Years ago I was sitting on the bank of the river Ganges. It was a summer day. And because it was a summer day, this is in India, was probably a hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit. There was no one around, It was just me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. It was burning […]
Many years ago while on a spiritual quest, I passed through Kandahar Afghanistan. Hariz, a kind man invited me into his spacious home. One night while we sat talking on his rooftop terrace, he calmly said, “Please excuse me for a brief moment, I have an obligation to attend to.” Suddenly he jumped up from […]
When I was a little boy it was my mother’s birthday and I forgot. I came home from school and I realized so I ran in the backyard and she had a little rose garden we had a tiny backyard and she just had three rose bushes and I broke a rose off and I […]
There’s a bird called a crane. White feathers, long beak, stands on one leg in a stream of water, looking down for food. And so many little fish are passing. Dozens and dozens of the little fish, hundreds of little fish, thousands of little fish. The crane observes, lets them pass. When a big fish […]
I was once walking alone in the wilderness of the Himalayan mountains, when I came across a crowd of homeless starving people. Some were naked, others in filthy rags. Their bodies were deformed by disease. I had stumbled into a leper colony. “Baksheesh baksheesh! Alms alms,” they cried as they tugged and pushed one another in […]
At one time I was living near Boudhanath in Nepal. In that vast Himalayan valley, I meditated in a grove of flowering trees. Suddenly, stomping footsteps shook me out of my dreamy state and drew my attention to an enormous European tourist marching through the field carrying a large bag of groceries. Well over six […]
Once a farmer have-filled his silos with an excellent grain. Eventually though he chose to add grain of a lower quality. Because the grain is poured into the silo from the top and removed from the bottom, the good grain came out first and the farmer became quite wealthy. But inevitably the good grain was […]
In an evolved human society, people love people and use things. But unfortunately, so much in this world, people love things and use people to get them and to keep them. Unfortunately, there can be no inner satisfaction in our life in such a state of consciousness. I was recently told of one very influential […]
Did you ever think that from an ordinary chicken we could learn valuable lessons to guide us in our relationships and life itself? The chicken will select nourishing seeds from a pile of trash and leave everything else behind. Here we learn to look for the good qualities in others and not unnecessarily focus on […]
A student once asked his teacher: Are there codes of wisdom that can enrich my everyday life? The teacher replied: A person who has wisdom is like salt, a chicken and a crane. Seeing the disciple confused, the teacher explained: The amount of salt in a dish should be just right. If there’s too much […]
The Himalayan musk deer teaches us a lot about life. The male deer is born with a gland that when mature releases one of the most treasured fragrances in all the world – musk. The deer having smelt this intoxicating aroma produced by its own body, roams the entire forest trying to trace its source. […]
When I was about 8 years old, my parents were considering separation. I remember my mother putting on mascara in front of a mirror as I was sitting on her bed watching her. My mother turned to me and said, “Everyone likes your father and everyone likes me but we don’t seem to like each […]
Stress, it seems to follow us at every turn in life. Through timeless wisdom we could learnt to transform stress into a positive energy that inspires personal fulfilment and heightened productivity. The same stress that pummels us into anxiety has the potential to increase the value of life physically, emotionally and spiritually. Stress can break […]
A few years ago, I was invited by the President of India to attend a function at the Presidential mansion in New Delhi. There were a few hundred guests who had been invited for this function. It was the official function for the then President of the United States – President Barack Obama and the […]
In 1989, my parents came to visit me in India. I took them to the popular Elephanta Caves, on an island near Mumbai. After disembarking from the ferry, we walked along a dirt footpath through a forest. Suddenly a large monkey leaped from tree and grabbed my mother’s purse. This was culture shock for a Chicago […]
Meditation can give us better sleep, reduce our stress, make us more peaceful, help us to deal with the conflicts of the life with a more focused mind. But that’s not the true gift of meditation. Meditation is meant to awaken the true potential within all of us. To understand who we are, what is […]
One time I was going to a lot of trials in my life because everyone does. Whether you’re living for a spiritual purpose or a material purpose or anything else. The nature of the world is, there’s going to be challenges, there’s going to be setbacks. Because just like there’s two sides of a coin, […]
A truly happy person does not find his or her happiness in the ever-changing circumstances that surround them. This is a problem with the way people perceive life. We’re seeking happiness in all sorts of temporary fleeting experiences that are so often beyond our control. Real happiness is not determined by the external situation; it’s […]
I remember in a place called Vrindavan where I had connected with my own spiritual teacher Srila Prabhupada. And he was explaining how everything within this world is potentially spiritual according to our consciousness. Oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ. Isopanisad tells everything is emanating from the one supreme truth, therefore everything is connected. When we […]
Sometimes, the solutions to our problems if they are not seen in the larger perspective of who we really are who other people really are and what is the actual nature of the environment we’re living in and what is our relationships with each other and God if we don’t see that perspective. Our solutions […]
Question: Kevin,”Radhanath, how did you discover your clarity through the confusion of all that you learned on your journey?” Answer: It’s through confusion, it’s through challenges that often inspire us to search deeper. Obstacles are actually great aids to enlightenment and to a deeper meaning in life. When we’re content and satisfied with superficial things, […]
The ‘Radhanath Swami Explosion’–the exponential growth in the popularity of Radhanath Swami–might be a recent phenomena, but the origin of this ‘Big Bang’ go back to 1971.
But Radhanath Swami was little known until 1986 when he returned to India after spending a couple of years in an austere monastery in North America. It was then that the Radhanath Swami that we now know began to emerge in the eyes of the world... Read More
