Spiritual Questions and Answers with Radhanath Swami
Question to Radhanath Swami: How do we know when we are ready to be a leader? And what do we do in the meantime?
Answer by Radhanath Swami: Really, our aspiration should be to serve. Leadership is just a very-very wonderful opportunity to serve. We shouldn’t be attached to be a leader; we should be attached to the service that we can render ….
Question to Radhanath Swami: Ultimately, we die alone. I have also read that our relationship with God is individual, which is unique to every soul. So, being the member of a spiritual society, how does that enable one to reach that potential individual relationship with God?
Radhanath Swami: Yes, ultimately at the time of death we have to turn to God ourselves.
Question to Radhanath Swami : Swamiji, spirituality is all impractical. What if everybody became like you? Who will grow the food? Who will build the houses? Who will do the business? Who will protect the citizens?
Radhanath Swami : What if everyone in the world became an engineer like you?(audience laughs)
Question to Radhanath Swami: I want to know a rational solution. How can we rectify those people who are just misusing religion for political agenda?
Radhanath Swami : The greatest thing any of us can do, individually or collectively, is to educate people. There must be spiritual education based on universal and eternal religious principles. People must be educated by our words, and especially by our examples.
