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The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

Radhanath Swami

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
Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.
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Humble Prayer Religious
Compassion is an essential element of love.
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Compassion Element Essential Love
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
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
When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.
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Heart Love Ourselves Willing
We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.
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Greatness Imitation Path Principle Progress
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
Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.
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Expression Love Necessary Remember
What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.
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Acceptance Achievement Heart Himself Impression See Touch
To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.
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Love Spiritual Yourself
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
Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.
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Consciousness Creation God Spirituality
Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.
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Oneself Relationship Serve Sincerity
We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.
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Compassionate God Instrument Suffering
For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.
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Death Devotee End Liberty Open
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 Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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Atmosphere Civilization Standard
Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
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Fight Habit Understand Vice
Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.
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Compassion Performance Quality Sacrifice
Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
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Encouragement Forgiveness Movement Spiritual
Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.
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Compassionate Instrument Preach
The flip side of happiness is suffering.
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Happiness Suffering
Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
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Conscious Enjoyment Material
Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.
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Best Life Spiritual Success
Humility is practical application of knowledge.
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Application Humility Knowledge Practice
The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
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Better Place Transcend Way World

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