I was telling the story sometime back, when I was in a train in India. It was very crowded and it was a third class train. This was in the 1970. The capacity said something like 60 people and there were probably 300 people in that train. It was during …
Srila Prabhupada had a great positive attitude due to faith in Krishna and his desire to show compassion to others. We have an example of a person who was an instrument of Srila Prabhupada’s enthusiastic positive attitude. His name is Shyamsundar Prabhu. Please listen to this story. He was a …
Let us take a world view. If we objectively look at the world today – study the newspapers, magazines, statistics – there is a lot to be depressed about. The types of pollution, the way people treat each other – so much rudeness, so much selfishness, so much egotism, even …
Some people say that when you take to the teachings of Bhagavad-Gita or you become a devotee of Krishna you are escaping the world. But that is the most ridiculous misconception. – Radhanath Swami We do not want to escape; we want to face it for what it is. But …
There are three basic views of the world we live. One is the very materialistic view wherein people see the world as the only real reality. Other is a Mayavad view, that the world is an illusion. And the third is the Vaishnav view that the world is the sacred …
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 …
“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 …
