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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.
[B G 7.20]
kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ
prapadyante 'nya-devatāḥ
taḿ taḿ niyamam āsthāya
prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā
Those whose minds are distorted by material desires, surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
Purport by his Divine Grace A C Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupad
This is the pranam mantra that we offer in devotion to the lotus feet of that great acarya Srila Sacinandana Bhaktivinod Thakur. Really and truly we all true Gaudiya Vaisnavas have an eternal debt where we owe our lives to this great acarya.
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matir madhu-pate 'sakṛt
ratim udvahatād addhā
gańgevaugham udanvati
This is a prayer spoken by Queen Kunti Srimad Bhagvatam (00:45)
O Lord of Madhu, as the Ganges forever flows to the sea without hindrance, let my attraction be constantly drawn unto You without being diverted to anyone else.
Purport by His Devine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad
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 more Tags: Unedited lectures00.0- 00.13 .O best of the kuru dynasty without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life. What matter the next . Purport by his divine grace A. C Bhaktivedanta swami Prabhupada . Whatever form of material existence one is in , one is in variably ignorant of this real situation another word existence in the material world is due to the fruitful reactions of our sinful lives .
Read more Tags: Unedited lecturesBeautiful explanation of how in this age of Kaliyuga due to the greed of the heart people are not only destroying their own opportunities for transcendental happiness but also indebted practically impossible for anyone. The soul by its constitutional nature loves Krishna 00.52- 01.00. Love for Krishna is the nature of every living being, because we are all part of Krishna. And to love Krishna naturally means to love every part of Krishna and that means every living being.
Read more Tags: Unedited lectures00.00 – 00.24 The supreme personality of godhead said my dear sons of the king I am very much pleased by the friendly relationships amongst you . All of you are engaged in one occupation devotional service . I am so pleased with your mutual friendship that I wish you all good fortune . Now you may ask benediction of me . In this chapter of srimad bhagavatam The supreme personality of godhead is just appeared in his beautiful form of lord narayan , before the sons of 01.25 -01.27 .
Read more Tags: Unedited lectures___________________0:00:05. There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to the senses and their objects one should not come under the control of such attachment and aversion because they are stumbling blocks in the path of self-realization. Bhagavad-Gita teaches on the practical level how we can disentangle ourselves from the sources of misery within this material world. Here in Krsna explains that: “Misery has its root cause in our trying to find happiness in the temporary phenomena of
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