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
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.
To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.
Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
Renunciation means death of false ego.
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.
Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others
A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.
Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.