Posts Tagged ‘A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’
VOLUNTARY ENDEAVOR
“Voluntary endeavor is the only qualification for spiritual perfection.”
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
MATERIAL WORLD
“The conception that there are things auspicious and inauspicious in the material world is more or less a mental concoction because there is nothing auspicious in the material world. Everything is inauspicious because the very material mask is inauspicious. We simply imagine it to be auspicious.”
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami,
Bhagavad-gita As It Is: 10.3 Purport
TRUTHFULNESS
“… truthfulness, means that facts should be presented as they are for the benefit of others. Facts should not be misrepresented. According to social conventions, it is said that one can speak the truth only when it is palatable to others. But that is not truthfulness. The truth should be spoken in a straight and forward way, so that others will understand actually what the facts are. If a man is a thief and if people are warned that he is a thief, that is truth. Although sometimes the truth is unpalatable, one should not refrain from speaking it. Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth.”
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
