Radhanath Swami says that the detached cannot be controlled

  “You can only exploit a person who is attached to selfish enjoyment. You cannot exploit a person who is detached.”- Radhanath Swami How do you exploit someone? You give them the temptations, you bewildered their intelligence, and then you have them under your control. Or you create within their …

Radhanath Swami on ‘Attracting Grace’

  “Grace is all-pervading, just like the sunlight is all-pervading, but we have become so habituated to live in dark places.” – Radhanath Swami For the treasure of divine love to awaken in our hearts,  to overcome the ahankar, the false ego, and to free ourselves from the shackles of …

Radhanath Swami on Fear

Radhanath Swami on Fear

The controlling factor of the entire material existence is fear. Why? Where there is lust, there is fear. Kama, material desire, is like the other side of the coin with fear. We cannot have one side of the

The controlling factor of the entire material existence is fear. Why? Where there is lust, there is fear. Kama, material desire, is like the other side of the coin with fear. We cannot have one side of the

Wild Jungles, Urban Predators – Radhanath Swami

Wild Jungles, Urban Predators – Radhanath Swami

In 1970 I lived for sometime in the forests of the Himalayas at river banks or under trees or in nice caves. There were snakes, scorpions, leopards, tigers, wild elephants and so many mosquitoes. One may think it is a very

In 1970 I lived for sometime in the forests of the Himalayas at river banks or under trees or in nice caves. There were snakes, scorpions, leopards, tigers, wild elephants and so many mosquitoes. One may think it is a very