Category:Without Motive
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category highlights the absolute necessity of practicing pure, unmotivated devotional service (ahaitukī bhakti). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the natural, original duty of the spirit soul is to love and serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead without any ulterior motive for material or spiritual gain. While many people approach God with a desire for wealth, relief from distress, or even salvation, true liberation and complete inner satisfaction are achieved only when service is rendered spontaneously and unconditionally. Because this pure love is transcendental and without motive, it cannot be checked or hampered by any material condition (apratihatā).
- The Definition of Pure Love: Real love of God means serving Kṛṣṇa simply because He is the Supreme Lord and we are His eternal servants, completely free from any personal or material motive.
- The Source of True Satisfaction: Engaging in the service of the Lord without any motive (ahaitukī) and without being impeded (apratihatā) is the only way the soul can feel completely satisfied.
- The Perfection of Devotion: Even if one begins devotional service with a motive, like Dhruva Mahārāja, the perfection of that service is reached when all desires for benediction vanish and the soul serves purely and spontaneously.
- Unconditional Obedience: A sincere devotee follows the instructions of the Supreme Lord and the bona fide spiritual master with unflinching faith, devoid of any manufactured ideology or ulterior motive.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Love Without Motive.
Pages in category "Without Motive"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- A devotee should engage himself exclusively for the satisfaction of Krsna, without personal motives. That will make his life successful
- Ahaituki, apratihata. Devotional service must be without ulterior motives; then material conditions cannot check it
- Anyone who is serving Krsna without any motive, without any alloy, pure devotional service, he's already liberated
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- Because you have worked so hard for Krishna, making all sacrifice without any personal selfish motive, therefore you are making such nice advancement in spiritual life. Thank you very much for helping me in this preaching work
- Bhakti should be animitta, without motive. Actually Krsna can fulfill all of our wishes without difficulty because He is almighty and full of all opulences
- By executing ds in that way (according to regulative principles given by the spiritual master), he gradually becomes attached to Krsna, and when his original dormant love for the Lord becomes manifest, he spontaneously serves the Lord without any motive
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- If someone is fortunate enough to understand Bhagavad-gita in that line of disciplic succession, without motivated interpretation, then he surpasses all studies of Vedic wisdom, and all scriptures of the world. BG 1972 purports
- If you are engaged in the service of the Lord without any motive and without being impeded, spontaneously loving, then you will feel complete satisfaction. Svamin krtartho 'smi varam na yace - CC Madhya 22.42
- If you can reach that (without any motive) love of Godhead, then you'll feel, "Oh, I am so fortunate." Otherwise we remain unfortunate
- If you learn how to love Krsna without any motive and without any impediment, then you will be happy
- If you want really peace by worshiping God, by rendering service to God, then you should learn how to love Krsna without any motive. That kind of love will never be checked. You will never be hampered in executing devotional service
- If you want to be happy, then you must take to the superior type of religious system which teaches the followers how to love God without any motive, and which is never checked by any material condition
- In his Anubhasya, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments - The gopis are purely engaged in the service of the Lord without motive. They are not captivated by the opulence of Krsna, nor by the understanding that He is the SP of Godhead
- In the material world one serves another for matter of money exchange, reward. But serving God is not that. Here it is stated, ahaituky apratihata. Service of God is without motive
- It is instructed in the sastras that one should follow the great authority and the infallible Lord without any personal motive and manufactured ideology
- It is instructed in the sastras the one should follow the great authority and the infallible Lord without any personal motive and manufactured ideology
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- Love means without any motive
- Love means without any motive. Ahaituki. And that, that love cannot be checked by any material impediments
- Love of God should be without any motive. Motive means generally we go to temple, church, with a motive: "God, give us our daily bread." This is also good, because he has come to God
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- Obedience should be without any motive. Just like see here the Europeans & American boys, they are obeying Krsna or Krsna's representative without any condition. They have not come here to obey my order for earning livelihood or for some material purpose
- One who engages in the service of the Lord with some motive is called a sakama-bhakta, and one who serves the Lord without any motives is called an akama-bhakta
- One who is unflinchingly devoted to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, and similarly devoted to the spiritual master, with no ulterior motive, becomes a master of all knowledge
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- That is the perfection of life, perfection of religious life, if one learns how to love Krsna and without any motive, ahaituki
- The heart must be cleansed without ulterior motive
- The mind's natural duty is to serve. When that service spirit is engaged in devotional service to the Personality of Godhead, without any motive, that is far better even than salvation
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, continued: My dear King Prthu, when one situated in his occupational duty engages in My loving service without motive for material gain, he gradually becomes very satisfied within
- The whole idea of material creation is to revive the dormant God consciousness of the living entity. In forms of life other than the human form, sexual pleasure is prominent without any motive of service for the mission of the Lord
- These damsels (gopis, or cowherd girls) simply loved Krsna without any motive for material or spiritual gain - CC Preface
- This potency (to purify hundreds and thousands of men by his vibration) is within every living being, provided he chants the Hare Krsna maha-mantra offenselessly and without material motives
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- We take up this missionary work, to preach Bhagavad-gita as it is, without any interpretation and without any motive behind it, as it is, as Krsna said . . . we should present as it is
- When a devotee offers devotional service to the Lord without any motive (anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11), his service cannot be hampered by any material condition - apratihata