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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.
To be in the divine presence of Mahäprabhu!
And I am very grateful to be amongst all of you, tonight.
In great affection we all have gathered to pray for the blessings and offer all our support to Girish (Girigovardhan Prabhu) and Sheetal. Tomorrow in the presence of Sri RadhaRasbihari they will be taking the wows of marriage.
On the path of Bhakti in what ever Ashram we may be we can progress towards the perfection of life. Srimad Bhagvatam tells,
çré-çacé-jagannätha, çré-mädhava-puré
keçava bhäraté, ära çré-éçvara pure
TRANSLATION
çré-çacé-jagannätha, çré-mädhava-puré
keçava bhäraté, ära çré-éçvara pure
TRANSLATION
HOW IS GOD SEING YOU FROM WITHIN?
Read moreAccording to the Bhagavad-Gita and Vedic scriptures destiny is unavoidable or we created our self’s, because it is the law of nature for every action there is equal corresponding reaction, or as we say what goes up must come down and similarly this law apply to physics, is on the platform of subtle material nature, the power of our thoughts the power of our feelings, affects the world, what to speak the power of our speech and actions.
Tags: undefinedhiraṇmaye 'pi bhagavān nivasati kūrma-tanuḿ bibhrāṇas tasya tat priyatamāḿ tanum aryamā saha varṣa-puruṣaiḥ pitṛ-gaṇādhipatir
upadhāvati mantram imaḿ cānujapati
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kūrma-śarīra]. This most dear and beautiful form is always worshiped there in devotional service by Aryamā, the chief resident of Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, along with the other inhabitants of that land. They chant the following hymns.
PURPORT
The word priyatama (dearmost) is very significant in this verse. Each devotee regards a particular form of the Lord as most dear. Because of an atheistic mentality, some people think that the tortoise, boar and fish incarnations of the Lord are not very beautiful. They do not know that any form of the Lord is always the fully opulent Personality of Godhead.
On the eastern side of Sumeru Mountain are two mountains named Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa, which extend to the north and south for 18,000 yojanas [144,000 miles]. Similarly, on the western side of Sumeru are two mountains named Pavana and Pāriyātra, which also extend north and south for the same distance. On the southern side of Sumeru are two mountains named Kailāsa and Karavīra, which extend east and west for 18,000 yojanas, and on the northern side of Sumeru, extending for the same distance east and west, are two mountains named Triśṛńga and Makara. The width and height of all these mountains is 2,000 yojanas [16,000 miles]. Sumeru, a mountain of solid gold shining as brilliantly as fire, is surrounded by these eight mountains.
Self of Ilavrta varsha and extending from east to west are three great mountains named from north to south- Nishadha, Hemakuta and Himalaya, each of them is 10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles), they mark the boundaries of three varshas named Hari varsha, Kim purusha varsha and Bharat varsha. In the same way, west and east of Ilavrta varsha are two great mountains, Malyavan and Gandhamarna, respectively. These two mountains which are 2000 yojanas (16,000 miles) high, extent as far as Neela mountain in the north and Nishadha in the south. They indicate the borders of Ilavrta varsha and also the varshas known as ketu mala and Bhadrasva.
Purport By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta swami Prabhupada.