Vedic way

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"vedic way" |"vedic ways"

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 1

SB 1.9.26, Purport: An intelligent man abuses his great qualifications if he does not follow the Vedic way of life.

SB 1.11.18, Purport: The Vedic way of receiving a great personality creates an atmosphere of respect, which is saturated with affection and veneration for the person received.

SB 1.18.41, Purport: So what to speak of a good and pious king like Mahārāja Parīkṣit? In the Vedic way of life, the king is trained to become a rājarṣi, or a great saint, although he is ruling as king.

SB 1.18.45, Purport: As the monkeys are too sexually inclined and dogs are shameless in sexual intercourse, the general mass of population born of illegitimate connection will systematically go astray from the Vedic way of good manners and qualitative engagements in the castes and orders of life.

SB 1.18.45, Purport: The Vedic way of life is the progressive march of the civilization of the Āryans. The Āryans are progressive in Vedic civilization.

SB 1.18.45, Purport: The perfect way of life gives all sorts of instruction in things both material and spiritual. The Vedic way of life does not allow any man to be like the monkeys and dogs.

SB Canto 2

SB 2.2.2, Purport: Therefore, the Vedic ways of fruitive activities for the living entities are misleading.

SB 2.2.26, Purport: The alternative for a common man is to believe either of them or both of them. The Vedic way of understanding, however, is more authentic because it has been accepted by the ācāryas, who are not only faithful and learned men, but are also liberated souls without any of the flaws of conditioned souls.

SB Canto 3

SB 3.2.11, Purport: The entire Vedic way of ritualistic performances is to put every conditioned soul on the path of piety.

SB 3.22.23, Purport: In the Vedic way of marriage such a dowry is still given to the bridegroom by the father of the bride; even in poverty-stricken India there are marriages where hundreds and thousands of rupees are spent for a dowry.

SB Canto 4

SB 4.4.6, Purport: This transcendental sound vibration has been simplified in the transcendental vibration Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. In this age, no one is expected to be highly educated in the Vedic ways of understanding because people are very slow, lazy and unfortunate.

SB 4.19.23, Purport: No one can introduce any new system into the Vedic way of life; if one does so out of malice, he is to be known as a pāṣaṇḍī, or atheist. In the Vaiṣṇava Tantra it is said

SB 4.27.24, Purport: In this way one should live a life of spiritual understanding, and this is the Vedic way of civilization.

SB Canto 9

SB 9.15.26, Purport: If we neglect the Vedic way of civilization, we shall certainly suffer.

SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13

SB 10.5.7, Purport: As described elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam, during Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira's time the cows were so happy that they used to muddy the pasturing ground with milk. This is Indian civilization. Yet in the same place, India, Bhārata-varṣa, how much people are suffering by giving up the Vedic way of life and not understanding the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Adi-lila

CC Adi 3.87, Purport: The authentic scriptures are compiled by personalities like Vyāsadeva, Nārada, Asita and Parāśara, who are not ordinary men. All the followers of the Vedic way of life have accepted these famous personalities, whose authentic scriptures conform to the Vedic literature.

CC Madhya-lila

CC Madhya 7.126, Purport: According to the Vedic way of civilization, one should leave his family after attaining fifty years of age and go to the forest of Vṛndāvana to devote the rest of his life to the service of the Lord.

CC Madhya 15.204, Purport: Among the followers of the Vedic way, the śālagrāma-śilā, the vigraha of Nārāyaṇa, is worshiped in the form of a stone ball. In India, every brāhmaṇa still worships the śālagrāma-śilā in his home. The vaiśyas and kṣatriyas may also engage in this worship, but it is compulsory in the house of a brāhmaṇa.