Top 100 Radhanath Swami Quotes
#1. 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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#2. We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.
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#3. 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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#4. The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.
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#12. Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.
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#13. His eyes twinkled as he smiled. "Love everyone, serve everyone, and feed everyone. Serve like Hanuman without selfishness and greed. This is the key to realizing God.
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#14. Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.
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#15. The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
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#16. Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.
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#17. Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
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#18. Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.
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#19. Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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#21. 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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#22. Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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#23. Krishna tells Arjuna in Gita whether you win or lose that is not important, what is important is that you perform your duty with right attitude.
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#24. Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.
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#27. Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.
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#30. 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
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#31. According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.
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#32. Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
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#33. We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.
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#34. 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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#35. 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.
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#36. 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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#37. Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.
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#38. Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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#39. Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
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#43. Whenever you possibly can, sustain the flow of the Holy Name. To repeat His Name is to be in His presence. If you associate with the Supreme Friend, He will reveal His true beauty to you.
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#44. A tree will stand in the scorching sun to give shade to others. A tree will bear the freezing cold of the winter and give wood to create heat for all. A tree will silently even give up its life to give its body to build a house for others to stay comfortably. That is tolerance.
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#46. Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.
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#48. You have too many gurus in this country. They have told you what to do, what to think, what to practice. They are the dictators.
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#49. In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
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#50. To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.
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#51. 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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#52. "I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility.
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#53. The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna
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#54. 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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#55. Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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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#58. When there is love in our heart, only love will come out.
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#59. Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
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#60. If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.
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#62. 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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#65. Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.
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#66. There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
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#67. We were fine originally and lost that fine-ness. That's when we became defined.
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#68. When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.
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#70. 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.
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#71. To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.
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#72. Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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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#78. For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.
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#79. The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
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#80. Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.
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#81. 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.
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#82. The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
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#85. In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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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#88. Mother Ganges teaches us that if we want to attain the sea of our aspiration, we must persevere in our goal and never be discouraged by the inevitable obstacles that come on our path.
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#89. 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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#90. 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.
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#91. When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
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#92. 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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#93. 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.
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#94. When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.
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#95. COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others
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#96. Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
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#97. 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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#98. Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense.
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#99. Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
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#100. 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.
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