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Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Radhanath Swami

We can’t really digest food unless there’s hunger. So we can’t really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Feeling Food Hungry Need Wisdom
Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.
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Credit Give Up God Pride
The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
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Better Place Transcend Way World
Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
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Compassionate Mindset Reality Soul
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
Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
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Humility Substance Surrender
The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.
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Control Expression Ourselves Ultimate
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
Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
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Ego Illusion Strength Thinking
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
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.
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Attain Devotion Gift
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
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Captivity Life Mindset Serious Spiritual
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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Beyond Faith God Intellectual Logic
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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Language Mindset Myself Nature Observe Peace Talk
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
If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong
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Attack Material Wrong Yourself

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