The Journey Home Book - By Radhanath Swami
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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.
Kunti uväca: namasye purusam tvadyam
isvaram prakrteh param alaksyam
sarva- bhutanam antar bahir avasthitam
SB: 4.28.16
duhitṝḥ putra-pautrāḿś ca
jāmi-jāmātṛ-pārṣadān
svatvāvaśiṣṭaḿ yat kiñcid
gṛha-kośa-paricchadam
TRANSLATION
While Bhishmadev was describing occupational duties the sun’s cords ran into the Northern hemisphere. This period is desired by mistakes who die at their will.
There upon that man who spoke on different subjects with thousands of meanings and who fought on thousands of battle fields and protected thousands of man stopped speaking and being completely free from all bondage with drew his mind from everything else and fixed his wide open eyes upon the original personality of godhead Shri Krishna who stood before him four handed dressed in yellow garments that glittered and shined.
I 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.
Read moreSrimad Bhagavatam Class
By H.H. Radhanath Swami
Srimad Bhagavatam Class – Canto 8.4.2–4
Title: Accept reversals gratefully without getting disturbed
SB 8.4.2
nedur dundubhayo divyä
gandharvä nanåtur jaguù
åñayaç cäraëäù siddhäs
tuñöuvuù puruñottamam
SYNONYMS
neduù—vibrated; dundubhayaù—kettledrums; divyäù—in the sky of the higher planetary system; gandharväù—residents of Gandharvaloka; nanåtuù—danced; jaguù—and sang; åñayaù—all the saintly sages; cäraëäù—the inhabitants of the Cäraëa planet; siddhäù—the inhabitants of the Siddha planet; tuñöuvuù—offered prayers; puruña-uttamam—to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Puruñottama, the best of males.
SB 3.14.19
yäm ähur ätmano hy ardhaà
çreyas-kämasya mänini
yasyäà sva-dhuram adhyasya
pumäàç carati vijvaraù
TRANSLATION
O Respectful one, a wife is so helpful the is called the bet half of the man’s body, because of sharing of all auspicious activities, a man can move without any anxiety. Entrusting all responsibilities to his wife.
Purport
By the Vedic injunctions a wife is accepted as the better half of the man’s body because she is supposed to be responsible for discharging half of the duties of the husband. A family man has responsibility to perform 5 kinds of sacrifices, called Panchayagya, in order to get relief from all kinds of unavoidable sinful reactions incurred in the course of his affairs, when the man becomes qualitatively like the cats and dogs he forgets cultivating spiritual values and thus he accepts his wife as a sense gratificatory agency. When wife is accepted as sense gratificatory agency, personal beauty is the main consideration and as soon as there is a break in personal sense gratification, there is disruption or divorce.but when husband and wife aim at spiritual advancement, by mutual cooperation, there is no consideration of beauty or the disruption of so called love. In the material world there is no question of love. Marriage is actually a duty performed in cooperation as directed in scriptures. Therefore marriage is essential in order to avoid the life of cat and dog.
yatredam vyajyate visvam
visvasminn avabhati yat
tat tvam brahma param jyotir
akasam iva vistritam
My dear Lord, the impersonal Brahman spreads everywhere, like the sunshine or the sky. And that impersonal Brahman, which spreads throughout the universe and in which the entire universe is manifested, is You.
PURPORT
In Vedic literature it is said that everything is Brahman and nothing else. The whole cosmic manifestation rests on the Brahman effulgence. The impersonalists, however, cannot understand how such a huge cosmic manifestation can rest on a person. Thus this inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not understood by the impersonalists; therefore they are puzzled and always denying that the Absolute Truth is a person. This wrong impression is cleared by Lord Siva himself, who says that the impersonal Brahman, which is spread all over the universe, is nothing but the Supreme Lord Himself. Here it is clearly said that the Lord is spread everywhere, just like the sunshine, by virtue of His Brahman feature.
yatredam vyajyate visvam
visvasminn avabhati yat
tat tvam brahma param jyotir
akasam iva vistritam
My dear Lord, the impersonal Brahman spreads everywhere, like the sunshine or the sky. And that impersonal Brahman, which spreads throughout the universe and in which the entire universe is manifested, is You.
Read moreWhen the aethists after being well versed in the Vedic Scientific knowledge annihilate inhabitants of different planets flying unseen in the sky on well-built rockets prepared by the great scinetist Maya. The Lord will bewilder their minds by dressing himself attractively as Buddha and will preach on subreligious principles.
Puroport by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
This incarnation of Lord Buddha is not the same Budha incarnation we have in the present history of mankind. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, the Buddha incarnation mentioned in this verse appeared in different age of Kali Yuga. In the duration of life of one Manu there are more than 72 Kali Yugas and in one of them the particular type of Buddha mentioned here would appear. Lord Buddha incarnates at a time when the people are the most materialistic and preaches commonsense religious principles such as ahimsa.
Read moreA responsible king was always approachable by the citizens. Generally the citizen’s great and common, all had an aspiration to see the king and take benediction from him. The king knew this and therefore whenever he met the citizens he immediately fulfilled their desires and mitigated their grievances. In such dealings a responsible monarchy is better than a so called democratic government in which no one is responsible to mitigate the grievances of the citizens, were unable to personally meet the supreme execute. In a responsible monarchy, the citizens had no grievances against the government and even if they did they could approach the king directly for immediate satisfaction. Both the important citizens and the common citizens welcomed the king very heartedly and he also bestowed upon them their desired blessings. We are reading today from Canto 4 of Srimad Bhagavatam Chapter 21 entitled Instructions by Maharaja Prthu Text 6.
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