Psychology - an essential subject

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Psychology, like any other science, should be applied in the service of the Lord. If not, then it is nothing but material and temporary. Psychology alone cannot save the soul from the cycle of birth and death. But when one becomes a devotee of the Krishna and starts engaging in psychological activities for Krishna, he is automatically saved from this very cycle and Krishna appears all attractive to him. Devotion to the Lord is a process in which the devotee realizes his true nature and acts on it. However, it is not a psychological state of mind. It is the eternal, spiritual, absolute truth.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Psychology category. An introduction from his teachings is given below in the following 13 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's teachings


vanipedia.org 		One can attempt to go to any planet he desires, but this is only possible by psychological changes in the mind. Mind is the nucleus of the material body. The gradual evolutionary progress of the material body depends on psychological changes within the mind. The change of the bodily construction of a worm into that of a butterfly and, in modern medical science, the conversion of a man's body into that of a woman (or vice versa) are more or less dependent on psychological changes. (Easy Journey to Other Planets, Chapter 1)



vanipedia.org 		The psychological effects of various peoples, places, and times have led us to designate ourselves as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Congressites, Luddites, Socialists, Bolsheviks, and so forth. (Message of Godhead, Chapter 1)



vanipedia.org 		The husband is a very intimate friend; therefore, the wife must render service just like an intimate friend, and at the same time she must understand that the husband is superior in position, and thus she must offer him all respect. A man's psychology and woman's psychology are different. As constituted by bodily frame, a man always wants to be superior to his wife, and a woman, as bodily constituted, is naturally inferior to her husband. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.23.2)



vanipedia.org 		The psychologist makes a serious study of the physiological conditions of the brain, as if the construction of the cerebral lump were the machine of the functioning mind, but in the dead body the psychologist cannot bring back the function of the mind. These scientific studies of the cosmic manifestation or the bodily construction independent of the Supreme Lord are different reflective intellectual gymnastics only, but at the end they are all illusion and nothing more. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.34)



vanipedia.org 		The living entities conditioned by material nature are of various types. One is happy, another is very active, and another is helpless. All these types of psychological manifestations are causes of the entities' conditioned status in nature. (Bhagavad-gītā 14.6)



vanipedia.org 		Lord Buddha preached nonviolence, taking pity on the poor animals. He preached that he did not believe in the tenets of the Vedas and stressed the adverse psychological effects incurred by animal-killing. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.24)



vanipedia.org 		Devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa is the living entity's eternal birthright; it is not a new subject fabricated by the human mind. A base fool thinks that devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa is merely a mundane psychological state of mind. But in truth devotional service is our eternal spiritual substance—"the essential spiritual reality" (vāstava-vastu). (Renunciation Through Wisdom, Chapter 2.3)



vanipedia.org 		The whole world is enchanted by the three modes of material nature. Those who are bewildered by these three modes cannot understand that transcendental to this material nature is the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Every living entity under the influence of material nature has a particular type of body and a particular type of psychological and biological activities accordingly. (Bhagavad-gītā 7.13)



vanipedia.org 		By His personal features and transcendental attributes, the Lord attracts all psychological activities of a pure devotee. Such is the attractive power of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The attraction is so powerful that a pure devotee never hankers for any one of the four principles of religion. These are the attractive features of the transcendental attributes of the Lord. And adding to this the words api and ca, one can increase the imports unlimitedly. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.10)



vanipedia.org 		The proper function of the brain or psychological activity is to understand everything through Krishna's perspective or point-of-view, and so there is no limit to that understanding because Krishna is unlimited. (Letter, 21 January 1972, Jaipur)



vanipedia.org 		When advancement of knowledge is applied in the service of the Lord, the whole process becomes absolute. The Personality of Godhead and His transcendental name, fame, glory, etc., are all nondifferent from Him. Therefore, all the sages and devotees of the Lord have recommended that the subject matter of art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology and all other branches of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.22)



vanipedia.org 		Each and every one of the innumerable planets within the universe is endowed with a particular type of atmosphere, and the living beings there are more perfectly advanced in science and psychology because of a better atmosphere. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.8)



vanipedia.org 		This transcendental devotional service of the Lord is so wonderful that the occupation keeps the deserving devotee always rapt in psychological activities, without deviation from the absolute touch. Thus love of Godhead, developed in the heart of the devotee, is a great mystery. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.35)


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