Because people want to be cheated, men such as you mention have become very popular
- My Guru Maharaja used to say this material world is a society of cheaters and cheated. That's all. I want to be cheated because I don't accept God. If there is God, then I become responsible for my sinful life. So therefore let me deny God
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- So this bluffing, these cheating things are going on. And because we are unable to cheat and bluff, nobody cooperates with us. They want to be cheated and bluffed. That is the business
- Study, take part with music, eat prasadam. And no one can cheat you by this process. But if you want to be cheated - go to the cheaters
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- The public wants to be cheated, and Krsna therefore creates such cheaters to misrepresent and delude. These so-called yogis are actually enjoyers of the world garbed as yogis
- The whole world is full of cheaters and cheated. Because they want to be cheated, there are so many cheaters. They don't want real thing. Here is the real thing: Bhagavad-gita, the Supreme Personality of Godhead speaking personally about Himself
- They (people) want to be cheated?
- They (rascals of self-made authority) are very proud of the money they have plundered from innocent persons who wanted to be cheated
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- We don't want to be cheated. We want real God. Therefore nobody can cheat us
- We say there is no illicit sex life, no intoxication, no meat eating, no gambling, so if Maharishi says there is no restrictions, naturally large number of people will follow him. That means they want to be cheated, and Krishna sends them a cheater
- We want to be cheated. That is, cheating process is one of the items of conditional life. There are four defects of conditional life
- When you will seek after God, God is situated within your heart, He will give you all facility. And so long you want to become God, you will be cheated, because you are trying to cheat yourself. How you can become God?
- Why do you accept somebody as mahatma who does not speak about Krsna? Then you are misleading yourself. Everything, direction, is there (in Bhagavad-gita). Why you create your own mahatma? If you want to be cheated, who can check you? That is your fault