Category:What Is The Necessity?
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category highlight the stark contrast between superficial material advancements and the genuine, urgent necessities of the eternal soul. The synthesized wisdom reveals that modern society is preoccupied with artificially created needs—such as complex philosophies, excessive technological dependencies, and mundane religious rituals—while completely ignoring the most fundamental requirement of human life: inquiry into the Absolute Truth. True necessity dictates that one must accept a bona fide spiritual master and engage in pure devotional service, which inherently solves all problems of existence and renders endless material endeavors obsolete.
- Misdirected Material Necessities: Society invents countless mundane philosophies, psychological theories, and technological dependencies that merely distract from the soul's true purpose.
- The Urgency of Tattva-Jijñāsā: The fundamental business of the human form of life is to inquire about the Absolute Truth; without this inquisitiveness, all other activities ultimately end in defeat.
- The Indispensable Role of the Guru: A spiritual master is not an arbitrary cultural tradition but an absolute necessity for anyone who is sincerely inquisitive about the highest subject matter.
- The Supreme Sufficiency of Bhakti: When one is fully engaged in pure devotional service, the desire for material benefits, mundane morality, and even liberation itself becomes entirely unnecessary.
- Simplicity in Material Living: Nature provides ample resources for basic survival, indicating that excessive accumulation of earthly comforts is fundamentally useless and spiritually distracting.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: What Is the True Necessity in Human Life.
Pages in category "What Is The Necessity?"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- I am not this body - that is the whole scheme of Vedic knowledge. Apasya . . . this is the important point, apasyatam atma-tattvam. Because they do not know what is the necessity of life, therefore they have created so many news
- If everyone is God, then what is the necessity of finding out a guru? Guru means who explains about God. Everyone is God, then what is the use of explanation? There is no need of guru
- If I have to be involved in every dispute, then what is the need for the GBC? GBC is there for this purpose
- If there is an epidemic, infection, so in that condition, first of all what is the necessity? First thing is to disinfect the epidemic. In the infected area you cannot derive any benefit by discussing morality or immorality
- It is not so important that you have no temple building just now. The main thing is that somehow or other preaching work goes on and literature is distributed. We are prepared to sleep under a tree, so what is there need for a fancy house
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- Please let me know what is the necessity of learning Devanagari script. We are transliterating all our books - Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, Brahma Samhita, etc. - in Roman type, So why you should waste your time in learning Devanagari script?
- Preaching is first and foremost. If by preaching people will contribute, then we can get, otherwise, what is the need?
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- The brahmanas do not seek material comforts from Me. They are very pure and do not want to possess anything. They simply engage in My devotional service. What is the need of their asking for material benefits from anyone else?
- The rascal class of men, they cannot understand arca-murti. They think that, "They are worshiping idol." Even amongst the Hindus there are so-called followers of Vedas, they also say that, What is the necessity of worshiping Deity in the temple
- There are twenty kinds of sastras, dharma-sastra. Vimsati dharma-sastra. So what is the necessity of these dharma-sastras? Actually, there is no need of dharma-sastra. Krsna also says the same thing. Sarva-dharman parityajya
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- We sometimes accept one guru. But why should we accept guru? What is the necessity of accepting guru? This is the necessity for tattva-jijnasa, for inquiring about the Absolute Truth
- What need is there to speak of the deliverance of persons who are always engaged in the service of the Lord? There is no doubt about their liberation, even if they have stocks of sinful activities from many, many births
- What need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe
- When there are ample earthly flats to lie on, what is the necessity of cots and beds? When one can use his own arms, what is the necessity of a pillow? When one can use the palms of his hands, what is the necessity of varieties of utensils?
- When there is ample covering, or the skins of trees, what is the necessity of clothing?
- Why we are preaching? What is the necessity of preaching? The necessity is to make them happy. If we follow the Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction, then our life will be successful and we will be happy