Radhanath Swami

His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, he had translated Srimad Bhagavatam and he has give wonderful purport according to all previous Acharyas. Those who read his Bhagavatam and associate with his devotees it is very simple to understand the essence of pure devotional service. But without the blessings of such a pure soul, how many Bhagavatam recitors are there in India and in the wo...

But Lord Chaitanya remembered that offense and face to face with Devananda Pandit he said that: “you are reciting Srimad Bhagavatam but the Person Bhagavatam came right into your school, the pure devotee of Krishna who has realized the essence of Bhagavatam and because you are a fool, you do not understand what is love of God, you have thrown him out, you have abused him, you have manhandled him....

We must learn from our mistakes. A mistake is only a mistake if we do not learn a good lesson from it and follow that wisdom. So please, there is no impediment in all of creation that can come in your way from success if you never give up, if you have hope, if you have faith, if you maintain enthusiasm and determination. It is a blessing when we fail, it is not a curse, if we see the hand of God t...

“Krishna I'm chanting, to be your servant to please you to purify my heart so that I can love you and be an instrument of your compassion to the people of this world with whatever I have, not denying the gifts that God has given us, but using them and devotion.” In this spirit, we could realize the highest truths and discover that lost love within ourselves and be fully receptive to Krishna’s love...

Viswanath Chanravarti Thakur, our beloved acharya explains it in this way, that this is Krishna’s mission to remove the burden from Mother Earth, to remove her to the miseries of the weight of so many people plundering, abusing and committing sinful activities upon her. What is our right? We divide up the earth and call it our own with no regard to God. But Krishna comes to remove that burden and...

We are simply living, existing, to assist him, to please him, to serve his servants. Whether we succeed or fail in our practical projects, is not what is all important or whether our sincerity to please him is real, that is all important.

Srila Prabhupada, as did Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Thakur promised their followers that, if we are sincere to carry out their instructions in our life at the end of life we will certainly go back home back to godhead and we know that Krishna never betrays the words of His devotees.

It has taken us millions and millions of births, suffering birth, old age, disease and death to finally come to the point where the doors to the spiritual world are being opened before us through friendship and the association of devotees.

The siksha gurus, the diksha gurus, are all to be given proper respect according to our shastras. However, whatever our position is, we are all simply trying to work together to assist Srila Prabhupada in his service to his guru maharaja, that is our life, that is our soul. Vyas Puja is the day when devotees offer their gratitude to our entire guru parampara through the medium of the current spiri...

Maya means energy. Maya means the energy of God. And Maya is categorized, sometimes in two ways: categorized as Maha-Maya, and Yoga-Maya. It's the same energy. This whole material world is God's energy. All the manifestations within this energy are under the influence of time, therefore, they're temporary. And they're under the influence of the three modes of nature: goodness, passion, ignorance....

There are limitless reasons we can justify not chanting Hare Krishna, going off on our own, trying to find something easier to do, complaining because the situation just isn't what we want it to be. But if we want to actually make real spiritual advancement, if we want to really show gratitude, ‘How could I best assist my guru, my gurus in assisting in Srila Prabhupada’s mission?’ Because really,...

Srila Prabhupada performed so many austerities for us. And all of his followers have performed so many austerities to assist him. And for the next generation, what pleases all the representatives of Srila Prabhupada is to perform austerities. The austerity of our sadhana, the austerity of our cooperation, the austerity of following these regulative principles and doing everything we can to serve.

Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami explains that there are three very powerful substances that awaken love of God within the heart. He calls them Mahabala, great power - The dust of the feet of a devotee, the water that has washed the feet of a devotee and the crumbs of foodstuff that is left on the plates of a devotee, maha-prasad remnants. He said, "We must, somehow or other, obtain these powerful subst...

Home Program At New Vrindavan With HH Radhanath Swami On 20Nov2022 by Radhanath Swami

Srimad Bhagavatam Class In New Vrindaban By HH Radhanath Swami 20Nov,22 by Radhanath Swami

Program With HH Radhanatha Swami & Srila Prabhupada Disciples At Yogashala, New Vrindavan 19Nov,22 by Radhanath Swami

Why people are killing themselves. And it's once they become addicted, it's so very, very hard to give it up. It's unnatural. I don't think there has ever been a person alive, who light the first cigarette that they smoked. It's horrible. Due to social pressure, they try, they start coughing, it tastes miserable, the body is having violent reactions to it but they just keep doing it and doing it a...

Krishna brought that cowherd boy to his own house and shared prasad with him. The perfection of His love, is he feels pain of separation, to see any one of his children suffering in forgetfulness of him. However small and insignificant we may think we are, Krishna is feeling separation from us. But he will not interfere with our freewill because love cannot be dictated, love cannot be forced, love...

To attract our hearts to his love, to his past times, to reestablish the true principles of religion, love and devotion to the supreme and compassion to all living beings, that is religion, that is the constitutional nature of the soul. When love of God is directed toward others in this world, it manifests as compassion; to annihilate a religion and all the miscreants within us, for this reason th...

prāpañcikatayā buddhyā hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate Rupa Goswami in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu says ‘what is real renunciation?’ It is to utilize everything for the service of the Lord without false ego, without selfishness. And if something that appears to be material, that could be utilized in the service of the Lord is given up, that is considered incompl...

I began to reflect, ‘This is the power of habit. Good people, caring people are indulging in activities that's causing bloodshed, murder, killing, pain to innocent life loving animals who are people also. Why? Because of habit. Years later, when I came back to America, I was explaining to people, my relatives, my friends, “don't you see the connection?”

And a saintly person will pity such an ignorant although the world is bowing at their feet as being great, yes? So, what I'm saying is, that we need food to have strength, and that strength will give us the proper perception. And what is the food we need? Offering prayers, chanting God's names, hearing the truth, associating with saintly persons, doing proper puja with the proper state of consciou...

Today, Diwali is the actual day when this lila, Damodar bandhan took place. Actually, after Krishna was untied and was reunited with mother Yashoda more intimately than ever, the Gopis from that day on, they would love to call Krishna, Damodar, one who is bound by the waist by the rope of your mother’s love. Satyavrat Muni in Damodar-Ashtakam, offers his obeisances to Gopal, who is conquered by th...

He was seeing these two devas, they were so arrogant, they were so disrespectful. They were destroying their own possibilities. Narada Muni felt especially compassionate toward them. And he told them, “Because you are so much infatuated by all your powers and wealth, and beauty, and you think yourself better than everyone.” The quality of the great soul is amāninā māna-dena. that we shouldn't care...

When Krishna sees that for his pleasure, we are not being discouraged by success or failure, honor or dishonor, pleasure or pain, happiness or distress, health or disease, victory or defeat. Devotional service is ahaituky apratihatā; it is unconditional by these things. As long as there is selfishness or arrogance in what we do, then we become very discouraged, because we are not getting our way....