Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.
RADHANATH SWAMIYou can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.
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Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
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Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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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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A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.
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There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
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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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What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.
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Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.
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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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Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
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A virtue which is divine is humility.
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Humility is all about being truthful and honest.
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To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
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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.
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The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.
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Application of humility is service.
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The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.
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Renunciation means death of false ego.
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The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
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Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.
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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.
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Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
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We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.
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To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.
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In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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