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In 1970, at the age of only nineteen, Radhanath Swami left his home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, he reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, he 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 he 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 (San Rafael, CA: Mandala Publishing, 2009). 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. His 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 spiritual activist, 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.
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Gaur Poornima Lecture - Lessons from the deliverance of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya
BHAKTI VS OTHER PROCESSES
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CC Madhya 6.255
kälän nañöaà bhakti-yogaà nijaà yaù
präduñkartuà kåñëa-caitanya-nämä
ävirbhütas tasya pädäravinde
gäòhaà gäòhaà léyatäà citta-bhåìgaù
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Lord Nityananda Appearance Day(1_1_12, Mumbai)
The Supreme Mercy of The two Lords
Read moreJourney Home - Mega Youth Festival Lecture
Mega Youth Festival – At Shanmukananda Hall
26th August 2009
by His Holiness_Radhanath_Swami_Maharaja
I am very much grateful and honored to be among all of you this evening. Thank you for being here. There will be a beautiful concert by Gaurvani and as Kindred spirits. So we will speak briefly. What that means? “Destiny will reveal.” As dear Gaurvani Prabhu has explained “I was extremely reluctant to write a book about myself. One of my very dear lifelong friends made me promise him in his death bed that I would write this book. And this is an offering to him. It is also an offering of my gratitude to my mother and father, who have dedicated their lives to invest within me, values and qualities that I could later on use in the service of my gurudev and that I could share with humanity.
Read moreSunday Feast Lecture - 30-08-2009
On behalf of all of Radha Gopinath temple devotees we welcome you to our Sunday festival. Today I am seeing devotees from so many places have assembled - Pune, Kolhapur, Nigdi, Nasik, Satara, Belgaum, Bombay. This really is a very sacred tradition of our acharyas that devotees come together from various places to perform Nama Sankirtan, to hear Hari katha, to take Prasad together, to associate together and to serve together.
Gaur Purnima festival celebrated in Kheturi
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