nitai108 's List: Ramananda Samvada

• they have taken the red dress simply for the matter of filling their bellies.
• but the present impersonalists do not follow Sankaracarya or the sastra.
• Sankaracarya’s impersonal conception of brahmavada had some meaning because he emphasized renouncing material activities.
• impersonalists are all atheists and materialists.
• even if Sankaracarya himself happened to appear, he would be astonished to see his so-called followers
• Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.4.43-44). Sukadeva Goswami addressed King Pariksit, "O my King, in the age of Kali, almost all the people who are destined to die do not worship the Absolute Personality of Godhead who is the Lord of the universe and is respectfully obeyed by all the demigods such as Brahma, Mahadeva, Indra, and others. Unfortunately, the people in the age of Kali worship pasandis, who misrepresent the teachings of the Vedas by atheistic culture. These people, infected by the sinful activities of Kali, do not worship the Personality of Godhead, the remembrance of whose name only-even by a dying person, a person in trouble, or a person who has fallen down-can deliver all from distress and sin, and lift them to the highest goal of life."
• The result is that the more people are educated, the more they become immoral and atheistic. Moreover, wrongly educated people have practically no faith in the scriptural injunctions. They have no respect for the self-realized sages who have left behind many valuable literary works

• Krti means one who is qualified and dus means the wrong way. So the combined word duskrtina means one who is qualified in the wrong way.  

   
• yat karosi yad asnasi
   yaj juhosi dadasi yat
   yat tapasyasi kaunteya
   yat kurusva mad-arpanam

     "O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer or give away, as well as all austerities that you perform, do as an offering unto Me."
• dedicating all one’s karma (fruitive actions) to Sri Krsna
• Although the aim of varnasrama-dharma is to satisfy the all-pervading Godhead Visnu, it does not explicitly mention devotional service rendered directly to the Personality of Godhead. Without being specifically engaged in devotional service, even the proper performance of varnasrama-dharma may lead one to accept either the impersonal or personal feature of Godhead.
• Lord Caitanya wanted human beings to make further advancement in the process of spiritual realization than what is possible by the performance of varnasrama-dharma.
• because the varnasrama-dharma system is a problem within the material world in the age of Kali, Lord Caitanya wanted to distinguish it from the devotional activities, which are transcendental by nature.
• This process is almost direct realization of the path of devotional service.
• while simultaneously performing one’s prescribed duty
• The easiest way of attaining the Absolute Truth is to culture knowledge about the Absolute Truth
• Worshiping Godhead by prescribed duties is the beginning of devotional service
• sve sve karmany abhiratah
    samsiddhim labhate narah
    sva-karma-niratah siddhim
    yatha vindati tac chrnu

     yatah pravrttir bhutanam
    yena sarvam idam tatam
    sva-karmana tam abhyarcya
    siddhim vindati manavah

     "Every human being will attain the highest goal of life simply by worshiping the Personality of Godhead, from whom all the living entities have come into being and by whom the whole cosmos is generated and again withdrawn."
• varnasrama system is explained in relation to pure devotion by Bhagavan Purusa, the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna,
• The topmost spiritual realization is attraction for de- votional service to the Personality of Godhead. Such attraction for devotional service is the only necessity for the living being and it automatically brings a sense of detachment from all other activities.
• it still cannot help one to rise to the highest plane of transcendental service to Godhead
• it has no value in relation to pure devotional service
• varnasrama-dharma is so degraded that any attempt to restore it to its original position will be hopeless.
• whoever fails to carry out the plan of Godhead as part and parcel of the virat-purusa must be considered fallen and detached from his position.
• The so-called brahmanas have become detached from the body of the virat-purusa because they do not transmit the transcendental sounds of the Vedas.
• The plan of Godhead is so designed that in the human form of life one can get out of the entanglement of material existence.
• when all the varnas and asramas cooperate, society facilitates deliverance from the clutches of maya or illusion

• The whole system is perverted by the lawbreaking attitude of mankind. This is spoiling the atmosphere of peaceful progress in human life. At present, the system of perverted varnasrama-dharma cannot in any way please the Supreme Godhead Visnu. Thus no one can escape the police action of Mother Nature, regardless of how expert one may be in material science. 

   
• are sucking the blood of the masses by imposing heavy, unbearable taxes, instead of giving any actual protection.
• ksatriyas, who are meant to give protection
• brahmana possesses the best brain for solving the problems of human life, but the politicians are simply using the best part of their brains for executing their own selfish plans. Avoiding the orders of the Supreme Godhead, they only bring disorder to the society.
• The caste system is now represented by the political diplomats, the soldiers, the capitalists, and the laborers.
• The jeopardized system of varnasrama-dharma
• the only solution to the problem of birth and death
• varnasrama-dharma as it is mentioned in the scriptures
• varnasrama-dharma
• varnasrama-dharma
• To execute her stringent punishment, Mother Nature dictates to the human brain the ability to invent the atomic bomb.
• Everything is automatically executed by Mother Nature as soon as the human being is in violation of her laws. However, foolish people, out of their undue vanity, think that the plan is made by them.
• increases in the human population will certainly result in famine, pestilence, epidemics, and war.
• economists also believe in the laws of nature
• atom bomb is actually the scheme of Mother Nature, who is sure to kill the demoniac population when it increases disproportionately.
• atom bomb
• material knowledge can simply accelerate the problem of dying
• The death problem is also not solved.
• A continuous increase of world population to the proportion of three births in every second has puzzled the brains of the leaders of society. To solve the problem of birth, they put forward rascal plans of birth control under the name of family planning, yet the problem is unsolved. By the laws of nature, the population is ever-increasing in spite of all their scientific plans and schemes. On the whole, the problem of birth has remained unsolved.
• when the aim of life is the planned exploitation of material nature, all life is jeopardized on account of the human race fighting with the laws of nature.
• at the present moment the aim of life is to displease the all-pervading Godhead
• he whole system still exists but in a reflected form.
• varnasrama-dharma is now jeopardized by the influence of the present age of Kali,
• varnasrama-dharma was external and thus it was not acceptable.
• "If a person performs the prescribed duties of his social position, he awakens his original Krsna consciousness."
• visnur aradhyate pantha
    nanyat tat-dosa-karanam

     "The Personality of Godhead Lord Visnu is worshiped by the proper performance of prescribed duties in the system of varna and asrama. There is no other way to satisfy the Personality of Godhead.

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