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31 March 2026

• 11:0411:04, 31 March 2026 diff hist +5,670 N Vedapedia: Vedic Paradigm Created page with "The Vedic paradigm is the fundamental conceptual framework upon which the entire knowledge architecture in Vedapedia is built. It represents the highest form of a scientific paradigm, incorporating all other paradigms in a non-contradictory manner. The Vedic paradigm reveals the Absolute as the unity and difference of the personal and impersonal aspects of the Superconsciousness (''achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva''), which is incomprehensible through intellectual efforts a..." Tag: Visual edit
• 10:4610:46, 31 March 2026 diff hist +62 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages No edit summary Tag: Visual edit

29 March 2026

• 06:3306:33, 29 March 2026 diff hist +4,541 N Quotes: Limitations of Materialistic Methodology (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(skepticism) SPL 2.46. Ravīndra Svarūpa: “What is the best way to deal with skepticism?” Prabhupāda: “Skepticism – rascalism. [Devotees laugh] We are not going to deal with rascalism. We are going to deal with sense. Skepticism, they do not believe in anything – everything is false. They are so disappointed, they think everything is false. We are not going to deal with such men. What is the use? Is not that skepticism? What is that skepticism?” <nowiki>h..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 06:1606:16, 29 March 2026 diff hist +187 Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Cultural Studies (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
• 06:1406:14, 29 March 2026 diff hist +1,401 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Cultural Studies (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Augustine == Hayagriva dasa: In The City of God, Augustine refers to two cities, or societies: one demonic , and the other divine. In one city, love of God and the spirit is the unifying factor; and in the other, love of the world and the flesh is dominant. Augustine writes: "These are two loves, the one of which is holy, the other unholy; one social, the other individualistic; the one is subject to God, the other sets itself up as a rival to God." Srila Prabhupada:..." Tag: Visual edit
• 06:0606:06, 29 March 2026 diff hist +3,935 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Political Science (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Machiavelli == Hayagriva dasa: Machiavelli... writes: "It is not necessary for a prince to have all the above-mentioned qualities, but it is very necessary to seem to have them... when it is needful to be otherwise, you can change to the opposite qualities." Srila Prabhupada: ...According to Vedic civilization, the king is worshipped as God in human form and is therefore called Naradeva. If the good qualities are lacking in a king, he can no longer be considered Nara..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 05:5905:59, 29 March 2026 diff hist +1,353 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Economics (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Aquinas == Hayagriva disa: Aquinas did not make Augustine's sharp distinction... between secular society and the city of God. Srila Prabhupida: ...In the material world, there is no happiness, but the transcendental bliss and happiness existing in the spiritual world are reflected here. Unintelligent people chase after this illusory happiness, forgetting the real happiness that is in spiritual life. == Locke == Syamasundara dasa: Locke also says that all men are bor..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 05:4505:45, 29 March 2026 diff hist +1,928 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Sociology (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Plato == Syamasundara dasa: This type of education was designed in order to determine a person's category. It is not that one belongs to a particular class according to qualifications. Srila Prabhupada: Yes, we also say that, but that tendency or disposition is to be ascertained by the spiritual master, by the teacher who trains the boy. The teacher should be able to see whether a boy is fit for military training, for administration, or for philosophy. It is not that..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 05:3105:31, 29 March 2026 diff hist +5,168 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Psychology (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "Не нашел этой цитаты. Откуда она? Шьямасундар: Августин утверждает, что после этой единственной жизни вы попадете либо в рай, либо в ад, либо вечное спасение, либо вечное проклятие. Прабхупада: Нет. Духовное сознание может быть возрождено в любой момент. == Hume ==..." current Tag: Visual edit

28 March 2026

• 14:0614:06, 28 March 2026 diff hist +1,673 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Medicine (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Aquinas == Hayagriva disa: Aquinas would contend that since the material universe could not have arisen out of God's spiritual nature, it had to be created out of nothing. Srila Prabhupida: Material nature is also an energy of God's. == Descartes == Syamasundara dasa: Descartes sees matter operating like a machine under mechanical laws... However, he claims that the soul is unaffected by mechanical causes... Srila Prabhupada: Yet somehow o..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:5113:51, 28 March 2026 diff hist +2,256 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Biology (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "== Augustine == Hayagriva dasa: For Augustine, the mind, reason, and the soul are one and the same. Srila Prabhupada: No… the mind and intelligence differ according to the body, but the soul remains the same… We consider all human beings, animals, plants, and trees to be living entities, spirit souls. == Aquinas == Hayagriva dasa: Aquinas did not believe in a soul per se as being divorced from a particular form. God did not create a soul capable of inhabiting any b..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:4613:46, 28 March 2026 diff hist +354 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:3913:39, 28 March 2026 diff hist +22 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:2513:25, 28 March 2026 diff hist +21 Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Physics (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:2113:21, 28 March 2026 diff hist +109 Quotes: Crisis of Culture (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:2013:20, 28 March 2026 diff hist +116 Quotes: Crisis of Materialistic Biotechnologies (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1513:15, 28 March 2026 diff hist +16 N Category:Types of pages Created page with "General category" current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1513:15, 28 March 2026 diff hist +45 N Category:Paradigm history Created page with "Category of pages Category:Types of pages" current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1313:13, 28 March 2026 diff hist +1,938 N Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Physics (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "=== Dialectic Spiritualism. === == Thomas Aquinas. == “Hayagriva disa: For Aquinas, God is the only single essence that consists of pure form. He felt that matter is only a potential, and, in order to be real , must assume a certain shape or form. In other words, the living entity has to acquire an individual form in order to actualize himself. When matter unites with form, the form gives individuality and personality. Srila Prabhupida: Matter in itself has no form;..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1213:12, 28 March 2026 diff hist +31 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:1312:13, 28 March 2026 diff hist +5,104 N Quotes: Crisis in Politics (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(cause of discord) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1.5.11, purport. “When there are too many materialistic activities by the people in general all over the world, there is no wonder that a person or a nation attacks another person or nation on slight provocation. That is the rule of this Age of Kali or quarrel. The atmosphere is already polluted with corruption of all description, and everyone knows it well.” https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/5/11/ (suffering from sinful le..." Tag: Visual edit
• 12:0412:04, 28 March 2026 diff hist +2,063 Quotes: Economic Crisis (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:0012:00, 28 March 2026 diff hist +153 Quotes: Economic Crisis (Srila Prabhupada) No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:0012:00, 28 March 2026 diff hist +5,682 N Quotes: Economic Crisis (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(soc. and comm. - the misuse of intelligence for the sake of exploitation) Nektar of Instruction 2: “Unfortunately, materialists who have neither faith in the plan of God nor any aspiration for higher spiritual development misuse their God-given intelligence only to augment their material possessions. They devise many systems – such as capitalism and materialistic communism – to advance their material position. They are not interested in the laws of God or in a hig..." Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:4811:48, 28 March 2026 diff hist +2,623 N Quotes: The Crisis of Society (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(caste society is everywhere) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 3.21.52-54, purport. “But when there is hatred and malpractice and mutual mistrust in the caste system, the whole system becomes degraded, and as stated herein, it creates a deplorable state. At the present moment, the entire world is in this deplorable condition…” https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/21/52-54/ (degradation of marriage) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1.2.10, purport. “For example, marriage or the combina..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 11:4711:47, 28 March 2026 diff hist +1,913 N Quotes: Crisis of Happiness (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(no peace of mind) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 2.10.25, purport. “But such a wrong conception of life cannot give anyone the desired peace of mind, and thus in spite of all advancement in knowledge by use of the resources of nature, '''no one is happy in this material civilization'''.” <nowiki>https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/2/10/25/</nowiki> (hedonism) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 9.24.56, purport. “At the present time, in Kali-yuga, people are extremely sinful and bad (ma..." current Tag: Visual edit

27 March 2026

• 13:5313:53, 27 March 2026 diff hist +1,179 N Quotes: Crisis in Medicine (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(lifestyle) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 4.27.11, purport. “Modern civilization is centered around animal-killing. Karmīs are advertising that without eating meat, their vitamin value or vitality will be reduced; so to keep oneself fit to work hard, one must eat meat, and to digest meat, one must drink liquor, and to keep the balance of drinking wine and eating meat, one must have sufficient sexual intercourse to keep fit to work very hard like an ass.” https://vedabase.io..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:4513:45, 27 March 2026 diff hist +4,944 N Quotes: Crisis of Harmony with Nature (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with "(cars) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 4.29.33, purport. “In contemporary civilization we see that there are many automobiles manufactured to carry us swiftly from one place to another, but at the same time we have created other problems. We have to construct so many roads, and yet these roads are insufficient to cope with automobile congestion and traffic jams. There are also the problems of air pollution and fuel shortage.” <nowiki>https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/29/33/..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 13:3413:34, 27 March 2026 diff hist +49,355 N Quotes: Bhaktivedanta Institute (Srila Prabhupada) Created page with " == Role of Srila Prabhupada == <blockquote>Room Conversation — March 27, 1977, Bombay: Svarūpa Dāmodara: We would also have been misguided if we didn't meet Śrīla Prabhupāda, in the same area. Prabhupāda: '''I never agreed to be misguide by these rascals. Perhaps I am the first man who protested against these authorized scientists. <nowiki>https://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1977/mar/bombay/march/27/1977</nowiki>''' </blockquote> == Purpose of the Insti..." Tag: Visual edit
• 12:3312:33, 27 March 2026 diff hist −74 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages →Paradigm Directions (Theories and Technologies) Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2612:26, 27 March 2026 diff hist +573 N Category:Paradigm technologies Created page with "'''Technologies (Practice):''' Applied tools, methods, and processes of interaction with external and internal reality based on its theoretical understanding (both in the natural sciences and humanities) to satisfy the needs of individual consciousnesses. An incomplete understanding of reality does not allow for the development of technologies capable of fully satisfying the needs of individual consciousness and harmoniously coexisting with the holistic system of the wor..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2512:25, 27 March 2026 diff hist +518 N Category:Paradigm theories Created page with "'''Theories (Scientific models):''' Systems explaining exactly how postulates shape the structure of reality at its various levels, which is reflected in specific scientific disciplines. Leading theories possess the highest confirmability, as well as the breadth of explanations and predictions. Any theory contains a particle of truth and reflects a certain sector of reality, but it can be false in those aspects where its explanations go beyond the breadth of its author's..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2312:23, 27 March 2026 diff hist +28 Category:Paradigm level No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2312:23, 27 March 2026 diff hist +16 N Category:Paradigm level Created page with "general category" Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2212:22, 27 March 2026 diff hist +739 N Category:Paradigm postulates Created page with "'''Postulates (Axioms):''' Fundamental truths about the nature of reality, stemming from the understanding of the Absolute. There are many classifications of them, developed by scholars according to time, place, and circumstances. The basic classification of Vedanta includes: the nature of the Superconsciousness (''ishvara''), individual consciousness (''jiva''), material nature (''prakriti''), time (''kala''), and cause-and-effect interactions (''karma''). Postulates ar..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2112:21, 27 March 2026 diff hist +46 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:2012:20, 27 March 2026 diff hist +5,690 N Vedapedia: Vedic paradigm Created page with "The Vedic paradigm is a fundamental conceptual framework upon which the entire architecture of knowledge in Vedapedia is built. It represents the highest form of a scientific paradigm, incorporating all other paradigms in a non-contradictory manner. The Vedic paradigm reveals the Absolute as an inconceivable (through intellectual efforts alone) unity and difference of the personal and impersonal aspects of the Superconsciousness (''achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva''). For V..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 12:1112:11, 27 March 2026 diff hist +173 Vedapedia: Categorization of Pages No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:1012:10, 27 March 2026 diff hist +31 MBI Vedapedia:About No edit summary current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 12:0912:09, 27 March 2026 diff hist −514 MBI Vedapedia:About No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit
• 12:0712:07, 27 March 2026 diff hist +4,346 N MBI Vedapedia:About Created page with "{{Infobox software | name = Vedapedia | logo = | caption = The Vedic Paradigm Encyclopedia | developer = Bhaktivedanta Institute of Mayapur | released = {{Start date|2027|01|15}} | programming language = | platform = Web platform | language = Multilingual | status = Active | license = CC-BY-SA 4.0, GFDL | website..." Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:5711:57, 27 March 2026 diff hist +25 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 11:4911:49, 27 March 2026 diff hist +44 N Category:Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Created page with "Founder-acharya of Vedic scientific Paradigm" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3911:39, 27 March 2026 diff hist +38 N Category:Nature of the Absolute (ashraya) Created page with "10 10" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3911:39, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Cognition of reality (mukti) Created page with "9 9" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3811:38, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Values (nirodha) Created page with "8 8" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3811:38, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Management (isha-anukatha) Created page with "7 7" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3611:36, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Organization of maintenance (manvantara) Created page with "6 6" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3511:35, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Activity (uti) Created page with "5 5" current Tag: 2017 source edit
• 11:3311:33, 27 March 2026 diff hist +36 N Category:Content of consciousness (poshanam) Created page with "4 4" current Tag: 2017 source edit