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Spiritual Activist | New York Times Best selling author | Philanthropist. Account run by the Office of His Holiness Radhanath Swami.

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Radhanath Swami
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Bhakti yoga is aimed at awakening our true self. That true self is eternal, and our very essence is to love.
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Happy 125th appearance day Srila Prabhupada! #SrilaPrabhupada
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"Krishna tells Arjuna in the Gita whether you win or lose that is not important. What is important is that you perform your duty with the right attitude."
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" The Bhagavad Gita explains two of the greatest impediments to spiritual process is egoism and laziness."
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“When I was a little boy, my mother taught me a lesson. She always emphasized, more than anything else, the quality of gratitude. She told me, “If you are not grateful for whatever you have, you receive, you can never be happy.
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In reality, spirituality is meant to clean our hearts.
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Radhanath Swami
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True love is to see the equality of all beings.
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"In giving, we receive."
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The more we give peace to others, the more we will find peace ourselves.
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"We cannot really sustainably clean up the ecology of the world until we learn to clean up the ecology of the heart."
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Radhanath Swami
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His Holiness Radhanath Swami invited to attend the inauguration of the temple of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. #rammandir #ayodhya #radhanathswami
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"The material world is inherently sacred because it is part of the energy of the supreme person. It's filled with limitless opportunities for liberation or, if we choose, for distraction."
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Radhanath Swami
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"We should be prepared to humble ourselves, to admit our faults and honestly address them and learn to grow beyond them."
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Radhanath Swami
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A happy person is one who is very pleased to see someone else doing better than him or herself.
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Radhanath Swami
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If you sincerely want to love God, you must learn to forgive.
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Radhanath Swami
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We may not be able to control the environment around us, but we can control our perceptions and our interactions with others. How we interpret our experiences determines what our experiences will be.
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"When we forget the love of God within us, then we become vulnerable to the ego and arrogance."
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"The practice of bhakti yoga, in which thoughts, words and actions are engaged in a spirit of devotion to the supreme, transcends the modes and is beyond matter and time."
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"Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy;but with love, compassion, humility and devotion. This is the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita."
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Radhanath Swami
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"People don’t really love us for what we accomplish. People actually love us for our character and goodness."
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"A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness."
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Radhanath Swami
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"Practising yoga strengthens the intelligence and empowers us to neglect our bad qualities."
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"The nature of one who has ultimate love for God, and the nature of one who can give that love to others–is that he/she has no false ego."
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"Love means reciprocation. Therefore, you can't love buildings or cars or money because there is no reciprocation."
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"Don't measure the law of karma with eyes that see only the immediate. We have to take a broader view: we are eternal souls in need of healing and focus in order to regain our spiritual health."
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Radhanath Swami
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"Acts of kindness offered to others tend to attract acts of kindness to ourselves."
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Radhanath Swami
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Diwali is a festival of the heart. Our hearts, like the dark moon night they have been living in darkness for so long. With the lamps of our gratitude, with the lamps of our love we offer them to welcome our beloved Lord back home in our hearts.
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Radhanath Swami
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Maintaining our principles, despite distractions or temptations or fear is called character.
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Radhanath Swami
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“God is within your heart. When you meet him there, you will see that he is everywhere.”
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Radhanath Swami
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"The more you take the less you have. The more you give the more you have. This is the spiritual principle."
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"My spiritual teacher taught me a precious value that I will never forget - Not to judge others in their struggles, to look for the good in others, and to be a kind well-wisher."
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Radhanath Swami
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His Holiness Radhanath Swami has taken over 10,000 devotees on pilgrimage to Jagannath Puri. Earlier today he was helping cook and expressing his gratitude to the volunteers who are working tirelessly to cook for all the attendees. #pilgrimage #jagannathpuri #radhanathswami
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Radhanath Swami
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"Selfless love is offered in a spirit of gratitude, enthusiasm, and courage. It gives one the kind of inner satisfaction that makes all selfish pleasures pale by comparison."
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Radhanath Swami
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"True intelligence is when we find our happiness within."
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"My teacher once said, 'Philosophy without good character is practically useless.' Good character is a necessary foundation for meaningful, sustainable relationships and for a healthy community."
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Radhanath Swami
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The chain of bad habits is very soft; you feel it only when it’s too late to get out.
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Radhanath Swami
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Radhanath Swami Shares his memory of meeting holy saints in Ayodhya in 1971 ahead of the grand temple opening in Ayodhya on the 22nd of January. @narendramodi For full video #rammandir #ayodhya #radhanathswami
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Radhanath Swami
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The miracle of being an instrument of kindness is the most powerful of all.
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Whatever we are doing, we should do with our full heart, with our full consciousness because it is in the service of God and humanity.
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Radhanath Swami
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"A really successful person is one who sees a positive opportunity in every situation in life."
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"Happiness is a state of the heart, it's not a state of what we accumulate externally."
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"The Gita had been spoken on a battlefield because life is a battle. Life is a battle ,where evil perpetually attacks good and our sacred ideals are destined to be tested."
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Radhanath Swami
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“Life is a gift to love God” His Holiness Radhanath Swami
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Radhanath Swami
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“Meditation is meant to awaken the true potential within all of us”
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Radhanath Swami
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Anything done with integrity and sincerity is never small.
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Radhanath Swami
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"If you are sincere, your faith will be strengthened and purified in the face of testing circumstances."
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Radhanath Swami
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"There are so many things in life we are powerless to change: the way others treat us, the weather, the course of diseases and many other things. Challenges of all sorts cross our path no matter how hard we try to avoid them. Still, we have freedom in how we respond."
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"The higher our ideals are and the more we are willing to live by them, the more meaningful and fulfilling our lives become."
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"True knowledge is to see every human being with equal vision."
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Radhanath Swami
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"Philosophy without good character is practically useless."
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"Our true success is how we sustain our values."
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“Everything is changing constantly at every moment. But the real beauty of life is, throughout these changes, the underlying current of truth never changes. If we connect ourselves to the beauty of this truth, we can be stable through all the unpredictable uncertainties of life.”
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Radhanath Swami
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As faith deepens, we look for a deeper exchange of love with God.
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Radhanath Swami
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"Diwali is a festival of the heart. Our hearts have been living in darkness for so long. With the lamps of our gratitude, with the lamps of our love, we offer them to welcome our beloved Lord back home in our hearts. This is Diwali, a time to celebrate the Lord's grace."
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Radhanath Swami
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"The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders." His Holiness Radhanath Swami
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Radhanath Swami at Vatican City 🙏🏻 #Radhanathswami #Rns
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Radhanath Swami
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“When I was a little boy, my mother taught me a lesson. She always emphasized, more than anything else, the quality of gratitude. She told me, “If you are not grateful for whatever you have, you receive, you can never be happy.“
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"Where there is greatest necessity, there is the greatest opportunity to serve."
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"Life leads us on many journeys, and all of them are ultimately meant to lead us to the divine love that lies within our soul. Understanding this is true wisdom."
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"The greatest love is expressed in the form of compassion, being sincerely a well-wisher to others."
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Life is a gift to love God.
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"What makes spiritual relationships so fulfilling is that they connect us to the source of all pleasure and love."
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Radhanath Swami
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Images of Radhanath Swami visiting his dear friends, students and sacred places in the holy land of Vrindavan. #vrindavan #holyplaces #radhanathswami
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Radhanath Swami
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"The most revered practice leading to an ecstatic love for the supreme is kirtan – chanting hymns, prayers, or the holy names of God."
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"To love means to serve."
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"Education could be greatly valuable, but what makes it so beneficial to the world is the values and the character of the people who have that education."
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Radhanath Swami in meditation @govardhan_ecovillage .
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"If we do good for others, goodness will come to us. If we cause harm to others, harm is going to come to us."
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“Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom he loves.”
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"Those who see the world as a sacred creation have access to a uniquely powerful tool of inner and outer transformation."
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"To experience God’s love and to actually understand our love for God is the greatest wealth."
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Earn with integrity and spend with compassion.
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“The more we give peace to others, the more we will find peace ourselves.”
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Sangha is a Sanskrit word that means to be in the company of enlightened people or people that are on the path to enlightenment. When we are in the company of such people we are able to feel uplifted and encouraged to work on our weaknesses and focus on our strengths
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"The key to success is to have a simple heart."
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"Divine love is very rare. But the supreme person, gives it easily to those who sincerely want it more than anything else."
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"The Bhagavad Gita explains two of the greatest impediments to spiritual progress is egoism and laziness."
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Radhanath Swami
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"If we cannot find happiness within ourselves, we cannot find any lasting, substantial happiness anywhere else."
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Radhanath Swami
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To have loving relationships, we must first understand what true love is.
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"A true friend is one who will be there at both our best and worst times."
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Through the wonderful histories of Lord Shri Krishna, it is revealed to us how we can also become His devotees through compassion, bhakti and dedication. Wishing a Happy Janmasthami to you and your families.
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Radhanath Swami
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Journey within; there you will find all peace, all joy, all love.
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“Wherever there is life, the soul is present, and the soul is a part of the supreme soul.”
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"A true guru is not one who claims to be God. A true guru is one who claims to be a humble messenger of God."
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“If we are not happy within our hearts, we can never be happy no matter what we have.”
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"The happiest things in life are the simplest things."
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"Our free will can convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse. To transform a crisis into an opportunity, is true wisdom."
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“True wisdom is to see all beings with equal vision.”
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"A clean heart makes everything clean."
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"It is impossible to make a sustainable change in society without a corresponding change in one’s own behaviour, values and philosophy." - His Holiness Radhanath Swami 🙏 #Radhanathswami #wordsofwisdom #rns
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"Spiritual life is the science of cleansing the heart and tasting the joy of living in harmony with God, each other and nature."
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"Be active in the world, but rise above all selfish misconceptions by choosing to keep the roots of your values sheltered in the soil of integrity and grace."
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"A true yogi is one who lives with the highest human conduct."
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Human life means a life of gratitude, and we can express our gratitude to Mother Nature by respecting all life.
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"When I was in the Himalayas, I found it fascinating that I could contemplate the nature of human relationships when humans were so far away. People can bring us the brightest of joys or the darkest of sorrows. They can elevate or degrade us, enlighten or bewilder us."
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