Category:What Is The Position...
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category address the fundamental crisis of conditioned life: the living entity's complete ignorance of its true constitutional position. The synthesized wisdom explains that although the soul is an eternal, subordinate servant of the Supreme Lord, it falsely identifies with the temporary gross and subtle material bodies. This rebellion and forgetfulness force the soul into a precarious, suffering condition. To rectify this, one must humbly inquire, like Sanātana Gosvāmī, about their real identity, cleanse the heart through spiritual education, and re-establish their original relationship of loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The Illusion of False Identity: The modern educational system totally fails to teach the science of the soul, leaving humanity in a chaotic, degraded state, falsely identifying with the material body.
- The Eternal Subordinate Relationship: The factual position of all living beings is that God is great and we are all His small, maintained subordinates; rejecting this truth is the essence of material illusion.
- The Necessity of Intelligent Inquiry: Spiritual advancement only begins when one becomes frustrated with material suffering and submissively asks a bona fide authority, "Who am I, and why am I suffering?"
- The Precarious State of Modern Society: Without understanding the soul's constitutional position and failing to organize society according to spiritual principles (varṇāśrama), the world remains in a dangerous, chaotic condition.
- Cleansing the Heart for True Vision: To overcome this deep-rooted misunderstanding, one must undergo the process of purification (ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam) to clearly see one's spiritual self and ultimate destination.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding What is the Actual Position of the Living Being.
Pages in category "What Is The Position..."
The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
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- A child can advance in foolishness without any guidance. If the child touches fire, and if somebody says: "This is advancement of knowledge," then imagine what is the position
- Actually, if we study what is the position of chemical theory, the so-called scientists, they could not produce life from chemicals, although their theory is that from matter life comes
- As a matter of fact, we will see that we are no longer in ignorance or in passion, but are situated in the mode of goodness. What is that position? We will find ourselves joyful in every circumstance of life. We will never feel morose
- As we become advanced in spiritual conception of life, then we can understand what is the actual position in spiritual, transcendental life
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- Devotees in this stage consider the Lord to be present at the place of worship and nowhere else. They cannot ascertain who is in what position in devotional service, nor can they tell who has realized the Supreme Lord
- Don't claim that there is no God. There is God, and He is great, and you are small. Then what is your position? You have to serve Krsna. This is simple truth. So that rebellious attitude is called maya
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- I am Calcutta born. What Calcutta was in our childhood days and what is now, I know everything. How we were happy during British days and what is now position, I can speak from my personal experience
- I do not know what is the position, but I think that without depending on anyone, we may take the risk of renting a nice house for our temple immediately
- I do not want all these miserable condition of life, but I am forced to accept them. Therefore what is my position? Why I am forced to accept? - This should be the question
- If he (the servant) cooks & enjoys himself without offering to the master, then what is his position? That is sinful position. Similarly the demons, they have no sense of God. They do not like to offer. They want to eat anything nonsense, like hogs & dogs
- If you associate with persons addicted to so many drugs or brothel men, then you will become like that. And if you associate with the Krsna conscious men, then you become Krsna conscious; you understand what is your real position
- In the human form of life, where there is chance of getting the real light, if they spoil in this way like cats and dogs, the whole world, what is the position of the world? Very precarious condition
- In the winter the water is painful, and in the summer the water is pleasing. So what is the position of the water? It is pleasing or painful? It is neither, but in certain season, by touching the skin it appears to be painful or pleasant
- It's a farce condition. That so-called democracy is nonsense demoncracy. And by this demoncracy, it can be done. A demon may be, if he can simply secure votes. What is the position? Without any training
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- People are so degraded, and there is no education, and there are so-called leaders, they are themselves degraded, they are themselves blind. So what is the position of the present society? It is very precarious condition
- People are too much engrossed with material activities. They do not try to understand actually what is the position of Absolute Truth, what is the position of the soul
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- Sanatana Gosvami is putting that, "What is my position? I think that I am very learned man, I am born of very aristocratic family and so on, so on, but actually, I do not know what I am, what is my position." This is pariprasna, inquiry
- Sanatana's inquiry was therefore an intelligent one. "What is the position of the living entities?" he asked. "Why are they always undergoing these three kinds of miseries?" Sanatana had admitted his weakness
- Since leaving India, I have not heard from you. Gurudas has written that the work has stopped in Vrndaban for want of finances. What is the position of your collections in Delhi? I am arranging to collect and send money from here for the Vrindaban project
- So long he does not inquire that, "What I am? What is my necessity? Why I am suffering?" - unless one comes to this position of inquisitiveness, whatever he is doing, it is all defeat for him. Because he does not know what is his position
- So we must be very careful that we have got this human form of body - how to act? The act means first of all you know what is your position. That is the first instruction in the Bhagavad-gita
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- The gross body is made of earth, water, air, fire, and the subtle body is made of mind, intelligence and egotism. So we are within this. So nobody knows; there is no educational system, what is our real constitutional position
- The judges can immediately understand what is the position. So this is also God's gift. Different people have got different power of the mind. That is also through Krsna
- The original source of everything is God. So when we study our self minutely, that "what is our position?" Or by studying ourself we can study the nature of God
- The whole society must be divided into four varnas. Otherwise, there will be chaotic condition. That is what is the position now. What is he, what he has to do, one does not know
- They (modern civilization) are in gross misunderstanding of life. So in order to cleanse their heart to understand what is the position, where they are going, where they are actually, how things are going on, Caitanya Mahaprabhu says ceto-darpana-marjanam
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- Unless one has the help of spiritual authority, he cannot understand in what position he is actually situated. BG 1972 purports
- Unless we cleanse our hearts of all the dirty things that you have accumulated, then we have to continue the sufferings of this material world. But if we cleanse, we understand what is our position
W
- We do not know what is the position of my real self. That we do not know. This is called ignorance. That instruction is given in the Bhagavad-gita in the beginning: na hanyate hanyamane sarire
- We have to take information from the authoritative literature what is the position of this material world, the spiritual world, God and His relationship with us, our position. This is real knowledge
- We, so-called civilized man, our six senses are all strong. So what is the position
- What is the position of Lord Siva? He is so much in the renounced order of life that he can give his devotee material opulence like anything, but he himself lives underneath a tree
- Why I am put into this miserable condition of life although I do not want it? So what I am? What is my position