“Grace is all-pervading, just like the sunlight is all-pervading, but we have become so habituated to live in dark places.” – Radhanath Swami For the treasure of divine love to awaken in our hearts, to overcome the ahankar, the false ego, and to free ourselves from the shackles of …
By performing pious karma, the limit that we can achieve is elevation to higher planets, where there is a longer life with less disease and less anxieties. But ultimately when the karma is exhausted, we are back in the same situation. And through various yoga processes we can have incredible supernatural powers…
The highest prayer is the prayer to become a selfless instrument in God’s hands. As Saint Francis prayed, “Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.” He prayed not to receive, but to give; to be freed of all selfishness and to be filled with selflessness. He prayed to be the servant. He prayed to see…
Whatever God does is ultimately a miracle for our pleasure. Even the punishments are ultimately for our pleasure even though they may cause pains in our bodies. Biologically, what is pain? Different nerve endings go through certain transformations that create signals, which come out as pain. It is an unbelievable creation…
The path of bhakti is supreme. When you love Krishna, Krishna agrees to be conquered by that love. Actually it is not that He just plays a game. He is actually conquered by the love of His devotees while simultaneously He is the Supreme conqueror of everything…
There’s always a battle between the higher and lower natures, both within the hearts of every living entity and the external world. For example, our virtuous or spiritual nature is always under attack by our lower nature. Propensity to do good activities is…
Death is compared to a cat and an ordinary person is like a mouse. When the mouse is in the mouth of a cat, it knows it is its destruction and so is exceedingly afraid and…
Who is spiritually advanced? Not someone who just gives sermons nicely. Anyone can speak the scriptures nicely if they have good education. But a spiritually advanced person is someone who not just…
There are 8,400,000 species of life within the world and each species of life has a particular power that makes it unique among all other species. Take the little worm. When we see the worm crawling in the ground we do not think so much about it. But can we crawl in the ground like the…