Category:Real Suffering
Theme Analysis
In the material world, people often mistake temporary inconveniences for suffering, but Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that "real suffering" is far more fundamental. Citing the Bhagavad-gītā, he identifies the four real miseries: birth (janma), death (mṛtyu), old age (jarā), and disease (vyādhi). These are inescapable for everyone in the material world, regardless of their social or economic status. Modern civilization, described as a civilization of "blind rascals," ignores these ultimate problems and focuses only on mitigating temporary distress. A vaiṣṇava, however, is para-duḥkha-duḥkhī—truly compassionate—because they understand that the root cause of this suffering is the soul's entanglement in the cycle of transmigration due to forgetfulness of God. The only solution to this real suffering is liberation from birth and death through Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Four Real Miseries: Real suffering is defined as birth, death, old age, and disease. No amount of material advancement can conquer these.
- Temporary vs. Real: Problems like a bad relationship or lack of food are "extra" or temporary sufferings. The fundamental problem is the material existence itself.
- Ignorance of Civilization: Modern society is "dull-headed" because it evades the real problems and has no educational system to address the cessation of birth and death.
- The Cause and Cure: The cause of real suffering is the living entity's struggle with the mind and senses in the material world (prakṛti-sthāni karṣati). The cure is reviving the divine consciousness to stop transmigration.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Real Suffering - Birth, Death, Old Age, and Disease.
Pages in category "Real Suffering"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- He has come to this material world, prakrti, and . . . or mental concoction, he's creating his plan and struggling for existence. This is real suffering. So Krsna consciousness movement means to save him from real suffering
- Human beings are so blind rascals, they do not see that this is real suffering
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- Krsna says in BG 13.9 that the real sufferings of the material world are four - janma-mrtyu jara-vyadhi (birth, death, old age and disease). In the history of the world, no one has been successful in conquering these miseries imposed by material nature
- Krsna says that: Your real suffering is these four things, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (BG 13.9): repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. Actually this is your problem
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- Real suffering is because the living entity has forgotten God, so he is being punished in different way by the material nature
- Real suffering is due to our this material existence
- Real suffering is here, that you have to take your birth, you have to die, you have to suffer from disease and old age
- Real suffering, real suffering is due to our, this material existence, these three kinds of suffering. So when one is conscious about his suffering and he wants to make a solution of this suffering, then there is necessary of a spiritual master
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- Temporary I have got some misunderstanding with some friend, or temporary I do not get some nice food, and therefore suffering - these sufferings are extra, but real suffering is this - janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi
- The modern civilization is practically . . . they are evading, evading the real sufferings. They are engaged in temporary sufferings
- This is his real suffering. He's part and parcel of God. Qualitatively, he's as good as God, but he's suffering. Why he's suffering? Manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati (BG 15.7). He has come to this material world
- This is real suffering. Why the eternal soul should be subjected to birth, death, old age and disease