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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.

Radhanath Swami

I we are looking for God or an opportunity to learn and enrich our lives in every situation, we will find that, but if we are looking for how am I enjoying or suffering, we are subject to endless frustration.
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Enjoyment Frustration God Learning Opportunity Suffering
To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.
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Creation Heart Life Purity Purpose
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.
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Break Empowerment Essence Religion Seek
Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.
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Consciousness Creation God Spirituality
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Community Humility Need Nourish Protection
When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
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Attachment Honor
What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.
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Character God Intention Quality Spiritual
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
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Bondage God Lose Surrender Thinking Willing Yourself
Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.
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Devotee Known Offend
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
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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Attachment Complete God Perfection Yoga
Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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Goodness Negative Positive Pride
If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.
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Force Love Responsibility
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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Achievement Attitude Consciousness Goal Humble Life Service
When one’s eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.
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Eyes Love See Slave Spiritual
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
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Desire Fake Humble Humility Practice

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 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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