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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.
I sincerely offer my gratitude to all of the assembled personalities who have come today. I hope you can demonstrate the art of tolerance by tolerating me and my condition. This subject is infact of utmost importance because really one can measure a person’s character by their capacity to tolerate difficulties. Bhagavath Geetha describes in second canto who is actually a person of high character .
‘Matra sparshasthu kaunteya seethotsna sukha dukha dha
Agaman tham suthiskva bharata’
Tags: I am very grateful for the opportunity to welcome our honored guests; really you are our honored guests. Please forgive me for the lack of Self Confidence in speaking of the subject on the Art of Self Confidence. But I will try to speak something that will hopefully give you some sacred food to contemplate within your hearts. Because you are all at an age where the decisions you make in regard to the values the goals in your life will determine your future, your happiness and what you can do for the world.
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Sei dvāre ācandāle kīrtana sañcāre
nāma-prema-mālā gānthi' parāila samsāre
Thus he spread Kirtan even among the untouchables. He vow a wreath of the holyname and prema and with which he garlended the entire universe.
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Thus he spread Kirtan even among the untouchables. He vow a wreath of the holyname and prema , with which he garlended the entire material world.
Ei-mata bhakta-bhāva kari' angīkāra
āpani ācari' bhakti karila pracāra
ei-mata puradvara-age patha yata
sakala sodhila, taha ke varn?ibe kata
Outside the gateway of the temple, all the roads were also cleansed, and no one could tell exactly how this was done.
I am especially grateful to be amongst all of you today. My special thanks to Ajay, Swathi and Urvi for inviting me to participate in this very wonderful event, we have just seen the performance of yajna, it is important to understand the meaning of the yajna, Krsna tells in Gita, Yajnashishtaashinah santo muchyante sarva kilbishaih; Bhunjate te twagham paapaa ye pachantyaatma kaaranaat, Bhagavad Gita the lord says in the beginning of creation
Read moreI would like to thank all of you for kindly taking your precious time to come to this most auspicious place of Sri Rama Mandir to join us to hear and chant the glories of Supreme personality of Godhead. In fact, each moment really is so precious that Vishnu Purana explains that there is nothing so precious in all over creation as each moment that we have in this valuable and rare human form of life. And there is no greater misfortune than to waste a single moment in forgetfulness of Lord Narayana.
Read moreŚRĪMAD BHĀGAVATAM (5.18.30) DATED 21-01-2006
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