Madness - an essential subject

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According to the dictionary, madness is a behavior or a thinking which is foolish or dangerous. Usually we think that madness is a disease or a condition which concerns only a few unfortunate people because of some genetic dispositions or traumatizing circumstances. But actually, nowadays the whole human society falls into the category of maddess. There is hardly a sane person, as everyone is acting foolishly and dangerously by not serving their real interest as spiritual souls. Therefore they are harming themselves and other living entities.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Madness category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 12 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		Every living entity under the spell of material energy is held to be in an abnormal condition of madness. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, "Generally, the conditioned soul is mad, because he is always engaged in activities which are the causes of bondage and suffering." (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 2)



vanipedia.org 		One should be satisfied with things awarded by the Lord of the universe. It is out of madness only that one tries to encroach upon another's share of material possessions. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.20)



vanipedia.org 		From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop foolishness, madness and illusion. (Bhagavad-gītā 14.17)



vanipedia.org 		O son of Bharata, know that the mode of darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all embodied living entities. The results of this mode are madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul. (Bhagavad-gītā 14.8)



vanipedia.org 		The people are so busy with sense gratification that they completely forget about self-realization. Out of madness they frankly say that there is no need for self-realization because they do not realize that this brief life is but a moment on our great journey towards self-realization. The whole system of education is geared to sense gratification, and if a learned man thinks it over, he sees that the children of this age are being intentionally sent to the slaughterhouses of so-called education. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.22)



vanipedia.org 		Temporarily covered by the influence of māyā, the living entity serves his senses, which are represented as kāma-krodha-lobha-moha-mada-mātsarya—lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness and envy. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24.202)



vanipedia.org 		In the conditioned stage, one's conceptions of life are sometimes polluted by passion and ignorance, which are exhibited by attachment, hostility, greed, lamentation, illusion, fear, madness, false prestige, insults, fault-finding, deception, envy, intolerance, passion, bewilderment, hunger and sleep. All of these are enemies. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.43-44)



vanipedia.org 		An uncontrolled mind and an unchaste wife are the same. An unchaste wife can kill her husband at any time, and an uncontrolled mind, followed by lust, anger, greed, madness, envy and illusion, can certainly kill the yogī. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.6.4)



vanipedia.org 		The forgetful living entity can be compared to a man who is under the influence of disease and has become mad or to a man haunted by ghosts, who acts without control and yet thinks himself to be in control. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.6)



vanipedia.org 		In this material world, everyone thinks that he has conquered his enemies, not understanding that his enemies are his uncontrolled mind and five senses (manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati (BG 15.7)). In this material world, everyone has become a servant of the senses. Originally everyone is a servant of Kṛṣṇa, but in ignorance one forgets this, and thus one is engaged in the service of māyā through lusty desires, anger, greed, illusion, madness and jealousy. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.8.10)



vanipedia.org 		We must practice sādhana-bhakti—which means to offer maṅgala-ārati (Deity worship) in the morning, to refrain from certain material activities, to offer obeisances to the spiritual master and to follow many other rules and regulations which will be discussed here one after another. These practices will help one become cured of madness. As a man's mental disease is cured by the directions of a psychiatrist, so this sādhana-bhakti cures the conditioned soul of his madness under the spell of māyā, material illusion. (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 2)



vanipedia.org 		It is said that from the mind, Marīci appears. In other words, Marīci is an incarnation of the mind. Marīci has six sons: Kāma, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada and Mātsarya (lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness and envy). (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.2.8)



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