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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.
I sincerely welcome all assembled devotees to Sri Radha Gopinath Sunday festival, specially welcome my dear god brother Goura Prabhu, my dear god sister Kirti das mataji and also Pranabandhu prabhu and Sruti dharma prabhu have come with their host of transcendental kingdom of the United Kingdom , 50 devotees have come.Let us very sincerely welcome all to Sri Radha Gopinath. Hari Bol!
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Tags: assure, chanting, devotee, glories, hearing, Krishna, Perfection, radha gopinath, Radhanath Swami, ultimate, vaisnavaSB: 4.28.16
duhitṝḥ putra-pautrāḿś ca
jāmi-jāmātṛ-pārṣadān
svatvāvaśiṣṭaḿ yat kiñcid
gṛha-kośa-paricchadam
TRANSLATION
To those who are constantly devoted and worship me with power I give the understanding by which they can come to me.
We are reading this evening from chapter ten of Bhagvad-Gita.
Mind and senses all the Faculties that we have at our disposal are limited. The limited has no access on the own accord to the unlimited. The relative is given no entrance to the absolute without the grace of the absolute. Being in the condition state is subjected to we have imperfect senses. We are invariably diligent. We have a tendency to cheat and we make mistakes, therefore how could in our imperfect condition we come to the conclusion of perfection, it is not possible. With man’s tiny fertile brain we could never utilize out intelligence
Read more Tags: arjuna, BG-7.1, Bhagavad Gita, gita, god, Knowledge, Krishna, Radhanath Swami, rasika bhakti, seriouslyIn the review of scripture the ultimate architect knowledge is shree Krishna the personality of godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please him. Yoga is to realizing him all spiritual activities are ultimately rewarded by him only. He is the supreme knowledge and all severe austerities are performed by him. Religion, dharma is remembering loving service under him. He is the supreme god. Purport by his divine grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami prabhupada.
Read more Tags: Devotees, godhead, Knowledge, Krishna, lord chaitanya, love, please, Radhanath Swami, SB 1.02.28, SB 1.02.29This is like a little tiny reservoir of water… and anything that comes in creates great commotion and tumult. A great devotee – Param dristan nivartate …
Vishaya vinivartante nirahahar
Because his consciousness is merged (0:24) into the ocean of Krsna’s beauty, Krsna’s qualities, when these desires and thoughts coming to our mind (0:35 - 0:46).
Q: It seems (0:48 – 0:53), Krsna is saying Maharaj that a pure devotee transcends the three modes of material nature. Even after transcending three modes of material nature it is applicable? Or he doesn’t transcend in this world?
Read moreśītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu
samaḥ sańga-vivarjitaḥ
tulya-nindā-stutir maunī
santuṣṭo yena kenacit
aniketaḥ sthira-matir
bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ
One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and engaged in devotional service is very dear to Me.
Purport by Srila Prabhupad
Read moreom namoh bhagavate vasudevaya
om namoh bhagavate vasudevaya
[00:18] (… gyanino gyana yagyena … gyana vigraham)
Read moreI wish to thank you for coming this evening. Special thanks to Anil for giving us this very special opportunity to come together in his home to hear and chant the purifying subject matter of Sri Krishna. Bhakti vigyan goswami maharaj was singing with such sincere emotion, the great poem by govinda das kaviraj.
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