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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.
All of them, as they surrender unto me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows my path, o son of Prtha.
Read moreOm namo bhagvate vasudevay
Sloka
sreyah-srtim bhaktim udasya te vibho
klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye
tesham asau klesala eva sisyate
nanyad yatha sthula- tusavaghatinam
Turye dharma-kala-sarge,
nara-naryanav rsi.
Bhutvattmopasamopetam,
akarot dusacaram tapah.
TRANSLATION
In the fourth incarnation, the Lord became Nara and Narayan, the twin sons of the wife of King Dharma. Thus He undertook severe and exemplary penances to control the senses.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya(chorus)
atraiva māyā-dhamanāvatāre
hy asya prapañcasya bahiḥ sphuṭasya
kṛtsnasya cāntar jaṭhare jananyā
māyātvam eva prakaṭī-kṛtaḿ te
Translation:
My Lord in this incarnation you have proved that you are the supreme controller of maya.
Although you are now within this universe the whole universe or creation is within your transcendental body. A fact you demonstrated by exhibiting the universe within your abdomen before your mother Yasoda.
Tags: Unedited LectureOm Namo bhagavate vasudevay
Om namo bhagavate vasudevay
tac cej jala-sthaḿ tava saj jagad-vapuḥ
kiḿ me na dṛṣṭaḿ bhagavaḿs tadaiva
kiḿ vā su-dṛṣṭaḿ hṛdi me tadaiva
kiḿ no sapady eva punar vyadarśi
TRANSLATION
My dear Lord, if Your transcendental body, which shelters the entire universe, is actually lying upon the water, then why were You not seen by me when I searched for You? And why, though I could not envision You properly within my heart, did You then suddenly reveal Yourself?
kvāhaḿ tamo-mahad-ahaḿ-kha-carāgni-vār-bhū-
saḿveṣṭitāṇḍa-ghaṭa-sapta-vitasti-kāyaḥ
kvedṛg-vidhāvigaṇitāṇḍa-parāṇu-caryā-
vātādhva-roma-vivarasya ca te mahitvam(SB 10.14.11)
Basya buaymaya krishno
Yet despite being equally kind to everyone , he has graciously come before me while I am ending my life for I am his unflinching servitor
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asyāpi deva vapuṣo mad-anugrahasya
svecchā-mayasya na tu bhūta-mayasya ko 'pi
neśe mahi tv avasituḿ manasāntareṇa
sākṣāt tavaiva kim utātma-sukhānubhūteḥ (SB 10.14.2)
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naumīḍya te 'bhra-vapuṣe taḍid-ambarāya
guñjāvataḿsa-paripiccha-lasan-mukhāya
vanya-sraje kavala-vetra-viṣāṇa-veṇu-
lakṣma-śriye mṛdu-pade paśupāńgajāya (SB 10.14.1)
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