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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.
SB Class
The Absolute Truth Is Inconceivable
Compassion Of Lord
Don't Be Like A Bumble Bee
Don’t be like a bumble bee
H.H Radhanath Swami Maharaj
7th January 1990, SB (7.13.35)
VERSE
SB 7.13.35
madhukära-mahä-sarpau
loke 'smin no gurüttamau
vairägyaà paritoñaà ca
präptä yac-chikñayä vayam
TRANSLATION
The bee and the python are two excellent spiritual masters who give us exemplary instructions regarding how to be satisfied by collecting only a little and how to stay in one place and not move.
VERSE
SB 7.13.36
Perfection Of Renunciation
PERFECTION OF RENUNCIATION
H.H Radhanath Swami Maharaj
7th January 1990, BG (18.46)
VERSE
BG 18.46
yataù pravåttir bhütänäà
yena sarvam idaà tatam
sva-karmaëä tam abhyarcya
siddhià vindati mänavaù
TRANSLATION
By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a man can attain perfection through performing his own work.
A Vaishnva Has Faith
A Vaishnava Has Faith
HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj
27th July 1990, SB 8.5.47
VERSE
kleça-bhüry-alpa-säräëi
karmäëi viphaläni vä
dehinäḿ viñayärtänäḿ
na tathaivärpitaḿ tvayi
SB 8.5.47
Tapasya-Purpose Of Human existence
Tapasya - Purpose of Human Existence
HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj
04-02-98, SB (3.9.17)
Becoming Hungry For Krishna
Become Hungry For Krishna
H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj
9th August 2009, SB (8.1.20 – 8.1.29)
SB 8.1.20
tatrendro rocanas tv äséd
deväç ca tuñitädayaù
ürja-stambhädayaù sapta
åñayo brahma-vädinaù
Champion of Character
Prthu Maharaj - Champion of Character
H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj
Pushyabhishek 2010
Pushyabhishek
ku-manäù su-manastvaà hi
yäti yasya padäbjayoù
su-mano-’rpaëa-mätreëa
taà caitanya-prabhuà bhaje
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya because simply by offering a flower at His lotus feet even the most ardent materialist becomes a devotee. All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityänanda Prabhu! All glories to Advaita Äcärya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya! Let me now enumerate the activities of the Lord between the ages of five and ten. His chief occupation during this period was to engage Himself in study. The pastimes of the Lord during His paugaëòa age were very extensive.