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

Radhanath Swami

To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
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Depression Humility Measurement Spirituality
The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna
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Auspicious Close Ourselves Situation
To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.
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Attitude Humble Service
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
Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.
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Close Pass Time
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.
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Hear Master Mercy Spiritual Strict Understand
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Community Humility Need Nourish Protection
Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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Goodness Negative Positive Pride
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
Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
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Conscious Enjoyment Material
COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others.
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Coperate Sacrifice Selfless Willing
Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.
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Action Mindset Principle Tolerance Word
“What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, “I am Great”. “
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Greatness Live Value Worth
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
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
If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God’s children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we’re only experiencing its material conception.
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Beautiful Body Children Concept Engage Experience God Live Material Purpose See Temple
Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
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Disturb Faith Live People Reality Responsibility Speak
When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.
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Heart Love Ourselves Willing
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
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Gratitude Heart Select Yourself
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.
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God Humility Offering Ourselves
When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.
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Consciousness Honor Respect Tolerate Yourself
Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
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Ego Illusion Strength Thinking
The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
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Better Place Transcend Way World
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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Desire Person Responsibility Thinking
Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.
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Gratitude Humility
Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service.
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Death God Important Service
The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
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Heart Humble Oneself Surrender Word

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