Category:Suffering Pain
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category addresses the inescapable reality of material existence: the constant experience of suffering pain. Through his teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that whether one faces bodily diseases, mental distress, or the broader threefold miseries, the root cause is always the soul's artificial desire to enjoy independently of the Supreme Lord. While materialistic society attempts to mitigate this discomfort with temporary remedies like tranquilizers, true relief is only found by treating the spiritual root cause. By reawakening one's original service attitude and taking shelter of the chanting of the mahā-mantra, the conditioned soul can conquer all material influence and escape the painful cycle of birth and death forever.
- The Inevitability of Bodily Misery: As long as the pure soul accepts a material body, it is forced to endure constant pain, ranging from minor inconveniences like a bug bite or excessive heat to severe diseases like typhoid, regardless of wealth or status.
- The Root Cause of Distress: Pain is not an arbitrary creation of God; rather, it is the direct consequence of the living entity's rebellious desire to act independently, engage in mental speculation, and exploit material nature.
- The Futility of Material Cures: Modern society endlessly produces temporary pain killers and tranquilizers to mask its distress, yet these superficial treatments cannot stop the underlying, repetitive cycle of suffering.
- The Ultimate Spiritual Remedy: The only permanent cure for material distress is associating with pure devotees and engaging in the chanting of the holy names, which restores the soul's original, joyful service attitude.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Chanting the Holy Name of Kṛṣṇa Cures the Experience of Suffering Pain.
Pages in category "Suffering Pain"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- Adhyatmika refers to the body and mind. Today I have a headache or some pain in my back, or my mind is not very quiet. These are sufferings called adhyatmika
- All persons in this material world are suffering from material pains, and if one wants to get rid of them, he must associate with saintly persons, pure devotees of God, and chant the maha-mantra. That is the only auspicious way for materialistic persons
- Although suffering the pain of being bound and although rebuked and cursed by his spiritual master, Bali Maharaja, being fixed in his vow, did not give up his truthfulness
- As human beings, we should be cognizant that we are suffering the pains of birth, old age, disease and death and should be inquisitive to know how to avoid these miseries
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- If we want to revive our original position, we must be placed again into that service attitude. That is the perfect cure. Otherwise we shall suffer pain and God will be suffering pain on account of us
- In this material nature, or material world, we have got three kinds of sufferings: tri-tapa-yantana. Sri, Sri Sanatana Gosvami inquired, - Why these three kinds of miseries inflict pains upon me?
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- The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi, which means someone who is always suffering from material pains. One can get rid of all these material pains only when he takes shelter of the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra
- The soul has no death, but when the same pure soul desires to enjoy the material world independently, he is placed under the conditions of material nature and must therefore accept a certain type of body and suffer the pains and pleasures thereof
- These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul's mental speculation
- They (human being) are put into hell means they are suffering very severe type of pains. "Now, leaving aside all other topics, kindly let me know how these men can be delivered from this hellish condition of life." This is his (Maharaja Pariksit's) prasna
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- We are all living beings, but because we have accepted this material body, we are suffering. Now we require this fan. Why? Because feeling some pains on account of heat. That heat is felt by the body, not the soul
- We have fallen into this river and are repeatedly suffering the pains of birth and death and eating horrible things. Now kindly look upon us - not only upon me but also upon all others who are suffering
- We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God's creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No
- When the typhoid is there, either your body is rich body or poor body, you have to suffer the same pain