When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
RADHANATH SWAMICompassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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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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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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A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.
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If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.
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We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.
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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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Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.
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Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.
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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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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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If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
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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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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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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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Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.
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