Radhanath Swami’s Article on Love Gives, Greed Takes

People are passing out of colleges with all sorts of big, wonderful, fancy degrees but they are greedy. They use all of their big education simply to fulfill their greed. Their greed is never satisfied; they are frustrated and make a mess out of the society. Is that what we want?

Our consciousness by nature is eternal, full of knowledge and full of joy. In a real joyful state based on truth, there can be no greed. Those with real joy and love only want to share that joy and love with everyone else. The nature of love is to give; the nature of greed is to take. The real pleasure is in giving the love of our hearts. That love is already in our hearts. But our consciousness is impure. We are not aware of who we are.

Through the process of purification, our consciousness becomes clear; it becomes transparent. Through that transparent consciousness, we can experience God at every moment. And when we perceive that God at every moment, we realize–not that we feel or we believe or we  think–that whether someone calls that God Allah or Jehovah or Krishna or Rama or Buddha—God is the supreme object of love and the source of all that exists.

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39 comments

  1. Thank you so much HH Radhanath Maharaj ji for inspiring us with your wonderful realizations & teachings..

  2. Hare krsna ..All glories to HH Radhanath swami…

    each time i read any message of Maharaj…I feel lot of inspiration and it makes me feel very guilty of my self for not being able to properly follow the instructions to attain bhakti…I am very thankful to the devotees for their thankless service for putting such articles online…..

  7. Radhanath Maharaj has such profound realizations on every emotion, virtue and priciple. Simply inspiring!

  11. Maharaj so aptly and simply defines love so that we may dovetail our love towards God with fuller and richer understanding

  12. “The nature of love is to give; the nature of greed is to take” – what an amazing statement of Radhanath Swami……

  13. From the life of HH Radhanath Swami I got conviction that God exists and our life should be dedicated for the service of GOD

  15. The quotes here are very much relevant to the present age. I liked the sentence where Swami says, ‘People are graduating out of colleges with big fancy degrees, but are full of greed.’

  16. The nature of love is to give; the nature of greed is to take. It makes things quite clear. Thank you for giving such lucide and clear understanding of such lofy and misunderstood tearms.

  18. HH Radhanath swami maharaj is the beacon light , to open our eyes and give us spiritual knowledge, which helps us to really become a true gentle men

  20. Now one can clearly distinguish between love & greed.When we feel like giving its love & when we think of just taking its greed.All glories to Radhanath Swami MAHARAJ!!!!

  25. Mahatma Gandhi once said i have nothing new to teach to this world. Truth and non violence are as old as the hills.
    Radhanath Swami is saying much the same on love, God and spirituality.
    I love his articles, they come from the core of his heart.

  26. IT will be nice for all of us to try to give a little bit of love than to expect it from otherss. Thanks you, Maharaj for that insight into greed…..

  27. HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj gives us a very straight forward understanding of the realities as they are, question is do we want to make that difference before it is to late.

  29. True! All that modern education produces is nothing but a bunch of people whose greed is never satisfied.We have seen umpteen examlpes in recent history even in the corporate world – Enron, worldcom, Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros . All stoies of few individuals consumed with greed exploiting the larger mass.
    So, It is important to develop vaules of Love and Values of Giving than just taking. Thank you Radhanath Swami!

    You can check more on Radhanath Swami on http://www.radhanathswami.co.uk/quotes

  36. Radhanath Swami is very apt at bringing out the essence of all knowledge. The more I associate with his teachings I get amazed at the depth of his realization. I hope to try to understand these subject matters under his guidance.

    Please also check more about Radhanath Swami on:
    http://socialfront.in/

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