{"id":21948,"date":"2020-02-15T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=21948"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:59:48","slug":"adopt-one-fashion-the-dress-of-a-vaisnava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/adopt-one-fashion-the-dress-of-a-vaisnava\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt One Fashion – The Dress of a Vaisnava"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jun 10, 2016 \u2014 SRIDHAM MAYAPUR (SUN) \u2014 <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Srila Prabhupada….”Karm\u012bs change their professions at any moment, but a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious person does not change his profession, for his only profession is to attract the attention of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a by chanting the Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra and living a very simple life, without following daily changes of fashion. In our K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement, fashionable persons are taught to adopt one fashion\u2014the dress of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava with a shaved head and tilaka.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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They are taught to be always clean in mind, dress and eating in order to be fixed in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. What is the use of changing one’s dress, sometimes wearing long hair and a long beard and sometimes dressing otherwise? This is not good. One should not waste his time in such frivolous activities. One should always be fixed in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness and take the cure of devotional service with firm determination.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.5.14 Purport:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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TEXT 14<\/b><\/p>\n

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n\u0101n\u0101-r\u016bp\u0101tmano buddhi\u1e25
\nsvairi\u1e47\u012bva gu\u1e47\u0101nvit\u0101
\ntan-ni\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101m agatasyeha
\nkim asat-karmabhir bhavet<\/i><\/p>\n

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SYNONYMS<\/b><\/p>\n

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n\u0101n\u0101\u2014various; r\u016bp\u0101\u2014who has forms or dresses; \u0101tmana\u1e25\u2014of the living entity; buddhi\u1e25\u2014the intelligence; svairi\u1e47\u012b\u2014a prostitute who freely decorates herself with different types of cloths and ornaments; iva\u2014like; gu\u1e47a-anvit\u0101\u2014endowed with the mode of passion, and so on; tat-ni\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101m\u2014the cessation of that; agatasya\u2014of one who has not obtained; iha\u2014in this material world; kim asat-karmabhi\u1e25 bhavet\u2014what is the use of performing temporary fruitive activities.<\/p>\n

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TRANSLATION<\/b><\/p>\n

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[N\u0101rada Muni had described a woman who is a professional prostitute. The Harya\u015bvas understood the identity of this woman.] Mixed with the mode of passion, the unsteady intelligence of every living entity is like a prostitute who changes dresses just to attract one’s attention. If one fully engages in temporary fruitive activities, not understanding how this is taking place, what does he actually gain?<\/b><\/p>\n

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PURPORT<\/b><\/p>\n

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A woman who has no husband declares herself independent, which means that she becomes a prostitute. A prostitute generally dresses herself in various fashions intended to attract a man’s attention to the lower part of her body. Today it has become a much advertised fashion for a woman to go almost naked, covering the lower part of her body only slightly, in order to draw the attention of a man to her private parts for sexual enjoyment. The intelligence engaged to attract a man to the lower part of the body is the intelligence of a professional prostitute. Similarly, the intelligence of a living entity who does not turn his attention toward K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a or the K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement simply changes dresses like a prostitute. What is the benefit of such foolish intelligence? One should be intelligently conscious in such a way that he need no longer change from one body to another.<\/p>\n

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Karm\u012bs change their professions at any moment, but a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious person does not change his profession, for his only profession is to attract the attention of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a by chanting the Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantraand living a very simple life, without following daily changes of fashion. In our K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement, fashionable persons are taught to adopt one fashion\u2014the dress of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava with a shaved head and tilaka. They are taught to be always clean in mind, dress and eating in order to be fixed in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aconsciousness. What is the use of changing one’s dress, sometimes wearing long hair and a long beard and sometimes dressing otherwise? This is not good. One should not waste his time in such frivolous activities. One should always be fixed in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness and take the cure of devotional service with firm determination.<\/p>\n

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