Category:Without Guidance
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes the absolute necessity of authoritative direction in human life. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that attempting to advance in knowledge, morality, or spiritual realization without the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is as dangerous as sailing a ship without a captain. Without such guidance, living entities concoct their own religious principles, become trapped in the alternating cycle of material enjoyment and renunciation, and ultimately fail in all their endeavors. True progress is only possible when one humbly submits to the Vedic injunctions and the instructions of an ācārya.
- The Necessity of the Spiritual Master: It is impossible to grasp transcendental knowledge or successfully practice devotional service without the strict guidance of a bona fide guru or ācārya.
- The Failure of Independent Action: Materialistic persons, known as karmīs or vikarmīs, act according to their own whims without Vedic direction, leading their so-called scientific inventions and fruitive activities to complete ruin.
- The Unguided Conditioned Soul: A person lacking proper spiritual direction fluctuates blindly between the desire to enjoy the material world and the frustration of false renunciation, perpetually bound by the laws of material nature.
- The Ultimate Guide is the Supreme Lord: Even the most powerful kings, allies, and moralists are nonentities without the supreme direction of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who acts as the ultimate guide for everyone.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Without Guidance from the Spiritual Master There is No Progress.
Pages in category "Without Guidance"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- A child can advance in foolishness without any guidance. If the child touches fire, and if somebody says: "This is advancement of knowledge," then imagine what is the position
- A worker's identification with material existence cannot be changed without proper guidance. Such fruitive activity will continue one's material existence
E
- Even for a king like Maharaja Pariksit there was need of a spiritual master for guidance. Without such guidance one cannot make progress in spiritual life
- Every human being should therefore take advantage of the Vedic instructions; otherwise one will be bound by his whimsical activities and will be without any guide
- Everything should be done for the Supreme in Krsna consciousness. Without such faith, and without the proper guidance, there can never be any fruit. BG 1972 purports
I
- I know that you are very nice artist even without the guidance of Jadurani so for the time being you should remain in Seattle and paint independently
- If someone, without undergoing the regulative principles of devotional service or without being guided by a bona fide spiritual master, shows such imitative attachment, this is called shadow attachment
- It is not possible to train oneself (in devotional service) without guidance from the spiritual master
K
- King Yudhisthira, who is morality personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the guidance of Lord Krsna all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness
- Krsna is guiding. So everyone is being guided by Krsna, even in this condition of life. And when he fully surrendered, how much guidance will come, just imagine? Even without surrender He's guiding. Without His guidance he can not do it
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T
- The personified Vedas continued, "Such unguided persons are compared to merchants going to sea on a ship without a captain"
- The Vedic injunction is that no one can have full knowledge without being under the guidance of an acarya. Acaryavan puruso veda: one who has accepted an acarya knows what is what
W
- We may invent by our advancement of material knowledge all sorts of counteracting material resources, but without being guided by the Lord all such inventions end in fiasco, however strong and stout the reactionary elements may be
- Without being guided by the Supreme Lord, human beings sometimes manufacture a process of dharma by concoction. Actually dharma cannot be made by man
- Without guidance, all of Banasura's soldiers scattered here and there
- Without guidance, however, one does not know how to renounce. First of all, one wants to enjoy, and when he is frustrated in enjoyment, he renounces. Again, when he is tired of renunciation, he enjoys, like a clock pendulum which swings from side to side
- Without guidance, one does not know how to renounce this material world. That is called tyaga
- Without such faith (in the Supreme), and without the proper guidance, there can never be any fruit