Category:Base Qualities
Pages in category "Base Qualities"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
A
- Always we should hear about Krsna, speak about Krsna. Then this base quality, ignorance and passion, will go. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh
- At the present moment, everyone is covered by the rajas-tamah, the base qualities, ignorance and passion, so they have no interest in Krsna consciousness. That is not possible. One has to purify himself
B
- Base quality means kama, lusty desires, and greediness. In material world, generally they are under these base quality, means always filled up with lusty desires & not satisfied, greedy. So when we conquer over these base qualities, then we become happy
- Budha means one who is aware of everything, jnani. Budha bhava-samanvitah (BG 10.8). Such budha, intelligent person, will not accept these base qualities - of SB 5.6.5
E
- Even after following such methods (pious atonement, speculative knowledge & meditation in mystic yoga) one takes to fruitive activities again, unable to control his mind, which is contaminated by the base qualities of nature, namely passion and ignorance
- Even there is goodness (in Brahma), it is not pure. There is always chance of becoming polluted by the other base qualities - ignorance and passion
F
- Factually speaking, even those who are situated in the material mode of goodness cannot understand the position of the SP of Godhead. What then is to be said of those who are situated in rajo-guna and tamo-guna, the base qualities of material nature
- For the living entities controlled by the base qualities of nature, passion and ignorance, there is no possibility of understanding God
T
- Tada rajas-tamo-bhavah (SB 1.2.19). When one is situated as a devotee, then this base quality, rajas-tamah, ignorance and passion, the symptoms: kama-lobhadayas. Kama, lusty desires, and greediness
- The base quality, the platform of base quality, is this: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, gambling. So tada rajas-tamo-bhavah kama-lobhadayas ca ye - SB 1.2.19
- The first business is how to control the mind so that it may not be influenced by the base quality, lusty desires and greediness. We have seen in Paris old man, seventy-five years old, he is going to the night club, because the lusty desire is there
- Those who are associating with the base qualities of material nature, they get lower life. That is natural. Just like you contaminate a kind of disease, it will become manifest in due course of time