Category:Real Purpose
Theme Analysis
Whether engaging in religious rituals, rigorous asceticism, or scriptural study, humanity often loses sight of the ultimate spiritual objective. This category highlights that the singular, overarching goal of all transcendental endeavor is to purify the senses, break free from material attachment, and fully reestablish our loving relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Ultimate Goal of Religion: True religion is not about executing empty rituals or seeking material boons; its sole purpose is to awaken unalloyed love for God.
- The Essence of Mysticism and Asceticism: The actual objective of all yoga systems and vows of austerity is to control the unbridled mind and senses, eradicating lust and anger.
- The Intent of Divine Incarnations: Whenever the Lord descends to the material world, His primary purpose is to annihilate demonic influences, protect His devotees, and reestablish true religious principles.
- Attaining Eternal Liberation: The human form of life is designed specifically for understanding our eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa and securing a permanent exit from the miserable cycle of birth and death.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Knowing Kṛṣṇa as the Real Purpose of Existence.
Pages in category "Real Purpose"
The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
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- A sannyasi is supposed to beg from door to door. He does not beg simply because he is hungry. His real purpose is to enlighten the occupant of every house by preaching Krsna consciousness
- Although we are advancing according to such concocted methods, we are forgetting our real purpose
- Apart from the grammatical elucidation, the real purpose of the word nidhanam is to indicate that all the members of the Vrsni and Bhoja dynasties were direct associates of the Lord
- As explained here (in CC Adi 17.53), the real purpose of an incarnation of Godhead is to kill the atheists and maintain the devotees
- As long as one continues to be subject to polluted desires, he has to accept one material body after another. So-called yogis, without knowledge of the real purpose of yoga, practice it in order to keep the body fit
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- He (Sanatana Gosvami) did not approach Him to get some gold or some medicine. He went to find out his real self-interest. This is the real purpose for approaching a guru. Devahuti approached Lord Kapiladeva in the same way
- Here (SB 1.8.29) it is said, na veda kascid bhagavams cikirsitam: "No one knows the purpose of Your appearance and disappearance." Tavehamanasya nrnam vidambanam: the Lord's pastimes are bewildering. No one can understand their real purpose
- Here is the secret of yoga system. Yoga indriya-samyama. The real purpose of yoga is to control the senses
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- I had some doubts about them, but you have now very kindly dissipated all these doubts. I can now understand how even the great sages are bewildered by the real purpose of life. Of course, there is no question of sense gratification
- I have tried to explain in this book (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) the real purpose of the Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavad-gita is the authorized book to teach people how to love Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- If the real purpose of all yoga is to please Lord Krsna, then this simple bhakti-yoga system recommended for this age is sufficient. It is necessary to engage constantly in the service of the Lord
- If we do not try to understand the real purpose of Bhagavad-gita, and if we theorize, "Bhagavad-gita means nonviolence. BG means to become patriot," these are materialism. We should avoid this wrong interpretation, misguiding direction of blind leaders
- If you want to know Adhoksaja, that is the real purpose of religion. Religion is not a type of ritualistic ceremonies. That is external. Real fact is how to contact the adhoksaja who is beyond our material conception
- In Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15) Krsna says, "The real purpose of the Vedas is to understand Me." This is the injunction of all Vedic literatures. One who does not know the greatness of Lord Krsna cannot be accepted as an Aryan
- In hatha-yoga one undergoes various physical disciplines, but the real purpose is to understand Visnu, the Supreme
- In the assembly for Draupadi's svayamvara, Karna was present. Draupadi's real purpose was to accept Arjuna as her husband, but Karna was there, and she knew that if he competed, Arjuna would not be able to succeed
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the first-class religion is that which teaches love of Godhead. At the present moment, one professes a type of religion, but does not develop real purpose of religion, namely love of Godhead - that is materialism
- In Vedic language, a grhamedhi, which means "one whose center of attraction is home." Grhastha refers to one who lives with family, wife and children, but whose real purpose of living is to develop Krsna consciousness
- It (the Krsna Consciousness Movement) is a revolutionary movement. Even so-called followers of Gita, they will be caught up by this movement as rascals. Because the real purpose of Gita they do not know
- It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that whenever there are discrepancies in the discharge of the real purpose of this material existence, the Lord appears as an incarnation
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- Maharaja Pariksit was in doubt as to why Krsna acted in that way. What was the real purpose?
- Many, many plans, many, many skyscraper buildings, roads and motor cars. What is the real purpose? The purpose is they want to be happy. But that is not possible. Therefore they are vimudhan. Rascals. They are going in the wrong way
- Material thought means these fruitive activities. "I shall work very hard, and I shall get so much wealth, and for this purpose I can go to church & temple. If God gives me millions of dollars, then I am ready to go." Real purpose is sense gratification
- Men are moving by cars and rails on the roads, by subways within the earth and by planes in the sky for the purpose of business success. But in all these movements the real purpose is to earn wealth for comfortable life
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- Our plan is not to sponsor the Hindus or any other individual group. Our real purpose is to spread Krishna Consciousness
- Our real purpose is God-realization. That we are missing. That chance is in the human form of life. So if people are not educated to this goal of life, that is not helping the country or the society or the human being
- Our real purpose is to spread Krishna Consciousness. This means that there is one God; Krishna, one scripture; Bhagavad-gita As It Is, one mantra; Hare Krishna, and one work; service of Lord Krishna. We want to preach this cult all over the world
- Our real purpose of life is to become yogi. Yogi means to reestablish our connection, our lost connection, with God. At the present moment, in our material condition, we have forgotten our relationship, our eternal relationship with Krsna
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- Real purpose is how one will take to spiritual consciousness, or Krsna consciousness. Keeping one's aim to that point. Some concession may be given as far as possible, keeping pace with the time, circumstances
- Real purpose is to make him detached from this material attraction and make him promoted apavargyasya, how to get out of this material miserable condition of life. This is called dharmasya hy apavargyasya
- Real purpose of jada-yoga, as mentioned here in this verse, is prasanta-karanah, or subduing the senses. The whole process of yoga, under whatever heading it may be, is to control the unbridled material senses & thus prepare oneself for self-realization
- Real purpose of rasa lila
- Religion does not mean the so-called rituals. That is formalities, they're also required, but the real purpose of religion is to abide by the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is religion
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- Sankaracarya's real purpose
- So God descends, He comes Himself or He sends His representative, to reestablish the real purpose of religion, whenever there is discrepancies in the matter of discharging real religion
- So if we do not try to understand the real purpose of Bhagavad-gita, and if we theorize, "Bhagavad-gita means nonviolence. Bhagavad-gita means to become patriot," these are materialism
- So Lord comes as incarnation for these two purposes: to protect the saintly persons and to annihilate the atheistic demons, and to establish the real purpose of religion
- So the speaker and the audience were bona fide in this meeting where Bhagavatam was being recited for the second time. That should be the standard of recitation of Bhagavatam, so that the real purpose can be served without difficulty
- So-called advancement of education means mayaya apahrta-jnana. The maya, the illusory energy, is plundering the real purpose of knowledge
- Some unauthorized commentators try to identify the individual soul with the Supersoul, and the monists think this to be liberation, but they do not understand the real purpose of the Patanjali system of yoga. BG 1972 purports
- Sometimes foolish rascals, not knowing the purpose of the Lord (Krsna) or the purpose of the gopis, unnecessarily criticize from their own angle of vision, but the real purpose of vastra-harana is expressed by the Lord in this verse of CC Adi 14.69
- Such knowledge must come down through the disciplic succession, through authorized persons who know the real purpose of the sastra
- Sumanda-matayo, they will theorize, "In our religion it is said this." Oh, whatever your religion may be, that real purpose of religion is to understand God. How far you have understood God? That is practically nil
- Svarupa Damodara could understand the secret mission of Lord Caitanya, and it was by his grace only that all the devotees of Lord Caitanya could know the real purpose of the Lord
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- The animals gathered were not meant to be killed and eaten. The real purpose of a sacrifice was not to replace a slaughterhouse but to test a Vedic mantra by giving an animal new life. Animals were used to test the power of Vedic mantras, not for meat
- The demigods were advised, however, not to be greedy for the gems or beautiful women, but to wait patiently for the nectar. The real purpose was to get the nectar
- The human life is meant for understanding what I am and what is God, what is my relationship with God. That is the real purpose of human life
- The materialistic men are very anxious to have some mystic powers as a result of a controlling process, but the real purpose of yogic regulations is to eradicate the accumulated dirty things like lust, anger, avarice and all such material contaminations
- The real purpose behind the vow taken during these four months (Caturmasya) is to minimize the quantity of sense gratification. This is not very difficult
- The real purpose is that we should give up this asat-patha. Asat-patha and sat-patha. Sat-patham means our permanent goal of life. We are now interested with nonpermanent goal of life
- The real purpose is to exhibit one's loving devotion to the Lord; the offerings themselves are secondary
- The real purpose is to make him dispossess. Unless he is penniless, he will not take to God
- The real purpose is to realize God. So that (many Chinese, many Japanese, Africans and Canadians are chanting) is being done. So we have to accept the method recommended for a particular age and time. Then we become successful
- The real purpose of a sacrifice was not to replace a slaughterhouse but to test a Vedic mantra by giving an animal new life. Animals were used to test the power of Vedic mantras, not for meat
- The real purpose of all processes of transcendental realization - jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga or bhakti-yoga - is to arrive at the point of devotional service
- The real purpose of controlling the mind by the prescribed method of clearing the passage of the life air is achieved immediately if one fixes his mind directly on the lotus feet of Krsna
- The real purpose of doing this is to know perfectly the Absolute Transcendence, Sri Krsna, for the entire creation, both material and spiritual, rests on the body of Sri Krsna
- The real purpose of Krsna's appearance was to manifest how one can take part in loving affairs with the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The real purpose of Lord Siva is to serve the Soul of the soul, Lord Krsna. He desires that all luxurious articles, such as nice garments, garlands, ornaments and cosmetics, be given to Lord Krsna only, because Krsna is the real enjoyer
- The real purpose of marriage is to get children. So if the husband and wife simply love within the mind and there is no action, there is no prayojana-siddhi. We should be practical, not simply theoretical
- The real purpose of offering items is to exhibit one's loving devotion to the Lord; the offerings themselves are secondary
- The real purpose of philosophical research is to find the ultimate goal of life. BG 1972 purports
- The real purpose of studying the Vedas is to approach the lotus feet of Lord Krsna
- The real purpose of such foolish people (Mayavadis or atheists) is to impose the impersonalist conclusion on all Vedic literature. The Mayavadi atheists also interpret the Bhagavad-gita
- The real purpose of such jada-yoga practice is to get free from all material affection and to be completely situated in the self
- The real purpose of such literatures (Srila Vyasadeva's books) is not so much to present topics of historical references, but to revive the people's sense of God consciousness
- The real purpose of the Lord's pastimes is His free will. He thinks, "Let Me go and see." He doesn't need to come to kill the demons. He has so many agents in the material nature that can kill them
- The real purpose of the Vedas is to direct one back home, back to Godhead, but the living entity, not knowing the real goal of his life, wants to go sometimes here and sometimes there and do sometimes this and sometimes that
- The real purpose of the yoga system is to achieve the favor and shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but this purpose is covered by the illusory energy of yogamaya
- The real purpose of these stamps is to make Radha-Krishna picture seen by so many people. Other pictures for other stamps can also be used. The cover picture for KRSNA book is nice for one. Some may even say "KRSNA book" as advertisement
- The real purpose of this movement? To teach people how he can surrender to Krsna, that's all. That is the sum and substance of this movement. If one accepts this principle without any difficulty, he is immediately a preacher
- The real purpose of Vedanta-sutra is explained by the author himself in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and anyone trying to understand Vedanta-sutra without reference to Srimad-Bhagavatam is certainly misguided
- The real purpose of yoga practice is to achieve the highest perfection of Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports
- The real purpose of yogic performances is to control the mind and the senses. Anyone who has such control is to be understood to be an experienced, mature mystic yogi
- The real purpose of yogic regulations is to eradicate the accumulated dirty things like lust, anger, avarice and all such material contaminations
- The so-called Westernized scholars... Because the real purpose was that the rulers, they did not want to present Indian culture as very old, because then their Darwin's theory will be spoiled
- The standard of morality, Arjuna's activity of killing was immoral. Morality, immorality, this is all creation of mind. Real purpose of life: to serve the order of Krsna. That is real morality
- The very beginning is yama, niyama, controlling. Everything controlling; not to be licentious, everything controlling. yoga life begins, yoga indriya samyama. The real purpose of practicing yoga is controlling the senses
- There are different religious systems, different parts of the world, of the universe. But the real purpose of religion is yato bhaktir adhoksaje, how to become engaged in the service of the Lord, that is religion
- There are different religious systems, different parts of the world, of the universe. But the real purpose of religion is yato bhaktir adhoksaje, how to become engaged in the service of the Lord. That is religion
- There is no question of scarcity of money. Don't spoil money, but spend for real purpose, that's all
- This (character of sudra, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa) must be systematically organized. That is called dharma. Because the real purpose is, dharmasya hy apavargyasya: just to nullify this miserable condition of material life
- To understand the science of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the real purpose of education
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- We can select our own religion and be Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian or whatever, as long as we know the real purpose of religion
- We read Bhagavad-gita, but by reading Bhagavad-gita I become a politician. So what kind of reading Bhagavad-gita? Politician is there, of course, but the real purpose of reading Bhagavad-gita is to know Krsna
- Why don't you take the real purpose of religion from Krsna? Krsna says, - This is real dharma, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam
- Without accepting a bona fide spiritual master coming in the disciplic succession, one cannot find out the real purpose of devotional service. Therefore one has to accept the shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and agree to be directed by him