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Radhanath Swami
by Radhanath Swami
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 hit
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Chasing the West Forgetting the Wealth of the East
Because India started taking to the ways of the West, sinful materialistic life. Therefore, God’s wrath is most on India than anywhere else. Because the people of India know better.
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What is the Reason for Mahabharata War?
A great man is willing to admit his own faults, and a foolish man is always trying to blame everyone else, for his own faults. Anyone can do that; anyone can find faults in others, but only a very great soul can admit his own faults.
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What Is That Thing That Which Is Completely Diverting Ourselves from Getting Peace in Our Life?
It’s like a child, a child is told by his parents, “Do not touch the fire, it’s hot.” The child says, “But I want to touch it.” Parent says, “You are crazy, do not touch it, you will burn yourself.” The child says, “But I am going to touch it any way.” What can the parent do?
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How To Deal with Personal Abuse and Abuse to Others?
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us that we should expect absolutely no respect for oneself but offer all respect to all others, according to what they deserve. This is the most important instruction that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has given. He claims that this verse is the most important of all…
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A Beautiful Message by His Holiness Radhanath Swami
These six opulences are beauty, knowledge, strength, wealth, fame and renunciation and having any of these to a large degree makes a person very powerful.
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How To Understand the Prosecution Against Devotees in This World?
This is how Krishna glorifies his devotee by showing that the devotee never gives up his faith, never gives up his devotion and his loyalty to the Lord under any circumstance.
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How To Understand the Wars Between Religious and Irreligious People?
The devotees are factually, the pure devotees of the Lord, who were beyond religion in the sense of artha, kama, dharma, moksha. They are transcendental; they are beyond the modes of material nature.
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How To Come Over the Fear of Losing Something?
How To Come Over the Fear of Losing Something? by Radhanath Swami
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The Ultimate Destination of This Body
We are concerned with what we do with our consciousness before we leave the body. Let others worry about what happens to body afterwards.
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How To Understand the Real Essence of The Scriptures?
if you want to understand the real significance behind it, you have to go beyond the television set.
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The Conclusion of All Philosophies
Because we're attracted to see these wonderful exciting activities of people. Most of it is all fictional, it has no meaning.
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How Long We Should Act Enthusiastic, When We Are Not Feeling Enthusiastic?
You have to both be enthusiastic and patient. Rupa Goswami explains these are the symptoms of surrender that you are enthusiastic and patient simultaneously.
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How Do We Differentiate Between Enthusiasm and Consideration of Enthusiasm Due To Selfishness?
We're talking about enthusiasm in the service of God. How the service of God can only be when you understand what God wants, how can you serve him if you do not know what he wants?
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Is Simple Living High Thinking Suitable in This Advanced Technological Era?
To utilize whatever assets in this world there are for God's service, that is also simple living high thinking. For yourself, you need very little.
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How to Understand Action in Krishna Consciousness?
Through all these orders of life, there is a certain work prescribed to you in the service of the lord. When the paramhamsa stage is no work, you just sit down and remember Krishna and it’s the perfectional stage.
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Is There Any Parallel to the Love of God?
Is There Any Parallel to the Love of God? by Radhanath Swami
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If God Is So Powerful, What Is the Need to Come to Earth?
Just like you are a common man. I am a common man. We play so many different roles right within our own life. When you're at home, you're a father. When you're at home, you're a husband. Do you deal with your wife the same way you deal with your children? It's different.
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Is Working for Krishna Makes One Less Accomplished in This World?
Any place he went in the world, there were thousands of people waiting for him with garlands, with sumptuous foodstuffs providing him the most wonderful facilities. He accomplished a lot did he not? Because he had complete faith in the holy name of God.
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How To See the Guidance We Get Is Mercy of Krishna?
Sometimes he gives you knowledge, sometimes he makes you forget and sometimes knowledge, remembrance, forgetfulness, all three of them, if you are sincere, they are the mercy of Krishna, for your spiritual advancement.
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How To Balance Our Actions and Decisions in Spiritual Life?
Whatever decision you make, if it is based on that sincere prayer, then the decision is perfect. You can know that hundred percent. There's never a reason to be in doubt.
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When Do You Call Faith as Blind Faith?
When blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch and suffer.
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How Does God Treat Us - Like His Servants or Like His Children?
As you approach Krishna, Krishna will reward you, reveal himself accordingly. We are simultaneously his children and his servants. According to the quality in which we accept those positions Krishna will deal with us exactly.
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Why The Life of Demigod is Difficult?
They may have to pay their karma when they perform such inappropriate activities; but because they are taking such an important responsibility, the Lord gives them special protection even in those conditions, he gives them purification but he personally often comes to deliver them.
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Are All Demigods on the Same Level?
But it is described if there is no one of such an exalted karma to take the seat of Lord Brahma, oftentimes Lord Vishnu himself accepts the position of Lord Brahma. So sometimes Brahma is also Vishnu tattva in essence.
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How To Understand the Difficult Situations That Great Devotees Are Going Through?
Krishna particularly and specifically put Prahlada in the family of Hiranyakashipu just to glorify him for all time to come, because of what he endured as far as the tests and the tribulations.
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How To Be Spiritually Ethical in the Business World?
If it is for a good purpose, you can justify the means with the ends, but in how you are acquiring the ends, you must within your own heart evaluate that you are doing it as honestly and as ethically as possible under those conditions.
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What Is Science of Self Realisation and Its Importance for All? (Part 2)
Through that transparency of consciousness, we can perceive God, not only can we perceive God, but with a transparent consciousness, whatever we do in this world, we can do it with our full capacity.
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What Is Science of Self Realisation and Its Importance for All (Part 1)
It's like you have a disease and there are symptoms of that disease. The basic disease is ignorance, and the symptoms of that disease are what I was explaining before, lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride, and envy.
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What Is the Difference Between Karma and Dharma?
When we act, not in reference to our real nature, by engaging every one of our acts, in connection to our relationship with God, then everything we do is within the laws of karma, good karma, bad karma; good karma, bad karma; action reaction, but dharma is when we act according to our true...
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How To Understand the Qualities Mentioned in The Shastras Are Material or Spiritual?
What does it mean to surrender? Part of surrender means to live in the mode of suddha-sattva, pure goodness. That means to be in the mode of goodness but in the service of Krishna. Then it is no longer the mode of goodness, it is the transcendental platform of consciousness.
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The Essence of Krishna Consciousness
It’s all just illusory and temporary. The only position that will make us happy is when we are in a natural purified condition of love of God.
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Tuning Into the Right Frequency
According to what we tune into we access that frequency. Meditation, kirtan, these spiritual practices help us to tune in to grace.
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Krishna Sees the Hunger That We Have in Our Heart
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto, always remember me. Lord Chaitanya embraced him. He said, “You are the true knower of the Bhagavad Gita.” Because its purpose is to remember Krishna with love in whatever we do. He had that hunger in his heart, that hunger to please the Lord.
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Various Festivals Help Us in Focusing Our Mind on Krishna
During these festivals, it brings devotees together to develop deeper friendships and deeper commitment to one another to serve the Lord and our spiritual masters. So, these festivals are very, very important.
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Why The Human Population Increasing Despite of Degradation in Humanity?
So, there's a huge overpopulation. It's time for people to start graduating, graduating from this material world of birth and death and going back to this spiritual world where we belong.
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How To See the Success in Society in Relation to Being Religious and Spirituality?
Human life is not meant for these attributes that you are discussing, A real hero is one who conquers his urge for selfish enjoyment, and it works for the upliftment of all humanity, that is a real hero.
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Will I Lose Interest in Material Prosperity by Taking Interest in Spiritual Life?
If you want an eternal life full of bliss and knowledge you surrender to the supreme lord. If you want some temporary fruits of material life and you worship those persons who can give you that. But at least you should know what the purpose and the opportunity is that you have in this human life.
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Why Bhakti Yoga is Supreme Path to Understand the Absolute Truth?
Bhakti means simply to surrender to Krishna, does it not? I shall relieve you from all sinful reactions do not fear.” It is the simplest most direct process. And in this age of Kali Yuga where everything is so difficult anyway, we should take the simplest and most direct process.
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Is The Absence of Misery the Standard of Happiness?
It is said that they attacked him with sharp fangs of philosophical arguments, and he broke their fangs to pieces and totally established that the principle of the bhakti was the supreme conclusion the siddhanta of the Vedas. And the result was all the mayavadi sannyasis began to chant in kirtana...
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Krishna Is the Chief Justice
Are we doing it in a complete state of dependence and devotion? No. Therefore, we must train and practice and cultivate this quality through our life so that we can do like that. By the association with sadhus and by the chanting of the holy names this quality of genuine devotion is awakened from...
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How To See the Distressful Situations Happening Around Us?
Whether one is in happiness or distress, whether one is a grhastha or a sannyasi, whether one is in success or failure, doesn't matter. If we turn to Krsna, our life is successful.
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Real Beauty is The Love of The Heart
Real beauty is the love of the heart, real beauty is not simply the external features that are ever-changing in a person and if only we can connect to that beauty within ourselves, they connect with that beauty within others, then there is real relationships, deep relationships, spiritual...
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Renaissance of Global Book Distribution – The Parampara Continues
Srila Prabhupada very much wanted these books to be distributed. Why? Because Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted these books to be distributed. In the English language which is the most powerful language in the world today in Kaliyuga, the truth of Bhagavad-Gita should be available to everyone.
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Renaissance of Global Book Distribution – The First Book Distribution
There are millions and millions of conditioned souls who are bereft of love of Krishna. In ignorance they are struggling and toiling birth after birth after birth to enjoy the illusions of Maya and they are suffering.
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Renaissance of Global Book Distribution – The Prophecy Came True
Chaitanya Das returned home and when he returned home, he was just so grateful for the mercy that the Lord was giving him but he was constantly chanting the holy names, hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare, hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare.
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Renaissance Of Global Book Distribution – Reconfirmation of The Desire
Chaitanya Das went back to his house, the devotees were very inquisitive, they approached Govinda, the Lord’s servant asking, “What is his desire? What did he pray to Lord Jagannath? Please, please tell us.”
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Book Distribution - Unity Amongst Devotee Community Is What Pleases Krishna
Krishna wants our hearts. I thank you, you have shown great dedication over the years, and in assisting Srila Prabhupada as a puppet of our Guru parampara and the strings of our dedication to their will.
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Book Distribution – An Opportunity to Unite for A Higher Cause
When we appreciate each other, and competition is just to help others to become more enlivened to do more. It’s not to stamp on people's heads and do better.
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Message Coming Down Our Parampara : Print and Distribute Books
Srila Prabhupad, that instruction he received at Radha kund was so much the flow of mercy coming through our parampara and Srila Prabhupad shared that same instruction with us and gave us the opportunity to be a part.
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Srila Prabhupada’s Books Are His Vapu and Vani
In one of the very special ways Srila Prabhupada personally requested each of us to helps him spread this light, is through distribution of his books.
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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 hit
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