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 ...
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Lectures given by H.H. Radhanath Swami downloaded from radhanathswamimedia.com
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Transformation of Character by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Glorifying HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
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HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Glorifying HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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A beautiful message by His Holiness Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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"With every rising and setting of the sun, our physical life is being reduced, and however much knowledge we have and however much wealth we have, however much influence and power we have, we cannot stop the forward march of time." - His Holiness Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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That is the purpose of yoga, that is the purpose of religion, that is the purpose of life to awaken our true potential. Each one of us is a divine being, each one of us in whatever capacity has an opportunity to do something wonderful in our life.By Radhanath Swami
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Spirit of Srila Prabhupada in HH Jayapataka Maharaj’s life
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This is Srila Prabhupada’s spirit, para dukha dukhi. A devotee’s happiness is seeing other people happy. And real happiness is seeing other people receiving Krishna, loving Krishna. Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote one prayer where he explains, What is that song about Narada Muni? Where he is talking about how Narada Muni is making everybody chant and eve…
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Man is making so many designations by dividing things up and human beings identify with that and so many quarrels over who is right and who is crazy based on the conditioning of our identity.By Radhanath Swami
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Because in transcendental sound vibration, Krishna may have spoken it five thousand years ago but in the text, in hearing qualified persons speak, that same energy, that same grace of God is manifesting according to our receptivity.By Radhanath Swami
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We can show our love for God by how we respect, how we serve, how we honor, and how we love each other.By Radhanath Swami
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If You Focus on Good Qualities, Faults Will Disappear
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“Finding the fault within a spiritual person is like looking at pod marks in the moon.” The moon is generating volumes and volumes and volumes and volumes of light, so beautiful, ‘look at that mark in the moon.’By Radhanath Swami
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Over-confidence can be defined in many ways. But one way is when we are depending on our own abilities that are far beyond our own abilities.By Radhanath Swami
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What is the dharma of every living being? To serve. Everyone is always engaged in some type of service to someone. Either we are serving our employer, or we are serving our employees; we are serving our husbands, our wives, our parents, our children, we’re serving when we pay taxes, we’re serving the government; when we have a business, we’re servi…
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These statistics are there. People ignore them because they are habituated. They are conditioned. They have been eating meat all their lives, so it must be right. Everyone else is doing it around.By Radhanath Swami
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Anyone who submissively and attentively hears this narration of Valmiki’s Ramayan will be free from all the sins that pollute our heart and prohibit us from expressing the souls pure and natural love for Sri Sita Ram.By Radhanath Swami
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To the ecstatic joy of all the inhabitants of Ayodhya, that cherished moment had finally come. Lord Sri Ramchandra placed his worshipable lotus feet upon those sandals. Sri Ramchandra Bhagwan ki jai.By Radhanath Swami
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Radhanath Swami Shares His Memory of Meeting Saints In Ayodhya In 1971 Ahead of The Temple Opening
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Radhanath Swami Shares His Memory of Meeting Saints In Ayodhya In 1971 Ahead of The Temple Opening by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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If you always lose you don’t get addicted to it. But once you win you can’t. That rush, do you know what a rush is? That sensation... that sensation of winning is so overwhelming that you become addicted to it.By Radhanath Swami
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Technology Has Advanced, However Quality of Life Has Not
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How wonderful it was when the rivers were pure, when the forests were pure, when the air was pure, when the food we are eating was pure. With all India’s incredible economic development and all of India’s software engineering progress, which are good things, but we have to evaluate.By Radhanath Swami
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In experiencing that Krishna consciousness within us, and wanting to share that with others through our compassion, through our integrity, is actual satisfaction. Because it’s receiving love and giving love. And when our relationships with each other are based on those principles, that’s a simple life, based on high thinking.…
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Channeling Krishna's Instructions Through Parampara
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Channeling Krishna's Instructions Through Parampara by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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We may not understand exactly why, but if we have faith, if we have hope; we can always be looking at that flower that will grow from this rainstorm. That is the substance of a successful man.By Radhanath Swami
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Sometimes, it’s just that we are brought up to think that things are ordinary. And that’s why we need leadership, and we need people who can actually help us to overcome these deficiencies.By Radhanath Swami
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In service to Krishna, we are serving Krishna to please him. If we are acting enthusiastic and eager so that people will think we are an advanced devotee, then that's a materialistic perception. But if my Guru Maharaj or Srila Prabhupada wants me to be eager to chant the Holy Name, if he wants me to be eager to hear Srimad Bhagavatam, if he wants m…
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Now this big, big mountain filling a section of the room with Prasad was sitting here for over a month and Raghava Pandit’s bags were eaten by him for a whole full year, but by the Lord’s transcendental potency every preparation when he ate it, it tasted as if it was freshly cooked on that very day. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Ki Jai!…
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The King came down to see whether he was still alive? When Mukunda Sarkar came back to his consciousness. The King said, “Are you all right? Have you been hurt? What is your disease?” Mukunda is very humble. He said, “No I am alright. But I have some sort of disease like epilepsy and sometimes I fall down like this.”…
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The residence of Kulinagram, they were here in Gambhira with the other devotees. Lord Caitanya gave them an instruction that every year at Ratha Yatra the ropes that carry Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra from the temple to the cart, they always break. I want you to make first class silken ropes in Kulinagram and Lord Caitanya personally showed him …
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First they arrived at Narendra Sarovar, then they came to the Gambhira. Lord Caitanya brought them all into the room. This area here is the temple which was the place of the house of Kashi Mishra. Just in the back side is the actual Gambhira the small room in which Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally lived. About two hundred devotees were crowding i…
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Swaroop Damodar Goswami wanted to live by the spirit of a Sannyasi which is to dedicate one’s body, mind, words and life in the service of the Supreme personality of Godhead exclusively without any disturbance from any materialistic social obligations.By Radhanath Swami
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Soon Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu returned from his South Indian tour. The residence of Jagannath Puri they were so much in anguish of separation from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu it is explained just like the Chatak bird is always looking to the cloud waiting for one drop, fixed in attention.By Radhanath Swami
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“Today, I consider that my eyes had achieved their success. Today, I consider that my birth in this world has attained its good fortune. Today, I am seeing the very selfsame personal form of Srila Madhavendra Puri as he stands in the form of Paramananda Puri.”By Radhanath Swami
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they started offering Hanuman ji nice prasad but just to make sure he didn’t go anywhere they took chains, shackles and they tied them to his legs and his arms so that he could not escape. Every night they would shackle him so that he could not go to Ayodhya to get mahaprasad.By Radhanath Swami
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Within the walls of this compound, they have immense cooking facilities, I was told over seven hundred cooks and massive cooking facilities, everything is done in a very traditional and very orthodox manner.By Radhanath Swami
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Pastimes at Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya’s House (Part 3)
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Please understand when Sarvabhauma and his wife were speaking ill about Amogha, they were not doing it out of hatred but out of love for him because they knew that for him to go on living in this offensive way, he was ruining his own spiritual life. They naturally loved him, so Lord Gauranga, to reciprocate with the love of Sarvabhauma, he gave pur…
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Pastimes At Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya’s House (Part 2)
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In the Jagannath temple for seven days Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya declared the philosophy of monism to Mahaprabhu and he sat and he listened and after seven days Sarvabhauma said, “I have described to you such high truths and you have not asked a single question.By Radhanath Swami
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Pastimes at Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya’s House (Part 1)
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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was brought here to the house of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya. And Sarvabhauma, studying all the intricate scriptures could understand that this was some sort of very, very deep state of the highest trance of love of God.By Radhanath Swami
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Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu possesses all opulences in their most full and complete form. Therefore, no one can follow the principles of tṛṇād api sunīcena to the extent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself.By Radhanath Swami
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu when he heard forcibly with his long beautiful arms, he took the prasad from Raghunatha and he put a morsel in his mouth and as he was about to take a second morsel, Swaroop Damodar Goswami stopped him, he said, “My Lord please, you have had enough.”By Radhanath Swami
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Raghunatha was becoming so detached and disinterested in any material affairs that they married him to a beautiful women, so chaste, so lovely, the beauty of an angel and they were giving all the charge of so many immense fortunes to him, but regularly he would run away from home to go to join Lord Chaitanya. Hari Bol…
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Every day they would offer their heartfelt obeisance’s to the chakra on top of the temple because it is to be considered that the chakra is non-different than the murti inside and when you worship and bow down to the chakra, you gain all the credit of worshiping the Lord within. So let us all with great sincerity and humility bow down before the Lo…
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Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami explains, in this world there are three substances that are extraordinarily powerful:One is the water that washes the feet of the great vaisnava.Two is the dust from the feet of a great vaisnava. Three is the food remnants of the great vaisnava. And Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami declares that these three substances are maha …
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Actually, Narendra Sarovar is non-different from the Ganges and the Jamuna. Both these rivers enter into this by the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The devotees, they became very playful in Narendra Sarovar, they began to splash one another.By Radhanath Swami
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Narendra Sarovar was named after a great king of Puri whose name was Narendra from long ago. It is a very sacred place where Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his associates would often meet and have wonderful wonderful pastimes. Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur explains that the pastimes that took place here at Narendra Sarovar, even Lord Anantasesha, w…
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Obstacles comes to improve our Krishna Consciousness
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The obstacles that come in our life are the servants of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. They have come to help us to improve our Krishna consciousness. They have come help us to take shelter of Krishna, vaishnavas and his name.By Radhanath Swami
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Atharanala represents the place of the unity or the reunion of Vaishnavas. Sripad Advaita Acharya, Nityananda Prabhu, Srivas Thakur, Shivananda Sen, Pundarik Vidyanidhi, Shriman Pandit, Sriram Pandit, Srinidhi, Kolavecha Sridhar, Buddhimanta Khan, Murari Gupta, Acharya Ratna, Chandrashekhar, all of these great souls, as well as their wives, after K…
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Why is it, Lord Nityananda Prabhu, even though he knew Lord Chaitanya would be angry with him, broke the danda? And why is it that Lord Chaitanya, who completely controlled the heart of Nityananda Prabhu unless he wanted Nityananda Prabhu to break the danda, Nityananda Prabhu would have never broken that danda.…
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And from just close to here, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu for the first time saw the beautiful chakra of Jagannath temple from a long distance away. Kamalpur is approximately ten kilometers from the temple itself or six miles.By Radhanath Swami
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The Purpose of Yatra - Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries
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We have come on this wonderful yatra to develop relationships, to inspire one another, to take very seriously the gift of the chanting of the holy names, the association of devotees and the opportunities to serve, devotional service.By Radhanath Swami
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The Purpose of Yatra – To Refocus our Attention
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There is that famous saying- ‘You can tell how rich you are by counting how many things you have that money cannot buy.’ Money cannot buy love, love of God, inner peace and happiness that can only be accessed when love of God is awakened.By Radhanath Swami
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Sri Chaitanya MahaPrabhu Visiting Bhubaneswar
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There he saw beautiful beautiful murti, self-manifested, svayambhu murti of Lord Shiva. As he came there was a continual abhishek taking place. And the devotees were chanting in great enthusiasm the holy names and glories of Lord Shiva.By Radhanath Swami
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We worship Lord Shiva as Mahadev, Bhubaneswar Mahadev. He is the greatest of the demigods and he is the foremost devotee of Lord Krishna. Therefore, we do not worship him for material benedictions, mystic power or liberation. For a real Vaishnava these benedictions are great burdens and disturbance in life.…
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