Category:Worry
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that anxiety and worry are inherent to the material platform. Materialistic individuals are constantly plagued by fears regarding the future, family maintenance, political affairs, and their impending death. However, a pure devotee is completely freed from such anxieties. Because the Supreme Lord maintains all 8,400,000 species of life, a devotee does not need to worry about the basic necessities of eating and sleeping, nor about the reactions to past sinful activities. By completely surrendering to Kṛṣṇa and chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, one transcends all material fears and useless worries, resting assured in the supreme protection of the Lord.
- The Inevitability of Material Worry: As long as one remains on the bodily platform of life, fear and constant worry about the future are absolutely unavoidable.
- Attachment and Family Anxieties: Strong material attachments to wife, children, and social prestige cause immense anxiety, blinding the conditioned soul to the actual aim of life, especially at the time of death.
- Divine Maintenance and Useless Anxiety: The Supreme Lord already provides for millions of species of life; therefore, worrying about economic development, bodily maintenance, or overpopulation is a useless waste of time.
- Complete Surrender and Divine Protection: A pure devotee becomes entirely free from worry by depending fully on Kṛṣṇa, knowing that the Lord personally maintains His devotees and neutralizes all sinful reactions.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Overcoming Material Worry Through Surrender.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "Worry"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A devotee of the Supreme Lord should not worry whether he will depart either by arrangement or by accident. The devotee should be firmly established in Krsna consciousness and chant Hare Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- At the end of life one worries about how his wife will be protected and how she will manage the great family responsibilities. In this way a man usually thinks of his wife before death
- At the present time, even the oldest man in the family does not leave home, being attracted by wife, children, money, opulence, dwelling, etc. Thus at the end of life one worries about how his wife will be protected
- At the time of death every living entity worries about what will happen to his wife and children. Similarly, a politician also worries about what will happen to his country or his political party
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- Even overpopulation Krsna provides. Why you are worried, "overpopulation"? You chant Hare Krsna. Why you are worried about overpopulation?
- Every grass and herb has its use and serves some function, although we may not know what it is. So in Bhagavad-gita Krsna has made some provision whereby the yogi doesn't have to worry about snakes
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- I do not know why you are so much worried about your son's accepting brahmanahood. Anyway, rest assured that your son will not be initiated in brahmanahood at least for one year henceforward, unless he is so prepared with your sanction
- In essence, he (son of the elderly brahmana) was saying (to his father) - I shall save you from having to give your daughter to him (the young brahmana). In this way, our aristocracy will be saved. You have nothing to worry about
- In the beginning of Bhagavad-gita Arjuna was worried about killing Bhisma and Drona, his worshipful grandfathers and masters. But Krsna said that he need not be afraid of killing his grandfather. BG 1972 purports
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- The hunter was disturbed about breaking his bow because he was worried about his income. Narada Muni assured the hunter because he knew that the hunter was not being maintained by the bow but by Krsna
- The Lord assured Dhruva Maharaja that Dhruva would not be bereft of the Lord's love. He encouraged Dhruva not to be worried that he childishly had material desires and at the same time had the pure aspiration to be a great devotee
- The Lord is known as Yogesvara, master of all mystic powers. Consequently the planet earth was informed by the King (Prthu) that she need not worry about his standing without her help
- The pure devotee does not have to worry about the necessities of life; he need not be anxious because when he removes the darkness from his heart, everything is provided automatically by the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports
- There is no need to be worried, for the Lord (Krsna) Himself assures that He will care for His devotee and save him from the reactions of sinful activities. Material bondage is a result of sinful activity
- This same person son of Satyabhama's nurse said, "Lord Baladeva may be a great enemy of Pralambasura, but I have nothing to worry about from Him. And as far as Pradyumna is concerned, I have nothing to take from him, because he is simply a boy"
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- We cannot conceive how many living entities are being maintained by the Supreme Lord. All the great elephants, all the small ants, all the 8,400,000 species of life are maintained by Bhagavan. Why do we worry that He will not maintain us
- We should not worry about eating and sleeping, for the needs of the body are already arranged. We do not have to work independently to maintain the body
- What is the worry? I have already said everyone is going to die. Chant Hare Krsna, always think of Krsna. That's all
- While the brahmana was fasting, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked him, "Why are you fasting? Why are you so unhappy? Why are you so worried"