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Why Is Spirituality Important? | His Holiness Radhanath Swami On Impact Theory by Radhanath Swami

Offering by HH Radhanath Swami on Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj's Disappearance Festival by Radhanath Swami

Questions And Answers with HH Radhanath Swami (with Italian Translation) on 05th Mar 21 by Radhanath Swami

Srila Prabhupada said “I am actually not doing, you are doing.” And then he cried. Anyone who listens to this tape, your heart will melt, he was so chocked up with gratitude to all of his followers and with an appeal “please carry on the mission of my gurumaharaj.” Srila Prabhupad, who has given his life, his soul, his everything for each and every one of us, is crying, pleading with us to help hi...

Krishna will always fulfil the heartfelt prayers of his surrendered devotee. Bhakti Vinod Thakur was the district magistrate of Sri Jagannath Puri and he was also given by the Government the charge of the Jagannath Temple because there was so much corruption and unregulation there. It was in the holy land of Sri Jagannath Puri that the compassionate prayer of Bhakti Vinod Thakur was fulfilled. We...

After Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu disappeared from this world, he entrusted the dignity of his teachings to the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan. Srila Prabhupada explains from the Six Goswamis was Narottam Das Thakur, Shyamananda Pandit and Srinivas Acarya, soon after that Viswanath Chakravarthi Thakur and others. But as this world has its nature, gradually everything deteriorates. The Lord has to appear...

Narottama Das Thakur spent his life absorbed, absorbed in relishing the nectar of the holy name and tasting the sweetness of Krishna’s beautiful pastime and worshipping Krishna’s all beautiful form and under order of his Gurudev; he went from Vrindavan back to Kethuri. And his Guru Maharaj gave him two instructions prominently. He said “You should always take the name of the Lord and broadcast in...

It is a beautiful story. How Narottama Das Thakur, he was crying in separation from the Lord and Lord Chaitanya who is most magnificent and merciful incarnation of Lord Krishna appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to Vrindavan. So, Narottama who is still a child, he left secretly through the forest. His father and mother sent detectives to search for him and they found him deep into the f...

Nityanand Trayodashi Special Class by HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj on 25th Feb 2021 by Radhanath Swami

Nityananda prabhu took this instruction as their very life and soul. Lochan Das Thakur in one beautiful prayer, he describes how Nityananda prabhu although He is the Supreme Absolute Truth, the source of Maha Vishnu, the source of all other incarnations, who is all powerful, he came with such mercy and kindness that he took the role like a human and he would go door to door and beg people “please...

Interesting in this world, sometimes when a person is strong, they become very arrogant. But it is only a humble heart that can receive spiritual strength. And therefore, the more we know love God, the more we are humbled by that love and in that spirit, the more we are eager to serve. Yajya, the greatest joy of the heart is to make sacrifices for the pleasure of God. And in this world, giving ple...

But Lord Varaha, what technology he has. He could roar with such volume, it’ s heard through all the different, through the 14 planetary systems from satya loka down to patalaloka, when he roar’s everybody hears it. And the sages who are right next to him, it sounded very sweet. It sounded powerful but beautiful. So, this is the Lord’s achintya shakti, inconceivable potencies. When he roared and w...

GBC SPT - 'Sri Advaita Acarya Calling For The Lord' With HH Radhanath Swami on 19th Feb 21 by Radhanath Swami

This happened again and again and again. It was seven children in a row she threw them in Ganga. And then another child was born and she suddenly took the infant and went to the Ganga. When she was about throw him in, Shantanu could not control himself any longer. He began to weep and despair and he said “why? Why do you keep murdering your own children? How can you be so cruel?” So, she explained...

He was brought up by his loving mother, nourished by constantly hearing the pastimes and the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna and His devotees. And naturally through hearing these stories in one’s youth and educated in Vedic dharma, bhakti tattva, he was developing into a person who had the highest standards of morality, the most compassionate nature and devotion to God. A...

So, really what saint Valentine’s day is all about for a religious person is giving up everything, being willing to undergo even torture and death in the service of the Lord. That’s what Valentine’s day represents to a vaisnava or to a devotee. But to a materialistic person Saint Valentine’s Day means following in the footsteps of the lusty birds. Hare Krishna! We see the birds mating and we think...

At every moment of the day, there is great lesson unfolding before us. But we can only understand that message, if we open our hearts with humility to see how Krishna is arranging everything for everyone’s ultimate benefit, how everything is taking place in this world is most instructive? Krishna does not do anything whimsical and everything is working under his direction. Therefore, everything th...

This is the mission of the lord in this age of Kali yuga. So, the first thing that is required is, we must be personally very enthusiastic to come together to chant this Hari naam and must live a very pure exemplary life for others to see, we must be willing to be instruments to assist according to our capacity in whatever way to give the mercy of the lord to the suffering people of this world; by...

Nitai Pada Kamala Session 2 - Lord Nityananda's Pastimes by HH Radhanath Swami by Radhanath Swami

To be congenial means tapasya. It’s going to be difficult. But when a husband and wife are congenial together with Krishna in the centre of their lives, service to Krishna, service to their children, service to the society, service to each other in reference to devotion to Krishna, then Lakshmi and Narayan are living in that house, not figuratively but for real. Lakshmi and Narayan are living in t...

'Flower Festival Special Class' with HH Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Chowpatty on 30th Jan 2021 by Radhanath Swami

Sometimes even in Krishna consciousness, the persons in a position and they become so materially entrenched in that position that they think it's totally spiritual. But when the seniors say do something else, “no, no! Only I can do it. I have to do it.” That means that there's a material sense of I and mine. Tamal Krishna Goswami had the biggest, most successful devotee making preaching making pro...

I want to leave people with something practical, something tactile that they could practice or build into their lives that would help them develop some spiritual awareness. If somebody is at the starting line of this journey, this adventure and they think well awakening how do I become more integrated, how do I align my heart with my head, like these are very ethereal principles right? They're elu...

Lessons From Corona By HH Radhanath Swami at ISKON Juhu on 26 Jan 2021 by Radhanath Swami

Factually, in the Vedic civilization, when it was true, unless you were qualified to be a brahman, you did not want to be a brahman. Because it was most difficult. A brahman was not allowed to own anything practically, he was not allowed to be employed, he had to go and beg alms like a humble bagger and whatever people gave him, he had to give to the people in need. He didn’t keep anything for him...