Category:Wanting to Avoid
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that everyone is trying to avoid something, but the materialist and the devotee have completely different objectives. Materialists, scientists, and atheists want to avoid the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They try to avoid service by attempting to become the master, and they deny the next life simply to avoid the botheration of punishment. People also artificially try to avoid the miseries of sex life through contraceptives while remaining deeply attached to the activity itself. However, true intelligence means wanting to avoid the miserable conditions of material existence altogether. By taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can avoid the stringent laws of material nature, escape the cycle of birth and death, and attain eternal life. Furthermore, in the spiritual realm, wanting to avoid takes on a transcendental flavor, such as when Kṛṣṇa avoids the gopīs to test their sincerity, or when mother Yaśodā tries to capture the Lord while He playfully attempts to avoid her.
- The Futility of Mundane Avoidance: Conditioned souls try to avoid the natural consequences of their actions. They deny the next life to avoid punishment and invent artificial means to avoid the results of their sense gratification, yet they cannot surpass the laws of nature.
- Avoiding the Supreme Lord: So-called scholars, scientists, and impersonalists construct elaborate theories to avoid accepting God. They want the kingdom of God without God, leading to atheism and speculative misinterpretations of scripture.
- Escaping the Cycle of Birth and Death: A sincere person understands that the real solution is to avoid the entire material condition. By following the scriptures and taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa, one can avoid repeated birth and death.
- Divine Pastimes of Avoidance: In the absolute world, avoidance is a source of transcendental bliss. Kṛṣṇa playfully avoids His mother, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī pretends to avoid Kṛṣṇa out of love, and Lord Caitanya avoids public criticism to protect His pure preaching mission.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Wanting to Avoid the Miserable Condition of This Material World.
Pages in category "Wanting to Avoid"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- He (Arjuna) wanted to skillfully avoid the fighting by using Krsna consciousness as an excuse. But as a sincere student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned Krsna as to his best course of action. BG 1972 purports
- Here everyone is trying to become master, and everyone wants to avoid service. But by the nature's law, one has to become servant and render service, going on
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- If they accept that everything comes from the living being, then they will have to accept God. So they want to avoid this. "Everything matter." But that is not the fact. Origin is life - that is explained in the BG. Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavah
- If we want to avoid the tiresome, troublesome, miserable condition of this material world, then we have to accept the direction given in the sastras. But we are so dull, we cannot even understand what is the miserable condition of our life
- If you want to avoid this material inconveniences, then take to Krsna consciousness and accept a body which is suitable for living in Krsnaloka. That is the highest perfection of life
- In the Upanisads it is said that the SP of Godhead can run with more speed than the mind, but here (in SB 10.9) we see that although Krsna wanted to avoid being arrested by His mother, He was finally defeated, and mother Yasoda captured Him
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- Radharani said, "My dear friend, it is impossible for Me to keep My prestige! I wanted to avoid talking to Krsna anymore - but just see! There again is His friend, Ujjvala, coming to Me with his canvassing work"
- Result of sex life is very, I mean to say, miserable. So we want to avoid the miserable condition of sex life, but there is another life, where there is no miserable condition of sex life. That is spiritual life
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- The gopis expressed great disappointment here (in CC Madhya 19.210). They came voluntarily, but Krsna was so cunning that He wanted to avoid their company. Their lamentation was certainly very appropriate, and in this way Krsna tested their sincerity
- These rascal so-called commentators, they want to avoid Krsna. Therefore this Krsna consciousness movement is a challenge to these rascals. It is a challenge that "You want to make Krsna without Krsna. This is nonsense
- This (path of birth and death) is called mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. If one wants to avoid this path, he must take to Krsna consciousness