Category:Whole Instruction
Theme Analysis
The category Whole Instruction brings together Śrīla Prabhupāda's explanations of the central teaching of Bhagavad-gītā and the Vedic literature. The essence is that the living being should stop acting independently for personal sense satisfaction and instead act for Kṛṣṇa, surrender to Kṛṣṇa, and become free from the bondage of material nature. The whole instruction is not a theoretical doctrine but a practical direction for life: follow Kṛṣṇa's order, work for His satisfaction, awaken pure consciousness, and return back to Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda shows that Arjuna's hesitation on the battlefield represents the conditioned soul's confusion, and Kṛṣṇa's instruction raises him from material calculation to spiritual duty. In this way, the whole Vedic teaching aims to deliver suffering humanity from karma-bandhana, māyā, repeated birth and death, and the threefold miseries of material existence.
- Surrender Is the Final Instruction: Bhagavad-gītā culminates in Kṛṣṇa's call to give up all manufactured plans and surrender unto Him. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that this surrender brings protection, freedom from māyā, and the real happiness that independent action can never provide.
- Acting for Kṛṣṇa Purifies Work: The whole instruction is that one should not act for personal enjoyment but should act for Kṛṣṇa. Even ordinary or difficult duties become spiritualized when their result and purpose are offered to the Lord.
- Vedic Knowledge Solves Material Bondage: The Vedas instruct the intelligent person to ask how to escape karma-bandhana and the cycle of repeated birth and death. Human life should be used before death comes to solve this problem, not wasted like the lives of cats and dogs.
- Pure Consciousness Is the Aim: Mukti means becoming free from contaminated material consciousness and being situated in pure consciousness. The instruction of Bhagavad-gītā is meant to awaken that purified state and bring the living being back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Bhagavad-gītā's Whole Instruction Is to Surrender to Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Whole Instruction"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- If he acts individually then he will never be happy. But if you act Krsna consciously, then you will be happy. That is the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita
- If you follow Krsna's instruction, you'll always be happy. And if you create your own plans, then you'll be unhappy. This is the whole instruction
- It is said kovida: one must be intelligent to select, "What is my next life? How I can get out of?" That is the whole instruction of the Vedas, how we can get out of these clutches of karma-bandhana, the knot of karma, one after another
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- Krsna appeared for the mission of diminishing the burden of the world, & Arjuna was assisting Him by fighting on His behalf. Arjuna personally declined to fight, & the whole instruction of the Bhagavad-gita was given to Arjuna to engage him in the fight
- Krsna says that "Don't be attracted by pious activities; neither go down to abominable condition of life. Simply capture Me." Mam ekam saranam vraja. That is the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita.
- Krsna says that "You surrender to Me, and you'll be free from maya." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam sara . . . aham tvam (BG 18.66): "I'll give you protection." Mam eva ye prapadyante (BG 4.11). The same thing, whole instruction, is there
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- The living being is eternally one and different simultaneously. The whole instruction of the Bhagavad-gita stands on this principle
- The whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita is based on this principle, that Arjuna was perplexed with material thoughts. And Lord Krsna wanted to pose him, or to place him, in the spiritual platform
- The whole instruction to Arjuna is that Arjuna wanted to satisfy his senses, his senses. He wanted that, that by not fighting with the opposite party, who were composed of his relatives, brothers and brother-in-laws and father-in-laws
- The whole Vedic instruction is just to deliver all suffering humanity from the threefold miseries of material existence. That is the aim and object of Vedic civilization
- The whole Vedic instruction is like that - Now you utilize this form of life to make a solution of this problem. Before death comes, you make a solution. Don't die like cats and dogs
- They don't care to know what is God, what is our relationship with God, how to act in that relationship. The Vedic instruction, the whole Vedic instruction is for this purpose
- Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti. This is the invitation. Mam eti: "He comes back to home, back to Godhead." This is the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita
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- We do not disapprove of any activities of the world provided the result is given to Krishna. That is the whole instruction of the Bhagavad Gita
- We have come from God; we again go back to God if we simply understand Krsna, or God. This is the whole instruction of the Bhagavad-gita
- When Arjuna declined to fight, and then Krsna had to instruct him about the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita just to induce him to fight
- When it (the body) is dirty or when it is old enough, not to be used, then we change to another body, and this body we leave. This is the whole instruction of all Vedic literature
- Whole instruction is that all sleeping members of the human society, they should take advantage of this Krsna consciousness movement and willingly they should accept. Then there will be immediate effect and everyone will be out of the clutches of maya
- Why you have created so many rascaldom, politics and economics and this and that? So many things are encumbered. Please come to Me. You'll be happy. - This is the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gita