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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.
On this auspicious day, the appearance day of Lalita Sakhi devi, we will commence this Diksha ceremony. In our Gaudiya Vaishnav line, Lalita, Vishaka are the two very intimate close, personal servants of Sri Radharani in her service to Sri Krsna. Sri Rupa Goswami in his original form in Goloka is Sri Rupa Manjari, who is the confidential assistant of Sri Lalita Sakhi in her service to Sri Radha and Krsna. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has so clearly taught us that the highest perectional stage is “Gopi partor pada kamla yor das das anu das” To be the servant of the servant of the servant of the Lord of the Gopis, Sri Krsna. The aspirations of the Gaudiya vaishnavas is never to become the direct consort of the Lord. But to be the servant of the servant of the servant of Sri Radharani in her service to the Lord.
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Tags: Om 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.
Read moreanyabhilashita shunyam jnana-karmady anavritam. anukulyena krishnanushilanam bhaktir uttamam.
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.
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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.
According to the Bhagavad-Gita and Vedic scriptures destiny is unavoidable or we created our self’s, because it is the law of nature for every action there is equal corresponding reaction, or as we say what goes up must come down and similarly this law apply to physics, is on the platform of subtle material nature, the power of our thoughts the power of our feelings, affects the world, what to speak the power of our speech and actions.