“Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.”

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.

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.

Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

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.

Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

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.

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

And we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.

And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there’s probably more of a chance than not that it’ll be a slower recovery on auto sales.