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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.
134..UNDERSTANDING PRABHUPADA’S MISSION…..(1992)
by H.H. Radhanathswami Maharaj.
Ajanu-lambita- bhujau kanakava- datau
Samkirtanaika-pitarau kamalaya-taksau
Vishwambharau dvijavarau yuga-dharma- palau
Tags: In the 10th chapter of Gita lord shri krishna tells us
Shloka--------
My devotees get great joy they fine in.. pleasure in coming together to chant my glories vaishnav association or the association of devotees is ment for this purpose alone.
The supreme lord and to please the supreme lord.
Vrindavan with its spontaneous loving affection and Krishna reveal himself as supream as Krishna. So Maddhvendra Puri appeared in the sampraday of Madhwacharya, and although all of these previous acharyas were accepting Krishna as incarnation of Narayan, He was hearing the same verses but he was seeing Krishna as the original ultimate cause of Narayan. Why? Because he is approaching Krishna in the higher principle spontenious love. And therefore Krishna reveal himself even in scriptures as supreme
Read moremayi sarvani karmani
sannyasyadhyatma-cetasa
nirasir nirmamo bhutva
yudhyasva vigata-jvarah (BG 3.30)
Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire
for gain and free from egoism and lethargy, you must fight.
This verse, we are reading from this evening, is from the third chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.
Read moreThese appearcance days, disappearance days of great vaishanava achrayas give us a wonderful opportunity to remember the teachings and examples of these great personalities who are achrayas.
Read morebhuvi bhaumāni bhūtāni
yathā yānty apayānti ca
nāyam ātmā tathaiteśu
viparyeti yathaiva bhūh
Translation
In this world, we can see that pots, dolls and other byproducts of the earth appear, break and then disappear, mixing with the earth. Similarly, the bodies of all conditioned living entities are annihilated, but the living entities, like the earth itself, are unchanging and never annihilated [na hanyate hanyamane sarire]
Purport
Being merciless and cruel I have …… my relatives and friends therefore like a person who has killed a Brahman I do not know to which planet I should go either after death or while breathing “ Daivam etai andritam vyapti “ Durga took birth from them because Devaki wore Durga devi in her womb Kamsa praise both Devaki and her husband.
Read moreThe Greatness of Dhruva Maharaj.
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Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya,
By discovering the faultiness of his desiring to Lord over of his material nature is therefore by giving it up, the living entity becomes independent and stands in his own glory.
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Verses: BH_12-18-19
“samah satrau ca mitre ca
tatha manapamanayoh
sitosna-sukha-duhkhesu
samah sanga-vivarjitah”
BH_12_18
TRANSLATION: