Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami Quotes about Krishna
The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna.
Two things are required to achieve Krishna’s mercy: the intervention of a devotee and our own sincerity.
To love Krishna, we must love everything that Krishna loves – to the same degree as we love Krishna.
There is no big or small service by external considerations. Big and small are seen by Krishna only in reference to the content of our sincerity and the purity of our love.
If we do something, we should do it for the right reason, for the service of Krishna. If we do it in the service of Krishna, we can’t go wrong.
Maya arranges the material world in a way to keep us away from Krishna.
By sincerely serving the instructions of great souls in a mood of humility, Krishna is pleased and gives us the higher taste for hearing and chanting.
The worst tragedy is that the uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.
Great souls are merciful. Srila Prabhupada was pleased with the little things that someone did, even if that person had all bad qualities. His being pleased was his mercy, because he knew that if he was not pleased, Krishna will not be pleased and if Krishna was not pleased there was no hope for that person’s spiritual advancement.
Real tolerance is not just tolerating for the sake of tolerating. It's tolerating difficulties in order to give pleasure to Krishna and to serve others.
Nothing spiritual can really be understood in truth without the mercy of the Lord. We cannot grasp Krishna by our intelligence, memory or any of our material talents or attributes. We use all these things in His service.
To represent God means to represent Krishna’s affection in this world.
Suffering of the soul means to be without Krishna.
In every situation, the way to analyze real pleasure is to evaluate how we are connecting with Krishna and how we are giving pleasure to Krishna.
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our spiritual master, we will not understand what the mercy of Krishna is and how it is coming upon us.
Whatever Krishna does with us is to increase our quality of love for him.
There has never been a prison built by man that people haven’t figured out how to escape. But what kind of prison Krishna has created…no walls, no guards and although everyone is suffering in this world no one wants to get out.
If we examine our own lives, we find that sometimes we are being used as the instruments of maya, to create disharmony and discord among other Vaishnavas. We become the greatest enemy of Krishna, in the name of His devotee.
Actually, when your heart is pained to see the suffering of others, it awakens actual spiritual ecstasy. Why? As it is pleasing Krishna, and we are sharing Krishna’s spirit of love in a mood of servitude.
Absorb ourselves in the supreme of all prayers, the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, fix our mind begging for service and begging for the power to please the Lord by our service, because in essence the success of our service is how we please Krishna.
The person who survives the clutches of maya is the person who prays each and every moment for Krishna to save him.
Our spiritual advancement is based on how Krishna sees us.
Every action in Krishna’s service is considered inaction and is not bound to karma.
Love of God within our heart is not our property; it is Srimati Radharani’s property. It can be awakened only by Her grace. It has to be directed towards Krishna. When it is directed towards Krishna, it expands to the whole universe i.e., you love each and every part and parcel of Krishna.
Krishna is only decorated by the love of His devotees and similarly for devotees, their only decoration is their heart full of love for Krishna.