“You can only exploit a person who is attached to selfish enjoyment. You cannot exploit a person who is detached.”- Radhanath Swami How do you exploit someone? You give them the temptations, you bewildered their intelligence, and then you have them under your control. Or you create within their heart a great fear that… Continue reading Radhanath Swami says that the detached cannot be controlled
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Radhanath Swami on ‘Attracting Grace’
“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 endless selfish desires and fears,… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on ‘Attracting Grace’
A devotee of the Lord has no fear of Death
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…
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
Wild Jungles, Urban Predators – Radhanath Swami
In 1970 I lived for sometime in the forests of the Himalayas at river banks or under trees or in nice caves. There were snakes, scorpions, leopards, tigers, wild elephants and so many mosquitoes. One may think it is a very