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Radhanath Swami
American
Clergyman
Born:
Dec 7
,
1950
Food
God
Love
People
Religion
Spiritual
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
Love
God
Character
Religion
Spiritual
Man
Soul
Peace
Arrogance
Anxiety
Envy
Compassion
Pure
Humility
True
His
Source
Human
Transform
Which
Us
Meant
Teach
Awaken
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
Radhanath Swami
Love
God
Compassion
Pure
Religions
Pure Love
True
Hinduism
Genuine
Same
Essence
Beings
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami
Nature
Mother
Language
Mind
Trees
Rivers
Observer
Sincere
She
Mother Nature
Within
Always
Understood
Wanderer
Teachers
Speaking
Speaks
Peaceful
Lived
Served
Monkeys
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
Radhanath Swami
Gratitude
Mother
Honor
Spirituality
Become
Otherwise
Our
Earth
Hypocritical
Mother Earth
May
Should
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
Radhanath Swami
Life
Wisdom
Strength
You
Courage
Spirituality
Destroy
Weaker
Gives
Could
Person
Storms
Your
Who
Many
Foundation
Basis
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
Radhanath Swami
Life
Service
God
Journey
Family
Spiritual
Humanity
World
Path
Practice
Own
Energy
Channels
My Own
Spiritual Practice
Purpose
Devotion
Became
Hindu
Making
Tradition
His
Family Life
Regular
Full
Who
Whole
Monk
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Radhanath Swami
Religion
Hate
People
Arrogance
Envy
Facilitate
Unfortunately
Use
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
Radhanath Swami
Life
Environmental
Service
Spiritual
Religious
Spiritual Life
Only
Leaders
Votes
Because
Access
Integral
Accountable
Influence
Held
Should
Communities
Large
Activism
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Radhanath Swami
Wisdom
Food
Spiritual
Digest
Unless
Hunger
Feel
Really
Assimilate
Need
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
Radhanath Swami
Spiritual
Heart
People
Important
Practice
Thinking
Our
Something
Emissions
Leaders
Supposed
Toxic
Coupled
Reducing
Regardless
Shortsighted
Should
Teach
Beliefs
Carbon
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
Radhanath Swami
Love
Nature
Bible
Beatles
Love Is
Made
Every
Books
Lies
Woven
Divine
Songs
True
Sing
Underlying
Practically
Read
Within
Ballads
Psalms
Theme
Shows
Bollywood
Film
Ever
Treasure
Watch
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
Radhanath Swami
War
Rights
King
Took
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Qualify
Tested
Listened
Movement
Interest
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Raging
Eligible
Draft
Luther
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami
Spiritual
Me
Generation
Understanding
Own
Took
Seem
Parent
My Own
Know
Fit
Just
Where
Little
Meaning
Fulfillment
Search
Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
Radhanath Swami
Education
Food
Technology
People
Water
Progress
Dangerous
Soil
Stricken
Strides
Our
Strife
Air
Parallel
Degrading
Hopelessness
Eat
Rise
Vast
Name
Sadly
Unemployment
Polluted
Millions
Millions Of People
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