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The Journey Home Book - By Radhanath Swami

 

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.

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Hearing Krishna's Glories Assures Ultimate Perfection by Radhanath Swami, in Mumbai

I sincerely welcome all assembled devotees to Sri Radha Gopinath Sunday festival, specially welcome my dear god brother Goura Prabhu, my dear god sister Kirti das mataji and also Pranabandhu prabhu and Sruti dharma prabhu have come with their host of transcendental kingdom of the United Kingdom , 50 devotees have come.Let us very sincerely welcome all to Sri Radha Gopinath. Hari Bol!

Every sunday we come for the purpose of sharing each others lifes in order to serve the highest purpose of our human existence. Srila Prabhupad explained it in such simple way that Krishna comes as is the original consciousness of every living entity and nature is to love Krishna or God, in forgetful ness of our relation ship with Krishna we try to replace that experience of happiness with temporary relationships and experiences within this world .All such endeavors lead us to frustration, because it is not natural. Therefore Prabhupad explains a fish is outside of water, waterver grand arrangements you make but fish is frustrated because it is not in its natural element. So similarly we are all eternal souls, these bodies are temporary covering, like vehicles or sets of clothing , what is the need of the soul, what is the nature of the soul ‘Anandamayo Vyasa’ the nature of the soul is to be happy. That’s why everyone looks for happiness , have you ever know that anybody don’t want to be happy, why is that it is constant , consistent nature of every living being , even the trees are looking for happiness by trying to get sunlight and water. All species of life is in pursuit of happiness, because it is the nature of soul to be happy. And what is that happiness that everyone is looking for, the happiness of love, love of the perfect object that we can be posed all our propensities fully forever and that personality is absolute truth. Krishna, who is all attracted, Gurudev explained why the name of Krishna is such an important name for God , because it includes all other names , it is perfect and complete in every way, because everyone is longing to be attracted by someone who is perfectly beautiful , perfectly in every way able to reciprocate with our hearts and that is Krishna. Even the best marriages in this world there is so much tolerance required and there is attachment but there is also so many other things that you have to bare with one another. Yes, this is what I have read about and I heard about and also witnessed it to some extent. So where is perfect love in this world, ultimately even in the limitations of our relationships either we die or they die, sometimes even before death they are gone in Kali Yuga. But in Krishna, our relationship is eternal he has supreme object of everyone’s love, it is only due to the souls natural addiction to Krishna that is constantly looking for that pleasure of Krishna in so many of various fantasies of the world. So what is Krishna Consciousness, simply to redirect our natural impulses for love and happiness toward the supreme all attractive object Krishna, who has descended in this age of Kali , in his holy names ,all the power, all the beauty , all the wealth everything of the spiritual world is manifested through the name to the heart of the devotee to chant with pure desire
‘Chetho darpana marjnam Bhava maha dhavagni nirvapanam’

Because the name of Krishna is none different than Krishna, because the name of Krishna is all pure, it can purify even the most rigid,dirty heart

‘Deena Heena yatha chilo Harinama udareelo’(2:06 minute)

Even the most crooked mentality , can be utterly purified simply by chanting of the holy names . What is the example , jagai madai ,even jagai madai simply by repenting their sins and sincerely with humility chanting the holy names of the lord they attain the perfection and liberation. Recently we were having Mayapur yatra, how many of you attened mayapur yatra,some , one day we went to madai thio , its very special place , the samadi of a person who raped woman , brahman woman , kshatriya woman, vysya woman , sudra woman any woman no discrimination. Nityananda prabhu gave mercy without discrimination jagai and madai , they sinned without discrimation, their daily diet was blood and flesh of the cows , they killed brahman, kshatriya, vysya,sudras and any body else without discrimination , they are murderers , they are rapists , they used to burn peoples houses and every other word from their mouth , sometimes every word is obscenities , that can’t be repeated plus I don’t know Bengali any way by Krishna’s grace, but they were so harsh , they were demonic ,Yamaraj and all of his staff of yamadutas they could not keep track of the accumulated sins of jagai and madai ,that they performed each day just like we have crodos to chant 16 rounds a day that they would drink so much liquor to kill people , rape people , they were really demons , you may be asking why did you visit their samadi , is that reasonable question?

‘Deena Heena yatha chilo Harinama udareelo’
Tara sakshi jagai madai’

There are so many tombs of the materialistic people in this world ,if you go to west , so many tombs , I remember when I came to India in 1970 spend some yrs in Himalayas, vrindavan and the only tombs I saw were great sages like Rupa Goswami , Sanathana Goswami and I remember I was coming in an aeroplace from London to Newyork , there was miles and miles and miles as far as the eyes could see there are lot of tombs , not samadis ,tombs , so many hundreds and thousands of people are dead , I don’t think there are any sage and I don’t think anybody go there any more. So there are so many tombs of the so many materialistic people , but why did we go to jagai and madai’s samadi , such a vicid, cruel person , simply by chanting the lord’s holy names sincerely they became gentle and humble lovers of god and servants of all living beings. So when we go to madai samadi it gives us hope

Patita pavana hetu tava avatara mosammu patita prabhu na pai vyahara’(12:20 minute)

The nature of devotee is to think him or herself very fallen, actually the more yourself feel you are fallen, you naturally fall in love with Krishna, you have to fall in love with Krishna, you can’t ascend to love Krishna.
When we take ourselves very fallen and unqualified then we take shelter of Krishna with humility then Krishna reciprocates with that, every devotee are naturally feel I am so unqualified who am I to love God , so much ego , so much anger , so much desire and attachment for what is our hope
‘Tara sakshi jagai madai’ that help every vicid may be , jagai and madai have defeated us, but even they achieve the ultimate pefection of pure unmotivated ,unconditional love for Krishna , simply by the mercy of the vaisnavas and the power of hearing and chanting the names and glories of the Lord. When I was at Madai samadi , I was praying at the lotus feet of Madai to give me hope and I got a realization that the deliverance of Jagai and Madai actually leave none of any excuse to become pure devotee in this very life time. We may have so many justification and excuses that I cant do it after all I am born in the western world and I am born in an unwilling bollywood how am I going to be a pure devotee of Krishna, I have a family, I have a wife, I have children and so many excuses but the fact that Madai attain pure of God means there is no excuse. Every single one of us can achieve the ultimate destination. Not by our power but by the power of Krishna’s mercy, by the power of his name, who is so attracted that whatever we have been in all our previous life or in this life, he can attract our hearts into his unconditional loving service for all eternity, simply hear about him from sincere devotees and chant the holy names.

Srimad Bhagavatam , there is one beautiful story which illustrates to what extent a person can achieve a spiritual perfection simply by hearing about Krishna.
One morning early , its actually winter season , Krishna stole gopis clothes , I don’t tell that story , there is a beautiful Kadamba tree , where this beautiful leela took place after that Krishna went quite far from his home in vrindavan into the forest with his friends, he called his friends oh! Stoka (17 minute)Krishna,Sridhama,Vasudhama, Devaprastha,Ujvala,Arjun please come and see , see how these trees , the trees of vrindavan , how they are bending so low in humility eager to serve all living beings,These trees their births and lifes are successful because they are living for the welfare of others , This is Gods estimation of what a successful life is, we may manufacture our ideas of success BA,MA,P.hd, having getting a job for big international company and having a nice healthy body, being athletically very expert,making money , having power, having beautiful children who are all brilliant,living long long life but from the point of view of lord there is nothing to do with this success. He explains that these tree their births and lifes are successful , they are quite perfect , why ? because they are living for the welfare of others , they are injury much suffering and difficulty just so that they can help others, they are standing in the wind and protecting us from the wind , in the rain to serve us umbrella to protect us and in rain and in the cold they would give us their wood to keep us heat and even in the snow they are very tolerant , never complaining , never complaining about their own difficulties , simultaneously whatever anyone asks from the tree the tree will give , give you their fruits ,flowers ,their wood and their bodies , ofcourse ‘para upakar ‘,what is greatest welfare we can do for another to enlighten their eternal souls , feeding hungry people is necessary but they are getting hungry tomorrow ,hospitalizing and giving medical relief to sick people it is good , it is pious but still ‘Janma Mruthyu Jara Vyadhi Dukh doshanu darshanam’ oldage ,desease, death will come upon everyone. So what is the greatest welfare what we can do , it is to enlighten a person , to realize the great treasure of their own that is within their hearts , by connecting a person again to Krishna.

In the ‘Gopi Gitas’ it is explained ‘Tavakathamrutham Taptajivanam’ that the most munificent kind persons who are living for the real welfare of other are those who describe the glorious pastimes and activities of the supreme personality of godhead. It is said he resends to hell who say that a vaisnavas die, because vaisnava is die to live and live to spread the holy name around, die to live what is that mean? , in this life death means no more eager, they give up all their personal interest , they give up their selfish motivations , they give up their ahamkar , false ego , that’s material death, to live eternal life of the soul and also when vaisnavas body actually sees (22 minute) to function in the death they live eternally with the lord and while in this world they simply to spread the glories of the holy name another words the devotees lives for others , this simply during the prerana festival about 700 students were in the temple room , we were explaining the story of Ranti dev , Ranti dev was a king , was a family , what was the quality of his love for God , it must be studied carefully , he fasted for long time and they brought his prasad , he was about to take his prasad with his family who fasted with him , when a Brahmin came and said I am hungry , he feded with his full satisfaction and sat down to sit with his family , another person came , just an ordinary person , I am hungry give me food king, he feded and sat down with whatever left with his family and someone came with his dogs and my dogs are hungry , all the remaining food he gave to dogs, now there is only little water that will sustain his life , he is about to drink that water and a chandala , a person who is outcasted with the society and rest of all , came to his door and says king I am thirsty and give me your water , then what would you do?
It’s not the your guru or prime minister is asking for water, the chandala , the everybody else is rejected , what Rantidev(24:30minute) did , he is so illustrative of a great souls heart , he folded his palms and prayed to Krishna, O! my dear Supreme Personality of god head , you are so merciful to me , you are giving me the service, I pray to you o! lord , let me continue to take birth to live amongst all living beings and let me sacrifice my life so that other people will not have to suffer, that is my prayer. In giving this water to chandala, I am giving my life by doing so I will never have to feel thirst, lamentation, anxiety, this is what is his prayer and then he gave that water to chandala then all those personalities appeared as demigods explained Rantidev , we wanted to show the world what a Vaisnav is , so Krishna is praising the trees of vrindavan because they live for the welfare of others, they are really to make sacrifices for the welfare of others, its one thing to live in a beautiful situation and give some charity, its actually another to accept the hardships of others , that is the sign of love, that is the sign of actually love of God in your heart, because you see ‘ Ahambeeja Prajabeetha’ , every living entity is due to Krishna and he will want to do something if you have the power to do . That is Vaisnav, therefore we pray

‘Vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca Krpa-sindhubya eva ca
Patitanam pavanevhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah’

That Vaisnav’s are like desired trees , like these trees of vrindavan who are eager to without discrimination to perform the highest welfare for all living being , how , by inspiring people , to hear about Krishna , to remember Krishna and to chant his holy names

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

As Krishna was praising trees and revealing success of life means service, not to enjoy but to serve , Krishna Suratha Sarvabhutanam(28th minute) that means he is the ever well wishing loving friend of every living being ,so what Krishna saying is successful life means to serve that means it is ultimate destiny for us. When you water the route of the tree , the whole tree is flourished and nourishes.When we serve Krishna according to his will by performing welfare to others , by connecting people to Krishna then we flourish eternally that is knowledge , they entered deeper and deeper in to the forest through various paster grounder ,they came to the river Jamuna with cows , the boys had clister clear nectary water of Jamuna to their full satisfaction. The cowherd boys missed breakfast that day because they were with Krishna , stoling gopi’s clothes that is early morning pasttime , so they were feeling great hunger in their stomachs . Now according to Jiva goswami , it doesn’t that the cowherd boys were concerned with their own hunger but they knew that Krishna haven’t had anything whole day ,neither Balaram , they knew that Krishna and Balaram are always concerned with their devotee , so in order to get nice prasadam to Krishna and Balaram , what better way is they are pretending to be hungry. So gopa’s addressed o!Balaram ji , perform great heroic strength , o! Krishna ‘Sadur‘ of all in auspiciousness ,’Sadur ’ of all enemies , please ‘Sadur’ great inauspicious enemy of hunger is in our bellies ,they really wanted to convince Krishna that they were hungry so then can get food for Krishna , because he was hungry , so this is Love. So the cowherd boys explained Just like abonymous(31:03 minute) serpant poisioned , create such suffering in the body , that is how our stomachs feel, it is like blazing fire of hunger, thats about to consume our lifes. Please Krishna and Balaram Sudur this pain in our bellies and give us some food. This is how they are speaking so that they can get food to give Krishna and Balaram.

Krishna and Balaram will do anything for his devotees and devotees will do anything for Krishna

‘Sadhunam Hrudayam Mayam
Sadhunam Hrudayam Twahun’(31:49 minute)

The Bhagavatam describes the relationship between the lord and the devotee. Krishna say that the Sadhu , Sadhu means one who is surrender to me , my devotee gives everything for me , his life is for me , knows no one but me and therefore

‘Ye Yadha mam prapadhyanthe stham sthataiva bajamyaham’(32:21 minute)

According to how a person approaches Krishna, Krishna reciprocates. Therefore I know no one but me , I only think of my devotee , I will do anything for my devotee. So the Gopa’s they will do anything to give Krishna and Balaram Prasad and Krishna and Balaram will do anything to give his devotees prasad. This is vrindavan. Krishna told Gopa’s that all of you are hungry , I know where you can get some food , just near by there are some yagyak Brahmans , they are performing the angyaras yagya which is a Kama Kanda yagya to attain the opulences and the pleasures of the heavenly planets.
At this time it is very auspicious to give them some charity , so go to them and tell them that near by Balaram is very hungry and also Krishna. So the Gopa’s , instruction of the beloved lord although they were in Sakya ras , an intimate friends of Krishna they would play with him , laugh with him ,joke with him , eat with him such sweet spontaneous love of vrindavan still their life their soul and everything was Krishna and Balaram’s satisfaction , they received an order so they took that order on their heads and they went right to that yagyak Brahman’s sacrifice , what an incredible scene it was , please my dear friends these were not an ordinary brahmans these were a top class brahmans as far as the society is concerned , very well experts in rituals and therefore they will extremely wealthy . This sacrificial arena was incredibly ornate, there was huge stems and ghee being poured in the fire, only increased the smell of it and increased they Gopa’s appetite.
They were amazed to see what opulences were there , the Gopa’s offered their full prostrated obeisances , bowing down to the Brahmans and then with folded hands they prayed , O! Earthly Gods.

Srila Prabhupad explains Brahmans are supposed to be representing the Lord on Earth. It is not a Brahman of his God but they are the representatives of the God on Earth , therefore they addressed Earthly Gods , it is also nice thing to say somebody if you want to give them something , O! Earthly Gods , you are very learned and very pure in your hearts and minds and you are living for the welfare of others , just close by on the banks of Yamuna , Krishna and Balaram and they are very hungry so are we , we have been sent by lord Balaram under the instruction of Krishna to get some food and now we know that this particular time in yagya it very allowable and auspicious for you to give some charity. And we see there is so much wonderful foods you have prepared for the sacrifice ,the Brahmans were so immersed in their mantra , tantra , yantra ,pooja, mudra that they just didn’t even looked at the Gopa’s, to be neglected to be ignored it’s actually a great insult, the Gopas were standing there they just ignored them so the gopa’s became very disappointed , disappointed why one is Krishna , Balaram are hungry they couldn’t get anything for them also they were disappointed Krishna gave them an instruction and they were not able to fulfill it

‘Vyavasayatmika Buddhir ekeha Kuru-nandana
Bahu-sakha hy anantas ca buddhayo vyavasayinam ‘

Krishna tells in Sri Bhagavad-Gita , those who are on this path are resolute in purpose and their aim is one , those whose minds and intelligence is irresolute is very many branched and Takore viswanth chakravarthi he gives his explantion and complementary that Srila Prabhupad really considered the sacred guide line of his life that this determination , this resolute purpose means one should make the order of the spiritual master ones life and soul. Krishna is the original Guru, he is Jagad Guru, Krishna gave the instruction to Gopa’s to get food from Brahman’s and they tried their best but it was impossible. So they came back to Krishna and Balaram with very very despondent heart and sad faces, they explained to Krishna, that these Brahmans they are supposed to live for the welfare of others but they didn’t even look at us and they didn’t even say anything to us ,they didn’t give anything to us even when we in your name ,what is the use of their Brahmans what is the use of their Yagyas. What they are saying is true

‘Vedaischa Sarvamedam Aham veda vedya-----------‘(40:10 minute)

All the vedas and all the yagyas of the Vedas are only meant to satisfy Krishna, they missed the whole point , so the Gopa’s were very said and then Krishna smiled and then he laughed , he said my dear Gopa friends to see false in others contaminates the hearts, probably these Brahmins were so engrossed in their yagya and didn’t hear what you said, that’s all, don’t think bad about them. And besides that this is the way of begging, when you are beggar some times some people give and some times they do not give, you can’t be disturbed by these dualities. This is very important point, although Krishna knew the heart of hearts of these Brahmans, still through the Gopa’s he wanted to teach the world we shouldn’t find faults with others , because you find faults with others you become contaminated by that in full because if you see good in others its cultivates good ,if you see false in others it cultivates false , why because you are what you associate with, you become influenced by that, then Krishna told why are these Brahmans, they are constantly meditating upon me with deep affection they will give you everything they have, go to them and ask, jut mention my name and they will become infused to surrender everything, go , so the Gopa’s were ran to the houses of Brahmans wifes. Now these Brahmans wifes, they were not sitting just on the floor , they were sitting on the beautiful seats and they had beautiful clothes and very elegant ornaments they were coming form families that were so honored and worship by the society. The gopa’s offered their obeisances and with folded palms to wifes of the Yagyak Brahmans, we have come on a mission, a mission of Krishna and Balaram, as soon as they heard the names of Krishna and Balaram they became completely ecstatic, tears were pouring from their eyes, their hairs were standing on the end, their body was erupting like the flower of the kadamba tree, their limbs were trembling, they became in speech less in ecstasy just by hearing the names of Krishna and Balaram.

The Gopa’s were very astounded to see that of Krishna and Balaram they are desiring , give them some food ,these ladies were in such a state of trance that they could say anything, so the gopas were thinking husbands didn’t say neither wifes not saying anything , they seem to love Krishna but why they are not saying ,they could not say anything, immediately they are some how or other came out of their trance began to collect fresh cooked rice covered with ghee so many of varieties of subjies,sweets cakes, soups and they packed them in golden pots with crystal lids and personally help them in their own arms to bring them wherever Krishna was. It its at this point I would like to bring us to beginning of lecture the power of hearing about Krishna, the wifes of these Brahmans they never saw Krishna , they never ever met Krishna how is it that there is ecstatic love in their hearty simply by hearing the name of Krishna because they had heard about Krishna form the vrajabasi ladies who they would meet , these vrajabasi ladies was pure devotees , they were lovers of Krishna , they heard about Krishna from them , they heard about his beautiful form which has a complexion like a freshly formed monsoon rain cloud, Shyam sunder , he played upon the beautiful murali flout , Muralidhar, he wore the yellow garments , Peetambhar , he had threefold bending form , Tribanga, his eyes were like blooming lotus petals , Padmalochan , his beautiful blackish hair , around his moon like face ,Vrindavan Chandra , his lips were like fresh dimba fruit , he wore a beautiful garland of well flourished flowers , they heard about Krishna’s beauty, they heard about Krishna’s quality how he spoke , how he joked with his devotees , how he killed the various asuras in the vrajabhoomi , they heard this wonderful pastimes again and again and again , just by hearing from these devotees they fell in love with Krishna. They were constantly day and night speaking amongst one and another speaking about Krishna, his beautiful qualities and his wonderful leelas. Yes, years went by and these Brahman’s wifes were simply hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord and thus constantly remembering him and from this process, they attracted the all attractive, their love awakened for Krishna and when a devotees love become pure Krishna reciprocates and calls that devotees in to his presence . The Brahman’s wifes with these golden pots filled with the best most luxurious Prasad.

Actually boga and they were cooking extra preparations and they were putting aromas and fragrances and what was the sweetest fragrance? The fragrance of their love ,of their enthusiasm , of their detachment ‘Viragya Vidyan Nija Bhakthi Yogam’ , real bhakthi includes detachment and knowledge , they had knowledge that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of God head simply by hearing and they loved him and the natural result was that they are detached that any impediment that could come in their way. So they are very enthusiastically going through the paster ground , but they were going their husbands their fathers, their sons, their brother and sisters ,everybody else around No , you can’t go , husbands are doing yagya , you can’t go , you must be here and help them but they went , they didn’t care anything for what anyone said

‘SarvaDharman parityadya Mamekam Saranam Vraza
Ahamtvam Sarva Papebhyo Moksha Isyami Ma Su cha’

Abonden all varieties of religion and just surrender on to me , I shall relieve you from all sinful reaction , I will protect you from all dangerous , do not fear , this was the mood of the Brahman’s wifes , they were fearless , what was their enthusiasm , their anticipation , they were meditating on Krishna , they were praying to Krishna , they were hearing about Krishna , they were constantly chanting the holy names of Krishna

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

And now the fruit of their love, life of love was about to be realized , they were going to see Krishna face to face and offer the love of their hearts personally to him in the form of all of this boga , it is explained in Srimad Bhagavatam that there is one brahaman wife whose family is actually physically apprehended her and ddin’t allow her to go , would you like to know what happened to her , remind me later , I will tell.

The other ladies they entered in to the forest , and they saw very very auspicious tree bending down and bowing their heads they realized we must be closed to Shyam sunder now because the trees are bowing down , as they come closer, they came in contact with Krishna and Balaram’s effulgence, the effulgence from their bodies just became those ladies everything. It became their life breath and it became their ornaments , it became their clothes , it became all of their mind ,their senses the saw through the trees, walking along the bank of Jamuna, there was Krishna with the Gopa’s, joking and laughing they entered into the clearing and there govinda was waiting for them . His left hand was leaning on the shoulder of the cowherd boy of Subala, his right hand was holding a lotus flower, his complexion was dark like the tambal tree , his blooming lotus like eyes , caste a glance of nectar upon them , his golden ropes and his beautiful , beautiful black hair in circled with his moon like face captured their hearts . Krishna smiled upon them , when Lord Krishna smiles upon his devotee which is his hearts way of showing , he is pleased with his devotee , that smile is like an unlimited oceanic down pour of nectar in and as the heart of the devotee , his smile was more cooling than hundreds and thousands of rays of the full moon the down pour of nectar.
When the Brahmans wifes witnessed this beautiful form of Krishna smiling upon them through their eyes they carried Krishna to the very inner most core of the inner chambers of their heart and there in the heart, Krishna embraced them and they embraced Krishna with pure unmotivated love. In this ecstasy they close their eyes and they saw that the beautiful form not in an imagination but they saw the actual form of Shyam Sunder who is present in their hearts, and then they opened their and saw the same form of standing in front of them, they closed their eyes and see him in the heart and opened and seeing him standing before. Tears of ecstatic love poured from their eyes , but they came there to serve the lord and to please the lord with great happiness considering this the ultimate fulfillment of all of their desires. They offered Krishna, the love their hearts through the golden pots of Prasad. Krishna was very happy and after smiling and glancing upon them, he said O! Very virtuous, wifes of great Brahmans welcome , I welcome you please have seat , be comfortable , I know , why you have come, you have come because your heart has attained the ultimate perfection , unmotivated , uninterrupted pure love and devotion fully. I have no way to repay you for your love, however my request is let that love in and itself be your compensation . You have come here at heart risk, you have come here even with the obstacles of prohibition and insults in the condemnation of your near and dear ones, you have pleased my heart, Krishna thank them from his heart , Krishna explained that he is the super soul within everyone’s heart and whoever everyone loves , we only love that person because that person is part and parcel of Krishna , when the soul leaves the body , you can’t have a loving relationships with the corps , what is that we love , we love the soul , why do we love the soul.
‘Mamaivam sa jeeva loke jeeva bhuthasanathanath’ (59:51)

Because the soul is the emanation of Krishna, the soul is an infinite testimal part and parcel of Krishna, because of a souls relationship with Krishna , the soul is so attractive that it can draw such deep immense love in our hearts . What to speak of the Supreme Soul.
‘Janma Vyasa yathaha’(1:25 minute)
He from whom, everything and everyone emanates. Krishna explained because you have awakened your love for me therefore your love for all living beings is perfect. Now we should all go back home, I have accepted your offerings and I am pleased with you, please go back because after all your husbands need you to perform the Yagya , when the Brahmans wifes heard these words they were grief stricken , suddenly everything changed their effulgence disappeared their lustrous smile became very very dispondent expressions they cried no longer in ecstasy but in agony , Krishna how could you send us home , you promised you always fulfill the desires of your devotees , you promised to protect and reciprocate with the love of your devotees and we have given up everything for you Krishna , how could you send us home , how can we possibly leave you,we are seeing your beautiful form ,we are in your presence , it is our desire and aspiration and goal of our lifes, we have attained it , how can we possibly go back to a materialistic situation. Revers flow from mountains towards the sea , why would the river just the merge of the sea and want to go back to the top of the mountain, if a person is blind and can’t see his whole life and by some inconceivable miracle has given vision , why will that person want to become blind again , we were riding in materialistic fears of our lives now we have attained your lotus feet , how could you send us back to that situation again , why? Please do not speak this words , we have give our hearts to you , we are not qualified to be your servants , we are not qualified even to be your maid servants of maid servants , just let us remain in this Vrindavan forest , just give us the benediction that when you are performing pastimes with your devotees , when the Tulasi leafs fall from your feet that we will be able to collect the Tulasi leafs and worship them in the forest of Vrindavan. Krishna was very moved by hearing their words. But Krishna spoke with great love and affection , he said actually you have duties to your husbands , they are Brahmans and no doubt they are materialistic but by your association they will be transformed , the Brahmans wifes said we can’t go home , we have been rejected , her husbands , her fathers , her brothers , her sons never allow us to come back , we broke all of their rules and left . Krishna said that you go back by my influence, they will not only accept you back but they will deeply appreciate you. Krishna told them only a person who I totally reject will not appreciate someone who loves me, by your association their hearts will be changed, now from a social point of view, you are the wifes of Brahmans, how will it look as an example to society if you are living in the forest of Vrindavan amongst Gopas and Gopis, no, you must go back, you must set the proper standard for society and besides that you have made your marriage vows to your husband and they are performing yagyas, religious yagyas and they cant complete their yagyas without your help , so what is your duty ,you go back , this is my will ,

Please know Gopis , Please know Brahmans wifes , you are very dear to me , you will not attain me simply by physical proximity with me , but you will attain me by constantly meditating upon me, the path of ultimate perfection is by seeing my form of the deity by hearing of my qualities , by hearing my pastimes , by seeking upon me , by always mediating upon, and by constantly chanting my holy name

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

This is the process of always living with me, this is process by which , I will always be present in your heart , not simply physical proximity ,so you go home , you will be accepted that is my will , when the wifes of the Brahmans heard Krishna’s desire with complete faith with joyous hearts they return to their homes. This is very instructive.

Srila Prabhupad displayed in his own life, he was living in vrindavan at Sri Radha Dhamodhar temple at seva kunga , the place where Krishna‘s raasa leela with Sri Radha and Gopis is eternally taking place ,in the presence of Rupa goswami at his Samadhi mandir who would actually want to leave a place like that at the end of ones life.

Prabhupad was 69yrs old, he left Vrindavan, came to Bombay it is inconceivable , many of us in Bombay who is longing to be in Vrindavan , this morning I was speaking with Devananda Pandit Prabhu , he much so much wants to go back and live in Vrindavan , he was expressing his eagerness , I said very good very good very eager that’s why you should stay in Bombay, we should always be eager to living in Vrindavan , but we should to seva according to lord’s will that is Prabhupad’s example , that is Bhakthi Siddhantha Saraswathi Takore’s example. Hari Bol . Prabhupad left Vrindavan to come to Bombay, Hari Bol! But actually did he leave Vrindavan, no, he was more in Vrindavan than the people chanting Radhe Radhe Radhe Radhe in Vrindavan because he was caring Vrindavan in the core of his heart, he was caring the will of Radha Rani who appeared in this age of Kali as Sri Chaitanya MahaPrabhu , Krishna with the love of Radha and what was Radha Rani’s order to MahaPrabhu , to spread the glories of holy name in every town and every village though out the world.

‘Vyavasayatmika Buddhir ekeha Kuru-nandana’

Prabhupad’s Guru Maharaj instructed him to teach the fallen suffering people forgetful of Krishna, how to love Krishna by hearing about him , by associating with his devotees, by worshiping the deity , by chanting the holy name

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

So, yes Prabhupad left Vrindavan to come to Bombay, but actually he came to bring Vrindavan to Bombay. Hari Bol!

Infact , early 1970’s he was at the steps of Bharatheeya Vidyabhavan after giving a very historic lecture, waiting for his car , he caste his merciful glands in this direction right across the street and told Shyam Sunder Prabhu , we should have a temple here. Hari Bol .And how he fought vividly against all ,removing all obstacles , for what purpose ,to build Radha Rajbihari temple in Zuhu. Radha Rajbihari , the enjoyer of the highest raasas , he brought to Bombay , Sri Radha Gopinath , the lord of the Gopis by his desire, by his potency , by his mercy they have appeared, this is Vrindavan where devotes come together with innocent and pure hearts to serve one another , to hear about Krishna , to chant holy names that place is Vrindavan, that is Prabhupad’s mercy , he brought Vrindavan across oceans wherever his lotus feet touched, that place transformed into the spiritual world. So Yes we should always be longing to be in Vrindavan, but we will attain actual love by pleasing Krishna’s desire, pleasing Guru desires , and it is by Prabhupad’s love that the Vrindavan dham , that we are all here today . So yes , Prabhupad for the wellbeing of others sacrificed so much.Similarly this was the instruction Krishna gave to the wifes of Brahmans, go back home and live with your husbands in those e houses for their well being , it is my desire , you will always be with me and I will always be with you.So they retuned when they retuned their husbands , their fathers , their brothers , their sons everyone was with folded holds bowing down to them where do you found the proud yagyak Brahmans bowing to the feet of their wifes , it is not common at least I haven’t seen it , how many of your husbands bowing heads to their wifes , I wont ask you to raise your hands . It is probably something very confidential but they all bowing down because they know their wifes attain the ultimate perfection of life, just by associating with their wfies they became pure in hearts, that is the power of association and we see actually even in our own contemporary environment that sometimes a person becomes a devotee and the family is very against , but because of that persons dedication surrender and love for Krishna , Krishna within the heart of their family members changes that, people who are automatically against him and making issue in public become devotees. Just because their son and daughter love Krishna. I will not mention names we have people here whose daughters, whose fathers and mothers were outraged that they are coming to Hare Krishna temples and neglecting so many social things and activities of sense gratification. Now their mother and father are initiated devotees. Hari Bol.

Not just one case but many cases, even people of the West, what to speak of the East, many many of our devotees came because their children became devotees or another family member becomes devotee. How was that, because Krishna is so pleased by that devotee’s effort, he actually personally just to please the devotee changes the heart of relatives. Even Prahlad, he change the heart, he very visibly change the heart Hiranyakasipu but not our parents are like that , their hearts change from within , they became favorable , they became respectful , they become proud even in the west. Most of my God Brothers and God Sister’s parents, brothers, sisters they were appalled, they were confused, they were disgusted , what do you wearing? You are wearing a saree , shaving head , crazy , putting paint on your face , wearing bed sheets , you are completely ruin the our reputation and family forever. Yes , we have seen and we see the same people dancing in Radhanath temple in ecstasy, smiling and laughing , chanting japa, proud , proud that their brothers and sisters , children are devotees , So yes , if we just have that determination , if we actually are sincere about purifying our hearts Krishna will compensate and perform miracle in the hearts of others and that is what happened .

Just a few hours before, the Yagyak Brahmans were harshly condemning their wifes for leaving to go to Krishna and when they came back their husbands were bowing down in humility and worshiping their wifes.

Sri Krishna Bhagavan ki Jai.

Radhanath Swami: What were you going to remind me off?

Devotees: The Brahman’s wife who was imprisoned in the house.

Radhanath Swami: Can any obstacle possibly impede the progress of a sincere devotee?
Obstacles are friends of devotees, Obstacles, Advaita Prabhu explained are servants of Krishna, which actually help the devotee. So this is an Obstacle, all the lady friends were escaped, they just went. But this one lady is unable to go but because she was unable to go and everyone else went, she was burning in separation from Krishna, burning in separation, that burning were so intense and so deep and in that feeling of separation Krishna manifested so profoundly within her heart that she actually gave up her material body and immediately asuned , a spiritual form where she was allowed to become a Gopi be trained by other Gopi’s and then entered into Krishna’s eternal wonderful pastimes of Vrindavan . So was it an impediment? The other Brahmans wifes they understood what happened to their friend, and they were considering her supremely fortunate. She attained spiritual form to enter into the loving pastimes of the Lord, how wonderful and all the Brahmans and relatives they also could understand her good fortune and they praised her. It is a fact that when obstacles come on the path our sincere effort to serve the lord, those obstacles can be cause of all fall down or entrance in to the spiritual world. Because when there is an obstacle we must sincerely take shelter,

‘Kaunteya Prathijanithi’(1:22 minute)

Krishna explains in Gita that he will always protects his devotees, how he protects his devotee we can’t always calculate by our material intelligence or logic or vision. This lady appeared to die, is that protecting, she didn’t die , she gave up her material form and immediately attained a spiritual to serve Krishna in Vrindavandham that is protection. Why , because the greatest impediment came before her , which was actually impossible to overcome she took shelter within the very core of her heart of Krishna’s form ,Krishna’s pastimes and Krishna’s holy names.

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

When the Brahman’s saw their wifes, they were just coming from the darshan of Govinda dev , Rupa Goswami warns , if you are attached to all the materialistic things in this world , do not go to the banks of Jamuna to see Govinda dev because he will attract your heart away from all of these things , so they were just on the bank of Jamuna seeing Govinda dev and they were returning home there were tears in their eyes and their hairs were standing on the end and limbs were trembling , all ecstatic symptoms were manifested and all the relatives could see that, what an ultimate treasure .They have attained the ultimate perfection of life , the Brahmans began to repent due to association with their wifes the Brahmans became purified. Previously they were simply addicted to materialistic mantra, tantra , yantra ,mudra, pooja and all of these other things for materialistic purposes for fame , and they were really famous , these Brahmans move the Vedas thoroughly ,they could chant mantras excellently, they can perform poojas proficiently.They were very very famous worshipable by the people of the society but they missed the whole point , that was their realization the purpose of every thing we do in our life is to please God.

‘Yadkaroshi yadakroshi yajathoshi thathashiyath’ (1:25:11 minute)

Everything is meant for the satisfaction of God. Yes, we are twice, they were born by their mother and father , the first birth , they were given an initiation into Brahman and Gayatri second birth and then they were giving the entrance into the association to perform Yagyak birth which is third birth, the Brahmans realization was what the hell with our three births , what the hell with our Brahman’s being first class birth and what the hell with our being of scolars of the Vedas , what the hell with our mantra, tantra , yantra ,mudra, pooja , what the hell with all of our fame , people touching our feet and worshiping us and giving us dakshina , what the hell with all of our Yagyas, the whole purpose in our lifes is to please Krishna , if we do not develop an attraction for Krishna

‘Sramaivaekaiva kevalam’

It’s all are useless, pitiable, worthless, waste of time to hell with our lives, we have spoiled everything, Krishna personally asked us to serve him but we rejected it.
But their wifes, they never got any second initiation, they never took any third initiation ,they never heard of these mantra, tantra , yantra ,mudra, poojas. All they know is taking care of children, cooking and cleaning the house, that’s all they know. No one is touching their feet, no one is worshipping them but in their simple hearts , they love Krishna , they are fearless to surrendered everything ,to give their love to Krishna, they realised , their hearts became pure just by associating with their wifes

Srila Prabuhupad explains that very often ladies have simple hearts and therefore it is very easy with their simple hearts to accept Krishna and to give their love to Krishna but men’s minds are often complicated, now I am not speaking from the point of view of a man, I am speaking from the view of the Acharyas what they say, so much logic and reasoning and philosophy and doubt all of these things.
That’s why Prabhupad explains practically in every religion in the world and we have seen that’s true. Whether it could caught the procedurals of Italians France and church of England , UK , whether its in catholic churches , Americas or Australia or Russia , whether it’s the middle east , the majority of the people are ladies. Hari Bol

I reside an incidence that you have heard it before, when I was in Gurarat , Surat , all respects to Surat , its very special place , there was a pandal(1:29 minute) program outside , there was about 500 people who attended my lecture , 499 ladies. And one man who is holding a baby , I asked I am a Sanyasi , it wasn’t a comfortable situation , I asked where are all your husband , are they coming to know that they are not coming, I said Why? They said they are watching the cricket game on telivision tonight and some of them are watching the news paper, they are not interested in these things. Hare Krishna.

Another time in Boli Wali , there were about 2000 ladies and only the very strong conjugational member was there and that night India was playing a cricket match. It is very serious subject matter, if there is ever a justification to stay at home that must be it. So i again saw some Brahmacharis were there and a conjugational member was there , the general public there was no man infact there are thousands of ladies , I asked where are your husbands there said they will come after the cricket. Hare Krishna.
And sure enough some how or other that India won. So they missed the whole lecture but during the Kirtan thousands of men came and started dancing. What their motivation was that paramatma knows, I can’t understand this. But actually Krishna Consciousness is for everyone and these great Brahmans as learned scholarly and famous, worshipable were ultimately understood that they were egoistic, materialistic and attached. And their wifes simple innocent , they had attained the ultimate perfection of love of God , they had attained the true state of renunciation and yes they were named home and their sisters and their husbands (1:32:58)

Sukadev Goswami ends this story by explaining, how these Brahmans because of their association of their pure hearted wifes they wanted so much to run into the forests of Vrindavan to go to bank of Yamuna and to fall at Krishna and Balaram’s lotus feet to beg for forgiveness and worship them and offer their hearts to them, but they didn’t , why?? because they knew if Kamsa hears that they went to Vrindavan to see Krishna and Balaram , Kamsa may punish them and kill them and they were not prepared to die for Krishna ,but their wifes didn’t think twice to be willing to give their lifes to Krishna and Balaram. That bog was offered with such sweet love and surrender, that Krishna and Balaram and all the Gopas were sat on the bank of Yamuna and Krishna personally fed all of his friends that nectarine ambrosia of food that was scented spiced with the love of their hearts of the wifes of the Yagyak Brahmans. Thus Krishna, Balaram and all his friends feasted on the love of his devotees and by the mercy of Srila Prabhupad and our beloved Acharyas we are also feasting on this wonderful loving reciprocation between Krishna and his devotees. So yes, it is not necessary to change our position in society, it is not necessary to give up our jobs, our occupations, our ashrams. Krishna didn’t allow this, spiritual life means changing our hearts and living for the welfare of others that helping to change their hearts. What Krishna told to the wifes of the Brahmans is what Krishna told to all of people he met,
Recheck point

when he traveled through South India as lord Sri Gowranga Mahaprabhu that Kurma Brahmin he had wife and children , he said I cant bear the incisive waves of suffering in this ocean of material existence , I want to leave everything behind my lord and go with you , entering into the renounced order of life . And Lord Chaitanya said do not every speak like this again, you go home, you have your wife, you have your children, you have your home, do not leave it , Krishna likes it , I will always be with you , we never be separate , stay in the position you are in but teach others about me , speak from Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam , live for the welfare of others ,always remember me and constantly chant my holy name

‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare’

In this way, you will always feel my divine presence, we will never be separate.

Srila Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami explains this is what Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said whoever he met in South India, the Lord talked behalf in this way, now he trained his Brahmacharis and Sanyasis to be so strict. For Raghunath Das Goswami , we will give another class. The same principle is applied according to time, place and circumstance, according to a devotees heart.

‘Griyetako , Varnetako , Sada hari bole Tako’ (1:38:22)

Takore Bhaktivinod , he was a husband, Bhagavati devi was his wife and he attained children but he was a perfect devotee. Prabhupad called him a Gruhasta ParamaHamsa that he ordered all his Gruhastas to be Gruhasta ParamaHamsas , that means you , if you are Gruhasta to be a ParamaHamsa Gruhasta and you say I have no time , I have three children multiply by that with 3 and half and you have ten and Bhaktivinod Takore did it. Just like Madai gave us no excuses to do not become a pure devotee in this life. Bhaktivinod Takore gave us no excuses. He was a government servant with so much demand, he attained children and wife to support. Hari Bol . But he chanted 64 rounds everyday, he wrote volumes of books, songs and prayers, he established nama hattas in thousands of villages , tens and thousands hundred of people he was Siksha guru for and he did his work and all of his children were pure devotees , infact one was Bhakti Siddhantha Saraswathi Takore and he was so inspired by his fathers rennounciation that he took Sanyas,To carry on the mission of Bhaktivinod .
So whether we are Gruhastas or Sanyasis that is not important , what is important is that we have a honest and honest heart , we want to be the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the Lord’s devotees , we want to live our lifes in the welfare of others and with a great vow of determination we chant the holy names of the Lord. Yes, if you follow a spiritual system that teaches you just do as you like , flow with the waves of your mind and circumstances , do not cause yourself too much trouble , just be nice then at the best according to the Sastra , at the best you may attain the heavenly planets but if you want to transcend the modes of nature and attain the eternal loving service to the Supreme personality of Godhead they we must have a life of sincerity , we must take vows , vows of determination to live purely without sin , no illicit sex, no intoxication , no meat eating , no gambling vows that help us to always remember Krishna and chant his holy names
‘Harirnama Harairnama Harirnamaiva Kevalam
Kalov Nasteva Nasteva Nasteva Gati Ranyadha ’

Now anybody can give anybodies openion but according to guide and sastras, in the age of Kali , its only the name of Hari , its only Sankirtan that can bring our consciousness to the highest platform,Asana, Dhyan, Pranayam , they can give us and bring us to higher planes of material peace and combined with tremendous renunciation , they may even bring us to the platform of Brahman , impersonal realization but to enter into the highest platform of the divine leela of the lord , it is only the mood of the servant of the servant of the servant, humble like a blade of grass, tolerant like the tree that means forgiving and living for the welfare of others , offering all respects to others and expecting none in return , in that spirit we can achieve the ultimate perfection , how? , by chanting the holy name of the Lord Hari. This is the conviction that has been broadcasted through the holy scriptures and all of the truly great acharyas throughout history. And that is what our beloved Srila Prabhupad has given us, the uncompromised, unadulterated formula by which we can attain the ultimate form of love. Yes, simply by hearing and speaking about Krishna in the assembly of devotees and chanting the holy names in the spirit of servitude, what trans in the hearts of wifes of the Brahmans will take place in our hearts.

Thank you very much.

Srila Prabhupada ki Jai
Sri Gowranga Mahaprabhu ki Jai
Sri Radha Gopinath Ki Jai
Anantha Koti Gowdi Vaisnava Brund ki Jai
Gowra Pramanandi , Hari Hari Bol

This time i would like ask Sruti Dharma Prbahu and Pranabandhu Prabhu to address the audience what their wonderful hearts of spiritual affection. These two folks are doing historical service. If I wanted to explain my appreciation for them, then we will be hear for many days , they are the creaters of one of the many greatest and successful projects in all the world Bhakti Vedanta banner , through crisis and in lots of problems, through all sorts of difficulties internal and external, the British Government of one time control the India, America and most of the world they passed the law to close down the worship which on Bhakti Vedanta banner and these two men were actually part of team , marched and revolted against the British emporiar and were Victorious. Hari Bol. Though heart breaking internal experience they were named faithful and fruit of Prabupad’s mission and what are the fruits , thousands of people are becoming devotees , Janmastami in the Bhakti Vedanta banner , there is nothing like it in all the world , our Radha Gopinath is not even a drop in ocean of what they have in Bhakti Vedanta banner, they have dramas , they have displays, they have lectures, they have incredible like a whole city is vibrant of preaching Hari Bhakti and for Janmastami 80 Thousand people attend every year . And its not inflated like we do here. Actually 80 Thousand people are coming and this is not in India, this is England and they are so much inspiration, their dedication their loyalty something wonderful something extraordinary and although they are very humble all the leaders of our society very much honor and worship their lotus feet by their exemplary service to Sri Radha Gogulanath and Srila Prabhupada and all Vaisnavas , with those words we would like to welcome both of you to speak whatever is there in your heart.

‘Pangum Nageti -----
Yath Krupam tamaham ----sri guru veena taranaha (1:48:49 minute)’

Festival of our group on behalf in London , I would deeply like to appreciate the Vaisnava community here at Radha Gopinath Mandir , especially his holy names Radhanath Maharaj for his effection , his kindness ,his friendship , we are traveling to India for piligrimage , so we are going to Mayapur very shortly , Jagannath puri , Vrindavan , the question is asked , why are you going to Bombay , why are you going to Mumbai that doesn’t there in the yatra list and what we have said always is that coming here to Mumbai as advertised in London , in London it is advertises as Mumbai is gateway to India , actually it should be reworded to spiritual gateway to India , because here Radhanath maharaj stated that Radha Raj Bihari , Radha Gopinath , Radhagiri dhari , this is the spiritual gate way to India , this community of devotees here and at chowpatty is exemptring , it is stated through out ISKON that it is the community that we should follow and there is one person who is related in this is , I was speaking to Indradyumna swami , just about to go , and he told me Radhanath Swami has come ,I said yes, I was in America , I met wonderful devotees and I asked them whose disciples you are that Radhanath Swami and then I came to Europe and I met some very new Bhaktas , they were like jumping and I asked them whose disciples are you , they said Radhanath Swami , today I come to England and I have noticed some very exemplary personalities were here and I was speaking to them and they were disciples of Radhanath Maharaj, everyone I go , Radhanath Maharaj is influencing the Vaisnavas . So this communities of devotees are very exemplary that means there is a great responsibility upon all of you , that all of you should keep that and take it, because the name Radha Gopinath temple is non different from the name of Radhanath Maharaj , so great responsibility lies upon every disciple , why Mumbai there are three cities which influence the world , Newyork is influencing everything specially America , whatever happens ,it happens throughout America , whatever happened in London , it will happen in whole of Europe and whatever happens in Mumbai it will happen whole of Asian. So that is why it is so important here to coming to Mumbai, we are about to go to Mayapur and in the Navdweep Mahatmya , Jeeva Goswami , he first went and he took permission from Lord Nityanand and then he said I also have come to get your blessing , so London group , we have come here for the permission and blessings of Vaisnava community and the holy ness Radhanath Swami Maharaj that we may be able to see the spirituality in the holy places. The holy places they cover Yoga Maya ,Croda Maya covering like carpet unless the carpet is rolled up , you will not know what is the spirituality , so we have come here to request Radhanath Swami Maharaj roll up the carpet so that we can proceed the spiritual round , the blessings of the Vaisnavas , this is the most important principle in our spiritual lifes.

‘Veena Mahathpado Radha Abhishekaham’(1:55 minute)

Unless these blessings are there, we will not be able to succeed, it is very very difficult , so we have come here to ask for the blessings and as every disciple of Maharaj is here , those blessing are actually following the instructions of the spiritual master. Maharaj was speaking about the Brahmans and their wifes, so each one of us we have our parents but we also have our spiritual guru, our God Father , story is that of Swarangam Takore , he was ordered to give dakshin and the next morning he would give dakshin , that folks came because he was the first person who touched the folks feet and immediately he became Murari Takore , from that example we can think that our parents may give our birth but Guru actually gives our life , Murari Takore said same things, when their parents and come and said you haveto come home now , he said he gave me birth but not life , so guru actually giving us life , so great responsibility lies on every disciple , my real life , my second life , because my spiritual master has touched my heart , Maharaj was explaining us that we are simply servants , we take great inspiration from him , he has instructed us greatly to make sure that in England especially many English man become Krishna Consciousness as well, so we are working on this. And Krishna Consciousness it is like joining the mafia , and there must be mafia in Bombay as well, there is mafia in London , there is mafia in Moscow , And Krishna Consciousness it is also like joining the mafia because once you join you can never leave , why? , because you know too much , so In this regard , there is one story I can quickly say , there is one English gentleman by the name of Andru and are devotes are speaken to him and many speaken to him many yrs and finally he came to Krishna Consciousness but he was telling i have one habit that I can’t give up , why Krishna Consciousness not allowed fishing , I like to go fishing , we said no no that’s not allowed , he gave up fishing many yrs he practiced Krishna Consciousness and he have faith but eventually he decided to leave Krishna Consciousness , the book that inspired him greatly is Bhagavad Gita , so he was looking at this book and he said now I cant stand this anymore , this books , this beads and everything ,so he took the Bhagavad Gita and it was his own copy with his name on it ,and in a rage of anger he throwed it way in the dustbin , and just to make sure that we would not visit him , he moved 2000 miles away , so this English gentleman and his wife moved very remort part of England. And four yrs later we met him in temple and he said I have come back this moment is like the mafia, I cant leave , I asked him what happened , he said I am doing all sorts of things but I went fishing that was one of the reason I couldn’t live I have to leave because of fishing , I got one big fish and pulling and pulling and when he pulled , it was black bag so he opened that black bag , people throwing rubbish in this river and he opened the bag and inside that bag there was another plastic bag and inside that bag there was a copy of the Bhagavad Gita , and he looked at the front of it and it was his Bhagavad gita with his name on it , how it arrived from dust bin to 2000 miles , he said you will following me , so Krishna doesn’t leave anyone alone , one you come it is like the mafia. So in this way preaching is going on and much more going on and once again my great appreciation for the Vaisnava community here at the Radha Gopinath and extemporing community of devotees, you have a lot to give and you have reputation which you have to keep, great responsibility lies upon each individual in this community. Hare Krishna

Hare Krishna,

Nama om Vishnupadaya Krishna Prestaya Bhutaley
Srimate Bhakthi Vedanta Swami niti Namine

Namaste Saraswati Deve Gowra vani Prachariney
Nirvishesha Sunyavadi Praschatya desha tarine

Vanchakalpa Tharubyascha Krupa Sindhubya Evacha
Patitanam Pavanebho Vasinavebhyo Namo Namaha

Hare Krishna , So I would like to thank all of you giving London group wonderful welcome. I am not particularly really good speaker, my this class before coming into temple room, would you two gentle would like to speak anything he asked , I said where is Maharaj , Maharaj said very nicely , how everything is coming in KC, last time we come to this temple 4 yrs back , I want to come again soon as front what a wonderful confirmation I would not believe, and for me it very inspiring when we here of projects and Radha gopinath project is very beautiful , how beautiful the hearts of Vasinavas here, his holiness Radhanath Maharaj was inspiring thousands of people to come to KC to chant Hare Krishna and everything will be ok if we pray to Krishna , Radhantha Maharaj spent little more time in London that’s the manifestation of the spiritual but also happened here, his faith in chanting hare Krishna , his eagerness in chanting hare Krishna is wonderful. Thank you for everyone. Hare Krishna

Thank you very much.

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