Category:Without Any Reference To
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the absolute necessity of following authorized Vedic literature. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that any religious system, meditation, or spiritual show performed without reference to the śāstras (like the śruti, smṛti, and pañcarātrika-vidhi) is merely sentimentalism and creates a severe disturbance in society. One cannot invent religious principles, interpret the Bhagavad-gītā whimsically, or blindly accept cheap incarnations. Authentic spiritual life, devotional service, and true knowledge must be guided by the infallible authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His revealed scriptures.
- A Disturbance to Society: A show of spirituality or manufactured religion performed without reference to the authorized Vedic scriptures causes nothing but social disruption and is considered mere sentimentalism.
- Rejecting Cheap Incarnations: Sane persons never accept unauthorized individuals as incarnations of God without reference to the specific descriptions and symptoms provided in the authentic spiritual texts.
- The Supremacy of Scripture: True religion cannot be concocted. Anyone trying to interpret sacred texts like the Bhagavad-gītā or Vedānta-sūtra without reference to the will of Kṛṣṇa or the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is completely misguided.
- Material Illusion: Any advancement in mundane art, science, or politics made without reference to the eternal spirit soul and the supreme power of Godhead is simply a manifestation of material illusion.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Without Any Reference To - The Necessity of Vedic Authority.
Pages in category "Without Any Reference To"
The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
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- A person in ignorance of the principles of religion who therefore does nothing in the matter of religion is far better than a person who misguides others in the name of religion without reference to the factual religious principles of devotional service
- A sane man does not accept any cheap edition of an incarnation without reference to the authorized scriptures
- According to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy, anyone who knows the science of Krsna can become a spiritual master, without reference to whether or not he is a brahmana or sannyasi
- Although there are certain restrictive rules and regulations regarding animal sacrifice for particular purposes in the Vedas, people of demonic tendency still took to animal sacrifice without reference to the Vedic principles. BG 1972 purports
- Animal sacrifice without reference to the Vedic principles
- Atheistic men think that the cosmic manifestation has come about by chance, by a combination of matter, without reference to God
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- If a man is showing himself that he is very great devotee and a man in knowledge, without any reference of the authoritative sastra, books - oh, that is simply disturbance
- If you manufacture dharma without any reference to the authority, that is not dharma. That is cheating religion
- In Bhagavad-gita it is stated that anyone who lives on concocted ideas, without reference to the sastras, never becomes successful and does not attain happiness or liberation after death
- In order to save oneself from this offense (interpret Bhagavad-gita without any reference to the will of Krsna), one has to understand the Lord as the SP of Godhead, as He was directly understood by Arjuna, Lord Krsna's first disciple. BG 1972 Preface
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- Nor does knowledge come from sentiment. Devotion is not sentiment. It is a science. Srila Rupa Gosvami says - A show of spirituality without reference to the Vedic knowledge is simply a disturbance to society
- Not only in this age, but formerly also, there were many sages who tried to invent their own systems of religion without reference to devotional service to Supreme Lord, but there cannot be any religious principle without devotional service to the Lord
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- One who can remember everything perpetually is called a sruti-dhara. A sruti-dhara brahmacari can repeat verbatim all that he has heard, without notes and without reference to books
- Only those who follow Sankara's commentary have described the Vedanta-sutra in an impersonal way, without reference to visnu-bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord, Visnu
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- So unfortunately, in the name of God consciousness or this self-realization, so many not standardized methods are being presented by the so-called bluffers without any reference to the authoritative books and knowledge, Vedic knowledge
- Srila Rupa Gosvami said: Devotional service performed without reference to the Vedas, Puranas, Pancaratras, etc., must be considered sentimentalism, and it causes nothing but disturbance to society
- Srila Rupa Gosvami says in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu - You cannot become purified or actually God conscious without reference to both sruti and smrti. So as we push on this Krsna consciousness movement, it is not whimsical
- Sruti, the Vedas, smrti, the Puranas and other literatures, dharma-sastra, smrti-sastra and Purana, pancarati-vidhi - without reference to all these authentic literature, any kind of devotional activities are not accepted by the Gosvamis
- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami witnessed Caitanya Mahaprabhu's activities firsthand and recorded them in two notebooks. Therefore, without reference to these notebooks one cannot understand the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
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- The Gosvamis say, "Without any reference to these all Vedic literatures, any kind of devotional service is simply disturbance." Pancaratri-vidhim vina aikantiki harer bhaktir upatayaiva kalpate. Utpat, disturbance
- The holy name of the Lord, ha rama, always acts, even when the holy name is chanted without reference to the Supreme Lord
- The Personality of Godhead is unapproachable by those who are habituated to speculation about the Absolute Truth in terms of experimental scientific thought, without reference to the transcendental vibration
- The process of creation and annihilation is called anadi, or without reference to date regarding the time the creation first took place, because the duration of even a partial creation is 8,640,000,000 years
- The real purpose of Vedanta-sutra is explained by the author himself in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and anyone trying to understand Vedanta-sutra without reference to Srimad-Bhagavatam is certainly misguided
- To interpret Bhagavad-gita without any reference to the will of Krsna is the greatest offense. BG 1972 Preface
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- We should train our disciples as well as ourselves in such a spirit that even if the whole world is against us, which is impossible to happen, the Sankirtana Movement must be pushed on without any reference to archeological evidence
- Whatever advancement of knowledge, whether in art or science, that has been made by mundane scholars without reference to the eternal spirit soul is but a manifestation of the illusory modes of nature that encompass and limit the material body and mind
- When the so-called devotee desires material enjoyment, without reference to the interest of the Supreme Lord, or he wants to become famous or opulent by utilizing the mercy or grace of the Supreme Lord, he is in the mode of passion
- Without any reference to the particular custom of a country, one can be accepted to the Vaisnava cult spiritually, and there is no hindrance in the transcendental process
- Without knowledge of the spirit soul and its transmigration, people are allured by the material energy to engage in many such activities, as if one could become happy simply by dint of material knowledge, without reference to spiritual existence
- Without reference to the sastras (scriptures) there can be no question of accepting anyone as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Without reference to the sastras there can be no question of accepting anyone as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Without reference to the supreme power of the Personality of Godhead, demons assert themselves to be independent kings and presidents, and thus they create a disturbance by increasing their military power