Category:Perfect Human Beings
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a perfect human being is not simply a biological entity, but a spiritually awakened individual who questions the nature of material suffering and seeks its ultimate solution. To become perfect, a human being must be guided by a bona fide guru and trained through the Vedic institution of varṇāśrama-dharma and its reformatory processes (saṁskāras). A perfect human being is a pure devotee who recognizes that God provides all necessities, strictly follows regulative principles like celibacy and vegetarianism, and ultimately attains the highest stage of love of God (prema). Through Lord Caitanya’s saṅkīrtana movement, anyone, regardless of their social background, has the opportunity to achieve this perfection.
- Awakening from Material Suffering: A human life truly begins when one questions their suffering and strives to purify their existence by following regulative principles, avoiding animalistic activities like illicit sex.
- The Vedic Training System: To develop perfect consciousness, human beings must be trained through the varṇāśrama system and purified by various saṁskāras, or reformatory processes, from the very beginning of life.
- The Necessity of Spiritual Guidance: Perfection is impossible without the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master. By taking shelter of the guru and engaging in the worship of the Supreme Lord, even the most fallen can be rectified.
- Attaining the Highest Perfection of Love: The ultimate standard for a perfect human being is to achieve prema, unalloyed love for God. Lord Caitanya freely distributes this perfection through the saṅkīrtana movement.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Standard for Perfect Human Beings.
Pages in category "Perfect Human Beings"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- A perfect human being knows that "My necessities of life is supplied by God, so I have no business to improve the economic condition." That cannot be done also. Nobody is going to be very rich, all of them
- An advanced devotee, or a perfect human being who is actually wise and learned, cannot give up his service at the lotus feet of the Lord
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- Even if one is not a perfect brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra but takes to the service of the Lord, not caring for the perfection of his social position, he becomes a perfect human being simply by developing the attitude of service to the Supreme Lord
- Even those who are constantly engaged in sinful acts are all corrigible to the standard of perfect human beings if they take shelter of the devotees of the Lord
- Everyone can join in His (Lord Caitanya's) sankirtana movement. No previous qualification is necessary. just by following His teachings, anyone can become a perfect human being
- Everyone can join in His (Lord Caitanya's) sankirtana movement. No previous qualification is necessary. Just by following His teachings, anyone can become a perfect human being - CC Preface
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- For spiritual emancipation there must be the division: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. So unless you accept this institution perfectly, you cannot develop your consciousness as perfect human being
- From the point of begetting a child up to the point of death, there are samskaras, or reformatory process. By that process a human being is made of perfect. That is called dasa-vidha-samskara, ten kinds of processes
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- If man is made after the image of God, you study very scrutinizingly a perfect human being, and you will know what is God
- If we want to make the whole world sadhu, perfect human being, then we have to push on this movement without any hesitation
- If you want to remain as a human being, then you must remain as perfect human being. Therefore no illicit sex. The cats and dogs, they can have illicit sex, & if the human being also have the same process, then where is the difference between cats & dogs
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- O son of the King, now I shall speak unto you the mantra which is to be chanted with this process of meditation. One who carefully chants this mantra for seven nights can see the perfect human beings flying in the sky
- On the earth there are many species of life, from the aquatics up to the perfect human beings, and all are known as prajas
- Our Vedic system is to train the human being to the ultimate goal of his life. That system is called varnasrama-dharma, gradually training the person how to become perfect human being
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- SB 2.3.10: "Whether full of all material desires, free from material desires or desiring liberation, a person who has broader intelligence must by all means worship the supreme whole, the Personality of Godhead." This is the duty of a perfect human being
- So far we are concerned, Krsna conscious men, we are not animals. We are perfect beings. We don't eat any living entity
- So the Aryan word is not ordinary. To become Aryan means a perfect human being, as far as possible. That is Aryan civilization
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- You cannot learn to become a perfect human being without accepting guru. Then you remain a rascal. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet. That is the Vedic injunction. If you want to learn that transcendental science, you must approach a guru
- You should become a perfect human being. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure. Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease