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. Radhanath Swami More Quotes by Radhanath Swami More Quotes From Radhanath Swami Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally. Radhanath Swami expressions-of-love remembrance expression 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. Radhanath Swami grows opportunity looks An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles. Radhanath Swami stronger athlete struggle When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts. Radhanath Swami faithful spiritual heart Application of humility is service. Radhanath Swami application humility 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. Radhanath Swami differences humility heart 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. Radhanath Swami humility attitude mean Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility Radhanath Swami can-not humility heart Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility. Radhanath Swami surrender substance humility Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart. Radhanath Swami weed giving-up heart If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success. Radhanath Swami right-thing ifs 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. Radhanath Swami spiritual beautiful children I try to maintain balance and apply principles the best I can in my daily life. What is the difference between material and spiritual? We are taught that, "God is perfect, ultimately everything that comes from God is perfect." If we fail to recognize something's relationship with the ultimate source, we fail to recognize how to live and utilize things in harmony with God's grace. Radhanath Swami grace spiritual perfect I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance may be, they are every bit as renounced as monks because they have that spirit. The spirit of charity on a spiritual platform. The Bhagavad Gita explains that real wisdom is when we see every living being with equal vision. When we love God, we naturally love our neighbor as our self, as the Bible also tells us. Radhanath Swami real spiritual people 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. Radhanath Swami ego unconditional-love soul 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. Radhanath Swami journey spiritual home 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. Radhanath Swami 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. Radhanath Swami spiritual meaningful world I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences. Radhanath Swami unconditional-love spiritual teacher Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God. Radhanath Swami man god love peace
