Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.
RADHANATH SWAMIFamiliarity leads to lack of Gratitude.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
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In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.
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Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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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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In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.
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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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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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When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.
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Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
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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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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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Humility is practical application of knowledge.
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Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
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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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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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Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
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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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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It’s really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.
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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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When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.
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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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Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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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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To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
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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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