Category:Whole Society
Theme Analysis
The category Whole Society presents Śrīla Prabhupāda's vision of a spiritually ordered and peaceful human society. Society is compared to a body that needs a brain, arms, belly, and legs working cooperatively; when the natural divisions of brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, and śūdra are ignored, confusion and exploitation follow. The quotes repeatedly show that the whole society becomes chaotic when there is no brahminical guidance, no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, no moral discipline, and no clear understanding of duty. At the same time, the solution is practical and hopeful: when each person serves according to guṇa and karma, and when the divisions of society are centered on Kṛṣṇa, all members can live peacefully and gradually progress back to Godhead. Thus the whole society can become purified, protected, and spiritually elevated through varṇāśrama-dharma and devotional consciousness.
- Society Requires Spiritual Guidance: Brāhmaṇas are needed as the brain of society, giving knowledge, purity, and direction. Without real brahminical guidance, leaders become unable to guide others and the whole society falls into chaos.
- Varṇāśrama Creates Cooperative Order: The divisions of varṇa and āśrama are meant to organize society according to qualities, work, and spiritual progress. When each division is maintained properly and centered on Kṛṣṇa, society works harmoniously like a healthy body.
- Kṛṣṇa Conscious Duty Brings Peace: If the whole society performs its respective duties while remaining in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the necessities of life are supplied and people live peacefully. Such a society can become Vaikuṇṭha-like because its activities satisfy the Supreme Lord.
- Moral Disorder Pollutes Society: Cheating, illicit sex, godlessness, and neglect of duty spoil the social atmosphere. Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that when society lacks faith, discipline, and protection for devotees and intelligent spiritual persons, human civilization becomes endangered.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Whole Society Becomes Peaceful Through Varṇāśrama and Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Whole Society"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- A person born in brahmana family is not acting as a brahmana, he's varna-sankara. So when there are number of people varna-sankara class, then the whole society becomes hell
- As a result of such satisfaction the whole society gets all the necessities of life amply and without difficulty. This is because, after all, the Supreme Personality of Godhead maintains all other living entities
- As far as a centralized medical plan for the whole society, no such plan or facility or insurance has seemed practical as yet. The best thing is to work it out locally
- As you depend on me I similarly depend on you, parasparatam. The brahmanas and ksatriyas should cooperate, that is the Vedic civilization. The hands and legs should cooperate with the brain in order for the whole society to work properly
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- Besides this human welfare activity for communal sharing of the material necessities of life, there is an ancient Vedic programme for simultaneously raising the whole society to the highest perfection of spiritual consciousness
- Brahmanas are required for the guidance of the whole society
- Businessmen or mercantile men, because they produce foodstuffs for the whole of society, can take a little profit from this
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- If people divide the whole society into four orders for spiritual progress & material progress, centering these orders on Krsna & following the instructions of Krsna as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the entire human society will undoubtedly be happy
- If the people of the world, taking into account their respective material qualities, divide the whole society into four orders for material progress, the entire human society will undoubtedly be happy
- If the whole society performs its respective duties and remains in Krsna consciousness, there is no doubt that all of its members will live very peacefully and happily. Without wanting the necessities of life, the whole world will be turned into Vaikuntha
- If this system is not introduced by the leaders, then human civilization will be lost. When there is no protection and special treatment for persons who are devotees of the Lord, who are highly intelligent in spiritual life, then the whole society is lost
- If you enjoy illicit sex, then the whole society is spoiled. You make the innocent girls spoiled. And they have no other business than prostitution. That means you put the society into chaotic condition
- If you want to bend bamboo, do it while it is green. And when it is dried, oh, it is not possible. So now the whole society is faithless, godless, very precarious condition
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- On the whole, our society should be divided into 4 divisions, but such divisions are not material
- Our program if it is kept pure according to my many instructions, will give you the deserved reputation of being the topmost members of the society. That is very much wanted so that we may hope to change the society as a whole
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- Sankaracarya, he also took sannyasa at the age of eight years. Sankaracarya was exterminated from the, extricated from the brahmana society. Therefore he took sannyasa, gave up the whole society, friendship and love, so-called, at the age of eight years
- So our business is to keep fit as brahmanas and to train others to be ideal ksatriyas and vaisyas for advancing the whole society
- So the whole society is divided into brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, and brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa - departmental - and they are trained up
- Somebody's cheating and somebody's becoming cheated. The whole society's the combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all
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- That a dog, it does not know what is the taste. He is simply chewing the, one bone, this way, that way, this way, that way. Because he is animal. He has no other engagement. So this whole society is animal. Especially the westerners
- The Brahmins are supposed to serve the whole society by distributing this important information. Please help me in this way and Krishna will bless you
- The scarcity is that nobody's doing his real duty. Guna-karma-vibhagasah (BG 4.13). And people are exploiting. There is competition, dissatisfaction, fight. So many things, sinful activities. The whole society is polluted
- The so-called scientists, so-called philosophers, they have no intelligence. Therefore the whole society in the chaotic condition
- The varnasrama-dharma, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, this is plan just to teach the whole society how to perform yajna. Varnasramacara-vata. Therefore this is the beginning of human civilization
- The Vedic culture means four varnas and four asramas: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra; brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa. Unless we take to this institution of varnasrama dharma, the whole society will be in chaotic condition
- The whole society is going on under my direction. Whatever they do, they take my permission
- 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
- There must be division. There must be division, and each division must be maintained very nicely. Then the whole society is all right
- They (intellectual persons) are being trained as complete brahmanas, the highest intellectuals, the most purified persons in society. If there is one brahmana in a whole family, then the whole family - the whole society-becomes sanctified