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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.
Tags: On the eastern side of Sumeru Mountain are two mountains named Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa, which extend to the north and south for 18,000 yojanas [144,000 miles]. Similarly, on the western side of Sumeru are two mountains named Pavana and Pāriyātra, which also extend north and south for the same distance. On the southern side of Sumeru are two mountains named Kailāsa and Karavīra, which extend east and west for 18,000 yojanas, and on the northern side of Sumeru, extending for the same distance east and west, are two mountains named Triśṛńga and Makara. The width and height of all these mountains is 2,000 yojanas [16,000 miles]. Sumeru, a mountain of solid gold shining as brilliantly as fire, is surrounded by these eight mountains.
Self of Ilavrta varsha and extending from east to west are three great mountains named from north to south- Nishadha, Hemakuta and Himalaya, each of them is 10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles), they mark the boundaries of three varshas named Hari varsha, Kim purusha varsha and Bharat varsha. In the same way, west and east of Ilavrta varsha are two great mountains, Malyavan and Gandhamarna, respectively. These two mountains which are 2000 yojanas (16,000 miles) high, extent as far as Neela mountain in the north and Nishadha in the south. They indicate the borders of Ilavrta varsha and also the varshas known as ketu mala and Bhadrasva.
Purport By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta swami Prabhupada.
There is a famous verse about king Biraja, because of his high qualities and wide fame king Biraja become the jewel in the dynasty of king Priyavrat, just by Lord Vishnu by His transcendental potency decorates and bless the demigods.
Purport (HDGA.C.BVSP):-
Within a garden a flowering tree attains a good reputation because of its fragrant flowers similarly if there is a famous man in a family he is compared to a fragrant flower in a forest because of him an entire family can become famous in history because lord Krishna took birth in the Yadhu dynasty the yadhu dynasty and the yadhavas have remain famous of all times because of king Birajas appearances the family of Maharaj Priyavrata has remain famous for all time thus end the Bhaktivedanta purport of the 5th canto 15th chapter of the Shrimad Bhagvatam “ The glories of the decendences on King Priyavrat.
Hare Krishna!
On behalf of his divine grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and on behalf of the devotees of Sri Radha Gopinath temple we welcome you today.
Vande Caitanya devam tam (01:00)
Bhagavantam…….
I offer my respects to the supreme personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu by whose desire I have becoming like a dancing dog and suddenly taken to the writing of Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, although I am a fool. Jai Jai Sri Krishna Caitanya Gaur Candra, Jai Jai Paramananda Jai Nityananda. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu who is known as Gaurasundar. I also offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Nityananda Prabhu who is always very joyful.
Read moreOn behalf of His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder acharya of our movement, we welcome all of you this evening for the festival of Sharad Poornima. Many devotees have been working very hard for many days to arrange a very unique and beautiful darshan for the pleasure of Sree Radha Gopinath and each and every one of you.
When Krishna is the centre of our lives we absorb our consciousness in hearing about Krishna, chanting his Names, remembering him and serving him. Krishna reciprocates. Krishna’s all-attractive, he is the Lord of Love and Beauty. When he reveals his mercy within our heart, it is supreme experience of spiritual joy.
Read moreprahasya bhāva-gambhīraḿ
jighrantyātmānam ātmanā
kāntyā sasarja bhagavān
gandharvāpsarasāḿ gaṇān
TRANSLATION
With a laugh full of deep significance, the worshipful Brahmā then evolved by his own loveliness, which seemed to enjoy itself by itself, the hosts of Gandharvas and Apsarās.
PURPORT by His Divine Grace Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupad
The musicians in the upper planetary systems are called Gandharvas, and the dancing girls are called Apsarās. After being attacked by the demons and evolving a form of a beautiful woman in the twilight, Brahmā next created Gandharvas and Apsarās. Music and dancing employed in sense gratification are to be accepted as demoniac, but the same music and dancing, when employed in glorifying the Supreme Lord as kīrtana, are transcendental, and they bring about a life completely fit for spiritual enjoyment.
Srimad Bhagavatam 5.14.12 – The Material world as a Great Forest of Enjoyment
sa yada dugdha-purva-sukrtas tada karaskara-kakatundady-apunya-druma-lata-visoda-panavad ubhayartha-sunya-dravinan jivan-mrtan svayam jivan-mriyamana upadhavati.
TRANSLATION: Due to his pious activities in previous lives, the conditioned soul attains material facilities in this life, but when they are finished, he takes shelter of wealth and riches, which cannot help him in this life or the next. Because of this, he approaches the living dead who possess these things. Such people are compared to impure trees, creepers and poisonous wells.
Read moreOm Namho Bhagavate Vasudevaya (Other speaker) Om Namho Bhagavate Vasudevaya(Other speaker)saha (00:45 – 01:43)the lord who can distinctly just see the mind of others perceive Brahma’s distress and said to him cast off this impure body of yours, thus commanded by the lord, Brahma cast off his body. Purport by his divine Grace A. C. Bhakti Vedantaswamy Prabhupad. The lord is described here by the word Viviktadyathmadharshana, if any one can completely perceive another’s distress without doubt it is the lord himself, if someone is in distress and wants to get relief from his from his friend some times it is so happens that his friend does not appreciate the volume of distress he is suffering. But for the Supreme lord it is not difficult, the supreme lord is Paramatma, is sitting within the heart of every living entity and he directly perceives the exact causes of distress.
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