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.
RADHANATH SWAMIIf someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world – as Gandhi said – I couldn’t contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.
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Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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When one’s eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.
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Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.
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The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.
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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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In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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Lord’s love manifests in this world as compasssion.
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Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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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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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.
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If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.
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Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
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The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.
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