Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Radhanath Swami on The Way Discipline Works

The mind and senses cannot be disciplined simply by self-imposed abstinence and negation. Restraint will eventually slacken, unless one experiences a higher taste. Bhakti yoga means to fill one's life with so many with positive spiritual activities that one does not have time for those things which are distracting to spiritual progress.

It is not that by one's endeavor alone one can discipline oneself. The secret is that by one's disciplining oneself, by accepting things favorable for devotional service and rejecting things unfavorable, by that sincere expression of one's sacrifice, one attracts the mercy of God. One pleases the spiritual master and God. And by their mercy one becomes free from all attraction.

24 comments:

  1. By sincere expression of one's sacrifice, one attracts the mercy of God.This we can experience in the life Radhanth Swami.

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  2. Generally spiritual life is perceived as a path of negation. However Radhanath Swami gives a higher and more complete understanding of how to positively progress in spiritual life - accepting things favorable for devotional service and rejecting things unfavorable. Thank you Radhanath Swami for sharing this Vedic viewpoint.

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  3. Self-imposed discipline alone cannot help us in our spiritual endeavours. Like Radhanath Swami says, we also need the shelter & guidance of a bonafide spiritual master who can train us in performing devotional service to God.

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  4. Without the blessings of sincere souls like Radhanath Swami, all our endeavours would be fruitless..........

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  5. Radhanath swami has told best way to discipline - engaging in positive activitis.

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  6. Radhanath Swami has very simply explained the way to discipline the mind & senses.

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  7. The little experience in my life of this truth spoken by Radhanath Swami confirms that developing a higher taste really is the answer to stop bad practices.

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  8. Though discipline is important, its not in itself enough for spiritual progress. Mercy from God is necessary. Knowing this mercy part keeps us humble.

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  9. disciplining oneself is generally very difficult due to our uncontrolled mind but radhanath swami is giving us an nice method by engaging ourselves in so many positive activities that we do not have time for any things which distract us

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  10. Very useful information to discipline ourselves - mercy is the key. Thank you Radhanath Swami.

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  11. Its ultimately upto us what we want to achieve in life. we had a motto in college I WILL I CAN if there is a will then there is a way.

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  12. Radhanath Swami Maharaj actually gives us the secret of conquering our senses!

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  13. Rightly said by swamiji....just restraining the senses will not be enough, engaging the senses in service of God will bring about the real meaning.....

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  14. Rejecting things which are unfavourable for spiritual life is the biggest sacrifice which everyone has to perform to the path of devotion but the resulting mercy of spiritual master and God are far more then one could ever expect.

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  15. Radhanath Swami so nicely explains that the mind and senses cannot be disciplined simply by self-imposed abstinence and negation.

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  16. very nicely said that we need to take endeavours from our side, we need to discriminate between favourable and unfavourable situations, we need to sacrifice and make decisions... but at the end we alone can't do everything, we need Spiritual Master and God's mercy to achieve desired results

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  17. Thank you swamiji for giving us how to be really disciplined by really trying to express our sincerity to Giod and accessing God's mercy thus

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  18. That is really wonderful.... now I understand how Bhakti Yoga is different

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  19. All of us are vieing for getting mercy of Lord and spiritual master and Radhanath Swami has shown us a very simple and sublime way to achieve that.

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  20. Sounds simple but needs dedication along with discipline, i wish i had that discipline and dedication. Thank you Maharaj

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  21. Thanks Maharaj for providing such an wonderful association and positive spiritual engagement

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  22. Without mercy of gurumaharaj like radhanath swami maharaj we canot progress on spitual path

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