When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
RADHANATH SWAMII 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.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.
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Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
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Application of humility is service.
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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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The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.
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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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We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.
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Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, “Guru Kripa”, it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.
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Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.
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The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.
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Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
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A virtue which is divine is humility.
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We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.
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You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
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By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.
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The flip side of happiness is suffering.
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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.
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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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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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The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.
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Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
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“What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, “I am Great”. “
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Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
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Compassion is an essential element of love.
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Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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