Srila Prabhupada explained that if we really want to deal with the true problems of life within us, we must clean our hearts. When we clean our hearts, we naturally clean our habits. But also, as we try to clean our habits, our hearts get cleansed. Culture really means invoking certain habitual lifestyles in people’s existence.
– Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami on “Heart and Habits”
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“Culture really means invoking certain habitual lifestyles in people’s existence” and truly this helps to clean our hearts. Others one will only be a stock of informations without any transformation.
To develop perfect habitual lifestyles , we have to associate with people who are having such type of quallities that we are aspiring to follow.
Culture really means invoking certain habitual lifestyles in people’s existence. And they help make a person happy in Krishna Consciousness.
That’s really a brilliant definition of culture. Awesome!
True. When we are clean internally first, then the external cleaning automatically happens. That is our ancient Indian vedic culture, “Clean the habits by Cleansing the heart”.
In one of lecture I heard that many companies failed to improve their employees behavior just by mind control or cleansing of mind because such external changes does not change heart of the people. Heart cleaning is the only true process to change personal behavior.
which lecture?
Cheto Darpana Marjanam..by Hare Krishna Mahamantra
what does that mean? lol
This is part of the first verse from Sri Shikshastakam… Please read the full meaning here… http://www.harekrsna.de/Siksastaka/Siksastakam-E.htm
Such a powerful statement!
Thank you Radhanath Swami for simple but powerful formula…..
Hare Krishna … wonderful statement….
Haribol!
Very important point made by Radhanath Swami – first internal cleansing is required and then only we can look at addressing Broader problems in Life