Radhanath Swami

Like a driver in a car, the atma or the soul is within this body and we can't keep the same car for very long in this world, we have to trade them in. so, similarly the atma or the soul doesn't die at the time of death. And the nature of the soul is we're part of the supreme soul or God, who has many names in many religions, in our religion we call Krishna. But there's one, just like there's one s...

Mother nature teaches us many lessons. What is a diamond? A diamond which is the queen of jewels is nothing more than coal that's been under a massive amount of pressure for a long time. And gold, the king of metals, it's purified with fire. So, stress can make us something beautiful if we learn how to manage it properly. And as you said that means to accept stress with a grateful heart and to act...

That Absolute Truth, Krishna, his body, his form, his personality, his pastimes are eternal, full of knowledge and the source of the highest happiness. ‘sarve sukhino bhavantu:’a person who is following the vedic path or the dharmic spiritual path, prayer is let all beings be happy. And the highest most inclusive happiness is prema, ecstatic love., ecstatic love for the supreme all attractive love...

Our sadhana should very much be inseparable from empowering and preparing us in such a way that we could really be instruments to help others be Krishna conscious and at the same time, in helping others to become Krishna conscious, Krishna is pleased. ‘yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo’ Prabhupada is pleased and then what? Then our sadhana actually becomes substantial. When we're pleasing the Lord t...

Srila Prabhupada often quoted ‘paṇḍitaḥ sama-darśinaḥ,’ a great devotee sees everyone with equal vision and therefore feels for everyone and wants to give them that opportunity that is inherent within every soul, to know and love Krishna. Advaita Acarya as we have explained, he's Maha Vishnu. Vrindavan Das Thakur explains he's Sada Siva, the original Shiva who lives in Vaikuntha. He's the original...

Flower Festival Lecture by HH Radhanth Swami at ISKCON Chowpatty on 29th Jan 2022 by Radhanath Swami

He said “because my body is already difficult enough and my servant is already, so much weight for him to have to carry it. It is not possible for us to bear the burden of this one rupee. It’s just too much weight, too much inconvenience for us to have to carry it.” And then he looked at the man and he said, “you have so many lakhs of rupees, what kind of burden you have to carry throughout your l...

It is a fact, the less we have, the simpler and more peaceful our life is. This is simple living and high thinking. What you require, have it, live comfortable, make ends meet but the suicide of our consciousness is I have become rich, now I need more and more and more and more, I could afford more and more and more and your consciousness becomes less and less and less.

There is a simple analogy of a bird in a cage and the owner is so preoccupied decorating, cleaning and making the cage a nice place that he forgets about the bird inside. The bird is starving or like so often, in my travels in the world, I see little girls who are dressed very nicely and have all sorts of toys and other things but the parents have no time to give her the love that she craves. So p...

Usually, people who have that type of power, practically absolute power when you are a king of a massive kingdom and all the citizens loved him because he ruled with such compassion and he had no ulterior motives. He was really there for them because in the vedic system everyone is a servant no one is a master. Only God is a master, even God likes to serve. So, everyone is a servant. King means yo...

Special Online Lecture By HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at ISKCON Juhu by Radhanath Swami

Brahma does not give up his position, he does not give up his family but he does everything for the service of Krishna. He understands fully that it is only the shelter of Krishna that will give us any real purpose or happiness in life and this must be our conviction, whatever our paticular status or situation may be we should never be deluded by Maya to think anything but the shelter of Krishna’s...

Satsang Program By HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at ISKCON Chowpatty 23rd Jan 2022 by Radhanath Swami

A kanishtha adhikari, according to Srimad Bhagavatam is the lowest platform one who worships the deity but does not offer honor, respect and service to the devotees, that is devotional service but it is on a lower platform, because Krishna says, mad-bhakta-pūjābhyadhikā, worship of my devotee is what pleases me the most. If we offend the devotees, the vaishnavas, then do you think Krishna will lik...

Satsang Program By HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at ISKCON Chowpatty 08th Jan 2022 by Radhanath Swami

The Story of Sindhutai Sapkal by HH Radhanath Swami https://youtu.be/abmsniEmfh0 How I became a mother of 1000 orphans by Sindhutai Sapkal https://youtu.be/2IcEY6KHptk HH Radhanath Swami meets Sindhutai Sapkal https://youtu.be/BnGfmoaycbI

Taken from the New Year Meditations talk on 01st Jan 2021 Full Video at https://youtu.be/Wc-fgYM6vL0

this New Year's Day, is in truth an opportunity to commit ourselves to making that commitment every day. Otherwise, time will steal it away. Sometimes when we begin our endeavours on the path of bhakti or whatever it may be, we're very enthusiastic because it's new and it's meaningful and it's fresh. But as time passes, we start taking what we once considered so rare, unique and sacred, we take th...

On this day of New Year's is a time to really reflect, to renew our vows, to make resolutions that we will we will interpret our past, apply in the present and move in the future. In such a way that we're moving toward the light of Krishna’s grace. In the story of Jagai and Madhai and so many others, when we suffer darkness, we can have a greater appreciation of light. In this last year, most of u...

Love for God, love for Krishna is within the heart of everyone. The greatest utilization of time is to engage in ways that awaken that love. Through the way we interact with other people with character, with compassion, the way we engage with the environment through respect and gratitude and through the way we cultivate the deep experience of our own spiritual connection with God, through our Sadh...

If Krishna tells us “Time I am”, this gives us an understanding of how we should respect time. Because time is an energy of God, a manifestation of God. To appreciate Krishna, to appreciate how he reveals himself to us is how we make spiritual progress. When we come before the altar, within a temple, we're very careful what we speak, what we do, how we relate with other people. For many we bow dow...

Her passing from this world was so perfect. Yamuna Devi never wanted fame, she never wanted prestige, she only wanted seva, selfless service. At Bhakti Vedanta hospital she would call me regularly and say, “I am leaving this place.” She was still in critical condition. I said, “Why are you leaving this place?” She said, “Because too many people are serving me, I don't like to be served. I like to...

This quality of “Saragrahi” is the perfect description of Yamuna Devi. She offered unconditionally, in total absorption, her body, her mind, her heart and her very soul in everything she did. Srila Prabhupada again and again would plead with us to take this Krishna Consciousness very seriously, how Yamuna Devi took that instruction as her heart and soul, in everything she did. Some examples; in 19...

All the trials and challenges that we may be enduring today and all that we will inevitably endure in the future are being addressed in the Bhagavad-Gita. Krishna begins by explaining the nature of the true self, the jiva. ‘na hanyate hanyamane sarire, na jayate mriyate va kadacin’ that the eternal soul is never born and never dies, it is not subjected to the forces of nature or time. But the forc...

Srila Prabhupada would quotes, dina-hina jata chilo, hari-name uddharilo, tara sakshi jagai madhai that even the most hardened cruel demons like Jagahay and Madhai can be transformed by the power of God's names. Nityananda prabhu, he saw that potential in their hearts and they became saints. In the same way Srila Prabhupada when he traveled around the world 12 times, he saw that potential in every...