Category:Whole Human Civilization
Theme Analysis
The category Whole Human Civilization presents Śrīla Prabhupāda's broad diagnosis of the modern human condition and his clear prescription for genuine civilization. Human society is meant to rise above animal propensities and inquire into the soul, God, duty, liberation, and love of God. Yet these quotes show that modern civilization has largely lost that direction, becoming absorbed in temporary bodily comfort, unrestricted sense enjoyment, economic competition, and superficial material progress. Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that when people do not know the aim of life, the whole structure of civilization becomes misguided, even if it appears advanced in technology, politics, or industry. The remedy is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, supported by varṇāśrama-dharma, regulated life, God conscious education, and practical arrangements that help the whole human race live peacefully and advance spiritually.
- Civilization Begins With the Soul: Real human civilization must be based on understanding the soul, not merely maintaining the body. Without knowledge of the self beyond matter, people waste the rare human form in temporary adjustments and remain unable to solve birth, death, old age, and disease.
- Modern Progress Without God Is Decline: Śrīla Prabhupāda describes the present world as declining because people have no clear conception of God and therefore no real understanding of religion. When society becomes godless, material advancement becomes like decorating a dead body, impressive externally but spiritually useless.
- Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Gives the Aim of Life: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is presented as scientific and practical because it teaches people the real value of life and how to conduct life for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. This gives direction to human effort and makes civilization peaceful and meaningful.
- Varṇāśrama Organizes Society for Spiritual Progress: The whole human civilization should be arranged so that different natural classes of people work according to their position while gradually being pushed toward Viṣṇu and Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such organization is not exploitation but a spiritual social science meant to guide everyone toward perfection.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Whole Human Civilization Must Be Guided Toward Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Whole Human Civilization"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- If you act for the satisfaction of Krsna according to the prescription of your position, then your life is perfect. That is wanted. The whole human civilization should be based on this principle. There must be division
- Immense prospect for produce food for the whole human race on this globe, earthly planet. But because somebody is encroaching God's property - "This is mine, sir. You cannot come here" - there is trouble
- It (Krsna consciousness) is the greatest movement for making the whole human civilization happy. Take it seriously
- It is a fact that the whole human civilization is a society of cheaters and cheated. That's all. Any field. Mayaiva vyavaharike - SB 12.2.3
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- The whole civilization is how to restrict this sex desire. Because the sex desire and sex life will keep him within this material world in different bodies, either as human being or as animal or as bird or as insect - so long there will be sex desire
- The whole civilization should be on the basis of understanding the soul. That is civilization
- The whole human civilization is challenged, that we have advanced human civilization, but we are less than animal. We cannot live even peacefully
- The whole human civilization is trying to get freedom from some inconvenience - the state, politics, sociology, humanity, religions, so many things. So ultimately it is taken religion is the path of vimukti. Religion
- The whole human civilization is; and all the directors, they are not giving chance to know the value of life and how to conduct life. It is the first time, that we are giving the real idea of life. Otherwise whole world is in darkness
- The whole human civilization, how they are wasting their time in animal civilization. It is very serious thing, to be thought of by serious, thoughtful men
- The whole human civilization, must be reformed in this way, that the . . . there are intellectual class of men, naturally. There are first-class intellectual class of men, second-class intellectual, third class, fourth class, like that
- The whole human effort, civilization, should be conducted with the aim how to stop this repetition of birth and death. This is science
- The whole materialistic advancement of human civilization is like the decoration of a dead body. Everyone is a dead body flapping only for a few days, and yet all the energy of human life is being wasted in the decoration of this dead body
- The whole process of human civilization should be to acquire love of God. Our love is now distributed in so many things. And that is misdistributed
- The whole system of human civilization is guide the people to become God conscious. This is the Vedic civilization. Not to make them dog conscious, cat conscious, animal conscious. No
- They are thinking that by adjusting this material way of life they'll be happy. That's all. This is ignorance. The whole civilization is wrong because they do not know what is the aim of life. That is the fault
- This is the system of varnasrama-dharma - four kinds of varnas and four kinds of asrama. It is very scientific. The whole idea of human civilization should be how to push one to Krsna consciousness, to Visnu. Because they do not know
- This Krsna consciousness movement is very scientific movement, for the peaceful situation of the whole human civilization
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- We are giving this Bhagavata translation all over the world. You will be surprised that we are selling more than thirty, forty lakhs of rupees per month. This movement is helping the whole human civilization
- We should not be disturbed by these material miseries, which come and go like this change of season. It is not permanent. At the present moment, the whole human civilization is simply disturbed by the change of this cold and heat