Opposites

Opposites organize Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings through complementary and contrasting concepts, making it easy to understand subjects by examining their relationships, opposites, and natural comparisons.

These umbrella categories bring together themes such as acceptance and rejection, bondage and liberation, creation and destruction, truth and illusion, birth and death, material and spiritual, and many other paired or contrasting ideas found throughout the Vedic literature. By studying these polarities side by side, readers gain a deeper appreciation of Vedic philosophy and the principles that distinguish eternal spiritual reality from temporary material existence.

• Certain and Uncertain
• Controlled and Uncontrolled
• Difficult and Easy
• Enjoying and Renouncing
• Failure and Success
• Good and Bad Qualities
• Happiness and Distress
• Internal and External
• Manifest and Unmanifest
• Material and Spiritual
• Normal and Not Normal
• Perfect and Imperfect
• Personal and Impersonal
• Remember and Forget
• Same and Different
• Young and Old