Radhanath Swami

True dharma is the path of cleaning the mirror of the heart. This chanting of God's names in our tradition we chant “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Ram Hare Ram, Ram Ram Hare Hare.” There are many names of God. It's meant simply to clean the mirror of the mind, so that the ecology of our hearts becomes clean and in that state we see ourself.

Early this year I spoke in the House of Lords, close by in the British Parliament and I gave a talk, but one thing I said everyone actually applauded. And afterward people came up to me, Dukes and Duchesses and Princes and Princesses and Lords and Ladies, they were coming off and they were remarking that one sentence I spoke how much it moved them. It was such a common-sense thing. I was actually...

When we address these issues, how to clean my own heart, the inner ecology of humanity is the state that the external ecology of the world is in. so, to be the change we want to see in the world, we try to clean our own values, our own character by connecting with our own inner state of life, of consciousness, of love. And then we make choices, big choices are small choices, integrity is to apply...

The path of yoga teaches us our relationship with nature. According to the Vedas mother earth, mother nature is a feminine aspect of the divine. And like a mother she is providing everything for all of us at all times. What is the love of a mother? None of us would be alive without the love of a mother. A little baby is totally helpless for protection, for food. The mother nourishes us in so many...

That this world is a place of misery and there is no science, there is no technology, there is no philosophy, there is nothing that can change that. And to try to find lasting pleasure in a place of misery is like trying to keep dry when you are drowning in the ocean. It is simply not possible. There is no chance. Pleasure in this world, Srila Prabhupäda used to say, is really just a temporary rel...

You are probably thinking that I am the exception, if I just had more, I would be happy; if I was just more popular, if was just more beautiful, if I just had more money, if I just had a nicer house or a better running car, if I just had more influence and power over others’ lives, my husband or my wife or my friends then I will be happy. Off course! But Lord Brahma who had created you and has cre...

But chanting from the heart means ‘I am chanting because I really want to purify my heart, I see so much lust and envy and anger and pride and greed and illusion and anger, I see all these things. I don’t want it. I want to wipe it away, I want to wipe away all these attraction and aversions and attachments and upadis, I am sick of them, I am disgusted with them, they drag me birth after birth aft...

Prahlad maharaja offered his wonderful prayers, after hearing transcendental knowledge from Narada Muni, he told Narasimha Dev, that “who else can I serve my beloved Guru Maharaj and through his Guru Maharaj, he was serving all living beings.” Lord Narasimha Dev, he offered Prahlad any benediction. Prahlad Maharaj, he said, “If I ask anything from you, then I'm not your devotee. then I'm just doin...

'I Breathe For India' By Lara Dutta & Shayamal with HH Radhanath Swami on 09th May 2021 by Radhanath Swami

'Help India Breathe' by Jay & Radhi Shetty with HH Radhanath Swami on 01st May 2021 by Radhanath Swami

In the mother's love, sometimes lacks certain psychological logic. When Hiranyaksha was killed by Varaha Dev, his mother, Diti was weeping in agony that she lost her child, the nature of a mother's love. That so often in this world it's not appreciated and even in spiritual society, oftentimes overlooked because there's no apparent immediate results. Yes? in every services we really see the result...

Unless we understand the gravity of this situation around us, there is a plague of ignorance which is causing every living being to die. This plague of ignorance in this world, one hundred percent of the population is dying of it. But Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, has come with the medicine, enechi aushadhi maya nasibaro lagi’ hari-nama maha-mantra lao tumi magi. It is desperate, it is urgent, it is a...

We do not want to ask the Lord for something material, we do not want the lord to be our servant. We know that such a consciousness even if it is fulfilled our desire, it will undoubtedly culminate in a great burden of bondage. Therefore, we simply want to be gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ, the servant of the servant of the servant of the servnat. What other treasure is there in this...

If you think that I have done this, I have renounced all of this, you see what I have renounced, you haven’t renounced anything really. Ultimately, when we are talking about poverty, it means nothing is mine. We read about great kings. They were pure devotees, living in royalty, but they were ‘akiñcana-gocaram.’ They were in poverty because what this poverty literally means?

This story is very instructive. We cannot imitate Jada Bharath. We can understand to the extent he was trying to avoid any sense of false prestige in his life, any sense that I am the doer. That is how subtle false ego is. Even thought he was on the state of bhava, as soon as he thought “I am helping someone,” he fell into illusion. We are nothing. Therefore, if we have the association of vaishnav...

My beloved gurudev Srila Prabhupada, he would say that real spirituality is not about being a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew or a Buddhist or a Jain or a Sikh or a Zoroastrian or anything else. It's about cleansing our heart, it's about awakening the dormant love of God that is within us and being instruments of that compassion in our life in whatever we may do.

I remember seeing the Ganges how her waves were rippling and swirling, it was a very fast current. It was just so beautiful. She was just coming down from the peaks of the Himalayas, her water was very transparent, aqua blue, rich in color. And as I was seeing the formations of the ripples and the swirls of her waves, I was thinking, “this is the most beautiful art with color, with texture, with f...

Harmonising Science with Spirituality by Radhanath Swami

So, Lord Shiva met Lord Vishnu and he said, I have heard about this Mohini murthi, I want to see this form. Lord Vishnu said, I don’t think you want to see this form. He said, No No, I want to see this form. So, then Lord Vishnu said, all right and he left. Lord Shiva was sitting and suddenly Mohini murthi appeared and she was playing with a ball and she was so beautiful. Lord Shiva was so attract...

Dasrath, although having everything and being so incredibly popular, loved and successful could not find any true happiness because he wanted a son, when he retired to dedicate his entirety of life to the service of the Supreme Lord, he could entrust the responsibilities of the kingdom to his son. Years passed and ultimately, he performed on the instruction of Vasishta muni a special yagna. The he...

Our whole existence is simply based upon the consciousness that has been derived from the pure unalloyed soul. Just as this sun cannot be covered and the moon cannot be covered, it can only be covered to our vision. Similarly, the soul is always pure; the soul cannot be contaminated, the soul is a part of God, the soul is perfect and complete but that transparent uncontaminated esteemed quality of...

Krishna tells in the Gita, as we surrender the Lord reciprocates. Because she was yearning to serve the Lord the lord had to come. And she was sitting on a straw mat. and when Ram came, she brought straw mats to Ram and Lakshman to sit on. and she wanted to give them something. She was just wearing tree bark as a dress, she had matted hair because she had not combed her hair in years. She had noth...

So, we must like Hanuman take a very humble position in our devotional service. But Hanuman’s humility is very very interesting to analyze. He was humble, he gave all credit to Rama, took nothing for himself, he even was even willing to take a small position but he never ever ever gave up. If we think we are useless, if we think we have no qualification, if we give up in the mission of the Lord th...

Kausalya, the mother of Lord Rama very graciously welcomed them. They fell at her feet and affectionately she spoke these words, “I bless you Bharat. May you live as the king of Ayodhya without any enemies, may you live a long and healthy life and rule this great kingdom. But my dear Bharat, what happiness will you achieve in your life with Rama, Sita and Lakshmana living in the forest in exile? N...

The residents of Ayodhya, it is described that they were singing, they were dancing, they were just joyful. eating nice prasad, distributing nice prasad, giving gifts, receiving gifts because everyone’s minds were immersed only in the beautiful form of this child, Rama. They completely forgot the miseries of material existence. As they began to grow older, it is described they began to learn how t...