When the mind is disturbed, nothing can give you happiness. The mind has more effect on a human being than the body. Even if you are sick, if you are in good state of mind, you can be happy. – Radhanath Swami We have seen devotees, whose bodies were …
Our own beloved Guru Maharaj Srila Prabhupada, he had such incredible positive thinking based on faith.” – Radhanath Swami Many of you know the story. He left India when he was 69 years old, crossing the Arabian Sea on a cargo ship named Jaladuta. He had two heart attacks, sea …
The gopis, their love is such they don’t… whether Krishna is God or not doesn’t make any difference. They love Krishna because he is Krishna, because he is so beautiful, because he is so merciful, because he is so playful and because his love is so sweet.
“That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.” – Radhanath Swami My dear friends and brothers invited me to come here (Agra), and they told me there will be hundreds of people. And they worked so hard and they …
And we awaken to experience that love; we experience Krishna; we experience the whole creation as Krishna’s world; and we experience every living being as Krishna’s beloved. This the Gita tells as the perfection of yoga, the yoga of love within all of us.” – Radhanath Swami Sri Radha is …
One time, a simple elderly man came into a shop. And the merchant was selling him some grains and the merchant asked the man, “Why is your head shaven? You come here every day. You never shave your head. Why are you wearing dark clothes today?” And the old man, …
“Reality is according to our conditioning, according to our egoistic development in life.” – Radhanath Swami Just like I know one person and a relative; they love frogs. And my elder brother loves snakes. He has pet snakes in his house. Hare Krishna! He used to let them just crawl …
Prabhupada gives an example of a young man and he had a whole group of friends around him; and they wanted to disturb his mind. So, they all met without him and said, “Let us really make him in anxiety and let us all have a conspiracy. Whenever we meet him we say, ‘Ah! You have become a ghost!’” .So, they all agreed.
The body, you can pinch your body so many places; it doesn’t hurt so much. But if you have a boil, you just touch it, it is painful. Have any of you ever had boils before? If you blow on it, it is painful; even if your glance touches it, it is painful, because there is a disease there.
Haridas Thakur, when he was approached, he was actually arrested and brought before the king. The king has whole militaries. And the Kazi was there. They asked Haridas, “We will give you two choices. Just stop this chanting of Krishna’s names, or at least stop telling others about it. And …
