Radhanath Swami Quotes:

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.

Topics: Depressing, Real, Humility

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.

source: - "Unity Is Strength". Radhanath Swami's Lecture in Mumbai, www.radhanathswami.net.

Topics: Spiritual, Art, Attitude, Spiritual Strength, Art Of Loving

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

Topics: Soul, Trying, Enthusiasm, Acts Of Service

Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

Topics: Humility, Names, Sincerity, Chanting

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.

Topics: Religious, Dedication, Giving, Religious Experience

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Topics: Mother, Gratitude, Honor

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Topics: Compassion, Essentials, Elements

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

Topics: Selfish, Heart, Compassion, Agitate, Selfish Desire

If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.

Topics: Grateful, Heart, Opportunity

When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.

Topics: Heart

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

Topics: Beautiful, Mother, Reality

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

Topics: Spiritual, Humble, Humility, Devotee

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.

Topics: Love Is, Essence, Soul

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Topics: Ego, Weakness, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.

Topics: Sweet, Strong, Ocean

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

Topics: Creating, Spirituality, Consciousness

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

source: - Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House

Topics: Spiritual, Essence, Use

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna

Topics: Krishna, Situation

Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.

Topics: Spiritual, Order, Mercy, Great Faith

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

Topics: Opportunity, Frustration, Suffering, Opportunities To Learn

You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.

Topics: Spiritual, Eye, Scripture, Spiritual Masters, Devotee

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.

Topics: Mother, Teacher, Rivers, Cobras, Mother Nature

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

Topics: Oneness, Way, Spirit, Inclusiveness, Satisfying Work

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

Topics: Yoga, Perfection, Detachment

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

Topics: Spiritual, Lying, Being The Best

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

source: - Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Topics: Philosophical, Men, Organization, Dissection

A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

Topics: Important, Kind, Consciousness

Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves.

source: - Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Gratitude, Children, Humility, Devotion To God, Rise Above It

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Topics: Compassion, Essence, God Love, Bhakti

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

Topics: Spiritual, Character, Quality, Spiritual Masters

When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

Topics: Spiritual, Humble, Dust, Spiritual Masters

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

Topics: Real

Moon is like Soul. Clouds are like all the situations in our life, relationships, youth, etc. Wind is like the Time. Just like the wind moves the clouds, Time moves all the situations in our life. But the soul is always the same and not on the temporary situations. One who focuses on soul is a moon-like person....

Topics: Moving, Moon, Wind, Temporary Situations

A dog will recognize his master in whatever way he dresses. The master may dress in robes, suit and tie, or stand naked, but the dog will always recognize his master. If we cannot recognize God, our beloved master, when he comes in a different dress from another religion, then we are less than that dog.

Topics: Dog, Ties, Dresses, Suits And Ties

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

Topics: Responsibility, People, Way, Without Trust, Love Without Trust

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.

Topics: Essence, Forgotten, God Love, Pure Love

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

Topics: Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Force

Speak the essence and live by it.

Topics: Essence, Speak, Live By

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Topics: Names, Air, Water

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

Topics: Spiritual, Parent, Understanding

In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Topics: Spiritual, Journey, Practice, Devotion To God, Bhakti

In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

Topics: Believe, Two, Ego, Insecurity And Fear

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Topics: Spiritual, Father, Compassion, Selfless Love

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Religious, Community, Spiritual Leader

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

Topics: Heart, Giving, Mind

What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

Topics: Blessing, Essence, Appreciate

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.

Topics: Essence, Empowering, Spirituality

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

Topics: Mean, Tolerance, Mind

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. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.

Topics: Dirty, Heart, Voice

When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

Topics: Yoga, Water, Discipline, Conception, Clear Water

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

Topics: Leader, Inspire, Inspire Others

I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

Topics: Humility, Wish, Realization, Well Wishes

If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

Topics: Giving, Soul, Unity, Disunity

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

Topics: Soul, Mind, World, Mind Body And Soul, Innate

To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

Topics: Trying, Degrees, Finding Peace, Peace Within

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

Topics: Thinking, Essence, Gita, Devotee

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.

Topics: Heart, Opportunity, Essence

The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

Topics: Heart, Essence, Race

We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

Topics: Pain, Confusion, Judging

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Topics: Compassion, World, Lord

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

Topics: Humility, Humble, People, Offence, Stay Humble

Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.

Topics: Humility, Foundation

What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Topics: Heart, Humility, Sacrifice

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.

Topics: Humility, Humble, Perfection

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Topics: Humility, Community, Needs

The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.

Topics: Humility, Transcendental, Devotional

Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.

Topics: Humility, Humble, Krishna

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

Topics: Determination, Humility, Eye

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

Topics: Humility, Humble, Desire, False Humility

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

Topics: Humility, Expression, Ultimate

Application of humility is service.

Topics: Humility, Application

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.

Topics: Attitude, Mean, Humility

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

Topics: Humility, Fool, Praise

If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.

Topics: Humble, Humility

You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.

Topics: Humility, Home, Thinking, Devotee

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.

Topics: Sweet, Humility, Bhakti

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.

Topics: Giving, Miserable, Situation

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

Topics: Tests, Krishna, Passing

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Topics: Greatness, Hands, Instruments, Hands Of God

If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.

Topics: Ifs, Right Thing

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

Topics: Determination, Real, Character, Real Character

Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

Topics: Forgiving, Definitions, Definition Of Love

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.

Topics: Want, World, Birth

Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.

Topics: Christian, Kindness, Real, Instruments Of God

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

Topics: Struggle, Athlete, Stronger

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

Topics: Frustration, Suffering, World

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

Topics: Pain, World, Pleasure

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

Topics: Gratitude, Lack Of Gratitude, Familiarity

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

Topics: Association, God Love, Gift From God

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

Topics: Sacrifice, Compassion, Quality

A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Topics: Increase, Should, Exemplary, Devotee

Essence of humility is unity.

source: - Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

Topics: Humility, Essence, Unity

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.

Topics: Bhakti

Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them.

Topics: Opportunity, Looks, Grows

Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.

source: - Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

Topics: Humility, Arrogance, Lord

Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a misconception. The higher truth is: "This wife is God's beloved daughter, entrusted in my care. And the way I serve God is by giving her respect, protection, appreciation and empowerment. This is what God wants me to give his child."

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Daughter, Spiritual, Appreciation

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Topics: Grateful, Heart, Choosy, Grateful Heart

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

Topics: Responsibility, Accepting, Position

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

Topics: Loses, Values

In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company we keep is very important. Number two is our spiritual practice. Putting aside sacred time every day to make that journey within, to tune into the frequency of our true nature and the love and the grace that is within us. Number three is to try living with ethical, moral and spiritual values, which culminates in unselfish service.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Spiritual, Journey, People, Positive Influence

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

Topics: Mean, Sacrifice, Sake

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

Topics: Sweet, Heart, Humble, Very Sweet, Humble Heart

Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.

Topics: Gratitude, Humility, Symptoms

A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.

Topics: Heart, Humility, Differences

Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

Topics: Real, Population, Problem, Population Explosion

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

Topics: Spiritual, Mind, Serious

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.

Topics: Real, Mean, Compassion, Mind Body And Soul

Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

source: - "The Bhakti Way of Investing in the Ecology of the Heart" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

Topics: Spiritual, Heart, Thinking, Spiritual Leader, Carbon Dioxide Emissions

The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.

Topics: Joy, Soul, Beloved

True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Mean, Parent, Students

Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.

Topics: Humility, God Love, Natural

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Topics: Goes On, Shelter, Stones, Bhakti

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

Topics: Heart, Absolute Truth, Absolutes

The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.

Topics: World, Way, This World

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Topics: Mean, Ego, Renunciation

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

Topics: Reality, World, Cry

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

Topics: Focus, Principles, Attention

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

Topics: Karma, Suffering, Your Future

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Way, World, Expressing Love

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

Topics: Trying, World, Illusion, Trying To Be Happy

When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

Topics: Spiritual, Eye, Spiritual Love

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Topics: Suffering, Flip, Sides

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

Topics: Doors, Ends, Liberation, Devotee

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Topics: Compassion, Attachment, Detachment

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

source: - "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

Topics: Hate, Compassion, Universal Love

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Topics: Soul, Progress, Principles

When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.

Topics: Spiritual, Heart, Faithful, Spiritual Masters, Access

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.

Topics: Thinking, Frustration, Suffering, Surrender To God

I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and in India, various forms of Buddhism and Hinduism. Eventually, I came to the path of unconditional love and devotion to the one God, who in our tradition we call Krishna. I met my guru and became a swami. This allowed me to share that gift, which I consider to be a very deep universal expression of compassion.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Buddhism, Unconditional Love, Compassion

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.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Meaningful, Spiritual, World

The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

Topics: Responsibility, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

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.

Topics: Karma, Spiritual, Destiny

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.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Beautiful, Spiritual, Children

We have a mind, but we are the consciousness within the body and mind. I'm in my body but I am the eternal soul full of knowledge and bliss, unborn and undying. And the natural quality of the soul, uncovered from the ego and all our misconceptions, is unconditional love for the all-beautiful Lord.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Unconditional Love, Ego, Soul

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Topics: Mind, Possibility, Senses

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.

Topics: Falling In Love, God Love, Fallen

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Topics: Consciousness, Krishna

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Krishna

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.

Topics: Challenges, Age, Principles

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

Topics: Spiritual, Heart, Desire

Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.

Topics: Love Is, Enjoyment, Enjoyed

Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

Topics: Humility, Honest, Truthful, Being Truthful

If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong

Topics: Ifs

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

Topics: Fighting, Kali, Habit, Kali Yuga

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Topics: Compassion, Suffering, Instruments

We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Spiritual, Selfish, Choices

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

Topics: Heart, Devotional, Fries

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Topics: Strong, Giving, Desire, Strong Desire

We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If our children do not feel love they will not understand God’s love because the love of the parent is translated to the children as the love of God. When they feel their parents' love, they can actually begin to understand God’s love.

Topics: Children, Heart, Responsibility

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

Topics: Humility, Negative

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

Topics: Important, Bigs, Big Things

To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.

Topics: Spiritual, Love You, Want, I Want To Love You

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.

Topics: People, Credit, Benefits

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

Topics: Intellectual, Logic, Faith In God

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

Topics: Humility, Substance, Surrender, Bhakti

Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.

Topics: Expression, Remembrance, Expressions Of Love

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Needs, Hunger

There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in The Journey Home. I loved my family and they loved me, so making a choice so completely different from the life they knew was also a challenge. Not having material possessions or the security of a home and taking vows of celibacy for life were kind of natural for me, although they were also challenging. But I guess the greatest challenge for me was that I loved so many different spiritual paths.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Spiritual, Home, Journey

Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

Topics: Weed, Giving Up, Heart

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

source: - Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Eye, Heart, Thinking, Sufferers, Through My Eyes

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

Topics: Leader, Standards, Strict

To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

Topics: Humility, Checks, Advancing

When we awaken the love for God, that love naturally extends toward every living being. Also, the concept of Krishna and Radha, the masculine and feminine aspect of the one supreme God, was so inclusive that it touched my heart. So when Prabhupada came, I was already following his path. But it was when I saw his compassion, concern and deep wisdom, that I accepted him as my guru and decided to try and assist him. I felt that was where my real home was.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Real, Home, Heart

When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.

source: - Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Topics: Spiritual, Joy, Identity

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

Topics: Responsibility, Great Responsibility

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

Topics: Mean

According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

Topics: Motivation, Purpose, Sincerity

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

Topics: Mean, Offering, Giving

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

Topics: Dancing, Together, Kirtan

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

Topics: Real, Mean, Preaching

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Topics: Humility, Pride, Opposites

Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.

Topics: Giving Up, Mean, Pride

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

source: - "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

Topics: Spiritual, Religious, Prayer, Superficiality

Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.

Topics: Philosophy, Character, Development

Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility

Topics: Heart, Humility, Can Not

"What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". "

Topics: Thinking, Tiny, Littles

Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

Topics: Heart, Humility, Ornaments

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

Topics: Heart, Humility, Devotional

Humility is practical application of knowledge.

Topics: Humility, Application, Practicals

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.

Topics: Kings, War, Rights, Civil Right Movement

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

source: - "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

Topics: Father, Struggle, Long, Long Hours, Working Long Hours

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

source: - "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

Topics: Spiritual, Teaching, Essence, Spiritual Teaching

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

source: - "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

Topics: Song, Lying, Book

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

Topics: Humble, Humility, Superficial

"I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility.

Topics: Humility, Krishna, Lost

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Topics: Life Is Short, Duration, Kali, Kali Yuga

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.

Topics: Determination, Names, Body

When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

Topics: Consciousness, Krishna, Difficult

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

Topics: Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.

Topics: Humility, Opulence, Krishna

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

Topics: Anxiety, Objects

A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.

Topics: Mean, Essence, Soul

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

Topics: Way, Poverty, Wealth, Devotee, Not Impressed

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

Topics: Regret, Humility, Done

Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

Topics: Giving, Enthusiasm, Devotional, Eagerness

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

Topics: Responsibility, Selfless, Taking Responsibility

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

Topics: Attitude, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.

Topics: Spiritual, Sincerity, Masters, Spiritual Masters

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.