Radhanath Swami sat relaxing on the lawn with a few of his students. The Chakra Building veiled them from the noontime sun, while breezes breathed in and out of the ISKCON Mayapur campus, cooling this shade over nature’s carpet of green.
Radhanath Swami looked over as his students rapped on. After meandering along various topics, their conversation finally turned into a glorification session, each one glorifying the spiritual qualities of others. That’s something which devotees of Lord Krishna love to do.
“Karunasindhu is so gentle. Wish I could emulate his gentleness,” said one.
“Jagannath is so enthusiastic in Kirtan, wish I could be like him,” said another.
When everyone was done, Radhanath Swami leaned to finger a blade of grass on the ground, “Wish I could be like this blade of grass.”
Lines about a blade of grass from his book The Journey Home echoed in my mind…
You see this grass? It is happy to serve everyone, even by remaining in the most humble position under our feet. Whenever it is stepped on, it comes right back up, to serve. We can learn from this humility.
–Vikram Arora
Dr Dhotre
Thank you Radhanath swami for giving us such a unique vision to see things.
prashant v
..of all the qualities the most important is of that of a grass.
rajat
Once again I am clean bowled by Radhanath Swami’s uncommon spiritual wisdom.
vibhu goel
Amazing humility of HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj which attracts everyone.
jan
wow. what an amazing answer by Radhanath swami. I hope and pray that I can follow in the footsteps of swamiji
Premanand Ramesh
spontaneous humility pouring out…. Thankyou so much
Chandrika
Thank you for this inspiring incident.
Kalpana Kulkarni
Radhanath Swami always teaches us some lesson from every incident and from nature.
surekha
Radhanath swami always be humble and we should try to learn this humility from him.
Arjun K Ramachandra
Great souls only aspire to become the dust at the feet of the lord and his devotees.
rekha
Thank you for sharing this telling us how Radhanath swami is very humble at every moment.
nandkishor das
You see this grass? It is happy to serve everyone, even by remaining in the most humble position under our feet. Whenever it is stepped on, it comes right back up, to serve. We can learn from this humility.—Secret to happiness
Sada Nandini
We should aspire to be as humble as grass by seeing the example of Radhanath Swami.
Rohan Ahirwar
Thank you Radhanath Swami for this lesson on humility.