Kirtan and Jaya Radha Madhava - HH Kadamba Kanana Swami - 17th July 2013 - Pretoria, SA

Sri Prahlad das - 03

Mama Mana Mandire

Prabhupada Japa Chanting

Kadamba Kanana Swami 4pm to 7pm shift Nityananda Trayodasi

Kadamba Kanana Swami Nityananda Trayodasi 03.02.23

The Gopi's asking krishna when will he return to Vrindavan

When will you return, Oh krishna!

"Krishna explains that this material world is His divine nature. When we forget the relation between a person or things with god then our perception is material..." - Radhanath Swami.

Every Situation Is An Opportunity To Express Love For Krishna

A snippet of kirtana from the 4:30AM mangala arati service at the ISKCON temple and "world spiritual headquarters" in Mayapur, West Bengal, India (11/16/11).

Hare Krsna mahamantra during mangala arati @ ISKCON Mayapur, WB, India

Das Avatar - Shortened Janmastami Drama

Yogindra 2.18.18 Qawwali Night at RG

You should honor your shiksha Gurus, you should honor the local temple authorities who are representing Prabhupada and engaging you in service in a very similar way to the way you respect your own Guru. Because it is in serving them that you are serving your Guru. You should understand that the shiksha Gurus who are training you and teaching you are Gurus in your life. Never underestimate them. Give them all honor and respect and please them through your services. Do not be sectarian. Understand that all devotees at ISKCON, we are all brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, whatever, in a family system there is respect, there is affection and we try to show our love and service to every Vaishnava. Why? Because that will please Prabhupada and whatever pleases Prabhupada is what will please your Gurus. It is very important.

How To Please Srila Prabhupada And Guru Parampara?

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 Richard Slavin, on December 7, 1950, in his teens he came to confront a deep sense of alienation from suburban Chicago life and the civil injustices of mid-century America. At the age of nineteen, while on a summer trip to Europe, his internal struggles culminated in a commitment to search for God wherever it might lead him. Meditating on the Isle of Crete, he felt a supernatural calling and the next morning set off alone to find spiritual India. The Journey Home documents his odyssey as a penniless hitch-hiker though Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally India. There he lived as a wandering ascetic, first amongst the forest dwelling Himalayan yogis and later amongst a wide variety of gurus and spiritual practitioners throughout India and Nepal. Ultimately, he was led to the holy town of Vrindavan, where he found his path amongst the Bhakti-yogis.
In Vrindavan he found the teacher he was searching for in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and representative of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (the Krishna-bhakti tradition stemming from the 16th century mystic avatar Sri Chaitanya). In choosing Bhaktivedanta Swami, as his guru, Radhanath Swami felt compelled to shear his matted locks and reenter Western society with a mission to share the sacred wisdom he had received. This return exemplifies the form of devotional yoga which is at the heart of Radhanath Swami’s teachings, a spiritual practice expressed as tangible action meant to bring about personal fulfillment and benefit the world.
At the the age of 31 he took the monastic vows of a Vaishnava sanyassin and became known as Radhanath Swami.
Today Radhanath Swami travels regularly throughout India, Europe and North America, sharing the teachings of Bhakti-yoga. He resides much of the year at the Radha Gopinath Ashram in Chowpatty, Mumbai. For the past twenty-five years he has guided the community’s development and has directed a number of acclaimed social action projects including Midday Meals, which daily serves more than 260,000 plates of sanctified vegetarian food to the children of the slums of Mumbai. He has also worked to establish missionary hospitals and eye camps, eco-friendly farms, schools and ashrams, an orphanage, and a number of emergency relief programs throughout India.


How To Please Srila Prabhupada And Guru Parampara?

Radhanath Swami

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