Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami is a guide, community builder, activist, and acclaimed author. He has been a Bhakti Yoga practitioner and spiritual teacher for more than 40 years. He is the inspiration behind ISKCON's free midday meal for 1.2 million school kids across India, and he has been instrumental in founding the Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mumbai. He works largely from Mumbai in India, and travels extensively throughout Europe and America. In the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, he serves as a member...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth7 December 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Speak the essence and live by it.
Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.
Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.
Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.
A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.