Category:Worse Than
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda uses the comparative phrase "worse than" to forcefully illustrate the severity of both material degradation and spiritual deviations. He points out that when human beings misuse their advanced intelligence for unrestricted sense gratification or organized animal slaughter, they become worse than animals. On the spiritual path, he warns that for a transcendentalist, illicit sex or intimate association with materialistic people is worse than suicide, and associating with those who break the regulative principles is worse than drinking poison. Furthermore, for a pure devotee, merging into the impersonal Brahman effulgence is considered a fate worse than hell, and for a respectable person, public dishonor is worse than death.
- Degradation Worse Than Animals: A human being who neglects spiritual realization and misuses their advanced intelligence for unrestricted sense gratification and organized animal slaughter falls to a condition worse than the animals.
- Dishonor Worse Than Death: For individuals situated in respectable societal positions, public infamy and insults from relatives are considered fates far worse than physical death.
- Actions Worse Than Suicide: For a transcendentalist seeking liberation, deliberately breaking regulative principles or intimately associating with materialistic individuals is spiritual suicide, which is worse than giving up the physical body.
- Impersonalism Worse Than Hell: A pure devotee desires only to serve the Supreme Lord in love and therefore considers the prospect of merging into the impersonal effulgence to be worse than entering a hellish condition.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Recognizing What is Worse Than Material Suffering.
Pages in category "Worse Than"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
A
- A man cannot do that (immediately pounce upon any animal and kills and eat); but his teeth is different, he has no nails; therefore he has to kill animal in different way, by slaughterhouse. So he is worse than animal
- An insult from a relative is worse than death, especially when one is well situated
F
- First of all be yourself a cultured man, a gentleman. You are worse than animals. What animals cannot do, you are doing that
- For a respectable man like you (Arjuna), ill fame is worse than death. So, you should not flee for fear of your life; better to die in the battle
- For a transcendentalist, therefore, who at all wants to be promoted to the kingdom beyond material miseries, it is worse than suicide to deliberately indulge in sex life, especially in the renounced order of life
O
- One who has not tried to realize his relationship with the Lord has wasted his life; such a person is a miscreant and is worse than an animal
- Out of the five kinds of salvation, advandva is the most abominable for a devotee. A pure devotee denounces such oneness with the Lord as worse than going to hell