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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, Swami Radhanath reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, Radhanath 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 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'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.
Lecture by His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja.
Thank you to His Holiness Chandramauli Swami Maharaja and thank you to all of you for being with us today. Maharaja was speaking about hearing the transcendental sound vibration of Krishna. The Srimad Bhagavatam tells
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Tags: SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM – 8.15.33-34 TEXT 33 deveñv atha niléneñu balir vairocanaù purém deva-dhäném adhiñöhäya vaçaà ninye jagat-trayam TRANSLATION When the demigods had disappeared, Bali Mahäräja, the son of Virocana, entered the heavenly kingdom, and from there he brought the three worlds under his control.
Read moreSUNDAY FEAST LECTURE BY HH RADHANATH SWAMI MAHARAJ: Thank you for coming today, special gratitude to the devotees, about 40-50 devotees from China have come to join us today, let us offer our sincerest welcome them by loudly chanting ….Haribol!!! I will speak for few minutes and then our devotees from China will explain to all of us wonderful devotional activities taking place there. SRILA PRABHUPADA & KUNBHA MELA I just came from Kumbha mela from Haridwar yesterday. Srila Prabhupad, every year, every Kumbha mela, he personally went.
Read moreTEXT 7 indro bhagavatä dattäà trailokya-çriyam ürjitäm bhuïjänaù päti lokäàs trén kämaà loke pravarñati TRANSLATION Indra, King of heaven, receiving benedictions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus enjoying highly developed opulences, maintains the living entities all over the three worlds by pouring sufficient rain on all the planets.
Read moreBHAKTI VS OTHER PROCESSES I sincerely welcome all of the assembled devotees to Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir on this divine holy day of Sri Gaur Purnima. The verse we are reading today, perhaps it’s not the typical verse to be chosen on Gaur Purnima. What is so special here, it reveals the power of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s appearance in this world. We were discussing yesterday that to achieve mystic powers, usually takes many life times, rigorous, difficult tapasya or austerities.
Read moreCC Madhya 6.255 kälän nañöaà bhakti-yogaà nijaà yaù präduñkartuà kåñëa-caitanya-nämä ävirbhütas tasya pädäravinde gäòhaà gäòhaà léyatäà citta-bhåìgaù SYNONYMS kälät—from misuse of material propensities and attachment to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge over the course of time; nañöam—destroyed; bhakti-yogam—the science of devotional service; nijam&
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