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Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

Radhanath Swami

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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Change Finding Fulfill Life Meaning Search Spiritual
If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.
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Feeling Heart Opportunity Ourselves Qualification Serve
Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.
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Carry Heart heavy Himself
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
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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Cleaning Ego Follow God Heart Patience Voice
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
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Captivity Life Mindset Serious Spiritual
Lord’s love manifests in this world as compasssion.
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Compassionate Love Manifestation World
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
Speak the essence and live by it.
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Essence Live Talk
When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.
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Consciousness Honor Respect Tolerate Yourself
Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.
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Action Mindset Principle Tolerance Word
Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
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Devotional Heart Humility Service
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
Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
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Give Up Heart Ourselves
The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.
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Fall Fall In Love God Feeling Yourself
When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
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Attachment Honor

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