Radhanath Swami Speaking on Three Realizations of God

The scriptures explain there are three realizations of God.  One is the unmanifest impersonal light of God, the other is the localized presence of God who is personally seated within everyone’s heart and the third is the Lord who is the supreme source of everything that exists, who is personally residing in the spiritual realm engaging in eternal pastime with His eternal associates. That is called Bhagavan.

Merging into the Brahman is the goal taught by Shankaracharya, the incarnation of Lord Shiva. He is teaching how to liberate oneself from all material bondage, from all suffering, from all ignorance, and enter into the eternal light of transcendental consciousness. Or the light of eternity.  According to the Bhagavatam and the Vaishnav philosophers it is explained that this is the partial realization of the absolute truth beyond freedom, which means to completely forget one’s individuality and to simply merge into an existence. A deeper and higher realization of God than this is to realize our eternal loving relationship with the Lord.  Which is higher?  Freedom or love.  Within love is freedom.  Within bhakti or prema automatically liberation is included.  But it is not a dull relationship.  It is an eternally dynamic relationship in which a spirit soul eternally reciprocates in pure love in a totally liberated position with God.

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53 comments

  1. What an explanation of Bhakti by Radhanath Swami. He has made the things so clear and simple.

  2. Kudos to HH Radhanath Swami.
    As Swamiji points out Real Love for a person can be shown by taking care of not his physical and mental well being but most importantly of spiritual well being.

  4. The concepts of impersonal liberation & bhakti are very nicely explained herein by Radhanath Swami Maharaj

  5. Everyone is hankering for love… and only GOD can satisfy that.
    Follow Radhanath Swami on your journey toward GOD and an eternal existence of loving reciprocations.

  8. Radhanath Swami has so simply and lucidly explained such a deep and complex subject matter. Our true happiness is in serving the Bhagavan feature of the Lord.

  10. Its so nice to get a complete understanding of vedic wisdom. With above understanding we can see how various people worship the Supreme Lord at their level of realization – there is no conflict every one is in different standards but in the same school of God!

  12. Thank you Radhanath Swami for clarifyig the importance of Bhagwan realisation, which is a loving exchange between the devotees and the Lord

  18. Maharaj has so wonderfully explained how merging into Brahman should not be our goal, goal should be to develop LOVE with GOD.

  19. Maharaj has so wonderfully explained how merging into Brahman should not be our goal, goal should be to develop with GOD.

  25. We are all looking for love then why not to love the Supreme person “Lord Krishna” who can perfectly reciprocate our love. Love is indeed higher than freedom. Thank you Maharajah.

  30. Wow! Hear Radhanath Swami has shared the stages of God realization from its basics to the top-most, so simply.

  31. Wow! What a statement – within love is freedom. No one likes to be dull even for a moment, it is our nature to be active. The perfection of this activity is service to God in love.

  33. On the path of spirituality we must not be satisfied with partial realisation but yearn to achieve complete realisation of God

  37. Radhanath Swami has given such a clear and precise explanation on what is often considered to be a very complex phinomena.

  38. Nicely explained by Radhanath Swami. Freedom is subset of Love. As Radhanath Swami says, God is hungry for our love with free will.

  39. In material world people hanker for the best some for BMW when it comes to cars some for Mansion when it comes to house similarly its so important to make a right choice in the path of Spiritituality as well and hanker for the highest truth. You need to meet Radhanath Swami to understand this subject.

  40. Fantastic Point!Love or Prema Bhakti is highest . Higher than even freedom, which so many of us trying to follow in ignorance. Thank you for enlightening us on this Radhanath Swami

  43. All Glories To.H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj

    What an wonderful explanation of what real path of realisation is.

    Hare Krishna

  44. Such a wonderful path of realisation is Bhakti and such a wonderful and simple way has it been explained by Radhanath Swami

  45. This is a very convincing explanation by Radhanath Swami about the superiority of the Personal form of God over the Brahman manifestation.

  47. A very description of God Realizations. Radhanath Swami has brilliantly explained why realization achieved through bhakti or love is superior to all the others.

  49. Radhanath Swami has so nicely explained the three levels of God Realizations. On reading this, one’s mind becomes very clear about of what must one aspire for. Thank you.

  51. Maharaj here gives us the difference between thought processes and realizations and what we must really aim for – LOVE of GOD, PREMA. Thanks for sharing such insights.. JAI !!!

  53. thank you Radhanath Swami for explaining higher realization of god- Lord the supreme personality of godhead.

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