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Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

Radhanath Swami

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.
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Act Enthusiasm Service Sincere Soul
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
Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.
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Performance Responsibility Word
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
The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
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Better Place Transcend Way World
Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.
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Bliss Devotion Drowning Life Stone Taste
In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.
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Focus Ourselves Relationship Transcend
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
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Desire Fake Humble Humility Practice
Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.
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God Greatness Hands Instrument
The flip side of happiness is suffering.
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Happiness Suffering
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.
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Ourselves Pain Progress Spiritual Suffering Way
Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.
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Compassionate Instrument Preach
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.
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Break Empowerment Essence Religion Seek
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
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
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Duration Food Habit Life
In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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Condition Lose Nature Understand Value
That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.
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Disturb Happiness Reality Truth
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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Fulfill Generation Meaning Parents Search Spiritual Understand
We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.
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Life Listening Message Sober Suffering
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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Atmosphere Civilization Standard
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
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Awakening God Preach Reality Serve
If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.
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Intention Ourselves Right Success
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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Devotee Known Offend
The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.
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Control Expression Ourselves Ultimate
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
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Attachment Body Compassionate Platform
Renunciation means death of false ego.
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Death Ego Fake
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

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