Many times people visit amusement parks, stand in lines and pay so much money just to see a robotically-animated historical personality deliver a speech. Why do people stand in a line? All around them are so many people blinking their eyes, moving their hands and speaking. What’s going on inside…
Tag: Illusion
Entangling Web
The network of material illusion has been created with great sophistication. Every time we deviate from the principle of servitude, we become more and more entangled in the complexities of material bondage. It is a vicious cycle. Every thought, word and deed, performed in an…
The Quest for Truth
Sometimes it is said that man is a rational animal. Now, if you take away the rationality, man is an animal. Now, what does it mean to be rational? Rational means to be able to discriminate what is truth. If we do not live for the truth, if we do not live on the basis… Continue reading The Quest for Truth
Perceive Everything in Truth and Reality
‘Avidya’ means ignorance, and this is the greatest disease on earth. Just as disease has its symptoms, ignorance has its symptoms: lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy. And these things are…
Radhanath Swami on Austerity
It is factually by the empowerment of the Supreme Lord that we can make any advancement on the path of liberation. If a devotee is thinking that he/she has a certain qualification which is very conducive to…
Radhanath Swami on Real Unity
Unity of individual souls is very difficult in this world. There have been many attempts, but as long as we have separate interests our unity is superficial, artificial and has no real substance.Take for example the United Nations…
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…
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