Radhanath Swami Articles

We often say that human being is a ‘rational animal’.  If you take away the ‘rational’ part, the human is simply an animal. Rational truly means the ability to discriminate truth from illusion. When we live for truth, and learn to centre our lives on the eternal spiritual principles, we are fulfilling the purpose of human life. The Garga Upanishad explains that one who takes this rare human birth but quits his body like the cats and dogs without understanding the science of self-realization is the most unfortunate person; he’s no better than an animal.  There is no real purpose to his life; there is no fruit of happiness in such a person’s life. Read the rest of this entry »

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Seva does not simply means to serve, seva means to serve with no egoism and no selfishness. Real seva means we are not considering what we will get in return. Seva is service with the intent to please the object of our service. Cultivating this attitude brings about real bhakti, real love. So in this sense, by external considerations, there is no big or small service. Read the rest of this entry »

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There are unlimited living beings. Consider every insect, plant, tree, grass, animal, bird, microbe, bacteria, and germ! How many living beings are there in the body? We can’t even count those. What to speak of entire earth! What to speak of the universe! What to speak of the entire cosmic manifestation with unlimited universes with unlimited life in every universe! And that’s merely a fraction; material existence is just a fraction of the spiritual existence. There are unlimited living entities residing in the Brahmajyoti and there are unlimited living entities in unlimited Vaikuntha planets and Krishna is personally with everyone. Read the rest of this entry »

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The miracles of nature are the miracles of God. There’s a philosophical lesson in every situation of life if we’re receptive.

We could be thrilled when we feel mosquitoes biting us, if we meditate on what an incredible invention it is. The mosquito flies, and man has made airplanes. For airplanes, we need runways, we need radar, we need air traffic controls, and we need all kinds of safety devices. But a mosquito just flies Read the rest of this entry »

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Every living being is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Krishna, like a sunray to the sun. Qualitatively a sunray gives heat and light like the sun, but quantitatively the sunray is always just part of the sun; it’s never the sun. And the sunray is always coming from the sun; the sun never comes from the sunray. So simultaneously it is one and different. That is our relationship Read the rest of this entry »

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Sometimes, the ecstasy of love is in pain. But when in spiritual love that pain is in ecstasy. When pain is due to frustration or ego or frustrated selfish desires, that pain is pain. But when pain is born out of unselfish compassion, with a spirit of service and love, that pain is anand.

- Radhanath Swami

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This is the nature of human ego: we become so filled with anxieties when we have expectations, because the nature of this world is that you always don’t get what you expect. If we expect good weather and it is bad weather, it’s very disturbing. If we expect respect from our husband, our wife, our friends, the world Read the rest of this entry »

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