Category:Wanting to Give Up
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the fundamental cause of material existence is the soul's desire to give up the eternal service of the Lord to become an independent enjoyer. Because of this artificial desire, the conditioned soul is placed into a temporary material body. Once embodied, the living entity develops a deep attachment to his physical form, home, and habits, refusing to give them up even when faced with constant miseries and pinpricks. The modern reluctance to adopt genuine spiritual life often stems from an unwillingness to give up sinful activities like meat-eating. However, Kṛṣṇa's ultimate instruction is for us to give up all other engagements and surrender completely unto Him. In contrast to the materialists, exalted devotees like Mahārāja Parīkṣit willingly give up vast opulences for the sake of the Lord. Sometimes, in the ecstasy of separation, a pure devotee may even want to give up his life to reunite with Kṛṣṇa, or pray like King Kulaśekhara to pass away while in a healthy state of mind. Yet, the Lord often preserves His devotees' bodies to execute His divine preaching mission on earth.
- The Original Mistake: The conditioned soul's constitutional position is to serve the Supreme Lord, but out of envy, he artificially wants to give up this service to try and enjoy the material world.
- Stubborn Attachment: Despite the inevitable suffering of material existence, conditioned souls stubbornly refuse to give up their bodies, their miserable household lives, or their sinful habits.
- The Ultimate Instruction: Lord Kṛṣṇa demands that we give up all other mundane engagements and fully surrender unto Him, which instantly nullifies the cause and effect of material entanglement.
- The Example of Great Souls: Unlike ordinary men, pure devotees like Mahārāja Parīkṣit easily give up immense wealth and youth to hear the glories of the Lord without distraction.
- Ecstatic Separation: In the highest stages of devotion, a pure soul may want to give up his body out of intense separation from Kṛṣṇa, yet the Lord protects them to fulfill His own desires, as seen with Lord Caitanya and Sanātana Gosvāmī.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Kṛṣṇa Wants Us to Give Up All Other Engagements and Surrender Unto Him.
Pages in category "Wanting to Give Up"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- Because of feelings of separation from Krsna, an exalted devotee sometimes wants to give up his life. By such ecstatic love, however, one attains the audience of Krsna, and at that time he cannot give up his body
- Because the real fact is they do not want to give up meat-eating and fish-eating. Therefore they like Vivekananda. That is the real reason. And Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement, Vaisnava, they have to give up so many things. That is the disease
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- King Kulasekhara wanted to give up his body while in a healthy state, and he thus prayed to Krsna to let him die immediately while he was in good health and while his mind was sound
- Krsna wants us to give up all other engagements and surrender unto Him. If we do so, where will the cause and effect of this material world be? There is nothing like cause and effect for the surrendered soul
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- That is psychology. It may be very worse condition; still, nobody wants to give up "Home, sweet home." That is natural psychology
- The living entity - whatever his condition - does not want to give up the body. But he will be forced to give it up because, after all, this material body cannot exist forever
- The material world was created for the enjoyment of living entities who wanted to give up the eternal service of the Lord to become the supreme enjoyer themselves
- The real fact is they (the Bengalis) do not want to give up meat-eating and fish-eating. Therefore they like Vivekananda