Category:So-called Followers
Theme Analysis
The spiritual path is often obscured by individuals who pose as strict adherents to religious traditions but fail to follow their actual injunctions. By thoroughly examining these discrepancies, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that so-called followers of the Vedas, Bhagavad-gītā, and Lord Caitanya create profound disturbances by inventing unauthorized paths and engaging in sinful activities. These individuals are often more dangerous than outright atheists because they maintain a facade of piety while secretly harboring impersonal motives and deep material attachments. True spiritual progress requires rejecting these hypocritical apa-sampradāyas and strictly adhering to the authorized conclusions of śāstra under the guidance of genuine devotees.
- The Hypocrisy of Adherence: Many claim to follow the Vedic instructions or the Hindu religion, yet they routinely perform sinful acts that are strictly prohibited by the scriptures they profess to revere.
- Worse Than Atheists: While groups like the Buddhists openly reject the Vedic authority, so-called followers are considered more harmful because they falsely present themselves as authorities while indirectly disobeying God's laws.
- Unauthorized Inventions: Deviating from the established paramparā, pseudo-followers concoct their own interpretations of texts like the Vedānta-sūtra, giving rise to numerous apa-sampradāyas that mislead the innocent public.
- The Disease of Envy: Because they lack genuine realization and the purity required to preach effectively, these individuals often become intensely envious of the pure devotees who are successfully spreading the authorized message globally.
- Impersonalist Misconceptions: Many who pose as strict Vedantists secretly harbor Māyāvādī philosophies, denying the eternal, personal form of the Supreme Lord and the necessity of Deity worship.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Difference Between Genuine Devotees and So-called Followers.
Pages in category "So-called Followers"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- According to Vedic civilization, it is imperative to give up the family at a certain stage, by force if necessary. Unfortunately, so-called followers of Vedic life do not give up their family even at the end of life, unless they are forced by death
- Although posing as great scholars, ascetics, householders and svamis, the so-called followers of the Hindu religion are all useless, dried-up branches of the Vedic religion
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- In His instructions to Rupa Gosvami, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu described the so-called followers of Vedic religion in this way (CC Madhya 19.146): veda-nistha-madhye ardheka veda ‘mukhe’ mane, veda-nisiddha papa kare, dharma nahi gane
- 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
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- So-called followers of Vedic principles simply accept the Vedas formally, but they act against Vedic principles. This is symptomatic of this Age of Kali
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu warned all His followers not to become independent or impudent. Unfortunately, after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, many apa-sampradayas (so-called followers) invented many ways not approved by the acaryas
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- The Age of Kali is so strong that it affects even the so-called followers of Lord Caitanya. At least the followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu must come out of India to preach His cult all over the world, for this is the mission of Lord Caitanya
- The Buddhists have the courage to deny the Vedas directly, but the so-called followers of the Vedas have no courage to deny the Vedas, although indirectly they disobey all the injunctions of the Vedas. Lord Caitanya condemned this
- The devotees, they do not want anything material. They are not captivated by so-called followers. No. Na dhanam na janam - janam means followers - na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagadisa kamaye
- The rascal class of men, they cannot understand arca-murti. They think that, "They are worshiping idol." Even amongst the Hindus there are so-called followers of Vedas, they also say that, What is the necessity of worshiping Deity in the temple
- The so-called followers of Sankara, the impersonalist Mayavadis, are sinking lower and lower. How can these degraded men explain the Vedanta-sutra, which is the essence of all Vedic literature
- The so-called followers of the Vedas deny the existence of God, as in the darkness of a cloudy evening the glowworms deny the existence of the moon and stars
- The so-called followers of the Vedic injunctions make their own interpretations of the Vedic injunctions, and thus they establish different parties and sects of the Vedic religion
- The system of caste, or varnasrama-dharma, is no longer regular even amongst the so-called followers of the system. Nor is it now possible to reestablish the institutional function in the present context of social, political and economic revolution
- There are many so-called followers of the Vaisnava cult in the line of Caitanya Mahaprabhu who do not scrupulously follow the conclusions of the sastras, and therefore they are considered to be apa-sampradaya, which means "outside of the sampradaya"
- There is a class of miscreants who are known in the words of Bhagavad-gita as veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas. They do not believe in the incarnation of the Lord, what to speak of the Lord's incarnation as the worshipable hog
- There is no question of their (so-called followers of Sri Caitanya) preaching the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world. But even though they are unable to do so, if anyone else does it they become envious
- They (the so-called followers of the Hindu religion) are impotent; they cannot do anything to spread the Vedic culture for the benefit of human society
- They (veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas) describe worship of the different forms or incarnations of the Lord as anthropomorphism
- Those who are so-called followers of the Vedas are more harmful than the Buddhists. The Buddhists have the courage to deny the Vedas directly, but the so-called followers of the Vedas have no courage to deny the Vedas
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- Unfortunately, the so-called followers deviate from the orders of the master and sometimes create their own concocted religious system. Otherwise, there can't be different religions
- Unfortunately, there are many so-called followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu who are satisfied simply to construct a temple, make a show of the Deities, collect some funds and utilize them for eating and sleeping