Category:Real Person
Theme Analysis
This category clarifies the profound distinction between the external, temporary material body and the eternal spirit soul, which is the actual individual. Due to the illusions of material energy, the general populace misidentifies with the physical form.
- The Spirit Soul: The actual person is the eternal spirit soul residing within the temporary material body, much like a driver inside a vehicle.
- Overcoming Illusion: Materialistic education is fundamentally flawed because it focuses solely on the bodily covering and ignores the actual conscious entity.
- The Role of the Guru: To perceive the true self and the Supreme Lord, one must receive transcendental knowledge from a bona fide spiritual master who has seen the truth.
- Surrender to the Supreme: Real religion means submitting to the Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa, and understanding that serving Him automatically satisfies the individual soul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Approaching a Real Person for Spiritual Truth.
Pages in category "Real Person"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- Because they (the people) have no knowledge of the spirit soul - they think the body is everything - so therefore knowledge is imperfect. Body is only the covering. Real person is the spirit soul. So the modern education has no knowledge of this
- Because you are rascal, you do not know. You learn it. One who knows the meaning. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). You are fool, rascal. How can you know the meaning? You must have to go to the real person
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- Just like good citizenship means to abide by the laws of the state, of the government. That is good citizenship. Similarly, a real religious person means who is abiding by the orders of the Supreme Lord
- Just like this body. Your body, my body, this is bahir-artha, external. Just like my, this wrapper. This is external. Real person is the soul. But they have no information of the soul, neither information of Visnu, the origin of soul
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- Krsna did not come to establish the so-called Hindu religion or Muslim religion or Christian religion. No. He came to establish real religion. Real religion means we have to submit, surrender to the real person
- Krsna said, that dehino 'smin yatha dehe (BG 2.13), within this body the real person is there, just like within the shirt and coat the real person is there, so but the real person we never see
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- Materialistic person, the so-called scientist, philosopher, they know this body - the self. They do not know that the body is the cover of the self. This real self, the real person, goes to Krsna to live forever
- Maya is so strong that she'll not allow to take real knowledge from the real person, but we shall read volumes of books who are defective with their four kinds of imperfectness, namely they commit mistake, they are illusioned, they are cheater, etc
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- Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya. So we have to approach the real person who has seen. Then you'll get the right goal of life
- That is not our life, to become an impostor. It must be real person. By training, yah sastra-vidhim siddhih, by training under the teaching of a bona fide spiritual master, the sastra
- The beginning of BG is to give lesson that we are not this body. It will be later on explained that the spirit soul, or the real person, is within this body. Just like we are here. We are within this shirt and coat, but we are not the shirt and coat
- The real understanding should be that if in the real person all these features are not present, how they can be reflected in the photograph
- This is basis of Gita. Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya (BG 4.34). Learn from the real person, tattva-darsinah, who has seen, who has actual experience of the truth. Learn from him
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- We are so much attached to this bag of flesh and bones, but those who are learned, they know that this body is nothing but flesh and bones. The real person, the real force, is the soul
- We request that "You take Krsna. You will be benefited." And actually it is being done. We don't present a false person. We present the real person, Krsna. Now, if you are misfortunate, you cannot take, that is your business. That is your business
- When the person leaves this body it is dead lump of matter. So people are giving more importance to the lump of matter than to the real person within the body. Just like a bird is within the cage, it is being washed very nicely and no food to the bird