The Vedic scriptures describes that there is one eternal, the absolute truth and from that one eternal has expanded the unlimited eternals. The unlimited eternals are forever subordinate to the one eternal. The jiva is tatastha sakti and as a particle of Krishna …
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The Power of Inquiry
One great saintly personality remarked that everyone spends their lives within a series of questions and answers. When a bird rises in the morning, it begins asking questions and searching for answers. When it comes back to the nest at night, it is still asking questions and trying to…
A devotee of the Lord has no fear of Death
Death is compared to a cat and an ordinary person is like a mouse. When the mouse is in the mouth of a cat, it knows it is its destruction and so is exceedingly afraid and…
Radhanath Swami on the Special Opulence of Human Beings
There are 8,400,000 species of life within the world and each species of life has a particular power that makes it unique among all other species. Take the little worm. When we see the worm crawling in the ground we do not think so much about it. But can we crawl in the ground like the…
Time is Devouring Everything—Imperceptibly
Within the material existence time is imperceptibly devouring everything. Young people have a very difficult task in grasping this concept because their perception of life in that particular body is quite new and they’re always looking to the future. Young people do not look to the past so much…
Radhanath Swami Speaks on Real Problems
We can be victorious in our life, conquer others and get great prestige and glory, but if in the process we do not conquer birth, old age, disease and death we are
What does death mean? – Radhanath Swami
Death means everything we have given our whole life to will be snatched away in a moment, and we will be left with nothing. Everyone we love is lost forever. Everything we worked so hard for is lost forever. It’s painful.
Radhanath Swami on Death of a King
Our guru maharaj told us a story about a very wealthy king. He lived just about 70 years ago in India near Rajasthan state. He had fabulous wealth, incredible amounts of power but was very sick. On his death bed, he called his doctor. “There are so many things that I have left undone,” he… Continue reading Radhanath Swami on Death of a King