Category:You Cannot Escape
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes the absolute, inescapable reality of God's laws and the strict forces of material nature. While conditioned souls often think they can cheat or escape man-made state laws through trickery, it is impossible to escape the divine vigilance of the Supreme Lord and His agents. The laws of karma exact perfect justice, whether it is the severe reaction for killing animals or simply violating the basic rules of nature. Furthermore, regardless of one's material power, wealth, or planetary location, no one can escape the four miseries of material existence: birth, death, old age, and disease. Ignorance of these laws is never accepted as an excuse. The only way a living entity can truly transcend this inescapable material entanglement is by taking shelter in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- The Infallible Laws of God: Unlike man-made laws which are imperfect and easily circumvented, the strict laws of material nature and the Supreme Lord are perfectly designed and impossible to escape.
- The Ultimate Divine Vigilance: Conditioned souls foolishly attempt to hide their sinful activities, forgetting that the eyes of the Lord and His deputed agents observe everything perfectly at all times.
- The Four Miseries of Material Life: No amount of scientific advancement, medicine, or space travel can rescue a living entity from the guaranteed suffering of birth, death, old age, and disease.
- The Strict Reactions of Karma: Ignorance is never accepted as a valid excuse in the court of universal justice, where the rigid law of a life for a life is enforced without exception.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: You Cannot Escape the Four Principles of Material Life.
Pages in category "You Cannot Escape"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- Even after traveling all over the universe, from Brahmaloka to Patalaloka, one cannot escape the attack of birth, death, disease and old age. But one who enters the kingdom of God, the Lord says, is never again obliged to come to the material world
- Even if by mistake you do that (smoke), that can be excused, but not willfully, "Now nobody is seeing. Krsna is not here. Let me smoke now." Not that. Krsna's eyes are everywhere. You cannot escape Krsna's eyes
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- Nature's law is so perfect. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya (BG 7.14). You cannot escape. Suppose you can eat two ounce, and if you eat four ounce, then you have to starve three days. This is the law
- Nature's law is so strict, a little deviation will put you into suffering. This is going on. That is Yamaraja. And if you violate more and more and more, then you suffer more and more and more. This is the law. You cannot escape. So that is fixed up
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- One cannot escape the vigilance of the powerful material nature unless he leads a God conscious or devotional life
- One cannot violate the nature's law. You can violate the state law. Suppose you kill somebody, you can escape by trick. But you cannot escape nature's law. As many times you have killed, so many times you have to be killed within the womb
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- The enemies you cannot escape. They (senses) will force you again to these material activities. So what is the use of going to the forest? It is simply show, make-show. It has no value. Chant Hare Krsna
- The four principles of material existence means birth, death, old age and disease. We can manufacture many medicines, many weapons, many means, many methods, but you cannot escape these four principles of material existence, however great you may be
- They're as good as animal. You cannot expect any good behavior from animals. This is going on. They want to keep the whole population animal
- This is, means, mamsa. You cannot escape this. "Life for life." That is the law everywhere. If you have murdered somebody, you must be killed also. So you can escape the so-called state laws, but you cannot escape the laws of the material nature
- Three classes are always there, either you go to America or hell or heaven - anywhere - because there are three gunas: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. Prakrtijan gunan. You cannot escape it