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
An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.
If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.
In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.
Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.
Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.