Gadadhara Pandit Dasa > Quotes

“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
― Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine

“Students were very fascinated by the idea that cooking with the right consciousness can actually be a type of yoga. I’m not referring to the yoga practice where you try to turn yourself into a pretzel. I am sticking to the original meaning of the term, which arises from the Sanskrit root “yuj,” meaning to harness or bind back. Yoga means you are trying to reconnect with the divine.”
― Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine

“just as a dog can always recognize its owner, whether the owner is dressed in shorts, a suit, or nothing at all, so a mature spiritualist is able to recognize his or her God in the dress of another tradition.”
― Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine

“The soul is looking for a source of insatiable love and nothing in the material can provide that. That type of endless love is only available in God. That love never loses its appeal and it never becomes familiar like the love and relationships of this world. There’s no limit to the love the soul is capable of experiencing and there’s no limit to the amount of love Krishna is capable of supplying. This and only this will provide the nourishment the mind and soul are looking for and this is what the mantra helps one to achieve. ”
― Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine