Life Events

Because life is meant for elevating our consciousness and gaining release from the cycle of birth and death, the Vedas sanctify major life events with religious ceremonies. These ceremonies serve to remind us of life’s spiritual purpose.

The Vedas specify functions to perform at these major life events: conception, birth, when the child receives a name, when the child takes its first solid food, the start of education, spiritual initiation, marriage, and death.

Sex and Sexuality

The material energy degrades the wonderful qualities we souls possess in our pure state. Our greatest quality is our natural love for Krishna. In touch with the material energy, that love turns into lust, especially in the form of sexual attraction.

The Vedas explain that sexual desire is a powerful rope that binds us to the material world, life after life. And since human life is meant for freeing ourselves from this world and returning to Krishna, dealing with sexual desire is a crucial part of any spiritual path.

Social System

On the premise that human life is meant for spiritual progress, the Vedic literature presents as the ideal social system one that trains people, materially and spiritually, in four occupational groups and four stages of life. These occur naturally throughout the world and are not based on the family one is born into. The four occupational groups are the intellectuals, the governing/martial class, the mercantile/productive class, and the working class.

World Religions

At the beginning of creation, Krishna spoke the knowledge contained in the Vedas, which are meant for all humanity. The Vedas reveal the nature of reality, including both the material and the spiritual realms, and carefully guide human beings toward the goal of love of God.