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Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

Radhanath Swami

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
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Attraction Determination Fierce God Ornament
Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
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Arrogant Attraction God Humility
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
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we’ve forgotten that it’s our essence.
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Essence God Love Nature Ourselves Purity
Lord’s love manifests in this world as compasssion.
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Compassionate Love Manifestation 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
Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.
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Expression Love Necessary Remember
To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.
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Aspiration Association Gift God Ultimate
Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.
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Performance Responsibility Word
Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.
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Population Problem Reality
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.
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Achievement Age Challenge God Love Principle
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
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
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
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Condition Humble Life Perfection Sincere
Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
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Humility Substance Surrender
In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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Condition Lose Nature Understand Value
Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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Goodness Negative Positive Pride
If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.
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Desire God Miracle Obstacle Power Strong
Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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Carry Heart heavy Himself
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
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Devotee Impression Poverty Way
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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Beyond Faith God Intellectual Logic
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.
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Enjoyment Frustration Suffering World
Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.
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God Humble
If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.
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Activity Leadership Sin Standard Strict
COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others.
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Coperate Sacrifice Selfless Willing
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.
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Consciousness Happiness Purity
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

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