Radhanath Swami

We're talking about enthusiasm in the service of God. How the service of God can only be when you understand what God wants, how can you serve him if you do not know what he wants?

To utilize whatever assets in this world there are for God's service, that is also simple living high thinking. For yourself, you need very little.

Through all these orders of life, there is a certain work prescribed to you in the service of the lord. When the paramhamsa stage is no work, you just sit down and remember Krishna and it’s the perfectional stage.

Is There Any Parallel to the Love of God? by Radhanath Swami

Just like you are a common man. I am a common man. We play so many different roles right within our own life. When you're at home, you're a father. When you're at home, you're a husband. Do you deal with your wife the same way you deal with your children? It's different.

Any place he went in the world, there were thousands of people waiting for him with garlands, with sumptuous foodstuffs providing him the most wonderful facilities. He accomplished a lot did he not? Because he had complete faith in the holy name of God.

Sometimes he gives you knowledge, sometimes he makes you forget and sometimes knowledge, remembrance, forgetfulness, all three of them, if you are sincere, they are the mercy of Krishna, for your spiritual advancement.

Whatever decision you make, if it is based on that sincere prayer, then the decision is perfect. You can know that hundred percent. There's never a reason to be in doubt.

When blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch and suffer.

As you approach Krishna, Krishna will reward you, reveal himself accordingly. We are simultaneously his children and his servants. According to the quality in which we accept those positions Krishna will deal with us exactly.

They may have to pay their karma when they perform such inappropriate activities; but because they are taking such an important responsibility, the Lord gives them special protection even in those conditions, he gives them purification but he personally often comes to deliver them.

But it is described if there is no one of such an exalted karma to take the seat of Lord Brahma, oftentimes Lord Vishnu himself accepts the position of Lord Brahma. So sometimes Brahma is also Vishnu tattva in essence.

Krishna particularly and specifically put Prahlada in the family of Hiranyakashipu just to glorify him for all time to come, because of what he endured as far as the tests and the tribulations.

If it is for a good purpose, you can justify the means with the ends, but in how you are acquiring the ends, you must within your own heart evaluate that you are doing it as honestly and as ethically as possible under those conditions.

Through that transparency of consciousness, we can perceive God, not only can we perceive God, but with a transparent consciousness, whatever we do in this world, we can do it with our full capacity.

It's like you have a disease and there are symptoms of that disease. The basic disease is ignorance, and the symptoms of that disease are what I was explaining before, lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride, and envy.

When we act, not in reference to our real nature, by engaging every one of our acts, in connection to our relationship with God, then everything we do is within the laws of karma, good karma, bad karma; good karma, bad karma; action reaction, but dharma is when we act according to our true essential nature.

What does it mean to surrender? Part of surrender means to live in the mode of suddha-sattva, pure goodness. That means to be in the mode of goodness but in the service of Krishna. Then it is no longer the mode of goodness, it is the transcendental platform of consciousness.

It’s all just illusory and temporary. The only position that will make us happy is when we are in a natural purified condition of love of God.

According to what we tune into we access that frequency. Meditation, kirtan, these spiritual practices help us to tune in to grace.

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto, always remember me. Lord Chaitanya embraced him. He said, “You are the true knower of the Bhagavad Gita.” Because its purpose is to remember Krishna with love in whatever we do. He had that hunger in his heart, that hunger to please the Lord.

During these festivals, it brings devotees together to develop deeper friendships and deeper commitment to one another to serve the Lord and our spiritual masters. So, these festivals are very, very important.

So, there's a huge overpopulation. It's time for people to start graduating, graduating from this material world of birth and death and going back to this spiritual world where we belong.

Human life is not meant for these attributes that you are discussing, A real hero is one who conquers his urge for selfish enjoyment, and it works for the upliftment of all humanity, that is a real hero.

If you want an eternal life full of bliss and knowledge you surrender to the supreme lord. If you want some temporary fruits of material life and you worship those persons who can give you that. But at least you should know what the purpose and the opportunity is that you have in this human life.