Category:Premature
Theme Analysis
This category explores the concept of prematurity in both physical and spiritual contexts. While Śrīla Prabhupāda occasionally uses the word to describe untimely material events—such as premature birth, unnatural aging, or sudden death—he most frequently utilizes it as a strict warning for practicing devotees. Spiritual advancement is a gradual, scientific process of purification. Śrīla Prabhupāda strongly cautions against artificially skipping steps, whether by prematurely accepting the renounced order (sannyāsa), retiring to Vṛndāvana without sufficient realization, posing as an ācārya, or attempting to dive into the intimate, conjugal pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa while still harboring material desires. Such premature leaps do not elevate a person; rather, they inevitably lead to spiritual falldown, debauchery, and the illusion of sahajiyāism.
- Physical Prematurity: The category includes historical Vedic examples of premature birth (Cyavana), premature aging due to a curse (Yayāti), and the tragic premature death of warriors like Abhimanyu.
- Artificial Renunciation: Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that leaving householder life prematurely to take sannyāsa or to live a solitary life in Vṛndāvana often results in falldown and a return to material habits.
- The Trap of Sahajiyāism: Attempting to bypass basic purification to discuss or enter into Kṛṣṇa's intimate gopī-līlā is a symptom of mundane lust, turning the practitioner into a prākṛta-sahajiyā.
- Becoming Mature Through Obedience: True spiritual maturity is not rushed; it requires patiently and strictly following the orders of the bona fide ācārya before taking on advanced roles.
Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Dangers of Premature Spiritual Advancement.
Pages in category "Premature"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- He (Maharaja Citraketu) could have thought, "This living entity was my enemy in my last life, and now, having appeared as my son, he is prematurely leaving just to give me pain and agony"
- Here in Los Angeles, we have found that there is a group of about 40 devotees who privately meet to discuss the intimate pastimes artificially thinking that they can enter into the understanding of the gopis prematurely
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- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura does not recommend that one take up this solitary life in Vrndavana prematurely
- Subhadra was duly married with Arjuna, and Abhimanyu was born of Subhadra. At the premature death of Abhimanyu, Subhadra was very mortified, but on the birth of Pariksit she was happy and solaced
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- The incompleteness of ones yoga practice, if he dies prematurely, or he could not finish and die, so the consciousness goes with him. So, in the next life again he begins from that point
- This premature desire to understand the lila of Krishna is due to mundane sex-life desire as we have seen amongst many of the babajis and sahajiyas in Vrindaban
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- We can't impose anything from so early age, because when he is grown up he may not like the idea. So all this contemplation is premature. For the present your duty is to make him healthy and strong, physically and spiritually
- We have actually seen that many sannyasis who accept sannyasa prematurely, not having satisfied their material desires, fall down because they are disturbed. Therefore the general process is to go through grhastha life and vanaprastha life
- When we are completely, cent per cent follower of acarya, then you can also act as acarya. This is the process. Don't become premature acarya. First of all follow the orders of acarya, and you become mature