The Journey Home Book

 

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.

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What is Real Greatness By Radhanath Swami

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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Parikrama Lecture New Vrindavan By Radhanath Swami

In 1969 Srila Prabhupad resided in his ancient farm house for approximately one month. New Vrindavan began here, Kirtananada Maharaja and Hayagriva Prabhu, they were searching for a rural land, because that was one of Prabhupad’s prominent desires in establishing ISKCON that there be farm communities. But at that time our movement had no funds. So in a news paper in Sanfransisco, they found that for 99 years, there was a 99 year lease. Unfortunately no vehicle could get here, we have to walk about two or three miles up the Mary road, over mountains to come here. So they came and they invited Srila Prabhupad in Montreal and Srila Prabhupad is benevolent and compassionate as he is, he agreed to come. Srila Prabhupad had to walk the majority of the road because the vehicle got stuck, do not operate, from that time the road was given the name Aghasura, because it devoured all devotees that tried to pass through it. And Srila Prabhupad was here, he actually we could say installed Vrindavan in this place. The supreme personality of Godhead, Advaita acharya Prabhu exclaimed that where ever the lotus feet of the lord or his pure devotees are, that place is Vrindavan. Because their feet never leave Vrindavan.
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Radhanath Swami On-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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