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Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassi (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths. Born Rich ...
Lectures given by H.H. Radhanath Swami downloaded from radhanathswamimedia.com
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Pure Devotional Service is the Essence
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You see whether one is guilty or not guilty in the eyes of man whether one is physically protected or whether one is physically killed with the hands of the demons, this is not what we consider, we consider only one thing, the spirit of devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, the spirit of love, the willingness to give one’s life in the service of the L…
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There is no Doubt, Lord’s Devotees are Always Victorious
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So, when Krishna says that ‘my devotee will never perish’ this is what he means he is not saying that his body will not be overcome, he is not saying that the demons may not even kill him, he is saying that his faith, his devotion will never be disturbed under any condition and in the end, he will go back home back to Godhead. The protection Krishn…
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A Devotee Cares Nothing For Neither Life Nor Death
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Now if in every situation the Lord protects the body of a devotee where would this sentiment that if you like you can have me killed that I am willing to give my life for you. If there are not examples of devotees who do give their lives for Krishna, it would minimize the quality of our own surrender. But Jatayu was specially delegated by Lord Sri …
It would have been very easy for Jatayu to just allow Ravana to fly overhead and remain silent and think justify within his heart ‘I am too old, there is no one to help me, there is nothing that I can do’. After all there was no one also around to criticize him if he would have just allowed Ravana to carry on with his activities, no one would have …
janasya moho ’yam ahaṁ mameti I, me and mine. So much is based upon ‘What makes me happy? What I can acquire to call mine? I am this, I am that, I have done, I have not done.’ Another words, it’s a world that is so much conquered by this tendency of selfishness, and egoism. And so much of that is born from the conception that this world is the only…
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The Spirit of Jagannath Mishra Festival – Chanting, Dancing & Feasting
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Today’s festival is based on this principle - honoring Jagannath’s prasada. Yesterday, Gaura Purnima, we had a feast of dancing and Hari katha and so many wonderful devotees to associate with, beautiful darshans, abhishekams and it ended with a simple ekadashi feast. That is our tradition. But Chaitanya Mahaprabhu loved to see his devotees taking p…
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We Have to Cultivate Faith in One Another
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We should be happy with that.’ But we work very, very hard for the pleasure of Guru, not for ourselves. We shouldn’t work at all hard for ourselves, we should work for Krishna. We should give every drop of our life’s energy for guru and Krishna. But for ourselves, we understand that Krishna will provide. We have no need to worry. That is faith. And…
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Srila Prabhupada’s Dedicated Work for Krishna’s Pleasure
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See the illusion, if people are working so hard for rupees, but outside of India, rupee is not even worth the paper it is printed on. And he is explaining, he didn’t work for a living, he didn’t try to make money. All he did is preach. He just sat under a tree, with a little drum and chanting, hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare/har…
If only I were upper class then I would really have what I want. And the upper class thinking, Ah! If only I was a millionaire, then I would really, really be successful in this world. And after a millionaire you are thinking, ‘Oh, but I have so many enemies and so many people who are more powerful than me, if only I was a billionaire, then I would…
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Hard Work of The Karmis Ends Up in Frustration
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Yesterday I was riding in an airplane and I was sitting to one young college student, and he was asking nice questions. And he was asking, “if I ever have the glorious fortune of being entitled to preach to movie stars. “You are based in Bombay, do you ever get to preach to the movie stars?”Av Radhanath Swami
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The Vision and Faith of The Vaishnavas
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Their vision is based on faith in God. Their vision is, that Krishna is perfect and complete, that Krishna is the supreme controller of all controllers, that I am his servant. And whether I am educated or uneducated does not matter. What really matters is what I do have I dedicate in the loving service of the lord. Whether one is a scholar or wheth…
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Seeing Lord Shiva as Spiritual Master
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Lord Shiva is in charge of all the demigods. Therefore, Krishna brought them to their guru. Similarly, we are all disciples, we are all devotees and Krishna has directed us to our spiritual master. So, in the same way he is serving that same function as Lord Shiva is serving for the demigods.Av Radhanath Swami
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How To Understand Lord Shiva’s Incomprehensible Activities?
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Sometimes devotees become a little perplexed that, “First you say an acharya teaches by example and he is a perfect example and then again, we see that sometimes the acharya, he is acting in such a way that we cannot understand.” So what to do? How do we know who actually is an acharya? Ultimately Krishna is in your heart, if you are sincere, he wi…
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Lord Shiva’s Incomprehensible Activities
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And it is said you can tell who a person is by who he is associating with. Lord Shiva is often associating with bhutas, ghosts, people who are addicted to the most abominable activities. So, from all material reasoning it appears ‘What kind of vaisnava is this?’ And therefore many, many great souls have criticized him and condemned him and every on…
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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Revealed the Supremacy of Srimad Bhagavatam Through Devananda Pandit
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His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, he had translated Srimad Bhagavatam and he has give wonderful purport according to all previous Acharyas. Those who read his Bhagavatam and associate with his devotees it is very simple to understand the essence of pure devotional service. But without the blessings of such a pure soul, how many Bh…
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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Correcting Devananda Pandit
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But Lord Chaitanya remembered that offense and face to face with Devananda Pandit he said that: “you are reciting Srimad Bhagavatam but the Person Bhagavatam came right into your school, the pure devotee of Krishna who has realized the essence of Bhagavatam and because you are a fool, you do not understand what is love of God, you have thrown him o…
We must learn from our mistakes. A mistake is only a mistake if we do not learn a good lesson from it and follow that wisdom. So please, there is no impediment in all of creation that can come in your way from success if you never give up, if you have hope, if you have faith, if you maintain enthusiasm and determination. It is a blessing when we fa…
“Krishna I'm chanting, to be your servant to please you to purify my heart so that I can love you and be an instrument of your compassion to the people of this world with whatever I have, not denying the gifts that God has given us, but using them and devotion.” In this spirit, we could realize the highest truths and discover that lost love within …
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Krishna Comes to Remove Burden from Mother Earth
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Viswanath Chanravarti Thakur, our beloved acharya explains it in this way, that this is Krishna’s mission to remove the burden from Mother Earth, to remove her to the miseries of the weight of so many people plundering, abusing and committing sinful activities upon her. What is our right? We divide up the earth and call it our own with no regard to…
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Our Life and Soul is To Assist Srila Prabhupada’s Mission
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We are simply living, existing, to assist him, to please him, to serve his servants. Whether we succeed or fail in our practical projects, is not what is all important or whether our sincerity to please him is real, that is all important.Av Radhanath Swami
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Real Wealth - Faith in The Order of Spiritual Master
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Srila Prabhupada, as did Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur promised their followers that, if we are sincere to carry out their instructions in our life at the end of life we will certainly go back home back to godhead and we know that Krishna never betrays the words of His devotees.Av Radhanath Swami
It has taken us millions and millions of births, suffering birth, old age, disease and death to finally come to the point where the doors to the spiritual world are being opened before us through friendship and the association of devotees.Av Radhanath Swami
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Vyasa Puja – Offering Gratitude To Our Entire Parampara
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The siksha gurus, the diksha gurus, are all to be given proper respect according to our shastras. However, whatever our position is, we are all simply trying to work together to assist Srila Prabhupada in his service to his guru maharaja, that is our life, that is our soul. Vyas Puja is the day when devotees offer their gratitude to our entire guru…
Maya means energy. Maya means the energy of God. And Maya is categorized, sometimes in two ways: categorized as Maha-Maya, and Yoga-Maya. It's the same energy. This whole material world is God's energy. All the manifestations within this energy are under the influence of time, therefore, they're temporary. And they're under the influence of the thr…
There are limitless reasons we can justify not chanting Hare Krishna, going off on our own, trying to find something easier to do, complaining because the situation just isn't what we want it to be. But if we want to actually make real spiritual advancement, if we want to really show gratitude, ‘How could I best assist my guru, my gurus in assistin…
Srila Prabhupada performed so many austerities for us. And all of his followers have performed so many austerities to assist him. And for the next generation, what pleases all the representatives of Srila Prabhupada is to perform austerities. The austerity of our sadhana, the austerity of our cooperation, the austerity of following these regulative…
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Kaliya Krishna’s Faith in Purifying Effect of Prasad Offered To Lord and Then Eaten by Devotees
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Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami explains that there are three very powerful substances that awaken love of God within the heart. He calls them Mahabala, great power - The dust of the feet of a devotee, the water that has washed the feet of a devotee and the crumbs of foodstuff that is left on the plates of a devotee, maha-prasad remnants. He said, "We m…
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Home Program At New Vrindavan With HH Radhanath Swami On 20Nov2022
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Srimad Bhagavatam Class In New Vrindaban By HH Radhanath Swami 20Nov,22
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Program With HH Radhanatha Swami & Srila Prabhupada Disciples At Yogashala, New Vrindavan 19Nov,22
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Program With HH Radhanatha Swami & Srila Prabhupada Disciples At Yogashala, New Vrindavan 19Nov,22 by Radhanath SwamiAv Radhanath Swami
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Power of Habit Covers Our Logic and Intelligence
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Why people are killing themselves. And it's once they become addicted, it's so very, very hard to give it up. It's unnatural. I don't think there has ever been a person alive, who light the first cigarette that they smoked. It's horrible. Due to social pressure, they try, they start coughing, it tastes miserable, the body is having violent reaction…
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Krishna is Eagerly Waiting for Us Too
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Krishna brought that cowherd boy to his own house and shared prasad with him. The perfection of His love, is he feels pain of separation, to see any one of his children suffering in forgetfulness of him. However small and insignificant we may think we are, Krishna is feeling separation from us. But he will not interfere with our freewill because lo…
To attract our hearts to his love, to his past times, to reestablish the true principles of religion, love and devotion to the supreme and compassion to all living beings, that is religion, that is the constitutional nature of the soul. When love of God is directed toward others in this world, it manifests as compassion; to annihilate a religion an…
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Ambarish Maharaj’s Renunciation Protects Him from The Wrath of Durvasa Muni
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prāpañcikatayā buddhyā hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥmumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyateRupa Goswami in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu says ‘what is real renunciation?’ It is to utilize everything for the service of the Lord without false ego, without selfishness. And if something that appears to be material, that could be utilized in the service of …
I began to reflect, ‘This is the power of habit. Good people, caring people are indulging in activities that's causing bloodshed, murder, killing, pain to innocent life loving animals who are people also. Why? Because of habit. Years later, when I came back to America, I was explaining to people, my relatives, my friends, “don't you see the connect…
And a saintly person will pity such an ignorant although the world is bowing at their feet as being great, yes? So, what I'm saying is, that we need food to have strength, and that strength will give us the proper perception. And what is the food we need? Offering prayers, chanting God's names, hearing the truth, associating with saintly persons, d…
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Significance of Damodara Bandhana Lila
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Today, Diwali is the actual day when this lila, Damodar bandhan took place. Actually, after Krishna was untied and was reunited with mother Yashoda more intimately than ever, the Gopis from that day on, they would love to call Krishna, Damodar, one who is bound by the waist by the rope of your mother’s love. Satyavrat Muni in Damodar-Ashtakam, offe…
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Deliverance of Nalakuvera and Manigriva
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He was seeing these two devas, they were so arrogant, they were so disrespectful. They were destroying their own possibilities. Narada Muni felt especially compassionate toward them. And he told them, “Because you are so much infatuated by all your powers and wealth, and beauty, and you think yourself better than everyone.” The quality of the great…
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Two Principles of Two Fingers Too Short
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When Krishna sees that for his pleasure, we are not being discouraged by success or failure, honor or dishonor, pleasure or pain, happiness or distress, health or disease, victory or defeat. Devotional service is ahaituky apratihatā; it is unconditional by these things. As long as there is selfishness or arrogance in what we do, then we become very…
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Krishna Being Bound by the Love of Yashoda Mayi
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According to the Upanishads, the Absolute Truth can never be caught by anyone. Either the incredible discrimination and knowledge developed by Jnanis, or the incredible sense control, mind control or the Mystic Siddhis of Yogis, who could catch the Absolute Truth? But Yashoda Mayi she was running after him, and as she was running, flowers malati fl…
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Yashoda Mayi’s Absorption in Krishna’s Pastimes
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There was milk, that Padmagandha lotus milk that I was talking about. There was a little pot, and she was preparing something for Krishna with that. It began to boil over. According to some of our acharyas, it is explained the reason it boiled over is because the milk is conscious. Everything in the spiritual world is fully conscious. And the milk …
In Vrindavan, Yoga Maya makes everyone dance according to Krishna's will. Everyone is simply an instrument to increase the sweetness of the love between Radha and Krishna. Chandravali prayed that “if you leave us Radharani no one will survive in Vrindavan and Krishna will never come back. Please do not die.”…
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Reason for Balaram to Appear as Elder Brother to Krishna
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In all of the wonderful incarnations of the supreme Lord, the principal incarnations, we find that Balaram is present as Narayana. Balaram appears as Sankarsana, Sesanaga, he becomes the Lord’s bed. Laxmi is massaging His feet and Balaram is His bed, His resting place. In the avatar of Sri Ramachandra, Balaramji appears as His younger brother, Laxm…
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What Does It Mean to Rise Above Dualities?
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Their only desire is not to enjoy, but to please Krishna. Because that is the only way of attracting the mercy of Krishna, to be the servant of the servant of his servants.Av Radhanath Swami
Does she need our hadful of water? We are taking from her, and its insignificant. But when we offer it to her with love, Ganga Devi, the preciding deity of the river, she considers that handful of water more valuable than all the water she has, because it’s a reciprocation of Love.Av Radhanath Swami
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Epitome of Submissiveness - HH Bhakti Charu Swami
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And at this particular time, I'm personally meditating on how His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj was very much following in the footsteps of Ishwara Puri. Bhakti Charu Maharaj, he was born and raised in an aristocratic family in Kolkata, was very highly educated, eloquent in every way. But the perfection of his life, he has always considered w…
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HH Bhakti Charu Swami Gave His Life to Srila Prabhupada
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Sometimes Bhakti Charu Maharaj, on a personal level would share with me that we were soul brothers. In a way because at exactly the time, same time in 1970, I was leaving the West travelling overland to India to look for spiritual life. And Bhakti Charu Maharaj was traveling west for the same purpose. And of course, I don't remember or recall that …
Lord Chaitanya, pretending he didn't know who the king was, he embraced him, again and again. He wept tears on the king, and he cried out, “You are the most munificent, you are the most munificent.” And then, he revealed, he revealed his divine opulence to King Pratap Rudra, he revealed his true identity as Krishna. He awakened in full King Pratap …
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Alaranath, The Place of Display of Separation
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When Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was feeling the ecstasy of separation from Jagannath, he could come here every year and here the deity of Lord four-armed, Narayan, Lord Chaitanya came in the mood of Srimati Radharani, Lord Chaitanya would see Krishna himself, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his supreme ecstasies of separation, he would lay on the s…
I was left with nothing. And I was thinking, “Ok, what am I supposed to learn from this?” And I got a wonderful lesson, as the Bible says, seek and you shall find. I was thinking that compared to the incredible wealth that I gained, sitting on that rock, learning from Mother Ganga every day, all the wealth and power and prestige of this world is li…
