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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The Dialogue Between Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu And Shri Ramananda Rai (Part 1)
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When Ramananda Rai came out of the Godavari, he saw this sanyasi sitting in the far east and the effulgence was so brilliant and attractive that he came and offered his prostrated obeisances to the sanyasi. And when Lord Chaitanya saw him, both of their love awakened with such pure feeling that Lord Chaitanya lifted him up and embraced him.…
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How To Understand And Apply The Extreme Examples In Srimad Bhagavatam?
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There’s not too many Kadambha Munis on the planet today who can do that. There is not that many Devhutis or Kadambha Munis today. But just because we can’t be like that does not mean we can’t learn from what there are trying to teach us. Sukadev Goswami extracted those episodes in history that are for the ultimate welfare of humanity, to learn from…
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HH Radhanath Swami Remembering HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
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HH Radhanath Swami Remembering HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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who was the person who was really the guardian, the guardian of the true, unadulterated principles of Lord Chaitanya’s mission? Svarupa Damodara Goswami – Lalita gopi.By Radhanath Swami
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What is the nature of Lalita gopi’s love? That when she sees even a tiny drop of perspiration on the lotus feet of either Radha or Gopinath, it’s as if she assumes one million bodies to eagerly jump up and remove that spot of perspiration. That is her unconditional love.By Radhanath Swami
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How To Deal With People Who Are Demanding? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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What is Meant by ‘Following Srila Prabhupada’s Footsteps?’
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Srila Prabhupada was very uncompromising what he spoke in his lectures and what he wrote in his books but how he applied those principles to individual personal cases was with such compassion whatever helped that person to become more attracted to Krishna, he would present it that way. That’s following in Prabhupada’s footsteps. Not just repeating …
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What Is The Difference Between Humility And Pridelessness?
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All practical purposes, to be humble means to be without pride, without being a sense of false proprietorship without the illusion that I am the doer.By Radhanath Swami
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This is your pastime my Lord. It was by your will that he got this disease in Jharikhanda forest, it was your will that for almost one year he remained here in this diseased condition and now it is by your will that you have cured him and embrace him by your causeless mercy.By Radhanath Swami
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Preaching is an instrument of the compassion of great souls and a proper spirit that helps us to develop our compassion. Real preaching means to extend yourself to make sacrifices of yourself for the wellbeing of another.By Radhanath Swami
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Why Lord Jagannath Doesn’t Eat Potatoes And Carrots in Puri?
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Why Lord Jagannath Doesn’t Eat Potatoes And Carrots in Puri? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Glories of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini (Part 2)
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When they came inside, Mother Ganga was gone. All the Bengali people were gone. The only thing that remained was Saci sitting right at the feet of Lord Jagannatha! Ah! They were thinking ‘How is this? How did you get in the temple, the gates were locked?’ Their idea was, she broke into the temple to steal the property of Jagannatha. They arrested h…
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Glories of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini (Part 1)
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Seeing the genuine sincerity of Saci-devi, Haridasa Pandita sent her to live at Radha-kunda with another one of his disciples, who happened to be Saci-devi’s aunt. Her name was Lakshmi Priya and there together, they perfectly lived in pure devotion and renunciation. They chanted minimum two hundred thousand names of Krishna every single day. They w…
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What Is The Principle of Life? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Attraction and Attractiveness by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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How To Love and How to Be Loved in A Relationship?
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How To Love and How to Be Loved in A Relationship? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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The Quest for Genuine Happiness by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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The Idea of Shelter by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Living in Harmony with Nature by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Universal Principle For Peace by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Process of Achieving Karuna by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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True Purpose of Religion by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Equality In the Eyes of God by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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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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