Category:Suffering Reactions
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category addresses the inescapable reality of material action and its subsequent consequences. Through his vast teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that every living entity bound within the material world is forced to suffer the reactions of their fruitive activities. Because of the false ego, the pure jīva mistakenly identifies with the temporary body and engages in acts of sense gratification and sin, such as animal killing, which generate massive volumes of painful karma. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda also reveals the ultimate process of liberation: by engaging in unalloyed bhakti-yoga and dedicating all activities to the Supreme Lord, a devotee transcends these stringent laws. For a fully surrendered soul, Kṛṣṇa personally intervenes, reducing mountains of karmic debt to a mere token and reforming the devotee through divine grace.
- The Universal Law of Karma: Every action performed within the material modes of nature inevitably produces a corresponding reaction, forcing the soul to migrate through various species to suffer or enjoy the results.
- The Severe Consequences of Pāpa: Engaging in prohibited and ignorant acts, especially meat-eating and animal slaughter, drastically increases one's sinful reactions, guaranteeing severe punishment in hellish conditions.
- The Conditioned State of the Soul: Although constitutionally aloof from matter, the living entity's false identification with the body makes them fully responsible for their material obligations and subsequent distress.
- The Lord's Mercy Upon Devotees: Unlike an ordinary fruitive worker, a sincere devotee receives special protection from the Supreme Lord, who minimizes their suffering and burns away their accumulated reactions.
- True Freedom Through Devotional Service: By dovetailing one's work with the desires of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a person stops generating new karma and effortlessly crosses over the ocean of material lamentation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Transcending the Suffering of Material Reactions In Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Suffering Reactions"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- A description of Krsna's power in minimizing the sufferings of sinful reactions is given in Brahma-samhita as follows
- A devotee should expertly manage to think always of the Supreme Lord so that the reactions of suffering cannot touch him. This is the expert management of papa-punya - pious and impious activities
- A question may be raised that since any activity performed must have some reaction, how is it that the person in KC does not suffer or enjoy the reactions of work? The Lord is citing Vedanta philosophy to show how this is possible. BG 1972 purports
- Although people are generally punished after the witnesses of their misdeeds are examined, where are the witnesses responsible for one's suffering the reactions of past karma? the answer by the Yamadutas is given here - in SB 6.1.42
- Although the living entity is aloof from the material elements, he is put into material conditions, and thus he must suffer the reactions of material activities
- Animal food is for those in the mode of ignorance. Therefore, those who indulge in animal food, drinking, smoking and eating food which is not first offered to Krsna will suffer sinful reactions because of eating only polluted things. BG 1972 purports
- Another gopi said, "Certainly the killing of women is a great sin, and if You (Krsna) do not come to see us and we die, You will suffer the reactions of sin. So please come see us"
- As long as a foolish person thus considers the self to be the killer of the killed, he continues to be responsible for material obligations, and consequently he suffers the reactions of happiness and distress - SB 10.4.22
- As the soul migrates, he suffers the actions and reactions of his past activities. These activities can be changed when the living being is in the mode of goodness, in sanity, and understands what sort of activities he should adopt. BG 1972 Introduction
E
- Either you eat meat or vegetables, if it is eaten for my satisfaction of the tongue, you become implicated in sinful activities, and you have to suffer the reaction
- Even though he (devotee of the Lord) falls down, he is never to be considered the same as a fallen karmi. A karmi suffers the result of his own fruitive reactions, whereas a devotee is reformed by chastisement directed by the Lord Himself
- Every work which you are doing, good or bad, we have to suffer or enjoy the reaction of our work. And so long we have to suffer or enjoy the reaction of our work, as long as we shall go on like this, so long we have to accept this material body
I
- If a devotee has to suffer the reactions of his past misdeeds, the Supreme Lord arranges for him to be given only a token of these reactions, and very soon he is freed from all the reactions of material contamination
- In a liberated condition, there is no distinction between actions for sense gratification and actions for liberation. When one is liberated from the desires of sense gratification, he has no longer to suffer the reactions of lamentation or illusion
- In proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his karma in the next
- In this way (sometimes going here and sometimes there and sometimes doing this or that) the living entity wanders throughout the entire universe, imprisoned in various species and thus engaging in various activities for which he must suffer the reactions
- It is enjoined in the scriptures that one has to suffer the reaction of not executing prescribed duties; therefore one who fails to discharge transcendental activities properly becomes subjected to these reactions. BG 1972 purports
S
- Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya considered that if Amogha were killed, the killer would suffer sinful reactions for killing a brahmana. For the same reason, it would have been undesirable for the Bhattacarya to commit suicide because he also was a brahmana
- Sinful actions are divided into two divisions; prarabdha and aprarabdha. Prarabdha refers to sinful reactions from which one is suffering at the present, and aprarabdha refers to sources of potential suffering
- Such a person is forced to give up his body and his family at the time of death, when he suffers the reaction for his envy of other creatures by being thrown into the hell called Raurava
Y
- Yoga, when you are in contact with Krsna, that is the secret of success in this material world, working. Otherwise whatever you are doing, whatever you are working, it will produce some reaction and you will have to enjoy or suffer
- You (the Lord) do not accept the results of Your activities, unlike ordinary demons and demigods, who suffer or enjoy the reactions of their activities in the material world