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In 1970, at the age of only nineteen, Radhanath Swami left his home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, he reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, he 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 he 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 (San Rafael, CA: Mandala Publishing, 2009). Reviewers have called Radhanath'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. His 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 spiritual activist, 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.
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BHAKTI VS OTHER PROCESSES
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CC Madhya 6.255
kälän nañöaà bhakti-yogaà nijaà yaù
präduñkartuà kåñëa-caitanya-nämä
ävirbhütas tasya pädäravinde
gäòhaà gäòhaà léyatäà citta-bhåìgaù
SYNONYMS
Compassion Of Lord
Sunday Feast Lecture
Beginning of Lecture
I am very grateful to everyone for coming today. We heard from His Holiness Devamrita Swami Mahraja and His Holiness Bhakti sundar Goswami Maharaja about this great treasure of life in the form of opportunity to serve. I will just speak few minutes on this subject.
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Pushyabhishek
ku-manäù su-manastvaà hi
yäti yasya padäbjayoù
su-mano-’rpaëa-mätreëa
taà caitanya-prabhuà bhaje
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya because simply by offering a flower at His lotus feet even the most ardent materialist becomes a devotee. All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityänanda Prabhu! All glories to Advaita Äcärya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya! Let me now enumerate the activities of the Lord between the ages of five and ten. His chief occupation during this period was to engage Himself in study. The pastimes of the Lord during His paugaëòa age were very extensive.
Bhishmastami SB 1.9.17
SB 1.9.17
tasmäd idaà daiva-tantraà
vyavasya bharatarñabha
tasyänuvihito 'näthä
nätha pähi prajäù prabho
SYNONYMS
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SB 8.9.27
péta-präye 'måte devair bhagavän loka-bhävanaù
paçyatäm asurendräëäà svaà rüpaà jagåhe hariù
SYNONYMS
péta-präye—when almost finished being drunk; amåte—the nectar; devaiù—by the demigods; bhagavän—the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Mohiné-mürti; loka-bhävanaù—the maintainer and well-wisher of the three worlds; paçyatäm—in the presence of; asura-indräëäm—all the demons, with their chiefs; svam—own; rüpam—form; jagåhe—manifested; hariù—the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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SB 8.6.14
sa tvaà vidhatsväkhila-loka-pälä
vayaà yad arthäs tava päda-mülam
samägatäs te bahir-antar-ätman
kià vänya-vijïäpyam açeña-säkñiëaù
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