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The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

Radhanath Swami

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.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Fulfill Generation Meaning Parents Search Spiritual Understand
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
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Attachment Body Compassionate Platform
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Community Humility Need Nourish Protection
When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Greatness Himself Instruction Master Reveal Serve Soul Spiritual Talk
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
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
Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.
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Gratitude Humility
Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.
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Deep Enjoyment Love
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
Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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Carry Heart heavy Himself
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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Existence Expression Limitation Love Spiritual Wonderful
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.
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Consciousness Happiness Purity
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
The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
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Heart Humble Oneself Surrender Word
Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
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Humility Substance Surrender
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.
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Hear Master Mercy Spiritual Strict Understand

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