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What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

Radhanath Swami

You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Greatness Home Material Thinking World
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Awakening God Preach Reality Serve
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
RADHANATH SWAMI

God Love Manifestation Purity Soul Source
If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Connection Essence Face God Opportunity Seek Situation Trial Wisdom
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Environment Influence Leadership Life Religious Spiritual Vote
Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Close Pass Time
Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.
RADHANATH SWAMI

God Greatness Hands Instrument
We can’t really digest food unless there’s hunger. So we can’t really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Feeling Food Hungry Need Wisdom
To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Depression Humility Measurement Spirituality
If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God’s children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we’re only experiencing its material conception.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Beautiful Body Children Concept Engage Experience God Live Material Purpose See Temple
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn’t qualify.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Interest Movement Myself Qualification
Speak the essence and live by it.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Essence Live Talk
What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Character God Intention Quality Spiritual
Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.
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Character Circumstance Development Growth Humility Reality Religion
When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Ego Impossible Limitation Strength Surrender Weakness Yourself
Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Attitude Expression Ourselves Religious Service

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