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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.
brahmovaca
tvaya me 'pacitis tata kalpita nirvyalikatah
yan me sanjagrhe vakyam bhavan manada manayan
TRANSLATION:
Lord Brahma said: My dear son Kardama, since you have completely accepted my instructions without duplicity, showing them proper respect, you have worshiped me properly. Whatever instructions you took from me you have carried out, and thereby you have honored me.
PURPORT:
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Tags: Srimad Bhagavatam 4.21.1
“maitreya uväca
mauktikaiù kusuma-sragbhir
dukülaiù svarëa-toraëaiù
mahä-surabhibhir dhüpair
maëòitaà tatra tatra vai”
SYNONYMS
maitreyaù uväca—the great sage Maitreya continued to speak; mauktikaiù—with pearls; kusuma—of flowers; sragbhiù—with garlands; dukülaiù—cloth; svarëa—golden; toraëaiù—by gates; mahä-surabhibhiù—highly perfumed; dhüpaiù—by incense; maëòitam—decorated; tatra tatra—here and there; vai—certainly.
TRANSLATION
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taà tväà vayaà nätha samujjihänaà
saroja-näbhäticirepsitärtham
dåñövä gatä nirvåtam adya sarve
gajä davärtä iva gäìgam ambhaù
SYNONYMS
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Siddhmrta-rasa-sprsta,
vajra-sara mahaujasah
,uttasthur megha-dalana,
vaidyuta iva vahnayah
Translation60
When the dead bodies of the demons came in touch with the nectar their bodies became invincible to thunderbolts. Endowed with great strength, they got up like lighting penetrating clouds.
Translation61
Seeing Lord Siva very much aggrieved and disappointed, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vishnu, considered how to stop this nuisance created by Maya Danava
Translation62
Read moreSrimad Bhagavatam (SB 8.3.6) Lecture by HH Radhanath Swami on Forgetting Krsna – the greatest crisis
SB 8.3.6
na yasya devä åñayaù padaà vidur
jantuù punaù ko 'rhati gantum éritum
yathä naöasyäkåtibhir viceñöato
duratyayänukramaëaù sa mävatu
SYNONYMS
kälena païcatvam iteñu kåtsnaço
lokeñu päleñu ca sarva-hetuñu
tamas tadäséd gahanaà gabhéraà
yas tasya päre 'bhiviräjate vibhuù
SYNONYMS
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Read moreSB 8.3.1
çré-bädaräyaëir uväca
evaà vyavasito buddhyä
samädhäya mano hådi
jajäpa paramaà jäpyaà
präg-janmany anuçikñitam
SYNONYMS
çré-bädaräyaëiù uväca—Çré Çukadeva Gosvämé said; evam—thus; vyavasitaù—fixed; buddhyä—by intelligence; samädhäya—for concentration; manaù—the mind; hådi—in consciousness or in the heart; jajäpa—he chanted; paramam—a supreme; jäpyam—mantra he had learned from great devotees; präk-janmani—in his previous birth; anuçikñitam—practiced.
TRANSLATION
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sa tvaà vidhatsväkhila-loka-pälä
vayaà yad arthäs tava päda-mülam
samägatäs te bahir-antar-ätman
kià vänya-vijïäpyam açeña-säkñiëaù
SYNONYMS
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