Radhanath Maharaja classes

Radhanath swami

radhanath swami

Bhakti Yoga

"Low self-esteem is one of the biggest problems in the world, not only for the apparent ..." - Radhanath Swami
"down traden people but even the big big people controlling very very high positions. Low self-esteem really means a lack of really fulfillment..."

From Low Self Esteem To Self Confidence

"Now some of you may be thinking about going to the west for some soft ware engineering job or something like that, take a cargo ship I dare you,..." - Radhanath Swami.

Srila Prabhupada, The Perfect Example of Renunciation

"Fear is the greatest stimulator there is.  People get jobs and work foaming at the mouth to the fear, fear of not having food, fear of not having a proper ..." - Radhanath Swami.

The Root Cause Of Fear

"powerful, all opulent Lord with all his six, opulence’s is forever seeded within our hearts, but our attention is so much in another direction. The path of Bhakti is..." - Radhanath Swami.

Bhakti Is To Turn Our Attention Back To The Lord

"The most essential aspect of the true soul is ‘ananda’, it is by it’s nature full of bliss it is ecstatic, and where does that ecstasy originate?  In love, love is ..." - Radhanath Swami.

Love Of God, Our Essential Nature

"Time is so precious. In Srimad Bhagavatam Parikshita maharja had seven days to live. What did he do in those seven days? He was the emperor..." - Radhanath Swami.

Time Is So Precious

"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

"If we have high ideals serving those ideals bring real purpose and fulfillment in our lives and what is the highest ideal- to help other people soul’s, to enlighten..." - Radhanath Swami.  

Striving For The Highest Ideals

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.
