valaya Posted February 2, 2002 Report Share Posted February 2, 2002 "Society Without Envy" This is the society for Krsna consciousness formed by Srila Prabhupada. One who becomes a member of this society gets the opportunity to develop complete Krsna consciousness, to see Krsna everywhere. Yo mam pasyati sarvatra Sarvam ca mayi pasyati Tasyaham na panansyami Sa ca me na panasyati (Bg. 6.30) This is the goal. Prabhupada has written in his books, "The Krsna consciousness movement aims at creating an atmosphere of non-envy. Of course, it is not possible for everyone to become Krsna conscious, but the Krsna consciousness movement can create an exemplary society wherein there is no envy." Where is the question of enviousness? One who is envious is not a Krsna conscious person. In other words, he is not a Vaisnava. A real Vaisnava sadhu is not at all envious. He sees every jiva as Krsna's jiva. Krsna is the object of his love, so how will he be envious? Enviousness means lust. What does that mean? Pride is your enemy, crookedness‹kapata. If someone is making advancement on the spiritual path, others become envious of him. They cannot tolerate it. "Oh, he is making such advancement." They start to speak all nasty things about him. Combining together, they start pulling down on him and attacking him. This is enviousness. In a society of Vaisnavas that should not be done. A Vaisnava is not envious at all, atra paramo nirmatsaranam satam vedyam. Who understands bhagavata-dharma- tattva? Only a Vaisnava, who is non-envious can understand. Others will speculate, "Oh, this is that, this is that." Only speculation will go on because they cannot understand. They are not Vaisnavas, they are all envious persons. Prabhupada says, "One who is envious of the success of a Vaisnava is certainly not a Vaisnava himself but an ordinary mundane man." He may be pretending to be a Vaisnava, but actually he is only an ordinary mundane man. If the purpose of forming his society fails, how will Srila Prabhupada be happy ? This is a most important factor. So here it is said, "Generally when we find someone more qualified than ourselves, we become envious of him." This is the general nature of people who are avaisnavas‹who are not Vaisnavas, they become envious when they see a person more qualified than themselves. But a Vaisnava, who is completely Krsna conscious, he'll never become envious. "Instead of being envious of a more qualified man one should be jolly to receive him." Krsne prema krsna-bhakte maitri acarana-he who develops krsna-prema, he develops friendship with Vaisnavas, krsna-bhaktas. And when he sees a more qualified Vaisnava than himself he becomes jolly. That is a real Vaisnava, a pure Vaisnava. This is the purpose for which Srila Prabhupada formed this society for Krsna consciousness." Srila Gour Govinda Maharaj "A Society Free from Envy" http://www.vnn.org/world/WD9902/WD20-3111.html ------------------ Radhe Radhe always Radhe! amanpeter@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted February 3, 2002 Report Share Posted February 3, 2002 I have one godbrother who knows so many SanskRt zlokas. He recently met a junior godcousin who knew more zlokas than he did. He accepted & took notes. Another guru-godbrother accused all others of envying himself. Envy can be transcended when: 1) we know we're on an individual eternal journey... 2) material relationships have a beginning, middle & end. ) money is no object... 4) the less baggage the better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2003 Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 Can somebody tell me what mean ZLOKAS? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted July 5, 2003 Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 The word has to be pronounced as "shlokaaj". It means "Sanskrit verses". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 In the Judeo-Christian tradition, envy is a sin. It is a sin to compare oneself to others. The man who says that he will not destroy his neighbour's beautiful house, but build a BETTER ONE for himself is still sinning, because he is comparing himself to his neighbour. If you want to create a society without envy, you should never compare children with one another and you should never teach children to be competitive. They should excel only for the purpose of being closer to the Perfect Being that has created us, because excellence is an attribute of G-d, and never to compete and to be better than others. This is the secret of excellence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Thank you for posting this superb lecture on the dire need to give up envy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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