Inner Journey

Radhanath Swami says what's the real crisis in the world today.

There Is No Environmental Crisis...

One Common Source

Every Living Being Is Our Neighbour

"It was about 10 years ago, I was with one of my dear friend and god brother..." -Radhanath Swami
"He was an African-American who was born in adobes of..."

It doesn't get any better than this

" It's very crucial that we have this spiritual foundation in our life. Otherwise we can built..." - Radhanath Swami
"with wonderfull arcitecture ornaments, beautiful furniture but when storms comes it all crumbles..."

It’s Crucial To Have Spiritual Foundation

" An unfortunately in today's world, people are loosing connection towards actually substantial...." - Radhanath Swami
"We oner people because of what they have, what they could do, what status they may be..."

A ‘Very Little’ Old Bengali Widow



" When my Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada was in London, somebody challenged him, so why have you come to our country...." - Radhanath Swami
"we have our own religon, we have our own society. Why you come to our country..."

"I’ve Come To Give You What You Forgot To Take"

"The success is not the external appearance that I have attained this. Real success is your attitude that...." - Radhanath Swami
"you have faith and with that faith if you are doing the right thing you know you are doing something woderfull for God and for the world..."

Have Faith In The Power, Glory And Grace Of The Supreme

"In China, there is a type of Bamboo tree. You have to water it every day...." - Radhanath Swami
"When you plant that seed it doesn't come nothing even comes out ground, there is no growth for all first year. Now what would you do..."

Don’t Lose Faith If You Don’t See Immediate Results

"This world is a place of fear. The most prominent expenditures within society today all over the planet are based on fear. How much time, energy and money are spent on..." - Radhanath Swami


Fear And The Way Out Of It

"Have you seen elephants, what they could do? I have personally seen big male elephants... " - Radhanath Swami
"raped their truck around a sizable tree and just wreeped them right with routs out of ground and throw it. They are powerfull. But when elephant goes... "

How To Transform Every Situation Into An Opportunity For Devotional Service

"According to the Vedic system, there are 5 ways of acquiring knowledge..."Radhanath Swami
"First is Pratyaksha. which means through direct perseption of the mind and senses but that is very faulty. Another is Parokshya. Parokshya means..."


Different Levels Of Perception

"When we forgive somebody, we feel we have favored the other person. But factually we have favored ourselves more than anyone else. Someone hurts us and we are angry, we feel..." - Radhanath Swami


Hurt Yourself By Holding Hatred

"Whether you are living in beautiful palace, or whether you are living in a straw hut or whether you are living in a cave, if you are satisfied within you will be happy. But if you are not satisfied" -Radhanath Swami


It doesn’t matter where you stay

"According to our state of consciousness, we perceive the world, we tend to have a certain attitude towards the world..." - Radhanath Swami.

This World is a Mirror of Our Own Consciousness

"The laws of karma, the Vedas say, are intricate and confusing. And yet, it is important to understand..." - Radhanath Swami.

The principle of Karma

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.
