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At the age of only nineteen, Radhanath Swami left his home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, Radhanath Swami reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, Radhanath Swami returned to America in order to share the sacred knowledge and wisdom he had learned from the many holy men and women he had met there. It was an extraordinary choice, given what Radhanath Swami had survived to get there: a journey filled with bizarre characters, mystical experiences, and dangerous adventures. The story is recounted in his recently published memoir The Journey Home - Autobiography of an American Swami. Reviewers have called Radhanath Swami's saga "at once an engaging yarn, a love story, and the evocation of a transcendent paradise in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Radhanath Swami emerged from his years of travel wanting to explain for others the beauty and rewards of a life devoted to God, and therein lay a dilemma. Radhanath Swami's many followers and friends describe him as completely selfless and consequently unwilling to take credit for his work and restless when a spotlight is focused on him. By choosing A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896-1977), a Bengali Vaishnava Saint, as his guru (after declining offers of initiation from several tyagis or renunciants in the Himalayas), Radhanath Swami cast his fate to the wind, cut his matted locks, and entered back into the society.
RadhanathMaharaj.net gives us a complete collection of the teaching of Radhanath Swami. Teachings consists of Transcriptions of lectures delivered by Radhanath Swami at various places. This website is to inspire the followers of Radhanath Swami to practice the philosophy of Vaishanavism.
Om Namo bhagavate vasudevaya
tapasā vidyayā pakva-
kaṣāyo niyamair yamaiḥ
yuyuje brahmaṇy ātmānaḿ
vijitākṣānilāśayaḥ
By worshiping, executing austerities and following the regulative principles, King Malayadhvaja conquered his senses, his life and his consciousness. Thus he fixed everything on the central point of the Supreme Brahman [Kṛṣṇa].
Purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Tags: attain, Bhakti, means, Perfection, principle, Radhanath Swami, spiritual perfection, vaikuntaIt is my great pleasure and fortune to be amongst all of you this evening. I am thinking in your presence that whatever exposure young man like you receive, is a great importance for the future of the world. Because you are most certainly future leaders of the world society. In Bhagavad-Gita Krishna tells “yad yad äcarati çreñöhas tat tad evetaro janaù” whatever a great person does the common people will follow. Whatever standards He sets by exemplary acts, the world pursues.
Read moreI sincerely welcome all assembled devotees to Sri Radha Gopinath Sunday festival, specially welcome my dear god brother Goura Prabhu, my dear god sister Kirti das mataji and also Pranabandhu prabhu and Sruti dharma prabhu have come with their host of transcendental kingdom of the United Kingdom , 50 devotees have come.Let us very sincerely welcome all to Sri Radha Gopinath. Hari Bol!
Read more Tags: assure, chanting, devotee, glories, hearing, Krishna, Perfection, radha gopinath, Radhanath Swami, ultimate, vaisnavaKunti uväca: namasye purusam tvadyam
isvaram prakrteh param alaksyam
sarva- bhutanam antar bahir avasthitam
Tags: chandra, govinda, invisible, kunti, kunti maharani, quality, Radhanath Swami, SB 1.8.18, Srimad Bhagavatam, suffering, suryaSB: 4.28.16
duhitṝḥ putra-pautrāḿś ca
jāmi-jāmātṛ-pārṣadān
svatvāvaśiṣṭaḿ yat kiñcid
gṛha-kośa-paricchadam
TRANSLATION
To those who are constantly devoted and worship me with power I give the understanding by which they can come to me.
We are reading this evening from chapter ten of Bhagvad-Gita.
Mind and senses all the Faculties that we have at our disposal are limited. The limited has no access on the own accord to the unlimited. The relative is given no entrance to the absolute without the grace of the absolute. Being in the condition state is subjected to we have imperfect senses. We are invariably diligent. We have a tendency to cheat and we make mistakes, therefore how could in our imperfect condition we come to the conclusion of perfection, it is not possible. With man’s tiny fertile brain we could never utilize out intelligence
Read more Tags: arjuna, BG-7.1, Bhagavad Gita, gita, god, Knowledge, Krishna, Radhanath Swami, rasika bhakti, seriously
While Bhishmadev was describing occupational duties the sun’s cords ran into the Northern hemisphere. This period is desired by mistakes who die at their will.
There upon that man who spoke on different subjects with thousands of meanings and who fought on thousands of battle fields and protected thousands of man stopped speaking and being completely free from all bondage with drew his mind from everything else and fixed his wide open eyes upon the original personality of godhead Shri Krishna who stood before him four handed dressed in yellow garments that glittered and shined.
Taking shelter of insatiable lust and observing the concede of pride and falls prestige. The demoniac thus allusion are always warned to unclean work attracted by the impermanent. Reading from the 16th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. It is in title of the divine and demoniac natures. Krishna here and he is explaining the qualities that within the age of kalyuga are very much mixed was in everyone’s heart. Our eternal nature is divine. We are all part of Krishna or we are all of the same spiritual substance is Krishna.
Read more Tags: BG 16.10, caitany charitamrita, demon, demoniac, lust, prestige, pride, qualities, Radhanath SwamiIn the review of scripture the ultimate architect knowledge is shree Krishna the personality of godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please him. Yoga is to realizing him all spiritual activities are ultimately rewarded by him only. He is the supreme knowledge and all severe austerities are performed by him. Religion, dharma is remembering loving service under him. He is the supreme god. Purport by his divine grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami prabhupada.
Read more Tags: Devotees, godhead, Knowledge, Krishna, lord chaitanya, love, please, Radhanath Swami, SB 1.02.28, SB 1.02.29