Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami Quotes
The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
Quotes to Explore
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Act your part with honor.
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I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.
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I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
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I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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As soon as Gen. Clark has confirmed this withdrawal has begun, I intend to instruct him to suspend NATO air operations.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us nothing about the historical Jesus and the world he and his disciples lived in. I've heard it said, that if all we had was the Gospel of Thomas, would we even know that Jesus was Jewish?
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Worship of The Lotus Feet of The Spiritual Master: There is no work as auspicious as serving the spiritual master. Of all worship, the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the greatest but the worship of the lotus feet of the spiritual master is even greater than the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unless this is firmly realized we cannot understand what saintly association means, we cannot understand what the shelter of a spiritual master means, we cannot understand that we are dependent and he is our maintainer.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught...
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The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
