The Journey Home Book - By Radhanath Swami
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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.
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.
Purport by His divine grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Shrila Prabhupada.
Because the living entity is not actually the enjoyer of the material resources, his attempt to Lord over material nature is the ultimate issue frustrated. As a result of frustration he desired more power than the ordinary living entity and thus wants to merge into the existence of the supreme enjoyer, in this way he developed a plan for greater enjoyment. When one is actually situated in devotional service, that is his independent position. Less intelligent cannot understand the position of the eternal service of the Lord because the word servant is used and they become confuse and they cannot understand the servant is not just the servant of the material world, to be the servant of the lord is the greatest position. If one can understand this thus revive ones original nature of eternal servitor ship of the Lord, ones stand fully independent. A living entities independence is lost by material contact, in the spiritual field he has full independence and therefore there is no question of becoming dependent upon the three modes of material nature. This position is attained by a devotee and therefore he gives up the tendency to enjoyment after seeing its faultiness. By discovering the faultiness of his desiring of lord over material nature and therefore by giving it up the living entity becomes independent and stands in his own glory.
Since time immemorial the living entity in contact with the three modes of material nature in this material world is trying to be the enjoyer and trying to be the Lord, trying to be independent and thinking that the idea of servitor ship means bondage or enslavement. So many times when a devotee talks in his natural devotional vocabulary in the presence of a materialistic person and we say “ I am your servant “ people think that you are demeaning yourself, why you are calling yourself a servant? Why you are putting yourself in such a humiliation embarrassing position, after all in this world everyone wants to get a head, every one wants a higher position, everyone wants a recognition, every one wants to be master and to the degree this is the case to the degree we are bound by the frustration and anxiety of material existence. In this way the more we advanced in material life thinking we would become independent and enjoy through the process factually just the opposite takes place, we are bound we are enslaved to suffer but such persons who are bound enslaved suffering because of their false ego when they see some one trying to aspiring to become a humble servant, they think that the person is a useless rejected failure in this world and they preached to that person in so many ways that “ you should be like this, you should not take this life so seriously after all you will not be successful “ successful in what? Successful in self torcher that’s all. We think we are successful because we have money, possession, power over others but more money we have more possession we have more power over other we have, if we are attached to it in an egoistic purpose the more we are fearful and frustrated because the more you have the more you want and you are not the controller that’s the bottom line and the more you think you are the more you are frustrated when you can’t control. So therefore the real independence is simply to surrender and to be controlled by Krishna. “ Krishna You are the supreme controller, You are Ishwara parama Krishna “ Sometimes people think that they are God, factually everybody is a God, everyone is Ishwara, Ishwara means God. Literally controller, everyone has some power to control so in this way are part and parcel of God “ mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati” and therefore we all have that independent nature wanting to control like God but our liberation our freedom is when we surrender that independence to the will of God and our bondage is to the extent that we want to enjoy separate independent of the will of God. So therefore Krishna says in Gita “ya nisa sarva-bhutanam tasyam jagarti samyami yasyam jagrati bhutanisa nisa pasyato muneh “What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.
That what is day for a devotee of the Lord is night for worldly person and what is night for a devotee the self realized soul is the time of awakening for a materialistic person. There are two opposite perception of life. We find in Shrimad Bhagvatam this conflict between material vision and spiritual vision in the story of Hiranyakashipu and Pralhad. Pralhad was simply aspiring to be a humble servant and Hiranyakashipu was simply aspiring to be the controller and the enjoyer and what was the result, two absolutely opposite visions of life of what is the goal, what is good what is right ? In the school of Shanda and Amarka in the school of Hirankashipu they were simply teaching the students very much as we are taught in our school today, How to be very expert of loading it over material nature, diplomacy cheating, how to simply get ahead and feed one mind and senses with more and more gratification and the ways and the means to be successful in this regards and Pralhad his concern was detaching himself from all the things that he was been taught to attach himself to and therefore there was a great internal struggle there was a battle between the father and the son. So we should understand the material society is always in a vision of being enjoyer controller and Lord and the spiritual society is always the goal to be the humble servant to surrender to the will of God therefore in the Bible Lord Jesus said “ if the people of the world accepts you that means you are not following Me, if they reject you that means you are following Me “ We want the best of both worlds but we have to understand what is the best of both worlds ? if you want the praise of men in this world you cannot be dear to God and His devotees, if you are dear to God and His devotees do not expect the praise of men in this world because they are two opposite visions of life so this is one of the greatest acts of sacrifice that is required to take to a real spiritual path. Off course today in the name of religion in the name of Yoga simply teach you to be a materialistic person pay little do little charity and do some meditation and become God but it is not like that, taking to spiritual life means to declare war on Maya, it means to declare war on your own mind and senses and to declare war on the basic principal that everyone is living in this material world, desire to loaded over to their sense enjoyment so this struggle may sound very very difficult and it may sound very unpleasing after all we are living in this city, there are over 10 million people in this city who m I to declare war against this! It’s a very powerful machine of Maya but factually the more we hear about Krishna more our faith awaken in Krishna and the more we realize that God is great and that this entire material energy before God is insignificant. “ daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya
mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te “ Krishna’s says in Gita that “ One who surrenders to Me is under the protection of My divine potency he is no longer affected by the three modes of material nature “ this is the goal of life simply to become dear to Krishna. You can please some of the people some of the time, you can never please all of the people all of the time but you please Krishna your life is perfect. If you water the root of the tree the whole tree is satisfied but without nourishing the tree the whole tree will dwindle and die and we may think that if I become dear to Krishna then what about all those people who are loved so much in this world what will happen to them, they would be very disappointed with me I will make them to much unhappy because they are expecting so many great thing from me, they are expecting to be tiger among men, to be successful wealthy to be like every one else to be a normal citizen of this material world, how many people would be disappointed with me how many people their hearts will break if they see me trying to please Krishna instead of trying to please them. In this regard we have to situate are life on the principal of knowledge, if you love some you will do what is best for them, if the child is sick and you will give him some food that would increase his disease the child would be very happy and pleased with you but you are simply killing that child, if you will give medicine the child would scream and hate you but you are showing love and doing what is good for the child. There is a story in the Chaitanya Caritamrita about a devotee name Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya and he was very very humble and gently devotee of the lord and he and his wife were very anxious to invite Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to their home for Prasad. You will see there is a difference between the way a materialistic person welcomes a saintly person and the way a spiritually person welcomes the saintly person. When he was inviting Lord Caitanya he was not thinking that lord Caitanya would bless my home, he was thinking that I have an opportunity to give him happiness. Today people are approaching sadhu’s with the idea of what can I get out of him but Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya he had a much higher outlook, his idea was how can I please the lord how can please guru maharaj how can I satisfy him so he was very anxious to having come to his home and he and his wife both cooked for so many hours, in fact when Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw the wonderful feast cooked He said “Sarvabhoma how have you possibly cooked such Prasad, it would take 10 men 10 days to cook so much Prasad and you have only invited Me this morning, you only had few hours how could you have possibly cooked so much and Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya said that it is not I that have cooked it, it is You to whom it was prepared for that prepared and another you are the doer my Lord, it is You that have cooked all of this, I only used my feeble hands to collects the ingredients. In this way Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya was giving us a very good instruction that what every we do in our life we should never take the credit because factually Krishna is the supreme doer in all circumstances, He has given us the intelligence He has given us the body to work with He has given us the eyes He has given us all the ingredients to work with weather it’s our business weather its our family weather its cooking weather its dancing, what ever we do we should recognize the fact that Krishna is the doer and based on our desire he does through us. We a criminal goes out and robes the bank he cant do without Krishna, Krishna is the doer but because of his perverted desires Krishna is empowering him to do perverted things and for a devotee who is trying to serve the Lord glorify the Lord giving the highest charity of the Lord’s mercy he should never think “ I am the doer “ all we can is desire and Krishna will assists us and help us that He is the supreme controller we have no power without mercy of the Lord to do anything to speak anything to do anything. So Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya prepared such a wonderful wonderful opulent feast that when Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw He was so happy He said “ Oh! Krishna has eaten so nicely today, how would you possibly cooked so much “ he said “ no my Lord, He who was that prepared for his prepared it, I only collected the ingredients by Your mercy “ and then Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said “ Well I am a sanyasi please give me a little boiled rice and little steam vegetable on a plate and I am very happy to see that Krishna has enjoyed everything “ and then Sarvabhoma said “ no no no not like that “ he said this is all for You, how will I eat this, this is whole room full of Prasad, how would I possibly “ and Sarvabhoma said “ Ah! You are speaking like this but I know when Jagannath puri Your form of Lord Jagannath which is non different than You, You eat 56 offering a day and each one is big as this or bigger so You kindly take little of everything as much as You like “ so Lord Caitanya started taking. Sarvabhoma invited Mahaprabhu several times he cooked wonderful Prasad in this way but one day Sarvabhoma his son-in-law happen to be visiting and this son-in-law whose name was Amogha was very envious and always inclined with finding faults with others, this is the most terrible attribute of the human mind is the desire to find faults in others. Lord Jesus said “ Before looking for a speck in another person’s eye you should take the mountain out of your own eye “ We are very much inclined to looking to the faults of others and speaking of them. Glorifying the faults of others as if we have 5 mouths but if anyone finds a fault in us we are very anxious to defend our self and if we know of some faults we want to keep it hidden and secret from the world to ever see, this is the tendency of envy. A humble person is always anxious to admit faults and even if he doesn’t have faults he sees faults in himself. We see all the great saints in history they consider themselves so fallen so lowly although they are perfect in every way and those who are fallen and lowly consider themselves perfect in everyway. This is difference between material life and spiritual life. So Amogha was simply an envious person he could not tolerate if any one getting respect above him, he wanted to tear down anyone who is getting more recognition than himself some how or other. Therefore when he saw Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya his father-in-law who is such a respectable and famous person in the society, when he saw how nicely he was serving Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu he became burning with envy and Sarvabhoma he told his wife that you serve the Lord and I am going to stand at the door with a stick to make sure this rascal Amogha our son-in-law is not come in and disturb the Lord with his blasphemies. So Amogha was keeping a distance because Sarvabhoma was guarding the door with a stick but at one point Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu He was finishing certain preparations so Sarvabhoma ran in to get some other preparation and at just that point Amogha ran into the room and he said “ Just see this man suppose to be a sanyasi he is a rascal he is a hypocrite he is nonsense he is simply eating all kinds of opulent foods he is simply taking to the renounced order of life just to satisfy his tongue and His belly He is a bogus person he is condemned and just see “ Caitanya Mahaprabhu very humbly silently listening to what Amogha said but Sarvabhoma was not very humble in a material way, he took his stick and chased after Amogha and Amogha ran away and he chased him a long distance because Sarvabhoma was old he could catch him so Sarvabhoma and his wife they came back fell at the feet of Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and said “ our life is ruin we have invited You to our house to give you pleasure to glorify you and come to our house just to be offended just be blasphemed, we are condemned our home is condemned our lives are condemned and Lord Caitanya said “ no no no, actually what he is saying is right I shouldn’t be eating so much he is actually My friend don’t be so angry on him and Sarvabhoma and his wife was in the other room beating on the chest, she was calling out “ May my daughter to be a widow “ which means may this Amogha die to this offense he has committed. They were only attached to the attachment to Krishna. So Lord Caitanya he saw that how much disturb these two devotees were so just to pacify them He said bring Me more Prasad, why are you thinking all of these things I am still hungry, bring Me more Prasad. So in this way they were very happy to bring Him more and He ate so much and in this way they were satisfied but very shortly after this Amogha contracted Khalara and he was laying on his death bed he hit him so fast and so hard that within practically a day he was dying and when Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu heard this news he said to Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya that why did you not tell me your son in dying of Kalara your son-in-law and Sarvabhoma Bhattacharaya said “ For the offenses he has committed let him die “ and Shri Mahaprabhu said no you may be saying this but in your heart he is very dear to you so bring me to him. So Caitanya mahaprabhu went into the room where he was laying moments away from death suffering terribly and Shri Caitanya mahaprabhu with great compassion and sympathy in His eyes he placed his lotus hands on the heart of Amogha and he said Amogha you are born as a Brahman you are the son-in-law of Sarvabhoma, your heart is meant to be the residence of Shri Krishna, why have you allowed this terrible demon of envy to take control of your heart, rise chant the holy name of Krishna and free your self from this great suffering and bondage and right at that point Amogha leaped from his death bed and became to chant the Holy names “ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare “ and he was completely purified both materially as well as spiritually, physically his body became in perfect health and spiritually he became pure devotee of God just by chanting the holy name in the presence of Lord Caitanya and Amogha was thinking what I have done he took his own hand and started slapping himself on the face as hard as he could and his face was red and solon and Caitanya Mahaprabhu said what are you doing? He said all the terrible things I have said about You I must punish myself, Lord Caitanya said no no you should stop this, he said the fact is because you are related to Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya you are delivered to the highest position of spirituality. For no qualification of your own, according to your own qualification you should be going down to lowest deepest modes of ignorance but anyone who is connected to My devotee however sinful and demoniac he may be I take special concern to liberate them and Caitanya Mahaprabhu turned to Sarvabhoma and said “ My dear Sarvabhoma because he is related to you because some natural affection you have for him therefore it is My fore most duty to satisfy you by delivering all those who are near and dear to you. And amogha became an intimate associate of the Lord and a perfect self realized soul by the mercy of Sarvabhoma Bhattacharya who Amogha thought was simply a crazy fool but in the end it was Sarvabhoma’s devotion that liberated him and this is an eternal principal. Lord Narshima Dev told Pralhad that 21 generation are liberated of all family members and intimate associates of My devotee and Prabhupada describes in that purport that, that means 20 generation of this family but it also mean 21 generation of all the families that the jivatma was living in from last 21 generations they all get liberated, that means hundreds and thousands are liberated if one person become devotee of Krishna. So what is the most compassionate generous thing you can do for those you love and for those who you have loved in the past you don’t even remember they all get liberated, your mother your father your sister your uncle’s your aunt’s all your births 21 generations they all get liberated and in future why is this ? because one who is willing to stand up against this material nature one who is willing to accept and tolerate ridicule of the men in this world for the sake of God are so dear to Krishna that Krishna naturally awards them this supreme benediction. But off course if we make our society a loved ones, primarily the society of devotees who support us and encourage us in our loving devotional service of the Lord then Krishna consciousness become very simple, becomes very natural it becomes very easy. United we stand divided we fall, Shrila Prabhupada would say that anybody who thinks he could become Krishna conscious without intimately associating with the devotees he is dreaming in the greatest illusion. The material energy is so powerful she will break us within pieces within seconds and she is so expert in breaking up into pieces that we don’t even know that we are broken we think that we are very pious very religious we are doing very well but we are living according to our own concoction therefore to create Krishna into the centre of our family to accept the family of the devotees of the Lord as our intimate friends and associates, this is the most important principal in spiritual advancement to that association and the discipline that is learnt in that association the first and fore most priority of our life. All these tendencies are loaded over material nature we must some how or other tolerate and resists them and learnt the humble position of servant of the servant in the association of the devotees. To come together to glorify Krishna and His holy name, that is the supreme topmost goal of life “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare “ even in spiritual circles if we make management and all sorts of other techniques for spreading our message, if we make our priority there would be so much conflict and competition and enmity amongst even the sadhus but if these things are detailed and the priority is simply to come together to chant the holy names “ “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare “ then there would be love and trust and not only they would be love and trust but Krishna would empower all of these detailed and management to be worked out naturally, that is a fact. When Bhaktipad was given instruction by Prabhupada what to do to develop New Vrindavan, Bhaktipad said but do I do it Prabhupada said just chant Hare Krishna and he had so many questions and he just answered to every question is just chant Hare Krishna because if you are sincerely chanting Hare Krishna in the association of devotees then Krishna takes care of all these other things and my question is who is more expert you or Krishna ? as long we thing we are making the decision as long as we thing we are going to work out the right way then its in our hand but if we simply come together and chant the holy names and in the minimal level we discuss all the detail then Krishna will take care of all the details that His promise “ananyas cintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham “ that for My devotee who surrenders to My will and what is His will in this age of Kali “ Ceto darpana marjanam “ to chant His name, I preserve what he has and carry what he lacks, so this is the foremost secret of success in this world, this is the ways the means to overcome the demoniac element within us to load it over material nature and become the enjoyer by coming together in the association of the sincere souls and entering into the divine kirtan of the Lord chanting His names and putting Krishna as a center of every aspect of our life by making Krishna’s name the integrating force within ourselves and others and between ourselves and all the things and duties that we accept in our life. Our Guru Maharaj taught us nothing should be done without first invoking the name of Krishna and then everything become auspicious. Thank you very much. So I was discussing briefly about how Shrila Prabhupada manage, instructed Kirtanananda Maharaj, Bhakti pada Maharaj how to manage New Vrindavan by simply chanting Hare Krishna, putting aside all of the technical devices that often distract our mind away from Krishna, we have to do certain things but it should never be out of proportion, the Kritan is the power that would empower us to be successful, so today we have a special guest HH Nityoditya Swami Maharaj and He has been very intimately working in so many projects of the development of New Vrindavan many long years he was originally started as a gardener he was growing fruits vegetables and flowers to offer to Radha Vrindavanchandra, off course in those days New Vrindavan meant the deties the cows and the gardens there was nothing else, he was with the gardens and I was with the cows there was a simple life, gradually as the community started develop he was one of the most instrumental person’s in building Shrila Prabhupada palace, how he was built nobody knows only Krishna so Nityodita Maharaj will explain some of the practical realization he had in this matter for the pleasure of all the devotees Thank you very much. But you have to sit like this….
Nityodita Swami Maharaj : “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare “ Hari Bol! What a wonderful gathering, as Radhanath Swami was saying… you know I don’t know anything and the development of New Vrindavan was not a material development as Maharaj was explaining it was completely spiritual development, there was no expert construction work there was no expert architects or planners so the standard of New Vrindavan the real development of New Vrindavan in the old age took place according to the devotees dedication chanting the holy name of the Lord, so we should ask our selves what is the first thing we do when we get up in the morning, are we putting the holy name of the lord first? Or are we waiting it to put it into our schedule. If you put Krishna first Krishna will put you first “ Ye ye tamam prapatdyante, tams tathaiva vajamya aham “ Krishna explains as You approach Me I reward you accordingly, so if put Krishna aside for other important things Krishna will put you aside that means Krishna is in your heart, you cant remember Him without His help so if we put Krishna aside its very difficult to remember Him, as specially in difficult moments and if you put Krishna first then He will put you first, He will appear in your mind in your heart when you need Him most. So the determined practice of chanting the holy name of the lord is the ground work it’s the basis it’s the basic training of our spiritual life and throughout the day throughout the week throughout the month throughout the year its Krishna trains us up right in front of very eyes day to day disturbances day to day temptations and how we deal with that how we deal with those temptations and those trying situations, that is the practical application of our chanting of our holy name so we are racing all over the planet we are racing all over the world we are racing all over the city everyone is racing never at rest we try to experience something wonderful, the eyes are never at rest because the eyes are looking for a form that’s very attractive and beautiful, they walk out on the street there are so much forms that attract the eyes, the bazzars the shoping malls the different little shops, they are presenting so many different forms to attract the eyes new cars new carriers new clothes, beautiful people. Searching out some nice sound that will ensure your happiness, sound vibrations of how your money is being multiplied or how promises of happiness in this world, newspaper the news how the world is getting better supposing, or the situation the poor little situation is changing our ears are always accused to these things, and our ears are dying for the sound vibrations of “ “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare “ our ears are continuously racing until we sect our selves on the beautiful names of Krishna, our eyes would be so tired until we rest them on the beautiful form of Krishna our legs running all over they might be satisfied until they are dancing with the tune of the holy name of Krishna even one at the point of exhaustion when the sound vibration of the holy name comes in to his heart he becomes just like a child again we see how old man or young man or tired man or women become just like children when they open up their hearts in the sound vibration of Krishna’s holy name so this is the basis of the spiritual action, spiritual action means to open up your heart to the transcendental sound vibration of the holy name and then Krishna will act through you. A devotee doesn’t have any action on his own court a real devotee is not acting except like a puppet in Krishna’s hand, you have all seen puppets with strings this is the life of a devotee and how does he become a puppet in the hands of Krishna – open your heart to the holy name “ Cheto darpana marjam “ by cleansing the heart with the transcendental sound vibration we give up this false conception of acting for your own welfare for your own benefit and you learn to act simply for the pleasure of Krishna “ Nadhanam Najanam Na sundarim “ we have so many desire so many belongings so much dreams of happiness in this world but they are all useless if they are not in connection with the Lord’s service so Shri Caitanya mahaprabhu explained “ my dear lord I have no desire to accumulate wealth I have no desire for beautiful women I have no desire for followers I only want causeless devotional service birth after birth. “ any pure devotee who adopt this simple teaching of Lord Caitanya beginning with chanting the name of the lord in the humble state of mind, he become empowered by Prabhupada. Krishna wants to empower each one of us Krishna wants to bring you home bring in to your true situation of eternity knowledge and bliss, thousands of time more than you want to so we just take one step towards Krishna take one step toward Krishna and you will see how Krishna will respond to you. So our devotees are not attached to anything in this world but if Krishna gives them something to use it for Krishna’s service, if Shri Caitnaya said “ I have no desires for wealth “ but the spiritual master we say he is always wondering for where is the lakshmi for this project where is the lakshmi for that project why are the project for they are for the glorification of Krishna so it is the transcendental right of the representative of Krishna to collect their devotion to collect their energy. Spiritual master is like the tax collector, the tax collector is collecting so much money and resources he doesn’t keeps a drop towards himself he turns it over to the government to whom its belongs similarly the spiritual master he may collect thousands and millions of rupees and dollars he may attract millions of followers but Lord Caitanya said I don’t want any followers, spiritual masters have, he may attract hundred and millions of followers but those followers are not following him they are following Krishna, spiritual master is the transparent representative of Krishna so therefore he can collect millions of followers he can engage thousands of beautiful women he can utilize unlimited amount of energy for the service of Krishna. This is the real spiritual master he is not afraid to act for Krishna and this is the success of each and everyone in our lives. Whatever we have we should use for Krishna if we have ability to speak, speak for Krishna, if we have some money we can use it for spreading the glories of Krishna, if we have some influence, influence others to become Krishna consciousness, if we have some charisma some personal beauty or strength use it attract people to come see the beautiful form of Shri Shri Radha Gopinath come to the temple associate with the devotees so anyone of you have been to New Vrindavan you have seen the wonderful service rendered by Shri Bhaktipada every square inch reminds you of some inspired service to Shrila Prabhupada by kirtananada swami Bhaktipada and he picked up he picked up even rejected devotees….. so this is the kind of compassion of pure devotees that he sees something good in us in fact if the devotees haven’t seen good in every single one of us in this room none of us would be here now some how or other by the mercy of the vaishnavs who are following in the footstep of the master to show compassion they overlook all our faults all our pride all of our nonsense and seen something worth while and that’s something worth while is touches sincerity in the heart, just with this pinch of sincerity ones spiritual life could begin (53:22) just with the touch of sincerity touch of desire if you so say with the devotees sincerely opening your heart to hear the message of the lord and follow those instruction all the unwanted things in your heart will vanish and your natural attraction for God and your taste for serving god will develop and you want nothing else, there is no question of renounciation just cutting off automatically just cutting off you have to develop higher taste therefore the lord is always inviting to come and chant the holy names your ears are not satisfied unless you hear the wonderful sound of the name your mind will not be satisfied unless you hear the absolute truth spoken by Krishna Bhagavat Gita or the teaching of Shrimad Bhagvatam, your desire for sensual satisfaction will go in vain unless your senses are in touch with Krishna, Krishna is so beautiful Krishna is so kind he is so loving he is inviting us always to turn to Him so that is always our choice weather to turn to Krishna by accepting the mercy of the vaishnavs and the devotees or to run always to gratify our senses with the sense object. Krishna is the supreme sense object there is nothing sweeter than krishna’s form there is nothing sweeter than His name there is nothing more enthralling unto hear the pastime of Krishna narrated by a pure devotee so this is always our choice to swim in the ocean of eternal bliss Krishna consciousness or to beat our heads against the walls in material endeavourers so remember its upto us its up to you up to me whatever you want Krishna would fulfill that desire He is in your heart waiting for you so don’t waste any more time become more serious today take more advantage of this temple to day take more advantage of the devotees today and your life will become sublime….. are there any questions comments, no time so whatever is next is next HH Radhanath swami maharaj ki Jai……
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