Radhanath Swami Speaking on Frustrating Success

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  1. Success always leads to the want for having more success, unless it is attributed with gratitude to the Supreme Lord, who is mercifully making us the instruments in His hands!

  2. As Maharaj said in Material world everything is temporary , so same same way happiness is also for a short time. real happiness we get in the spiritual world. this material world world is a place of misery.

  3. This is very situation of this world..people are mad about money bu t even after getting that they are frustrated..out of anxiety …very profound article by Radhanath Swami..thanks

  4. This world is temporary therefore the fame and money in this world are also temporary.The temporary things will give us frustations/pains at the time when we aquire them and give us the same when it leave us.
    Thanks for sharing it.

  5. So many examples we see time and again…simply running after something external does not help us in any way….

    Only when we start looking inside our hearts, try to find the love for the Supreme Lord then we can be happy…

  6. Thank u Radhanath Swami for giving us the clear understanding of how material enjoyment can never satisfy one’s real need.

  7. Radhanath Swami has tried to show here the real picture of this material existence. Real happiness is in serving the Lord and His devotees.

  8. In conditioned life we all want to adore someone either be politician,
    musicians , writers , or players. Their charisma ends in due course of time. If someone is fortunate to hear from bonafide Guru about our eternal Real Hero” Lord Krishna” that can only bring the transformation of the heart and real happiness.

  9. very true. the condition of the modern day successful performers is like this. we can see these through the drug addiction and the suicide rates amongst them.. thank you for this article from Radhanath swami.

  10. Radhanath swami has putforth the harsh reality of materailistic success, let’s not run after it.

  11. One may go to any extent of success but is still unsatisfied and unhappy. But as soon as he takes Krishna’s and Guru Maharaj’s shelter his failure also turns to success. Jai Gurudev.

  12. We are searching all the time for that ever eluding happiness in objects and through satisfying our senses. Radhanath Swami’s articles guide us to realize where our quest for happiness lies.

  13. Radhanath Swami Maharaj has beautifully explained the way even happiness in this world is miserable!

  14. If people live a life artificially to show others, then there will be frustration. Better to find our natural love for God which is dormant within our hearts. Then we will be contented and happy.

  15. Yes, people are running for name and fame, ultimately since it is not possible all the time, people get frustrated.

  16. Radhanath Swami is so true we still continue to try and chew what has been already chewed.

  17. Without a higher truth one may lead sinful life that is what Maharaj is explaining with the eaxmples.

  18. In Bhagavad Gita Lord describes this material world as ‘ a house of misery and temporary’.No amount of wealth,fame, power will give us happiness.Radhanath Swami is giving us live example of this bitter reality.Spirituality is the only solution.

  19. This perfectly make sense. person spends the whole life chasing after mirages of this world and finally gets frustrated

  20. Real happiness is realizing ourselves as part of God , not in achieving name & fame in this temporary world.

  21. Real satisfaction something different —which can can not be full fill by any sort of enjoyment in this world–Thank you Radhanath swami maharaj for nice article.

  22. How illusory and misleading success in this world is! Thank you Radhanath Swami for stressing on what success really means.

  23. thank you radhanath swami for instructing again that material things cannot give happiness to spiritual entity as we are part parcel of Supreme spirit; only thing gives happiness is spirituality.

  24. Amazing !! that is the real face of material success it cannot satisfy anyone .Radhanath swami is revealing us what is real success through his lectures.

  25. Everybody is looking for real hero in their life, however in lack of God consciousness they are misguided and identify themselves with some one in this world.

  26. In a class I have heard Radhanath Swami use the phrase, “prisoners of success.” Interesting, isn’t it?

  27. Material opulence is a source of misery when you do not have it, when you have it and when you loose it. When you don’t have: there is hankering. More the passion more is the hankering. When you have it: People become envious, they always expect from you, want to exploit you and you are fearful to preserve it!! When you loose it: when attachement is broken its painful – very painful to mind and body. You lament. Abhijit Pr above, rightly points out – real success is happy & satisfied life. Krsna gives the peace formula in BG – ‘bhokta rama …’ ; ‘ananyas cintayanto mam…’

  28. It is true that money & fame doesn’t bring satisfaction of heart & happiness in life……

  29. So True! Great singer Michael Jackson died such a lonely death inspite of his big castle and popularity. Whats the use of such popularity that cannot give you peace and happiness in our life.

  30. Very true. You can see Obama was so adored before the election but in just 2/3 years his popularity is gone down like anything. After next 10 years hardly anyone will remember him.

  31. Thank you very much Radhanath Maharaj for showing us what is what is frustrating success.

  32. Somehow they make it to the top and get so many anxieties.

    Thats very true. Thank you Radhanath maharaj

  33. Like Radhanath Swami says, material success always attracts anxieties, whereas, any success in our spiritual endeavours brings us peace of mind & a tremendous sense of inner fulfillment.

  34. Radhanath swami maharaj focusing in this incidant about how we should be careful against name,fame,wealth in this mortal world and one should practice spirituality as a one pointed goal.

  35. Thank you Radhanath Swami. It is true that many people are just chasing the imaginary so called “success”, while they don’t even know that what real success is and therefore they are frustrated. Lord Krishna is the real Hero and he can reciprocate with all his fans to everyone’s satisfaction. These musicians were heroes for some but were unable to justify that role not being Krishna. Thank you for bringing up this very important point.

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