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Balaram Jayanthi Festival Class by HH Radhanath Swami on 22nd Aug 2021 by Radhanath Swami

Kaliya was as envious, was as ferocious and was dangerous as any of the other. It is described that he had thousands of hoods and hundred and one prominent heads they were filled with poison and fire who was massive. He completely poisoned the whole lake of Vrindavan and he actually did more damage than the other asuras. Because the other asuras in Vrindavan Krsna kill them all but he never really...

bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvata. It is only by pure Bhakti that Krishna can be understood as he is. It is only love that binds the Lord. No mystic power, no cultivation of knowledge, no exhibition of ecstatic symptoms none of these things are in any way attractive to the Lord. Only humility, devotion and love. gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ. Caitanay Mahaprabhu has ta...

The example is given here of watering the root of the tree. Automatically whole tree is nourished. In that same verse from Bhagvatam it is explained that if you feed food to the belly automatically every limb of the body is nourished. If you simply give food to the stomach, then your whole body will be nourished. Your hands, your legs, your eyes, your brain, your feet, your lungs everything. But c...

This is very important to understand that when a man is about to die, in such a short time as seven days, it’s our conditioned human nature to become fearful. How is it and why is it that Parikshit Maharaj had no fear? Because he had faith. Faith is the gift of the Supreme Lord that can destroy all fear and all suffering of this world. What was Maharaj Parikshit’s faith? He had faith that the word...

Srila Prabhupada asked us to do two things: just receive what I'm giving you and share it with others. It sounds simple and it is simple but still, there are so many distractions, so many temptations, so many fears in this world, trying to divert our attention. To receive what Srila Prabhupada has given us means to hear, to understand it, and to apply it to our life. The chanting of the holy names...

Prabhupada said, “the Titanic was the most modern, indestructible ship ever made by human society and in its first voyage it was destroyed, thousand people died. Compared to Titanic, what was the Jaladuta? Little cargo ship. old cargo ship.” So, from that, when Krishna was this, like this morning walk was 1976 in Mayapur. Now Srila Prabhupada he had the biggest publishing house of books of the Ved...

Ropes of Bondage And Ropes of Love by Radhanath Swami

Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu he, he proclaimed himself to be a fruit vendor. He said,” I have so many fruits, how many can I distribute with these two hands? Whoever is my devotee I request you to help me to distribute these fruits” and what is the fruit the fruit of prema bhakti, the fruit of love for Krishna. In Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission the pancha tattva they broke up in the storehouse of lov...

This is Vrindavan, Vrindavan is the land where Krishna is subordinate to the love of his devotees and sometimes gopis will tell Krishna, “If you dance, we will give you one half of a sweet beat”, and they would be smiling, then they'd clap their hands. Krishna was just a little child, you just done this Damodar lila, they're clapping and they're singing and Krishna’s smiling and they're smiling. T...

Relationship Between Guru and Disciple by HH Radhanath Swami at Prabhupad Desh ISKCON Vicenza by Radhanath Swami

Sri Sri Radha Gopinath's Brahmotsavam Festival 2021 Lecture By HH Radhanath Swami by Radhanath Swami

Deepening Our Relationship With Deities by HH Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Boston by Radhanath Swami

Sukadeva Goswami told maharaja pariksit that don't be attached to living a long life the trees the thousands of years. But what is the quality of their life? They are simply standing in ignorance. Sukadeva Goswami told maharaja Parikshit, “better to have one moment of consciousness of God that to live thousands and thousands of years without remembering Krishna. The duty of every human being and e...

The guru is the transparent via medium. Our devotion never stops at guru. He is simply taking our worship and giving it all to the lotus feet of Shyama Sundar and Sri Radharani through disciplic succession. So, Gopal Bhatt Goswami brought Srinivas Acharya and said, “Radha Raman, he is yours. Unconditionally he is yours. And I will take care of him. I will train him”. So, they set an auspicious dat...

Day and night he remained with the Lord. And his father Venakta Bhatta was so very happy to see that his son had become attached to this great sanyasi. It was the joy of his heart. This should be the greatest pleasure of all spiritually cultured parents. When they see their child becoming attached to the great devotees of the Lord, it should give them more happiness and however nice grades they ge...

So, why do we take medicines? We are depending on Krishna, but he gives us body that is subjected to disease; ultimately Krishna can work through the medicines or not work through the medicines. And when Srila Prabhupada was sick, he called doctor Kaviraj and even if it int work, He would say ‘a blind uncle I better than no uncle at all.’ It is just a ritual of this world that when you are sick, y...

We have to cultivate this humblest position as well. It is question of our consciousness. Are we doing it for our own recognition or are we doing at his service? In the neophyte state we r doing it for both purposes. We have to chant and we have to pray and we have to desire to give up this ego. If we desire to give this ego, gradually through this process u will give up ego. But if u desire to se...

So, for those who are in the mood of the Gopis or in the mood of Queen Kunti praying in this verse that we are completely dependent on u; please do not leave us, we have nothing but you, Krishna never leave such a devotee. And this is our aspiration, this is our goal, this is our only purpose for living is to develop these sentiments of complete attachment to Krishna, complete dependence in Krishn...

You may think how is this possible? It is because Krishna is “Svarat,” He can do anything. And when we read about Dwaraka, we don’t read about Traffic jams. How they are bumping into each other, bumper to bumper traffic, trying to get to the sudhama - meeting house. We read how it is so spacious, it has beautiful lawns, gardens and lakes with auspicious trees and everybody is dressed in beautiful...

So, let us celebrate this year, according to the opportunities that are with us. In previous years, that were perhaps 1000s of devotees in the temple room and in the courtyard, having kirtans and having abhishekams and having lectures and cooking prasad and honoring prasad, all these wonderful things. Now, perhaps, you know, during lockdown, many people are just in their homes, perhaps in the inte...

Just like some of us, by being in the cold weather of Kumbh Mela, we are becoming sick. If we were independent, we could just say, ‘sickness go away’ and it will go away. But we are not independent. We are dependent on these material laws. We are dependent on the limitations of this body. If we were independent, we would not have to die, we would not have to grow old. We can just say – “Body remai...

Krishna das Kaviraj Goswami explains this internal purpose of the Lord was revealed to the world in its most perfect and complete form through the descent of Lalita sakhi in the form of Swarupa Damodar Goswami. Lalita sakhi is a direct expansion of Srimati Radharani. She is non-different than Srimati Radharani. And similarly, Swarupa Damodar Goswami is non different, he is the direct expansion in...

We learn that in Sri Vrindavan dham, in the confidential circle of Sri Radha Govind’s eternal lila Lalita Sakhi is the most confidential and prominent of the maidservants of Srimati Radharani. In fact, Sri Radha considers Lalita, Her siksha guru. In her totally selfless loving service to Srimati Radharani, Lalita sakhi is sometimes even seen to chastise Krsna in love. Sri Rupa Goswami explains the...

He had so much faith in the beautiful, all attractive, all merciful nature of Lord Chaitanya, he had so much faith in the holy names of Radha Krishna, the holy names of God, he stayed on and after some time, a few followers, a little storefront, years later, I believe it was about eight or nine years later, on Fifth Avenue, the most important city in New York, the most important street and the mos...