Radhanath Swami

That is the purpose of yoga, that is the purpose of religion, that is the purpose of life to awaken our true potential. Each one of us is a divine being, each one of us in whatever capacity has an opportunity to do something wonderful in our life.

This is Srila Prabhupada’s spirit, para dukha dukhi. A devotee’s happiness is seeing other people happy. And real happiness is seeing other people receiving Krishna, loving Krishna. Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote one prayer where he explains, What is that song about Narada Muni? Where he is talking about how Narada Muni is making everybody chant and everyone dance and everyone loving Krishna and everyo...

Man is making so many designations by dividing things up and human beings identify with that and so many quarrels over who is right and who is crazy based on the conditioning of our identity.

Because in transcendental sound vibration, Krishna may have spoken it five thousand years ago but in the text, in hearing qualified persons speak, that same energy, that same grace of God is manifesting according to our receptivity.

We can show our love for God by how we respect, how we serve, how we honor, and how we love each other.

“Finding the fault within a spiritual person is like looking at pod marks in the moon.” The moon is generating volumes and volumes and volumes and volumes of light, so beautiful, ‘look at that mark in the moon.’

Over-confidence can be defined in many ways. But one way is when we are depending on our own abilities that are far beyond our own abilities.

What is the dharma of every living being? To serve. Everyone is always engaged in some type of service to someone. Either we are serving our employer, or we are serving our employees; we are serving our husbands, our wives, our parents, our children, we’re serving when we pay taxes, we’re serving the government; when we have a business, we’re serving our customers.

These statistics are there. People ignore them because they are habituated. They are conditioned. They have been eating meat all their lives, so it must be right. Everyone else is doing it around.

Anyone who submissively and attentively hears this narration of Valmiki’s Ramayan will be free from all the sins that pollute our heart and prohibit us from expressing the souls pure and natural love for Sri Sita Ram.

To the ecstatic joy of all the inhabitants of Ayodhya, that cherished moment had finally come. Lord Sri Ramchandra placed his worshipable lotus feet upon those sandals. Sri Ramchandra Bhagwan ki jai.

Radhanath Swami Shares His Memory of Meeting Saints In Ayodhya In 1971 Ahead of The Temple Opening by Radhanath Swami

If you always lose you don’t get addicted to it. But once you win you can’t. That rush, do you know what a rush is? That sensation... that sensation of winning is so overwhelming that you become addicted to it.

How wonderful it was when the rivers were pure, when the forests were pure, when the air was pure, when the food we are eating was pure. With all India’s incredible economic development and all of India’s software engineering progress, which are good things, but we have to evaluate.

In experiencing that Krishna consciousness within us, and wanting to share that with others through our compassion, through our integrity, is actual satisfaction. Because it’s receiving love and giving love. And when our relationships with each other are based on those principles, that’s a simple life, based on high thinking.

Channeling Krishna's Instructions Through Parampara by Radhanath Swami

We may not understand exactly why, but if we have faith, if we have hope; we can always be looking at that flower that will grow from this rainstorm. That is the substance of a successful man.

Sometimes, it’s just that we are brought up to think that things are ordinary. And that’s why we need leadership, and we need people who can actually help us to overcome these deficiencies.

In service to Krishna, we are serving Krishna to please him. If we are acting enthusiastic and eager so that people will think we are an advanced devotee, then that's a materialistic perception. But if my Guru Maharaj or Srila Prabhupada wants me to be eager to chant the Holy Name, if he wants me to be eager to hear Srimad Bhagavatam, if he wants me to be eager to read his books, if he wants me to...

Now this big, big mountain filling a section of the room with Prasad was sitting here for over a month and Raghava Pandit’s bags were eaten by him for a whole full year, but by the Lord’s transcendental potency every preparation when he ate it, it tasted as if it was freshly cooked on that very day. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Ki Jai!

The King came down to see whether he was still alive? When Mukunda Sarkar came back to his consciousness. The King said, “Are you all right? Have you been hurt? What is your disease?” Mukunda is very humble. He said, “No I am alright. But I have some sort of disease like epilepsy and sometimes I fall down like this.”

The residence of Kulinagram, they were here in Gambhira with the other devotees. Lord Caitanya gave them an instruction that every year at Ratha Yatra the ropes that carry Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra from the temple to the cart, they always break. I want you to make first class silken ropes in Kulinagram and Lord Caitanya personally showed him the ropes that they were using it. Make it just li...

First they arrived at Narendra Sarovar, then they came to the Gambhira. Lord Caitanya brought them all into the room. This area here is the temple which was the place of the house of Kashi Mishra. Just in the back side is the actual Gambhira the small room in which Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally lived. About two hundred devotees were crowding in that room.

Swaroop Damodar Goswami wanted to live by the spirit of a Sannyasi which is to dedicate one’s body, mind, words and life in the service of the Supreme personality of Godhead exclusively without any disturbance from any materialistic social obligations.

Soon Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu returned from his South Indian tour. The residence of Jagannath Puri they were so much in anguish of separation from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu it is explained just like the Chatak bird is always looking to the cloud waiting for one drop, fixed in attention.