Category:Working Like An Ass
Theme Analysis
This category exposes the tragic flaw of modern materialistic civilization, which programs individuals to labor intensely merely for bodily maintenance and sensory pleasure. Śrīla Prabhupāda vividly compares such exhausting, aimless labor to that of a beast of burden. By working without higher spiritual direction or intelligence, the conditioned soul wastes the rare and valuable human form of life. True human civilization is not meant for imitating the strenuous, ignorant toil of animals, but for pursuing self-realization and awakening Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Ignorance of Material Labor: The ass is a beast of burden that works day and night without knowing the destination or purpose of its hard labor, perfectly mirroring the aimless toil of materialistic workers.
- Misuse of Human Life: The human form is a rare gift meant specifically for self-realization, not for imitating the strenuous and ignorant labor of lower animals like hogs, dogs, and asses.
- The Illusion of Advancement: Modern civilization keeps people in ignorance, encouraging them to work exhaustingly for economic development and sense gratification while falsely believing they are happy.
- Working with True Intelligence: A genuine civilized society prioritizes spiritual awakening and intelligent inquiry over the fruitless endeavor of mere physical survival.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Tragic Illusion of Working Like An Ass.
Pages in category "Working Like An Ass"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- A ass is trying to become a pig. What is that civilization? So ideal is to become a pig, and for that, fulfillment of that idea, they are working like ass. Is it not? Just see. Think over
- A man should lead a healthy life with a sound mind just to realize vidya, true knowledge, which is the aim of human life. This life is not meant for working like an ass or for culturing avidya for sense gratification
- Ass has no knowledge. He is working day and night but he does not know what for he is working. He has no ambition; he has no information where is the destination of perfection
- At the modern age the people are simply kept into ignorance so that they can work like ass and cow and be satisfied. This is the present civilization. And this Krsna consciousness movement is a fight against this civilization, this wrong civilization
I
- If we do not care for self-realization, the laws of nature force us to work very hard, even though we may not want to do so. Human beings in this age have been forced to work hard like the asses and bullocks that pull carts
- Impeded by this ignorance and passion they are working very hard, just like an ass, and still they are thinking that "I am happy"
- In the human society, this is not meant for working so hard, like an ass, like an hog, simply for sense gratification. This is Krsna consciousness philosophy. Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke
- In the previous verses, Kuntidevi has explained that those who have come to this material world are working very hard like asses and have such a hard burden that they cannot bear it
J
- Just like ass is the most hard-working animal, but it has no intelligence. So we don't want that. We want working with intelligence
- Just make your life successful, and spread this knowledge all over the world. - This is India's mission. India's mission is not to imitate technology and work like ass day and night. This is not India's business
K
T
- The best of the forms is this human form. But this form of life is not meant for working so hard like an ass and gratifying the senses like the hogs and dogs
- The cow is a very innocent animal, and the ass is a beast of burden. One who labors under the bodily conception simply works like an ass and does not know his self-interest
- The human form of life is meant for liberation, but unfortunately, due to the influence of Kali-yuga, every day the grhasthas are working hard like asses. Early in the morning they rise and travel even a hundred miles away to earn bread
- The materialistic workers - they see, "These men are not working like us, like dogs & asses. So they are escaping." Yes, escaping your fruitless endeavor.The Vedic civilization of self-realization begins from the varnasrama system of social organization
- The mudhas: those who are grossly foolish like hard-working beasts of burden. They want to enjoy the fruits of their labor by themselves and do not want to part with them for the Supreme. The typical example of the beast of burden is the ass
- The Vedic civilization is for self-realization. It is meant for the intelligent person, the person who will not just work like an ass but who will try for that thing which he did not achieve in so many other lives - namely, self-realization
- They (karmis) may become big multimillionaires, but they are just like asses, working hard day and night. Regardless of how much money they may have, their stomachs can only hold so much
- They (karmis) work like asses, without any real aim of life
- This is India's mission. India's mission is that janma sarthaka kari': "Just make your life successful, and spread this knowledge all over the world." This is India's mission. India's mission is not to imitate technology and work like ass day and night
- To keep oneself fit to work hard, one must eat meat, and to digest meat, one must drink liquor, and to keep the balance of drinking wine and eating meat, one must have sufficient sexual intercourse to keep fit to work very hard like an ass
- To work hard like an ass for sense gratification, that is not siddhi. Siddhi is different thing. Siddhi means to understand the spiritual identification and work for it. That is called siddhi
W
- We are given this human form of life not to work hard like asses, swine and dogs but to attain the highest perfection of life
- We are simply sitting down and inquiring about Krsna, and this is what one should do. This is life. Why should one work day and night like an ass? What kind of life is this? No. This is not life
- We are sitting down and inquiring about Krsna. This is life. This is life. And what is this life? Working day and night like the ass? No. That is not life
- When one becomes actually on the platform of knowledge, then he does not work like an ass