If you look towards God, you will see there is only light. However, if you look away from God, then you are going to see darkness caused by your own shadow. Man creates evil, and evil creates sufferings.
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Radhanath Swami implores us to make a significant difference in the world
“The world is in desperate need of purification of heart.” – Radhanath Swami Even in the name of religion, there is hatred, terrorism, sectarianism and envy; what then to speak of secular society? There is pollution all over, as an expression of pollution within the people’s minds. So whether you are engineers, doctors, business… Continue reading Radhanath Swami implores us to make a significant difference in the world
Radhanath Swami on ‘Personal Parmatma’
“As Paramatma, he, Krishna, is personally yours, 24 hrs a day.”- Radhanath Swami There are unlimited living beings. Consider every insect, plant, tree, grass, animal, bird, microbe, bacteria, and germ! How many living beings are there in the body? We can’t even count those. What to speak of entire earth! What to speak of… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on ‘Personal Parmatma’
Radhanath Swami on ‘Mosquito Airlines’
“The miracles of nature are the miracles of God. There’s a philosophical lesson in every situation of life if we’re receptive.” – Radhanath Swami We could be thrilled when we feel mosquitoes biting us, if we meditate on what an incredible invention it is. The mosquito flies, and man has made airplanes. For airplanes, we need runways, we… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on ‘Mosquito Airlines’
Radhanath Swami on ‘Oneness in the Bhakti tradition’
Every living being is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Krishna, like a sunray to the sun. Qualitatively a sunray gives heat and light like the sun, but quantitatively the sunray is always just part of the sun; it’s never the sun. And the sunray is always coming from the sun; the sun never comes from the… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on ‘Oneness in the Bhakti tradition’
Radhanath Swami on Pain-ananda
Sometimes, the ecstasy of love is in pain. But when in spiritual love that pain is in ecstasy. When pain is due to frustration or ego or frustrated selfish desires, that pain is pain. But when pain is born out of unselfish compassion, with a spirit of service and love, that pain is anand. –… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on Pain-ananda
Radhanath Swami on the nature of human ego
“This is the nature of human ego: we become so filled with anxieties when we have expectations, because the nature of this world is that you always don’t get what you expect.” – Radhanath Swami If we expect good weather and it is bad weather, it’s very disturbing. If we expect respect from our… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on the nature of human ego
Radhanath Swami speaks on how the creation of God is inconceivable
There is nothing that God can’t do. He can create the entire cosmos with all the universes and the sun planet which is millions and millions of times bigger than the earth. And it’s just shining; it’s not that the sun has some pipes coming from
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’