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 SWAMIThe word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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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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Humility is all about being truthful and honest.
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If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.
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Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.
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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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Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.
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We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.
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Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
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Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.
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Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.
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To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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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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Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.
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