Radhanath Swami

If we're in a particular specific role as a leader, where people are under us, sometimes like a parent, we have to correct. But when we're just looking in all directions and finding, you're gonna find if you look for. Srila Prabhupada and all of our acharyas taught us how to appreciate also, because in this world not everything is don't go the way we want them to go and that's Krishna’s grace beca...

‘a brahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino ‘rjuna’ Krishna says, ‘you can perform for many, many life times of sacrifices and austerity and ultimately attain the supreme heavenly planet of brahma loka, and you can enjoy there for billions of years but ultimately you will fall down as soon as your good karmas is exhausted and then when you are again in the body of an insect or some lower creature. wha...

We should know that if it was not the instruction of guru maharaj, you could not be doing anything. Therefore, it is the greatness of guru maharaj who is giving me the instruction, the direction and the strength to do these things. It is not my greatness, it is the greatness of Krishna coming through guru and they deserve the credit. We should become humbled and grateful to whatever he has praisin...

When he arrived in Puri he went to the Singhadwaram, the lion gate which was the main entrance to the temple. Just when he arrived, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was there with his associates about to come in the temple. Gangadhar Bhattacharya offered his prostrated obeisances, his wife offered obeisances. The Lord was so very very pleased to see them, he placed his foot on his head and said “now, ple...

Srila Prabhupada would sometimes say, it is in one purports in his books as well, that ”the real purpose of the Krishna consciousness is not simply to defeat people on argument, reason and logic. The real purpose of this Krishna Consciousness movement is to induce people to chant the holy names of Krishna, because it is the yuga-dharma. It is the means by which anyone; everyone could experience lo...

If everyone around us is aspiring for humility and devotional service, whatever pride we have, we feel contaminated by it, right? If everyone is proud, saying about what they do and if we are in those people's association then we feel very comfortable and very well nourished with our pride. “You have done this..you have done this..you have done this..you know what I have done? Ha! I have done like...

By the chanting of the holy name, by the hearing of the Bhagvatam, by rendering devotional service, all of this pride is removed providing there is a motive if we performing these devotional activities. You must in your in your devotional activities you must assume the position of a humble servant and you must, when the if you desire the prestige and recognition, Krishna will give you that, but He...

We know the story of in 1922 his first meeting with Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur. He was given an order, "You are an intelligent young man, take this message of Lord Chaitanya and spread it through out the wolrd in English language." At that time, he was married and he had just had a child who was a baby and no one had ever succeeded in the history of the world to successfully spread th...

So, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, He made Vasudev Ghosh and his brothers, every single year in Puri, the leaders of one of the seven kirtan parties during Rath yatra. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would dance to his kirtan. In Navadvip, they were in the house of Srivas, singing and dancing. They were intimate associates of Nityananda Prabhu and we read when Lord Nityananda with His devotees went to Panihat...

Prabhupada writes “of Lord Chaitanya’s associates.” Prabhupada writes it that “Swarup Damodar Goswami never came to Vrindavan. He is Lalita sakhi. And Gadhadar Pandit who is Radharani never came to Vrindavan. He wanted to come with Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya, but Lord Chaitanya said no you have given your vow of kshetra-sanyas to serve Gopinath in Puri, you cannot come with me. So many of the top mo...

We all have so much, we all have such opportunity. Why do we waste it all by corrupting ourselves by giving into these vices? Ravana was a Brahman’s son, he was wealthy, he was powerful. He had a beautiful wife, chaste, faithful, he had everything, and more than what everyone could want. But he was envious of God and he fell victim to his lust and because of that, he lost everything. Similarly, we...

Questions And Answers With HH Radhanath Swami at Vaikuntha Cultural Centre 19th Aug 21 by Radhanath Swami

So, every time you pass a test by taking shelter of Krishna, you reach a slightly higher level in Krishna consciousness which means to graduate to the higher stage you are going to have to pass more difficult test and if you want to go higher, you have to pass another more difficult test and if you want to go higher, you have to pass an even more difficult test and if you want to go higher, you ha...

When Arjuna turned away from Krishna to his own ego, he was suffering, he didn’t even know he is suffering. It was Krishna’s mercy that let him know he was suffering. People who are totally intoxicated by the darkness of ignorance, they think they are enjoying in this material world. And it’s Krishna’s grace when they sober up and realise, “I am suffering” and they turn to the light. They turn to...

So, Lord Chaitanya he really showed Vaishnavas etiquette and one of the most classic examples is Ramachandra Puri, he had offended his own guru, he was an envious person. Because of his offense to his spiritual master, his love in life was to critise others. Maya is so strong. According to the particular modes of nature, people take pleasure in such amazingly variegated ways. His pleasure in life...

Similarly, Sudama Vipra, he wasn’t an inter universal celebrated sage like Narada Rishi. Sudama Vipra was just an unknown brahman. Just living in Porbander, outside of Dwaraka. Absolutely poverty stricken from the material sense. Can you imagine the best thing that he could bring to Krishna was a little cloth bag of chipped rice? That’s the best he could get. And yet when he came in to Krishna’s p...

People who are completely against this movement, but because their child has become a devotee, they are naturally dear to them, even though they may be offensive and everything else, and in this life for the next they all become devotees. They ultimately, they all liberated and Go Back To Godhead, undoubtedly to the extreme of Hiranyakashipu. In the same way the Nagapatnis, Prahlad Maharaj was alw...

Even Srila Prabhupada, “yes, the third world war will purify this world.” To them, they just see the third world war, these bombs are just Krishna’s lotus feet, just dancing on the head of this Kaliya like society, the serpentine society full of venom and poison. And ultimately those feet are meant to just purify through the agency of this type of suffering, purify humanity to the point where they...

Srila Prabhupada 125th Birth Anniversary Day at ISKCON Kolkata 31 Aug 2021 by Radhanath Swami

But you know, Amogha being very agile and young, he ran for his life and Sarvabhauma was chasing after him, beat him severely and Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu stopped Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya- “Just give me more prasad, I am still hungry.” Then Sarvabhauma- “oh! Alright! then I will give you more prasad.” This Amogha, because his offence, there would be a reaction. Krsna must punish a person who offe...

This Sraddha is the gift of Guru, you have to protect it. You have to share it with others. You can’t expose it. So therefore, preach that person that this offense of the vaishnavas is very serious disease. I can’t listen to this. Look at all the good qualities of that person has, every vaishnava has millions of good qualities but also a few defects. Why should we look at the defects? Why should w...

Offenses that are serious against our spiritual life are not innocent mistakes that we make. But offenses are even though we know better, we misbehave. Those Krishna will hold us to very severely but just innocent mistakes Krsna will over them. What is your intension? What is your motive? “Krishna sees from the inside out. Man sees from the outside in.” We see a first what a person does and we jud...

Why as soon as we become devotees, why don't we just become pure souls and go back to Godhead? For the same reason, because Krishna wants to see the quality of our love. He wants us to develop the quality of our love, then love is developed through the process of sacrifice and if we didn't have to undergo the tests of lust and anger and envy and pride and greed and illusion and all these horrible...

Maharaj Pariskhit could have done anything his last seven days, but he chose to think of Krishna, to chant and hear His glories. So, let us make our life a beautiful, a wonderful, a meaningful life. A life that is no longer subject to fear or anxiety, a life that is constantly devoted to remembrance of the all beautiful, all merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead, by remembering Krishna we become...

Janmashtami Special Class by HH Radhanath Swami on 30th Aug 2021 by Radhanath Swami