Category:That Is Your Fault
Theme Analysis
One of the most powerful and challenging aspects of Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings is the principle of total personal responsibility. He repeatedly uses the phrase "that is your fault" to cut through the tendency of the conditioned soul to blame God, destiny, or circumstances for their suffering. The core message is that the Supreme Lord has provided everything necessary for happiness and perfection: the scriptures, the spiritual master, the holy name, and even the material necessities like rain and food grains. However, the living entity misuses their minute independence. Whether it is neglecting the instructions of the physician, choosing to associate with rascals, or refusing to surrender to Kṛṣṇa despite His open invitation, the cause of suffering is always the individual's own choice. God does not interfere with this minute independence, for without it, love would not be possible. Therefore, if one remains in ignorance or falls down from the spiritual path, they have no one to blame but themselves.
- Misuse of Independence: God created the soul to be happy, but by misusing independence, the soul creates its own misery.
- Neglecting the Cure: The spiritual master and scriptures give the prescription, but if the patient refuses to take it, the suffering is their own fault.
- Bad Association: Choosing to associate with materialists or bogus gurus leads to degradation.
- Artificial Scarcity: Nature provides abundantly, but human society creates scarcity by neglecting agriculture and God consciousness.
- Willful Ignorance: Knowledge is available (Bhagavad-gītā), but people refuse to study it or accept the authority of the Vedas.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: That Is Your Fault - Why We Suffer.
Pages in category "That Is Your Fault"
The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
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- Desire means you have to accept different types of body. It is . . . you cannot make any permanent settlement. That is not possible. And that is also your fault
- Doctor's duty is to warn you not to go to that area, "It is now infected with smallpox." But in spite of doctor's instruction, if you go there and if you infect that disease and suffer, then it is your fault
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- Go to acarya. That is recommended. Why should you go to the magician? That is your fault. You go to the wrong person, and you are cheated because you want to be cheated. You want to see magic; you don't want to see God
- God created you to become happy. He's happy. You are part and parcel of Krsna. You should be happy. But you don't accept the way of happiness. That is your fault
- God says that, "You become devotee of Me." You do not become. That is your fault
- God says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66): "You give up all other engagement and take My shelter." But you are not doing that. That is your fault
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- I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gita. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault
- If one is suffering, that is his own fault. Just like in the hospital you'll go, you'll find so many patients are starving. Does it mean the patients are starving for want of food? No. He must starve; otherwise he will not be cured. That is destiny
- If you are incapable of raising yourself to the standard of becoming spiritual master, that is not your spiritual master's fault, that is your fault
- If you associate with the tamo-guna, then you become lower-class man, animals. That is your fault. It is not Krsna's fault
- If you do not utilize the benefit of having a bona fide spiritual master, then that is your fault
- If you fall from the instruction, how you can remain eternal? You have to stay on the platform. Then eternally you are safe. If you fall down from the platform, then it is your fault
- If you forget your culture and if you become victimized, that is your fault
- If you go to a person who does not know God, that is your fault. If you go to a physician who is not actually physician, a store-keeper, then that is your fault. You must have the intelligence who is a physician
- If you go to a physician who is not actually physician, a store-keeper, then that is your fault. You must have the intelligence who is a physician. That much intelligence you have got
- If you perform yajna, then there will be regular rainfall. This is the way. But nobody is interested with yajna, nobody is interested with food grain, and if you create your own scarcity, then it is not God's fault; it is your fault
- If you unintelligently accept some bogus person as perfect, that is your fault. You must be assured that, "The person from whom I am asking, he is perfect." Then you take it. Otherwise don't take
- If you violate the orders of God, then you suffer. You are perfect because you have got independence, but you misuse that perfectness. That is your fault. You perfect. You become imperfect by misusing
- Illusioned because you do not know what Krsna says. That is your fault. Krsna says, "You do this," but you do not do that
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- Krsna comes directly, paritranaya sadhunam (BG 4.8), and He says: "Do it." If you don't do it, then whose fault it is? It is your fault
- Krsna has made your eyes to see Krsna, not a prostitute. That is your fault. Krsna has given you eyes to see Him, but you are utilizing to see a prostitute. So that is not Krsna's fault; that is your fault
- Kuruksetra is still there, the place is there, the station is there, and it is mentioned in the Vedas, it is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita. Where is the difficulty? Why you create difficulty? It is your fault that creates difficulty
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- Simply by God's willing, immediately, everything is there. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate (CC Madhya 13.65, purport). That is the appreciation of the energy of God. If you are not appreciating, that is your fault - but there is brain, there is work
- So distribution of literature is our real preaching. Now if you cannot handle the matter nicely, that is your fault. But the success of your preaching will be substantiated by how many books are sold
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- That is my point. Why you become falsely proud that you have done so advancement that you don't care for God, don't care for the original manufacturer? That is your fault
- That is your fault (that you are not taking Hare Krsna). You have manufactured your own way of life. Otherwise, Hare Krsna is India's gift
- The difficulty is that you are rascal; you want to take the position of a learned man. And that is your fault. You do not accept your position, that you are a rascal
- The knowledge is there. University is there. You can go, pass your M.A. examination. But if you go to the prison house and become a pickpocket, that is your fault
- There is (absolute knowledge). But you rascal, you do not take it. That is your fault
- This is our canvassing, Hare Krsna maha-mantra. If you don't agree, that is your business. That is your misfortune
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- When the hog enjoys senses without any discrimination, you become attracted: "Very nice. Why not get this facility?" That is your fault - you become attracted
- Why do you accept somebody as mahatma who does not speak about Krsna? Then you are misleading yourself. Everything, direction, is there (in Bhagavad-gita). Why you create your own mahatma? If you want to be cheated, who can check you? That is your fault
- Why do you accept these rascals as religious? That is your fault. Why should you stick to them, that they cannot teach what is real religion? So let us give you
- Why you are thinking yourself so big? That is your fault. That is foolishness. I am a big man amongst a small, teeny living entities. But why you are thinking you are biggest of all, you can understand everything
- Why you claim it is your property? Why you claim? Everything is belonging to Krsna. That is your fault. So you must suffer. You are a thief
- Why you should dictate God? God has created perfectly. He has given you independence. You fall down. It is your fault
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- You don't accept the real proprietor, and you are thinking, "I am the proprietor." That is your fault. That is miscreant
- You have neglected. My charge is that you have neglected. Bhagavad-gita is there. Bhagavad-gita is spoken in India. Bhagavad-gita is there. I think every home has got a Bhagavad-gita. But you do not study; you neglect it. That is your fault
- You misused the perfect knowledge. Just like here is perfect knowledge: Bible says: "Thou shall not kill." You are misusing - you are killing. That is your fault
- You simply hear from Darwin. You have taken Darwin as your authority. But you don't take authority Vedas. That is your fault
- You were created to serve God, but you do not serve God. You want sense gratification. That is your fault