Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
RADHANATH SWAMIThe essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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Renunciation means death of false ego.
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Don’t let a breath escape from your body without Krishna’s name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
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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.
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Application of humility is service.
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Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.
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Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
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Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
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For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.
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The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one’s devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.
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The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna
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When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.
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Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
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I just didn’t know where I fit in – I didn’t seem to fit in my parent’s generation. I didn’t seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
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Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
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To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.
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The challenge of co-operation in today’s age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.
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“What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, “I am Great”. “
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I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world – as Gandhi said – I couldn’t contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.
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Compassion is an essential element of love.
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Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
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A devotee’s life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
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Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.
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Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.
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Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service.
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