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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.
apavitraù pavitro vä sarvävasthäà gato 'pi vä
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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 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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Read moreMega 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 moreOn 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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