Category:Suffering the Results
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category addresses the universal law of action and reaction, establishing that every conditioned soul is forced to endure the consequences of their mundane activities. Śrīla Prabhupāda comprehensively explains that because of false identification with the material body, the pure jīva mistakenly tries to enjoy the temporary world and thereby incurs heavy karmic debts. Whether acting piously or impiously, the living entity transmigrates through endless species, blindly suffering the results generated by their own desires and ignorance. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda also points to the ultimate escape: by surrendering to the Supreme Lord and engaging in pure bhakti-yoga, a devotee is released from this binding cycle. Even if a devotee falls short, the Lord expertly mitigates their karmic burden, ensuring they are reformed rather than forced to suffer the strict reactions of a normal fruitive worker.
- The Universal Law of Karma: Every material endeavor, good or bad, produces an unavoidable reaction that the living entity must personally suffer or enjoy in this life or the next.
- The Subtlety of Material Contamination: Because the soul falsely identifies as the doer within the material body, it becomes fully implicated in a continuous chain of actions, reactions, and distress.
- The Severe Price of Sin: Engaging in prohibited acts for the sake of temporary sense gratification—especially animal slaughter—binds the soul to horrific suffering in future hellish incarnations.
- Individual Responsibility: Despite appearing as part of a collective society or family, each living entity carries their own distinct karmic ledger and must face the results of their activities alone.
- Freedom Through Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: By abandoning fruitive desires and completely surrendering to the Supreme Lord, one stops generating new reactions and is ultimately liberated from all material suffering.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Conditioned Souls Are Forced Into Suffering the Results of Past Activities.
Pages in category "Suffering the Results"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- A person generally does not know how one body is linked with another body. How is it possible that one suffers or enjoys the results of activities in this body in yet another body in the next life. This is a question the King wants Narada Muni to answer
- A person in Krsna consciousness acting in knowledge of his relationship with Krsna is always liberated. Therefore he does not have to enjoy or suffer the results of his acts after death. BG 1972 purports
- Actually the living entity in his material condition remains inert. It is the modes of material nature that act on the mind and heart. The results are enjoyed or suffered by the living entity
- All these activities are sinful, and because we are engaged in such sinful activities constantly we are constantly reaping the result of our sinful work, which is suffering in one way or another
- Although the hunter Mrgari was uncivilized, he still had to suffer the results of his sinful activities
- Although we appear combined together in a family, society or nation, each of us has an individual destiny. Everyone takes birth according to individual past work; therefore everyone must individually enjoy or suffer the result of his own karma
- Any person who is constantly awaiting Your causeless mercy to be bestowed upon him, & who goes on suffering the resultant actions of his past misdeeds, offering You respectful obeisances from the core of his heart, is surely eligible to become liberated
- Atheists want evidence for the resultant actions of past activities. Therefore they ask, "Where is the proof that I am suffering and enjoying the resultant actions of past karma?"
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- 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
- Everyone is suffering from the results of sinful activities, but Krsna says that if one surrenders unto Him, He will protect one from sinful reactions
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- For one who is not renounced, the threefold fruits of action-desirable, undesirable and mixed-accrue after death. But those who are in the renounced order of life have no such results to suffer or enjoy. BG 18.12 - 1972
- From this statement of Padma Purana it is understood that material contamination is very subtle. Its beginning, its fruition and results, and how one suffers such results in the form of distress, are part of a great chain
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- He (Citraketu) knew very well that one suffers or enjoys the results of one's past deeds as ordained by daiva-netra-superior authority, or the agents of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- He (the conditioned soul) is suffering in the present life the results of sinful activities from his past life, and he is meanwhile creating further sufferings for his future life
I
- If one kills poor animals to satisfy the temporary whims of this body, one does not know that he will suffer in his next birth, for such a sinful miscreant must go to hell and suffer the results of his actions - SB 10.10.10
- In every field of life we enjoy the results of our work, or we suffer the results. This is called karma. BG 1972 Introduction
- In the Brahma-samhita it is said that beginning from the indra-gopa germ up to the great Indra, King of heaven, all living beings are subjected to the law of karma and are bound to suffer and enjoy the fruitive results of their own work
- In the conditioned stage of the living entities, there are two kinds of results of fruitive activities: the conditioned living entity who is constantly engaged in sinful activities has suffering as his result
O
- One should know with certainty that Krsna had no personal interest in whatever He did for the benediction of the gopis. As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, na mam karmani limpanti: (BG 4.14) Krsna never enjoys or suffers the results of His activities
- Out of his natural humility, Prthu Maharaja never considered himself a great devotee, and he agreed to suffer the results of his past karma
T
- The cause of the heating and cooling is the electrician's manipulation of the electrical energy according to his desire, but factually the electrician has nothing to do with causing heat or cold, nor with the enjoyment or suffering that results
- The expert knowers of the Vedic conclusions say that one enjoys or suffers the results of his past activities. But practically it is seen that the body that performed the work in the last birth is already lost
- The karmis transmigrate through different bodies in the cycle of birth and death, sometimes going upward and sometimes downward, thus suffering the results of their actions in the karma-cakra, the cycle of birth and death
- There are many results of past sinful activities for which we are suffering at the present moment, and we may be suffering in the future due to our present sinful activities
- Therefore (King Nrga, bewildered, decided first to suffer the results of his impious activities and then to accept the results of his pious activities) Yamaraja immediately turned him into a lizard
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- We are now implicated in so many sinful life, and we have to reap the result. We have to suffer for it in dehantara-praptih
- We are suffering or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends on the perfection of our knowledge. BG 1972 Introduction
- We see in your New York City. Everyone is busy with karma. Karma means you do something, there is some result and you enjoy or suffer. That is called karma
- When the time came for the King (Nrga) to give up his body, he was taken before Yamaraja, the superintendent of death, who asked him whether he first wanted to enjoy the results of his pious activities or suffer the results of his impious activities
- When we create our own problems, we have to suffer the results
- Whether one be Kartaviryarjuna, Lord Parasurama, Jamadagni or whoever one may be, one must act very cautiously and sagaciously; otherwise one must suffer the results of sinful activities. This is the lesson we receive from Vedic literature