Category:Whole Material World
Theme Analysis
The category Whole Material World describes material existence as temporary, dark, restless, and driven by false conceptions. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the whole material world is not independent, accidental, or self-sufficient; it moves under the direction of Kṛṣṇa and functions through His energies and the modes of nature. Yet conditioned souls forget this divine control and try to enjoy separately through bodily identification, sexual attraction, envy, exploitation, and the false ideas of "I" and "mine." Because of this forgetfulness, the material world becomes a place of struggle, hunger, anxiety, and manufactured plans that can never give lasting peace. The remedy is not to reject the world as useless, but to understand its temporary nature, become free from false ego, and use everything in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Material World Is Dark Without Spiritual Knowledge: Śrīla Prabhupāda describes the material world as dark because the conditioned soul does not see Kṛṣṇa's direction behind nature. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, people mistake temporary arrangements for reality and remain unable to understand the true source of energy and existence.
- False Ego Binds the Living Being: The whole material world operates on the mistaken ideas of bodily identity, "I," and "mine." These misconceptions create attachment, pride, nationalism, possessiveness, and the illusion that the living being can enjoy independently of the Lord.
- Desire and Sex Attraction Drive Material Existence: The attraction between man and woman is repeatedly described as a central force keeping the living entity bound to the material world. From that attraction comes the hard knot of attachment, family prestige, work, and the continuation of material bodies.
- Everything Can Be Used for Kṛṣṇa: Although the material world is temporary, it is not rejected as false in the sense of having no use. When understood as Kṛṣṇa's energy, it can be properly engaged in His service, and even material things become connected to spiritual purpose.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Without Kṛṣṇa Consciousness the Whole Material World Is Dark.
Pages in category "Whole Material World"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- Actually this whole material world is running on this attraction between man and woman
- As is the nature of this material world, the King of heaven, Indra, is very anxious if a great sage undergoes severe austerities. The whole material world is filled with such envy that everyone becomes afraid of his neighbors
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- Imagine what insignificant this vasudha (planet) in comparison to the whole material world. There are millions of universes, and in each and every universe there are millions and trillions of the stars and planets
- In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore, the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the material world is only a part of the whole creation and that this earth is only a fragment of the whole material world
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- The construction of the whole material world is prominently made by three elements, namely earth, water and fire. But the living force is produced by sky, air and water
- The sex drive is so strong in the living entities that the whole material world is running on sex attraction only, and it is due to sex attraction that one remains in the material world and is obliged to accept different types of bodies
- The superior energy, however, is the real identity of the living being, and it is because of that energy that the whole material world functions
- The whole material world is full of hungry living beings. The hunger is not for good food, shelter or sense gratification. The hunger is for the spiritual atmosphere
- The whole material world is full of many drunkards, in the sense that each and every one of the living entities has something in his mind to enjoy, and everyone desires the fulfillment of his desires very strongly
- The whole material world is going on on the basis of this false conception that "I am this body." And because I am this body, therefore "I am American," "I am Indian." So this is false ego
- The whole material world is going on, durasaya. They are trying to make permanent settlement. But there is always disruption, fight
- The whole material world is going on: the man is attracted by woman, the woman is attracted by man. And seeking this attraction, when they are united, their attachment for this material world become more and more
- The whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion. Modern civilization is considered to be advanced in the standard of the mode of passion. Formerly, the advanced condition was considered to be in the mode of goodness
- The whole material world is moving on this false attempt of becoming independent of the laws of nature
- The whole material world is trying . . . one man is trying to exploit another; one nation is trying to exploit another nation; one society is trying to . . . this is struggle for existence. They have invented this law that - Might is right
- The whole material world is working by pushing the button. Don't think it is going on automatically or accidentally. These are all rascaldom. There is hand in everywhere
- The whole material world is working on the basis of "I" and "mine." This is the root of attraction to the material world
- The whole material world or any world, spiritual world, they are manifestation of the supreme energetic. The energies are coming
- The whole materialistic world is moving under such false egoism of "I" and "mine," but the factual effect of chanting the holy name is to become free from such misconceptions
- They (the demons) do not believe in the words of Krsna in Bhagavad-gita: mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram. "Under My direction the whole material world is moving." BG 1972 purports
- This whole material world is an attachment of male and female. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam, sex impulse, attachment. Tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuh. And when they are married, when they are united, then it becomes a hard knot in the heart
- This whole material world is false. We don't say false. We say it is temporary, and so long it is in use, you utilize it for Krsna. That even this material world will be utilized for Krsna consciousness, this is our proposal. We don't reject anything
- This whole material world is impersonal, but because we have taken a certain portion of it and make my body, it looks like person. And God is not like that. He is spiritual person. He has nothing to do with material