Category:Rascal Leaders
Theme Analysis
Human society requires proper guidance to achieve its spiritual purpose. Unfortunately, the modern world is dominated by unqualified, godless figures whom Śrīla Prabhupāda boldly identifies as rascal leaders. Lacking Kṛṣṇa consciousness and immersed in the bodily concept of life, these politicians, scholars, and scientists misguide the masses. By following these blind and sinful men, human civilization is driven into chaotic and hellish conditions. True peace and progress can only be achieved by completely rejecting these deceptive guides and accepting the pure leadership of the Supreme Lord and His devotees.
- The Blind Leading the Blind: Unqualified leaders who are ignorant of the true goal of life function as blind men leading other blind men into the ditch of material suffering.
- The Consequence of Sinful Leadership: Leaders addicted to intoxication, illicit sex, and other degraded habits cannot provide any ideal character or actual benefit to society.
- Creating a Chaotic Civilization: By presenting false philosophies and creating a hodgepodge culture, godless leaders deliberately force the masses to forget their spiritual identity and relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- The Necessity of Rejection: To attain genuine spiritual salvation, one must stop eulogizing materialistic figures and reject the misguidance of deceptive politicians and scientists.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Exposes the Danger of Following Rascal Leaders.
Pages in category "Rascal Leaders"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- A devotee sees that how Krsna, Kesava, is cheating these rascals. The devotee can understand. But the demons, they think, "Oh, we have got a nice leader. He does not believe in God"
- According to Bhagavad-gita, because the leaders of society are bereft of all factual knowledge due to their atheistic way of life, they are actually sinful rascals and are the lowest among men
- Anyone, he may be a ordinary man, he may be so-called swami or maybe so-called yogi or so-called leader, but our test is whether he's Krsna conscious. One test. If he's not, then he's a rascal. That is our challenge
- As a blind man, being unable to see, accepts another blind man as his leader, people who do not know the goal of life accept someone as a guru who is a rascal and a fool
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- Difficulty is these rascals are going on as scholar, dehatma-buddhih. Their life is bodily concept of life, & they are passing as scientist, scholars, leaders, politicians, & they are leading us andha yathandhair. They are blind, & they are leading us
- Don't take this so-called material civilization has got any value. Reject it. You see? And be prepared for going back to home, back to Godhead. That should be aim. Don't be allured by these rascal leaders
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- I am traveling all over the world to see that at least one man may understand. They have spoiled the whole situation by misinterpreting, by malinterpreting, and by bringing some rascal and pose as leader. The whole world is spoiled
- If the leaders, the priests and the executive heads are all rascal rogues, thieves, and within suspicion, then how there can be, I mean to say, peace in the world?
- If you accept the leadership of rascals, fools, you cannot be happy. Demons. They'll put you into difficulties
- If you become leader, so-called leader, rascal leader, and you are addicted to illicit sex and intoxication and meat-eating, you must be si . . . if you are sinful, how you can lead persons?
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- That will be very nice propaganda, to select real leaders of the society. The . . . we are misled by rascal leaders. That is the difficulty - all rascals
- The leaders are rascals
- The leaders are rascals and the followers are rascals and they're all going to hell. Nature's law is very strict
- The rascal leader is also blind and the followers are blind, so both of them are doomed. Therefore the conclusion is, the modern civilization is misguided
- The rascal leaders say it is primitive to remain on the farm, but to do business in the city and become rogue and rascal, that is advanced
- There can be very peaceful condition of the whole world. Simply mismanaged by the rascal leaders. Otherwise, people can live very peacefully, eat sumptuously, save time, and there is no necessity of stopping the bare necessities of life
- There is no fixity of where to sleep. There is no fixity where to satisfy sex. Everything, although such a rich country (America). Why? Because the leaders are rascals
- These (mayayapahrta-jnanah) rascals are themselves blind, and yet they are leading others who are blind. When people follow such leaders, they suffer unlimited pains in the future. Despite so-called advancement, all this is happening
- These big, big men who are so much eulogized by some rascals, all these big, big leaders, what they are? Because they are not devotee of Krsna, they cannot lead. They simply will mislead. Therefore we take them all rascals
- These rascal leaders, they'll not allow. They will be represent Krsna as something else. The, the only business is to kill Krsna. That's all. Not to accept Krsna is fact. All the big commentaries on Bhagavad-gita, you'll see
- These rascals are blind, and they are leading some other blind men, and they are satisfied that "We have got all scientific knowledge." That's all. That is not the way of scientific knowledge
- They (rascal leaders) do not know what is the ideal of life, what is the aim of life. They are creating hodgepodge civilization and putting the mass of people in chaotic condition. This is the sum and substance
- They have been forced to forget Hare Krsna by the so-called rascal leaders. Otherwise India is meant for chanting Hare Krsna, the whole India
- This is a civilization where a blind man is guiding a few others or many other blind men. So what is this civilization? The leader, he is a rascal. He does not know what is the aim of life