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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, Swami Radhanath reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, Radhanath 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 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'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.
Yadubar Prabhu was speaking on how important it is to unite on a higher principle without ulterior motives. When Srila Prabhupada asked us to cooperate together considering the nature of Kali Yuga, it’s a great challenge because it’s the age that the predominating influence is quarrel and hypocrisy. We see these two qualities so wide spread everywhere and the tendency to quarrel over insignificant issues. But the nature of the mind that is not finding inner fulfilment is the tendency to make insignificant things seems so important.
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Lecture by His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja.
Hare Krishna. I welcome you to Sri Sri Radha Gopinath temple for our Sunday Festival. My very sincerest gratitude to each and every one of you for taking your precious time to be with us today.
Lecture by His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja.
I am especially grateful to be here this evening. My special gratitude to Yash, Avanti, Vedanta, Nirvana, and Sloka for making these extraordinary arrangements for about two thousand five hundred pilgrims to come to their auspicious home to hear and chant about Krishna. Let us sincerely offer our gratitude to arrange a program like this. In this case it takes a tremendous amount of love and affection and hard work also. Let us express our appreciation by loudly chanting Haribol.
“Om apavitrah pavitro va
Sarvavastham gato’pi va
Yah smaret pundarikaksam
Sa bahyabhyantarah sucih
sri Vishnu sri Vishnu sri Vishnu”
Lecture by His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja.
Thank you to His Holiness Chandramauli Swami Maharaja and thank you to all of you for being with us today. Maharaja was speaking about hearing the transcendental sound vibration of Krishna. The Srimad Bhagavatam tells
“çåëvatäà sva-kathäù kåñëaù
puëya-çravaëa-kértanaù
apavitraù pavitro vä sarvävasthäà gato 'pi vä
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