Category:Voracious
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that of all the bodily senses, the tongue is the most dangerous and difficult to control. If one indulges in voracious eating, it inevitably leads to excessive sleeping, physical disease, and the total loss of spiritual consciousness. The standard for a sincere Vaiṣṇava is to practice strict austerity by restricting the appetite, taking only the amount of food required to maintain the body, and exclusively honoring food offered to the Supreme Lord. By failing to control this voracious drive, human beings degrade themselves to an animalistic mentality, paving the way for severe karmic reactions in the next life.
- Conquering the Most Difficult Sense: The tongue is incredibly stubborn. A devotee must actively control it by vibrating the holy name and tasting only sanctified spiritual food.
- The Disease of Overindulgence: Voracious eating is not enjoyment; it is a cause of physical illness like diabetes and directly fuels laziness and excessive sleeping.
- The Principle of Austerity: True spiritual life requires denying the demands of the senses. An Aryan restricts their eating process, understanding that overeating is a major impediment to self-realization.
- The Animalistic Mentality: Unrestricted eating is compared to the habits of dogs and hogs. Those who live only to satisfy their voracious appetites face horrific punishments after death.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Of All the Senses the Tongue Is the Most Voracious and Uncontrollable.
Pages in category "Voracious"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- According to the opinion of experienced medical practitioners, diabetes is a result of voracious eating, and tuberculosis is a disease of undereating. We should desire neither to be diabetic nor to be tubercular
- After death such demons are put into the hell known as Sarameyadana. On that planet there are 720 dogs with teeth as strong as thunderbolts. Under the orders of the agents of Yamaraja, these dogs voraciously devour such sinful people
B
- Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, "Somehow or other we have fallen into the ocean of material sense enjoyment, and of all the senses the tongue is the most voracious and uncontrollable"
- Bhima is known as Vrkodara because he could eat as voraciously as he could perform herculean tasks, such as killing the demon Hidimba. BG 1972 purports
E
- Eat whatever necessity, whatever you can . . . "One man's food, another man's poison." One man eats, say, so much voraciously; the another man cannot digest. If he imitates, "Oh, he is eating so much? I will also eat so much." No
- Eating is not prohibited, but if we eat voraciously we shall certainly sleep more than required. Sense gratification ensues, and we may be degraded to a lower life form. In that way our spiritual progress may be checked at least for the time being
- Eating voraciously and unnecessarily is not the business of an Aryan. Rather, the eating process should be restricted as far as possible
- Everyone is going to die, but they are so voracious, they do not wait up to the death, and they have theorized that - Dead animal is dangerous to health. Now kill while it is in life
O
- Of all the senses the tongue is the most voracious and difficult to control. It is very difficult to conquer the tongue in this world; therefore Sri Krsna has given us this nice prasadam, spiritual food, to conquer the tongue
- Of all the senses, the tongue is the most voracious and difficult to control, but it can be controlled simply by chanting Hare Krsna and tasting Krsna prasadam, food offered to Krsna
T
- Tapasya means denying all these things, denying. Eating as much as I require to maintain my body - this is tapasya, not that voraciously eating. Tapasya means practically not eating. That is tapasya: not eating
- The members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness must take a lesson from the life of Bharata Maharaja to be very cautious and to see that not a single moment is wasted in frivolous talk, sleep or voracious eating
- The people must eat sumptuously - not voraciously and make them fit for working and chanting. In this way, they will be purified and everything will be nicely organized
- The personified Vedas continued, "A nondevotee's long duration of life is compared to the long existence of a tree, his voracious eating capacity is compared to the eating of dogs & hogs, & his enjoyment in sex life is compared to that of hogs & goats"
- The voluntary suffering means what is our enjoyment? First of all let us see. The enjoyment is if we can eat voraciously, eating, and if we can sleep thirty hours, and if we have got sex life without any discrimination, and don't care for defense
- Then, Lord Krsna blew His conchshell, called Pancajanya; Arjuna blew his, the Devadatta; and Bhima, the voracious eater and performer of Herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell called Paundram. BG 1.15 - 1972