Category:Without Faith
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights faith (śraddhā) as the indispensable foundational element of both material and spiritual life. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that just as one cannot function in ordinary daily dealings without faith in authorized institutions, one cannot take a single step forward in spiritual realization without staunch faith in the Supreme Lord and His revealed scriptures. The Bhagavad-gītā explicitly states that any religious rite, sacrifice, or charity performed without faith in the Supreme is asat—nonpermanent and useless in both this life and the next. While gross materialists endlessly doubt and suffer, a sincere soul begins their journey back to Godhead by placing deep, authorized faith in Kṛṣṇa and the paramparā system.
- The Absolute Necessity of Faith: Faith is the very first ingredient of spiritual progress. Without faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cannot reach the spiritual kingdom, and all experimental knowledge or speculative philosophy remains useless.
- Faith in Authorized Sources: Spiritual faith must not be blind. It must be carefully placed in authorized, bona fide sources—such as the Vedic scriptures and the pure representatives of the Lord—just as one places practical faith in an authorized airline.
- The Futility of Faithless Acts: Any austerity, charity, or sacrifice executed without faith and devotion to Kṛṣṇa yields no spiritual fruit. Such actions are condemned as impermanent and useless for ultimate self-realization.
- The Consequence of Doubt: Those who lack faith and constantly harbor doubts regarding God and the Vedic versions remain eternally trapped in the darkness of material ignorance, finding no real happiness in this world or the next.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Without Faith - The Essential First Step in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Without Faith"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- Any sacrifice performed without regard for the directions of scripture, without distribution of prasadam, without chanting of Vedic hymns and remunerations to the priests, and without faith is considered to be in the mode of ignorance
- Anything done as sacrifice, charity or penance without faith in the Supreme, O son of Prtha, is impermanent. It is called asat and is useless both in this life and the next
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- Faith we must have. Without faith, we cannot make progress. But not blind faith, but to accept something which is recognized
- Faith you must have. Without faith, you cannot go a step forward, even in your ordinary life. But faith, what faith? Ah, the belief and faith should be in the authorized, authorized place. That is the process. Faith we must have
- First of all faith is required. Without faith, therefore, faithlessness is no, I mean to say, position of making further progress. Little faith must be there. That faith must be increased by further advancement
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- Sacrifices, austerities and charities performed without faith in the Supreme are nonpermanent, O son of Prtha, regardless of whatever rites are performed. They are called asat and are useless both in this life and the next. BG 17.28 - 1972
- Sacrifices, austerities and charities performed without faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are nonpermanent. Regardless of whatever rituals are performed, they are called asat, nonpermanent
- Sacrifices, austerities and charities performed without faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are useless both in this life and the next
- Spiritual life begins, first of all, sraddha, some faith. Just like you are coming here, kindly, to hear me. You have got little faith. This is the beginning. Without faith, you could not spare your time here, because here there is no cinema playing
- Sraddha, this faith, means so strong faith that one will know it perfectly well that simply by worshiping Krsna, everything is there. That is the beginning of faith. Otherwise there is no faith. And without faith there is no beginning
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- The company is authorized and the airline is authorized, so faith is created. Without faith we cannot take one step forward in the ordinary course of our life. Faith we must have, but it must be faith in that which is authorized
- The gross materialist, however, without any faith in the Vedic version, remains eternally in darkness, driven by a false conviction on the basis of imperfect experimental knowledge, or so-called material science
- The power of these five principles is very wonderful and difficult to understand. Even without faith in them, a person who is offenseless can awaken his dormant love of Krsna simply by being a little connected with them
- They (unfortunate people without faith in God) are hesitant and cannot stay fixed in the devotional service of the Lord. Thus faith is a most important factor for progress in Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports
- Those who have no faith and are always doubtful make no progress at all. Men without faith in God and His revealed word find no good in this world, nor in the next. For them there is no happiness whatsoever. BG 1972 purports
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- We cannot simply give up everything. We will become mad if we try to give up everything without having staunch faith in Krsna
- When we buy a ticket, we have faith that the airline company will take us to our destination. Without faith we cannot even live in the material world, what to speak of making spiritual progress
- Without faith we cannot step forward even in our daily life. If we have got faith in ordinary dealings, don't you think that we must have very good faith when we are making progress in spiritual line? But faith should not be blind. Blind faith is useless
- Without faith, you cannot reach the kingdom of God. Your experimental knowledge, your so-called defective reasons and arguments and philosophy, that will not be applicable in the transcendental field. You have to believe
- Without such faith (in the Supreme), and without the proper guidance, there can never be any fruit