Some Quotes of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj
1. If you follow the path of surrender, real knowledge becomes your servant.
2. Faith in the devotees grants us the most substantial help.
3. Faith is the only capital by which we can make our journey towards the Infinite.
4. If we do everything for Him, everything will be very beautifully done.
5. He who loves Me, does not really love Me; but one who loves my servitor – his love for Me is more real.
6. The soul can only be satisfied in the Absolute Beauty; any partial representation of the Absolute, or even eternal existence, cannot satisfy his quest.
7. Krsna consciousness is the centre. If the centre is clear, then the circumference is properly located.
8. The quality of the truth is measured by the degree and intensity of our surrender to it – to the point of no return.
9. Ecstasy personified is Krsna Himself, and He feels, tastes and enjoys Himself; but only through faith is it possible to transmit and distribute that ecstasy and joy to others. Faith is the very nature of the hladini-sakti, the ecstasy potency, which is represented in full by Srimati Radharani.
10. Half-truth is more dangerous than falsehood.
11. Apprehension and uncertainty are always troubling you; you must cross beyond them, go up, and you will find sivam – no apprehension, but the positive life.
12. A man should be judged by his ideal.
Extreme hankering for the truth is in itself happiness.
13. We should have a immovable connection with reality, an absolute conception of reality. Such a stable position is necessary.
14. Humility means ‘to not encroach on the rights of others.’ And also, it should not be such as to kill one’s own self. It must be natural.
15. A guide, sadhu-sanga, is the most important factor in the life of a bona fide seeker of the truth.
16. The essence of love lives by distribution; not by absorbtion, but by distribution. That is love. Prema is that which exists by its tendency of distribution, and that is the highest.
17. Whatever we may experience, the most central need for fulfillment remains, love. The absolute king of everything is love.
18. Attraction is the most fundamental element everywhere. All else can be eliminated and forgotten if we come in touch with attraction and love.
19. Love is the principle in the center which is the only fulfillment of all existence. The very gist of existence is there; it can’t be ignored or challenged by any other forms or aspects of our substantial existence. It is unchangeable and absolute.
20. Coming in clash with the principle of love, all will have to accept defeat. This is the most substantial thing.
21. After liberation, beyond calculative devotion, in the highest plane of the whole creation, eternal love reigns supreme.
22. That we may live in the waves of the ocean of love is the highest objective of our lives.
23. So, give up your wild-goose-chasing habit and collect and concentrate all your might to progress in this line; try to go to the temple of love divine.
24. Although it is impossible, the infinite is defeated by the finite. What is that unthinkable position? It can only be attained through love.
25. We are quarreling in a foreign land for fictitious gain. But Krsna is engaged in a loving search for His long lost servants.
26. Faith is the most subtle thing, and it is also the most tangible. It is not imaginary. We must realize that it is reality, it is concrete, and not merely an abstract sentiment of mere individual consciousness.
27. Faith is universal as the most fundamental element that can connect us with the finest objective.
28. Faith is the only means through which we can see, hear, or feel the higher world; otherwise it is all meaningless to us.
29. Faith has no connection with the so-called reality of this world. It is completely independent.
30. The guidance of saints is our only hope. We must depend on them. They stand like lighthouses in the infinite ocean to guide us to the land of faith.
31. Faith means hope in the infinite.
32. In the world of faith, everything may be true by the sweet will of the Absolute.
33. Faith is firm conviction that by serving Krishna all other purposes are autimatically served.
34. There is a world which is guided only by faith. Faith is everything there, and it is infinite and all accommodating.
35. Faith is the halo of Srimati Radharani.
36. Faith is more important than calculative truth.
37. Faith is required in order to work in that substantial conscious world which is subjective.
38. When one develops faith, he will do anything to approach the higher subjective realm. One who has faith wants to connect with that higher substance which is composed of eternity, knowledge, and bliss.
39. Faith asks us to approach the higher world, not the lower.
40. Proper guidance in faith is also necessary and that guidance is given by the higher plane.
