black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Radhanath Swami

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Devotional Heart Humility Service
Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Existence Expression Limitation Love Spiritual Wonderful
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.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Break Empowerment Essence Religion Seek
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 SWAMI

Interest Movement Myself Qualification
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Duration Food Habit Life
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.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Achievement Age Challenge God Love Principle
Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Foundation Humility Love Manifestation
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.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Bondage God Lose Surrender Thinking Willing Yourself
The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Control Expression Ourselves Ultimate
When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Greatness Himself Instruction Master Reveal Serve Soul Spiritual Talk
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Awakening God Preach Reality Serve
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Essence Genuine God Religion True
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Devotional Heart Material Ourselves Service
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.
RADHANATH SWAMI

God Humility Offering Ourselves
A virtue which is divine is humility.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Divine Humility Virtue
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.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Fulfill Generation Meaning Parents Search Spiritual Understand

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Radhanath Swami Quotes