Move out of the comfort zone

“To grow may require that we be shaken right to our core. While kneeling on that roadside in Herat, something died within me, giving birth to a realization necessary for me to move forward on my path. With each step, a camel lifts its hoof from a stable place on earth in order to move forward. And to reach the sea, each ripple of the river must let go of its present state to surrender to the current.”

– Radhanath Swami in The Journey Home book.


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14 comments

  1. Very nice point here! And we must be obliged to such a spiritual master who out of his causeless mercy helps his disciples to be always free from complaisant modes.

  2. Wonderful message from Radhanath Swami Maharaj. Somewhere else he says “If we don’t accept austerities voluntarily, month nature would force austerities upon us.

  3. Until something serious happens in our life, we will never awaken from our dream world.
    We have been sleeping on the lap of Maya since time immemorial.
    A Guru’s sharp words, laden with love and compassion can wake us from that slumber and release us of our slavery to bad habits and attachments.
    Thank you.

    1. And it’s very important to understand in our life. I liked your view point on how only a bonafide spiritual master helps us awaken our consciousness, so that we don’t remain complaisant in our comfort zone.

  4. Hare Krishna, really we have to go out of our comfort level to make advancement in spiritual life. Hare Krishna.

  5. Thank you Radhanath Swami for guiding us on this path of devotional service by your wise words and instructions.

  7. In order to make progress in spiritual path, we have to leave behind feelings of complaisency. Only when we come out of our comfort zone, we can go against the waves of this material world and reach to the bank of the ocean of nescience.

  8. So true! As we grow or put a step forward…we have to leave behind few memories which might be imporatant at that time

  9. Many times we are so strongly holding on to our misconceptions and conditioning, until something happens to thoroughly shake us, we dont move from it. Especially on path of Spirituality, where things are much beyond the grasp of our senses/mind.

    However under guidance of exalted Spiritualist like Radhanath Swami we have hope, faith and strength to move out of our comfort zone to experience something on a transcendental realm.

  11. Principal of my school would say that “changing for good cause doesn’t come so easily, you have to pay its price”, and Radhanath Swami conforms it.

  12. Actually one can never be in the comfort zone for a long time…. One can progess if one comes out of comfort zone, to serve guru, krishna and devotees. thank you Radhanath Swami for the wonderful book.

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