Follow these three things: regularly associating with saintly people, chanting the holy name preferably every morning and reading the Bhagwad Gita every morning, and we will
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Spiritual Practices at Home – Radhanath Swami
We should make a little temple in our house. Put it in a nice and if possible a prominent place. We should show our children by our example that we love God. When children are young they may not intellectually understand so much but the impressions that they see go deeply into
Building a Spiritual Foundation – Radhanath Swami
Whether we are doctors, lawyers, businesspersons, judges, farmers, monks, students, homemakers or secretaries; whatever our natural inclination may be in the world, we must build our lives upon the foundation of truth. We recommend that everyday before beginning our work we make our priorities straight that our first business
Radhanath Swami – Who is a Saintly Person?
Who is a saintly person? A saintly person is not one who shaves head or wears saffron robes or is unmarried or walks around naked. That is not the meaning of saintly person. A saint is one who is self-controlled, who is a friend of all living beings, who is equal to everyone, who is
Applying Spirituality in Life – Radhanath Swami
How can we apply spirituality to our lives? The first and most important thing explained in all the great scriptures of the world is the absolute necessity of association of saintly persons on a regular basis. Whatever we associate with our consciousness assimilates those qualities.
Radhanath Swami’s Article on Freeing Our Heart of Darkness
When the big dark cloud of ignorance enters into our lives and covers the full moon of God’s presence in our hearts, it leaves our entire life and the whole world in darkness. What is within reflects in everything without. A person’s consciousness within is manifested everywhere through his
Blessings of a Sadhu by Radhanath Swami
A sadhu’s duty is to give us an understanding of how to realize God, which is the only solution to all the problems of the world. When people come to a sadhu asking for a material blessing—money, health or good partner—their hearts are closed. They are not receptive to the real blessing that the sadhu… Continue reading Blessings of a Sadhu by Radhanath Swami
Relative and Absolute Truth by Radhanath Swami
Relative truth means that each truth is interdependent on the previous truth to exist. Why do we call our family members relatives? Because we are relative to one another. My father is relative to my relative. My existence is relative to his existence, and his existence is relative to his father’s existence. We are all… Continue reading Relative and Absolute Truth by Radhanath Swami
Radhanath Swami’s Article on Experiencing Spirituality
Theory without experience and realization is useless. I was speaking recently to a prestigious man having two PhDs from Cornell University.