Transcendental Thought vs Materialism(SB 2.2.7)
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What is the purpose of looking into the general conditions of the living entities?

  • To understand the punishment of sinners by Yamaraja
  • To understand the sufferings of the living entities
  • To understand the different varieties of conditioned life (correct)
  • To understand the cycle of 8,400,000 species of life

Where is the River Vaitarani located?

  • In hell
  • In the material world
  • In heaven
  • At the entrance of the Plutonic planet of Yamaraja (correct)

Who punishes sinners in different manners?

  • The River Vaitarani
  • The Lord
  • Yamaraja (correct)
  • The living entities

What happens to a sinner after being subjected to sufferings?

<p>They are awarded a particular species of life according to their deeds (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where are some of the living entities punished by Yamaraja seen?

<p>In different varieties of conditioned life (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is impartial to all circumstances of the sufferings of the living entities?

<p>The Lord (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Lord give to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet?

<p>Proper protection (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who does the Lord take back home, back to Himself?

<p>One who takes shelter at His lotus feet (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Are any of the living entities happy in this material world?

<p>No, none of them (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the living entities suffering because of?

<p>Their own deeds (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are compared to animals who follow the herdsman?

<p>The gross materialists (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the consequence of the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering, according to the text?

<p>Accruing the result of their own work (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is said about an idle brain, according to the text?

<p>It is a devil's workshop (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do materialists always worship?

<p>Some minor demigods (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the enlightened transcendentalist not captivated by, according to the text?

<p>Illusory things (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should one think of that is one step higher than the impersonal thought of Brahman?

<p>The Supersoul (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are compared to animals who follow the herdsman?

<p>The gross materialists (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do the materialists neglect?

<p>The transcendental thought of the Supreme Person (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an idle brain compared to?

<p>A devil's workshop (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do the materialists petition the demigods for?

<p>Some particular benefit (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the consequence of neglecting the transcendental thought of the Supreme Person?

<p>The consequence is that one becomes misdirected and falls into the river of suffering.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why are materialists like animals?

<p>Materialists are like animals because they do not know how they are being misdirected by neglecting the transcendental thought of the Supreme Person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an idle brain compared to?

<p>An idle brain is compared to a devil's workshop.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do materialists worship demigods?

<p>Materialists worship demigods to obtain illusory and nonpermanent material gains.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the enlightened transcendentalist always absorbed in?

<p>The enlightened transcendentalist is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the River Vaitarani at the entrance of the Plutonic planet of Yamaraja?

<p>to punish sinners</p> Signup and view all the answers

What determines the species of life that a sinner is awarded?

<p>deeds in the past</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some of the different varieties of conditioned life in which punished living entities can be seen?

<p>heaven, hell, brahmanas, misers</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is happy in this material world?

<p>no one</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Lord give to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet?

<p>proper protection and takes them back home, back to Himself</p> Signup and view all the answers

Intelligent persons who can see properly may look into the general conditions of the living entities who are wandering in the cycle of the 8,400,000 ______ of life

<p>species</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is said that there is an everlasting belt of water called the River Vaitarani at the entrance of the Plutonic planet of Yamaraja, who punishes sinners in different ______

<p>manners</p> Signup and view all the answers

After being subjected to such sufferings, a sinner is awarded a particular ______ of life according to his deeds in the past

<p>species</p> Signup and view all the answers

Such living entities as are punished by Yamaraja are seen in different varieties of ______ life

<p>conditioned</p> Signup and view all the answers

Some of them are in ______, and some of them are in hell

<p>heaven</p> Signup and view all the answers

Some of them are ______, and some of them are misers

<p>brahmanas</p> Signup and view all the answers

But no one is happy in this material world, and all of them are either class A, B or C prisoners suffering because of their own ______

<p>deeds</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Lord is impartial to all circumstances of the sufferings of the living entities, but to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet, the Lord gives proper protection, and He takes such a living entity back home, back to ______

<p>Himself</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Lord gives to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet

<p>proper protection</p> Signup and view all the answers

The species of life that a sinner is awarded is determined by his ______ in the past

<p>deeds</p> Signup and view all the answers

Persons who are attached to ______ to the exclusion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are like the animals who follow the herdsman even though they are taken to the slaughterhouse.

<p>demigods</p> Signup and view all the answers

The materialists, like animals, also do not know how they are being misdirected by neglecting the ______ thought of the Supreme Person.

<p>transcendental</p> Signup and view all the answers

No one can remain vacant of ______.

<p>thought</p> Signup and view all the answers

The materialists are always worshiping some minor ______, although this is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita (7.20).

<p>demigods</p> Signup and view all the answers

As long as a person is illusioned by material gains, he petitions the respective ______ to draw some particular benefit which is, after all, illusory and nonpermanent.

<p>demigods</p> Signup and view all the answers

The enlightened ______ is not captivated by such illusory things; therefore he is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan.

<p>transcendentalist</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the previous verse it is suggested that one should think of the Supersoul, which is one step higher than the impersonal thought of ______, as it was suggested in the case of contemplating the virat-rupa of the Personality of Godhead.

<p>Brahman</p> Signup and view all the answers

The materialists, like animals, also do not know how they are being misdirected by neglecting the transcendental ______ of the Supreme Person.

<p>thought</p> Signup and view all the answers

The enlightened transcendentalist is not captivated by such illusory things; therefore he is always absorbed in the ______ thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan.

<p>transcendental</p> Signup and view all the answers

The enlightened transcendentalist is not captivated by such illusory things; therefore he is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely ______, Paramatma and Bhagavan.

<p>Brahman</p> Signup and view all the answers

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