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Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.

Radhanath Swami

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
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Captivity Life Mindset Serious Spiritual
Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.
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Devotion Enthusiasm Life Service
If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.
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Conscious Forever People Platform Service Wonderful
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.
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Connection Essence Face God Opportunity Seek Situation Trial Wisdom
When one’s eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.
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Eyes Love See Slave Spiritual
Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
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Arrogant Attraction God Humility
What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.
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Appearance Blessing Connect Curse God Simplicity Situation
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
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Devotee Impression Poverty Way
Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.
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Action Mindset Principle Tolerance Word
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
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Condition Humble Life Perfection Sincere
In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.
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Deep Pain Pleasure Source World
Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
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Encouragement Forgiveness Movement Spiritual
By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.
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Desire God Hear Heart Ourselves
Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.
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Crying Forever God Temporary World
The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.
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Creation Glory Joy Soul
Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.
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Oneself Relationship Serve Sincerity
Application of humility is service.
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Application Humility Service
Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.
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Deep Enjoyment Love
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.
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Feeling Food Hungry Need Wisdom
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
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Heart Love Mindset Pleasure
I we are looking for God or an opportunity to learn and enrich our lives in every situation, we will find that, but if we are looking for how am I enjoying or suffering, we are subject to endless frustration.
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Enjoyment Frustration God Learning Opportunity Suffering
For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.
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Death Devotee End Liberty Open
Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
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Humility Substance Surrender
Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
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Attraction Determination Fierce God Ornament
The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It’s really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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Cleaning Ego Follow God Heart Patience Voice
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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Interest Movement Myself Qualification
Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.
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Humble Prayer Religious

Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.

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Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.

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