The Journey Home Book

 

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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What is Real Greatness Sunday Feast New Vrindavan

I sincerely thank all of the assembled devotees for so sincerely coming to Sri Radha Vrindavan Candra’s Sunday festival. Today I would like to speak on the subject of a particular sentence spoken by Srila Prabhupada because I feel that this subject although not often discussed is one of the most frequent and essential themes within all the spiritual literatures of the world, especially Srimad Bhagavatam and the Purana’s. Prabhupada gives his definition of greatness, “One’s greatness has to be estimated by one’s ability to tolerate provoking situations.” Please repeat after me.

“One’s greatness has to be estimated by one’s ability to tolerate provoking situations,”
(Krishna Book Volume Two 1970-2-34 / The Superexcellent Power of Krishna)

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Old Vrindavan Memorial Day Lecture New Vrindavan

There we must go that swamiji in the temple, _______0:00:10Prabhupad, made the charter for the co-operation and everybody were shocked when Prabhupad made it The International Society. They were probably, the devotees, not the devotees the well wishers, they scrapped together, the first month’s rent and told Swamiji: that we will be able to pay next month’s rent let there be a confidence in the next month. Then Prabhupad, had that vision, International Society for Krishna Consciousness. And then he wrote several purposes, he wanted the publication of books by millions to be printed and distributed all over the world. That was quite amazing. He just had a few very simple books of brown cover printed in India, Srimad Bhagavatam that took him years and years and years to translate into, to raise the money to print that. And he had nobody, there was not even a single book distributor in the entire creation exception of Prabhupad himself at that time. He was Pretty bored. And he wanted schools and he wanted ________0:01:54.6, and even wanted to establish a place of pilgrimage to reveal Krsna’s past times in the Western world. Very well. So Krsna works in wonderful ways, attached to Prabhupad’s very very earliest problems to be a Swami and _______. 0:02:19.0. He took initiation in 1966 on 22nd of _____0:02:23.7.
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