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Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

Radhanath Swami

You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
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Devotee Master Scripture See Sight
The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.
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Greatness Inspirational Leadership
A virtue which is divine is humility.
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Divine Humility Virtue
When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.
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Responsibility Selfish Yourself
Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
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Existence Expression Limitation Love Spiritual Wonderful
Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
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Devotional Heart Humility Service
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
In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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Condition Lose Nature Understand Value
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.
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Consciousness Happiness Purity
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
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Devotional Heart Material Ourselves Service
Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.
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Absorb Consciousness Performance Simplicity
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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Acceptance Achievement Heart Himself Impression See Touch
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
The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one’s devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.
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Advance Devotion Greatness Humble Spiritual
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
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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Earth Honor Spirituality
Essence of humility is unity.
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Essence Humility Unity
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
Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
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Fight Habit Understand Vice
When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.
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Acceptance Position Yourself
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
Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service.
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Death God Important Service
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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Atmosphere Civilization Standard
Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.
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Life Service Spiritual
Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.
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Bliss Devotion Drowning Life Stone Taste
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
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

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