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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.
Lord Caitanya
Mayapur Yatra 2009 - Day 9 - Reunion of Lord Caitanya with His devotees
SPIRIT OF REAL RENUNCIATION
We have been discussing the last few days here on Sri Mayapur Dham a few drop from the ocean of pastimes of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in relation to his lila of taking sannyas which took place specifically in this Nadia area, Navadvip, Shantipur. After lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is formally initiated by keshav Bharathi Maharaj in Katva, He roamed thought the Radhadesh with is devotees. He has specially recited a particular verse from the Srimad Bhagavatham which Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu felt in his heart, and wanted to present to world the real spirit of renunciation. Again and again He chanted the sloka
Mayapur Yatra 2009 - Day 8 – Lord Caitanya takes Sanyas – Part 3
Hare Krishna. I am sincerely grateful to all of you for so kindly coming this evening and to His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for so mercifully brining us all together.
SRILA PRABHUPADA ADAPTED THE MOOD OF LORD CAITANYA
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Hare Krsna!
I am very grateful to all the assembled devotees, especially my dear Godbrothers and Godsisters who are casting their merciful glances upon me and all of us. This very devotional drama that was performed for us depicted a scene that set the mood after which Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His devotees would deeply contemplate the strikingly reality that Lord Caitanya would soon leave Navadwip and assume the ashram of Sannyasa.
Mayapur Yatra 2009 - Day 4 - Lord Caitanya Accepts Sanyas
My sincere gratitude to all of you for kindly being with us in Mayapur dham.
500th anniversary of Lord Caitanya’s accepting of sanyas
Read moreLord Caitanya Descends With The Garland of Nam Sankirtan And Krishna Prem
Thus with two intentions Lord appeared with his devotees and tasted the nectar of Prema, with the congregational chanting of the Holy name.. Thus he spread he kirtan, even among the untouchables. He wrote a leaf of the Holy name and Prema. With which he garlanded the entire material world.
(1.21) he bhakta kori……
In this way, assuming a sentiment of a devotee, he preached devotional service, while practicing it himself.
Purport by his Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
We Rupa Goswami met Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Prayag, he offered his respectful obeisance by submitting to Lord Caitanya was more magnanimous than any other incarnation of Krsna. Because He was distributing love of God, love of Krsna. His mission was to enhance love of Godhead, in the human form of life the highest achievement is to attain the platform of love of Godhead. Lord Caitanya did not invent a system of religion as people sometimes assume. Religious systems are meant to show the existence of God, who then was generally approached as the cosmic order supplier, but Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental mission is to distribute love of Godhead to everyone, anyone who accepts God as the Supreme, can take to the process of chanting Hare Krsna and become a lover of God.