radhanath swami

trancendental

Lectures

HG Nityananda Prabhu / SB 10.54.18

"There is a famous book, that has been made into many movies over the years, Its called Frankenstein. Its about a scientist who really wanted to do something ..." - Radhanath Swami.

Even Good Intentions Should Be In Harmony With Divine Plan

"Kolvechha Shridhar was in utter poverty materially but he did not want anything else, he was happy, he was offered any benediction, he was offered wealth..." - Radhanath Swami.

Greatest Need In Today’s Society Is People Who Live By A Good Example

"Because the more you have the more you have to work to maintain it and simultaneously the more you have the more that increases your desire to ..." - Radhanath Swami.

Renounce Your Ego

"Let us examine the nature of a tolerance of a tree. A tree will stand in the scorching sun to give shade to you and me. A tree will bear the freezing cold ..." - Radhanath Swami.

Cultivating Strong Intelligence and Conviction

"the essential quality of renunciation is humility to give up the false ego and understand “I am completely dependent on the mercy of the Lord” Rupa Goswami..." - Radhanath Swami.

The Essential Quality Of Renunciation Is Humility

"The fruit of all Vedic literature is Bhagwatam and Bhagwatam tells what is best, the supreme occupation for all humanity is that which brings about the ..." - Radhanath Swami.

Vedas Teach Us the Ultimate Goal of Life

"What is death?  The body is there, the brain is there, the heart is there, the organs are there, everyone is there except the person, the conscious force, the animator..."- Radhanath Swami.

What is Death?

"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

"Real renunciation is not being a great yogi in the caves that may be a certain type of renunciation, but the real essence of renunciation is to feel oneself..." - Radhanath Swami

Real Renunciation Through Humility

"So how? How to control this mind? William Blakes said, “the mind is such a thing it can make heaven out of hell or hell out of heaven.”  Even if..." - Radhanath Swami.

Cleaning The Dust On Mirror

"Ritual is a formula which is meant to dovetail our conscious to the supreme consciousness of God..." - Radhanath Swami 

From Ritual to Spiritual

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.
