Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami Quotes about World
To please the Lord is the only standard of victory and to displease the Lord is a failure, even if we gain the whole world.
Maya arranges the material world in a way to keep us away from Krishna.
God reveals true love to the world through the lives of those who love Him.
You can conquer the whole world, the universe but if you cannot conquer your mind and senses, you are defeated in life.
To represent God means to represent Krishna’s affection in this world.
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.
A man of God is like the ocean—undisturbed by the rivers that are coming in. The fullness of peace he experiences within is so great that the problems of the world he has to deal with and the suffering he has to go through become insignificant in comparison. But if you don’t have God, that suffering is the all and all of your life.
Sometimes the river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean, because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find a pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful, and so satisfying that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any value, no appeal at all.
To achieve success in our lives, we need strength beyond ourselves and association of sincere souls. We also need to resolve to take shelter of the holy names of God and soberly remember that today we are one year closer to death. At the same time we need to meditate on our purpose in life and that will guarantee an eternal life, beyond the temporary existence of this world.
In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.
The tragedy of the world is that generally people do not recognize how important and loved someone is until they die. Because we are so preoccupied and so distracted by so many so-called important things.
All the conflicts in this world are simply born of people whose propensity to love is frustrated to different degrees.
The world is a mirror of one’s own mind.