Best of Quotes - Radhanath Swami

"Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy."

"Power brings along with it the responsibility to utilize it properly."

"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."

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

"We are all leaders to one degree or another. We all have our sphere of influence and the greater the sphere of influence, the greater our responsibility."

"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."

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

"Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help people’s faith and not to disturb it."

"Taking responsibility is to perform it properly with the proper attitude, behavior and words."

"Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform"

"Loving service is the means to show our gratitude"

"Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honoured by others"

"Struggle is the name of the game as long as we are in the material world"

"Science heals in retail & kills in wholesale"

"It is not the light that is needed in this world but the warmth because we will die out of cold but not our of darkness"

Quotes of Radhanath Swami

"Mercy means "to get what we do not deserve""

"Real intelligence does not mean the ability to explain material phenomenon better but the ability to distinguish between truth and illusion"

"You are where your mind is"

"Every decision must be made in harmony with what is actually the purpose of life"

"Simply change of situation or service can give us temporary satisfaction but not shelter"

"We are not here for happy material life, we are here for selfless service and shelter"

"Real knowledge is not theoretical"

"A person who finds faults in others is a person full of faults"

"People's criticizing others is an exhibition of their envy to GOD"

"Everything that we see in this material world is just reflecting our own consciousness"

"To love means to serve"

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

"If we see someone better than us in what we are recognized for as best at, we become envious of that person"

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

"The best people you can have friends as are those who are detached"

"Mood of Vaikuntha is that we want to see everyone excel more than us"

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"To make spiritual advancement we have to be very attentive in our dealings with our mind"

"The worst attraction is that which gives pleasure"

"Spiritual advancement without mind control is simply an illusion"

"Mind is ones biggest enemy when uncontrolled, but majority people put full faith on their enemy"

"By forgiveness we can have harmony with each other"

"You are accountable and responsible for every word, action & movement whether you are devotee or non-devotee"

"Harsh words once spoken, even if you beg forgiveness, still have the effect"

"Anger is like fire, it will burn all good qualities if not subsided in the initial stage"

"When you have a lot of material opulence, you think you deserve anything you want"

"Tapasya means to act according to the responsible occupation we may have in life but never to perform any activity unfavorable for spiritual advancement"

"The more we feed the laziness of our mind, the more it becomes strong"

"Material nature will record every detail. Every adjective, verb, noun, what our intention is - all is being recorded & will produce a reaction"

"Not a moment in human life passes that you are not accounted for"

"Surrender means to do anything at anytime without desire or expectation"

"Bhakti means to be free from enjoying spirit"

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

"Association can make us convince anything"

"A person in transcendental consciousness sees positive opportunity in every situation of life"

Radhanath Swami - Quotes

"We cannot control environment around us, but we can control our perception completely"

"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"

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

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

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

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

"When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually SELFLESS"

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

"In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain"

"Responsibility means to perform our service properly, with proper attitude, behavior and words"

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

"If you do some wonderful service & if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may bot be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service"

"To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life"

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

"In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness. (Material sense gratification is standard of civilization)"

"Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
Devotees should be HELPING AND FORGIVING"

"Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage"

"Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude"

"Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed"

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

"Service is the most beautiful expression of heart"

"If we think we have qualification, we don't even have a hope of getting qualification If children feel deeply loved, they become fearless and empowered by that love"

" Every word we speak or everything we do is an offering to Krishna or our Ego"

"If you think that you're better than any other devotee, there is something seriously wrong with your heart"

"Whatever Krishna does with us is to increase our quality of love for Him"

"Service attitude + enthusiastic listening = Improved spiritual condition"

"Real wealth that Krishna gives us it the fortune to be allowed to be enjoyed by Him, to serve Him, to be with His devotees "

"Our spiritual progress is depending on -our service attitude, our sincere chanting"

"In Krishna Consciousness nothing is ordinary. Everything and everyone is supernaturally surcharged with spiritual energy of the Lord"

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

"Service is the most beautiful expression of heart"

"If we think we have qualification, we don't even have a hope of getting qualification"

"If you think you know, no one can really teach you"

"If you think that you're better than any other devotee, there is something seriously wrong with your heart"

"How we interpret our experience determines what our experience will be"

"We should try to be strict with very humble and sincere intentions"

"We get experience not through mechanical devices but through our eagerness"

"Real vision is to see the invisibl, to feel the intangible and to achieve the impossible"

"Friendship is based on the spirit of sacrifice as an expression of love for the benefit of others"

"We should respect all living beings, whatever their state of counsciousness"

"If you have false pride, you're on your own against maya Essence of humility is unity"

"Having free time is not opulence; it is a danger We cannot be successful unless we have courage to fail"

"Failures build character A Mistake is only a mistake if we fail to learn from it"

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"Nature is speaking the highest glory of God at every moment if we just have the eyes and the ears to see and to hear"

" If children feel deeply loved, they become fearless and empowered by that love"

"A virtue which is divine is humility"

"Where there is disunity amongst devotees; there cannot be proper sankirtan"

"Our purification and degradation is based on what our mind and senses associate with"

"Taking vows does'nt bring us closer to God but keeping them does"

"We must be humble in our dealings with the vaishnavas, and the dealings with our family and every dealing. That's our austerity"

"The difference between spiritual and material is simply how a thing is being used"

"The whole purpose of material existence is to facilitae the conditioned souls to go back home, back to Godhead"

"The spirit of servitude is the real treasure of life When the lord gives you an order along with it comes the power to fulfill it if we take shelter"

"We must live our life moment by moment with integrity, with simplicity and honesty"

"Love is expression of our free will to please Krishna above and beyond everything else"

"To the proportion we realize that this material world is dangerous and a miserable place and I mist have Krishna's shelter now, I cannot wait, to that extent sound vibration of Krishna will awaken realization, detachment and Bhakt "

"Real victory is to conquer these vices within our heart through the sincere and selfless chanting of God's names
at everything"

"Surrender means the positive gesture of love that, "I'm yours"

"Difficulties are just the nature of the world, whoever we are"

"Hope can transcend all fear"

"Real humility is to have realization and the understanding that everything is the property of God"

"For one who sees a divine reason behind it, dishonour is more blissful than honour"

"The hate you have for someone destroys you a hundred times more than you can hurt that person"

"Champions make goals, Failures make excuses"

"You can actually invoke enthusiasm within if you have a purpose"

"Greed is lust for money.
 Envy is lust to hurt somebody.
 Anger is a lust for vengeance.
 Pride is a lust for prestige and distinction"

"Being impoverished doesn't mean you don't have anything. It means you don't claim anything"

"If you say everything is God's but you use everything for yourself, then you are thinking that you are God"

"At our level genuine humility means to aspire for genuine humility"

"Enthusiasm gives us power.
 Eagerness gives us power"

"The very foundation of our Vedic knowledge is our very character"

"Failure cultivates wisdom"

"Co-operation takes forgiveness, takes tolerance, takes respectfulness and it pleases Guru and Krishna"

"Faith in Krishna goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic"

" The greatest compassion is to help a person understand their eternal relationship with God"

"If you're proud, you're Prahlad fighting Hiranyakashipu without Krishna on your side. That is very difficult"

"Millions of people will come if you simply present Krishna as He is"

"We conquer our ego through humble service"

"Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy"

"Only a gentlemen will admit defeat when they are defeated"

"While we're dealing with the passing clouds, don't lose focus of Vrindavan Chandra"

"Service doesn't mean I wil do how I want, when I want. Service means whatever makes I want. Service means whatever makes you happy, Krishna"

"Humility is the perfection of Renunciation"

"When you have Krishna, you want everyone to have something better than what you have"

"You can conquer the whole world, the universe but if you cannot conquer your mind and senses, you are defeated in life"

"Surrender means to put your wants last"

"Maya means when we don't recognize a person's connection to Krishna"