Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, “I am the ability in man and woman. I am the intelligence of the intelligent. I am the strength of the strong.” If we have a gift and if we think that it’s our own…
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Radhanath Swami on Gratitude
Gratitude is a divine virtue so important that practically no other divine virtues could exist without it. Spiritually grows like a seed within the field of our hearts. Balancing our lifestyle protects that seed; our spiritual practises of chanting God’s names…
The Mind is like a Mirror – Radhanath Swami
The mind is considered to be like a mirror. The soul is seen through this mirror of the mind. But if the mind is full of debris and dust—of lust, greed, anger, pride, envy and illusion—what do we see? We just see debris and dust. We cannot see…
Radhanath Swami on the Difference between Lust and Love
The difference between lust and love is that one is based on ignorance and the other on the truth, one is selfish and the other selfless. When we are under the misconception of, “I am this body and you are your body,” and when we are after the temporary flickering sensations…
How does the holy name purify us?
It is not that we are just chanting the holy names and therefore we are getting purified. We should understand how we are gettingpurified and why we are getting purified. Because Krishna is non-different from His name, Krishna’s name has sweet will…
Radhanath Swami on Fear
The controlling factor of the entire material existence is fear. Why? Where there is lust, there is fear. Kama, material desire, is like the other side of the coin with fear. We cannot have one side of the
Radhanath Swami Speaks on Social Problems
If we leave the kitchen in a mess, then we are actually sending an invitation to the cockroaches to come. In those dirty places, in that environment, they not only
Radhanath Swami on ‘Limitations of the Human Brain.’
For a human being to conceive of the universe is like a tiny insignificant ant to try to fathom the earth planet. Is that possible? How far can an ant travel in its life? Even if an ant goes on
Both the Path of Enjoyment and Renunciation are Artificial
The Supreme Lord, both when He came as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and when He came as Lord Krishna, taught us that the path to perfection is not to the path of denying the world. Both the processes of bhoga and