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Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

Radhanath Swami

The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.
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Devotion Humility Knowledge Service Transcend
Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.
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Dance Meditation Therapy Togetherness
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
Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.
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Depression God Humility Intense Reality
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
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Bondage God Lose Surrender Thinking Willing Yourself
A devotee’s life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
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Faith Increase Religious
The 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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Essence Genuine God Religion True
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.
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Environment Influence Leadership Life Religious Spiritual Vote
Renunciation means death of false ego.
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Death Ego Fake
Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
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Compassionate Mindset Reality Soul
The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.
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Greatness Inspirational Leadership
Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.
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Deep Freedom Life
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
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Detachment God Need Offering
Speak the essence and live by it.
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Essence Live Talk
Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.
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Gratitude Leadership
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
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Gratitude Heart Select Yourself
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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Body Breathe Determination Escape Life Name Yourself
A virtue which is divine is humility.
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Divine Humility Virtue
A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.
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Essence Greatness Situation Soul
If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
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Fools Humility Praise
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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Compassion God Kindness Live Love Reality Religion
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
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
Humble people dont get Offended easily.
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Easy Humble Offend People
Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.
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Capacity Definition Forgiveness Love
The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.
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Diversity Religion Spirituality Stand Understand
Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
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Humility Substance Surrender

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