Category:Real Nature
Theme Analysis
The true identity of the living entity is not bound by the temporary, physical body, but is fundamentally spiritual and eternal. Exploring these profound teachings, it becomes clear that the real nature of the soul is to serve Kṛṣṇa in a state of continuous joy and transcendental consciousness. When the soul forgets this divine relationship, it falls into the illusion of material designations—such as nationalism, family affection, and bodily ego—resulting in continuous suffering. By engaging in pure devotional service and taking shelter of a bona fide spiritual master, one can shed these false designations, uncover their original spiritual nature, and achieve permanent peace.
- The Eternal Servitor: The fundamental, unchangeable identity of the living entity is that of an eternal, blissful servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Disease of Forgetfulness: Material existence is caused by the soul's forgetfulness of its real nature, which plunges it into the modes of material nature and bodily identification.
- The Limitation of Material Goodness: Mundane goodness and philosophical speculation can distinguish the soul from the body, but they cannot reveal the personal, loving nature of the Supreme Lord.
- The Illusion of Voidism: True liberation is not a state of zero or nothingness; rather, it is the active, positive engagement of the soul in its uncovered, pure spiritual nature.
- The Necessity of Divine Guidance: To properly understand and reawaken this original nature, one must receive enlightenment from Kṛṣṇa directly or through a realized spiritual master.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Real Nature of the Soul as the Servant of Kṛṣṇa.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Real Nature"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- According to the Nirukti, or the Vedic dictionary, sankhya means that which describes phenomena in detail, and sankhya refers to that philosophy which describes the real nature of the soul. And yoga involves controlling the senses
- As Krsna is always happy, the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are also happy by nature, but because of being put within this material world and forgetting their eternal relationship with Krsna, they have forgotten their real nature
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- Identification with the body and the place where the body is obtained under different conceptions of socialism, nationalism, family affection, and so on and so forth is all due to forgetfulness of the real nature of the living entity
- In spite of reading and hearing such scriptures (Vedanta-sutras, Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam), unless one is in touch with a realized spiritual master, he cannot actually realize the real nature of self, etc
- In the Mayavada school of philosophy, discussions on pure knowledge can throw some light on the real nature of the Absolute Truth, but they are unable to fully reveal the esoteric and personal aspects of the Supreme Absolute Being
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- Jivera svarupa haya means the real nature of the living entity is eternal servitor, eternal servant of Lord Krsna
- Jnani has been eulogized. So even I am not jnani, even I am a needy person, if I take to Krsna and ask Him, that process is also recommended because ultimately, when I shall be purified, I shall know my real nature
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- Krsna is the fountainhead of the Supersoul also, as it will be disclosed in the following chapters, & Arjuna is the atomic soul, forgetful of his real nature; therefore he requires to be enlightened by Krsna, or by His bona fide representative. BG 1972 p
- Krsna led all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, to the lake where Akrura would later be shown the Vaikuntha planetary system. They took their bath immediately and saw the real nature of the Vaikunthalokas
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- One who attains to the perfection of understanding his real nature - as eternal servant of the Lord - gives up his designative (material, or bodily) conception of life. That is real knowledge
- One who does not understand the real nature of the Lord as the eternal, blissful, all-knowing Personality of Godhead, is certainly fool number one. Ignorance can be removed by gradual acceptance of the principles of Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports
- One's original natural tendency is to act in Krsna consciousness because one's real nature is spiritual
- One’s real nature is spiritual
- Our habits are formed on account of our association with the three different qualities of material nature. But if we can disassociate ourself from the three modes of material nature, then our real nature, means spiritual nature, becomes invoked
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- The all-merciful Lord very tactfully corrects the bewildered devotee by exhibiting before him the real nature of this material world
- The consciousness of the individual soul is prone to be forgetful. When he is forgetful of his real nature, he obtains education and enlightenment from the superior lessons of Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- The deep bluish cloud covers only an insignificant portion of the limitless sky, and this fractional covering is compared to the quality of ignorance, or forgetfulness of the real nature of the living being
- The real nature of maya, the illusory existence of the material manifestation, is clearly explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam. The Absolute Truth is substance, and the relative truth depends upon its relationship with the Absolute for its existence
- The third-class prisoners, being less materially opulent than the first-class prisoners, endeavor to imitate them, for they also have no information of the real nature of their imprisonment. Thus they also are misled by the illusory material nature
- They (mental speculators) are in fact in ignorance because they equalize the transcendental name and form of the Lord with mundane names and form. With such a poor fund of knowledge, there is no access to the real nature of the Supreme Being
- This verse (BG 2.17) more clearly explains the real nature of the soul, which is spread all over the body. Anyone can understand what is spread all over the body: it is consciousness. BG 1972 purports
- Transcending the material nature, then he becomes zero? No. That is the real nature. Now, the philosophy which preaches that "After our liberation, after nirvana of this material existence, there is zero," oh, that is very dangerous theory
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- Unfortunate people become enamored of these atheistic philosophers and consequently can never understand the real nature of the Absolute Truth. It is far better to follow in the footsteps of great souls
- Unless one is in touch with a realized spiritual master, he cannot actually realize the real nature of self, etc. And out of thousands and hundreds of thousands of men, someone may know what Lord Krsna is in fact