@bowelstrouble, I'm a confirmed Lutheran and have read this man's autobiography. He is not phony, this is a thoughtful man dedicated to God of love and compassion. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension how anyone could find trouble in this words of this lecture. The message here is not just one of tolerance and respect for others that are different but also unites humanity in love and compassion. How you can say that is no good ... As a Christian I pray for you. Thank you for posting this.
More I listen to him more I like him. We need more Swamis like him . Few years ago i met him in Houston. I am glad he is visiting again to Houston soon
This is the first lecture I ever heard from HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj! I was in tenth standard then.(2012) My friend copied it in a DVD And now I am hearing it again...
His speech is absolutely true because true religious connect to our Lord whatever culture comes infront of us to reconnect to our God and give them a peace and happiness for everybody life. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from New Zealand
Just as an ant cannot fathom the intricacies of human civilization, similarly a person limited by his/her own experiences cannot access the pure purpose of the great souls who help others to remember the purpose of life and serve God. Also, the scriptures of all authentic religions mention that the world is simply the mirror of our own consciousness. Thank you very much for posting this wonderful and illuminating video.
Also, I found a quote by the founder of ISKCON, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who is the Guru of Radhanath Swami, who said "Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation." You can find this quote in the purport of Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 3 Verse 3....He explains further, if you want to check it out...I think if you google it, you'll be able to find the whole purport...=]
even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth -- all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.
I leaned from this lecture that: We need to recognize our master-Lord though he is in different country, dress or has a different name.True religion is to reconnect our self to God & get the happiness & share with others. Purpose of life is to love god and that is what is taught by each religion. Essence of religion is Transform our consciousness showing compassion to all. Very fundamental which i was searching to know and understand since last 20-25 yrs.
HARIBOL thanks for uploading this! Great audio and video quality too. At some point I will turn this into a lecture song when I get my computer back, there are some lecture songs already online if you google astottara -on facebook- :D
As for hell, I have found shockingly clear description: That people who want to serve to others are getting to higher reality. That people who want to use others are going to hell where they can fulfil there wishes! So going to hell is just our own idea, not punishment. But as hell is the place where everyone wants to use each other it is really not a pleasant place to be. And the only use of it is to understand our real nature and wishes.
In Garuda Purana, and also in Bhagavata Purana canto 5 chapter 26 www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/26 there's a clear description of the lower planes. They are neither just an idea nor a pleasant place to be.
When you said that, I thought to find something relative in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is...Krishna says: BG 13.8-12: Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; continued...
philosophy is largely just speculation, but the keys to finding truth are inside all of us and eventually logic, philosophy, and passion will lead one to truth and spirituality. Religion is nothing more than believing in something because someone told you to and performing a bunch of silly rituals.
If you are really interested in knowing about Radhanath Swami, then read his book, see if you can catch him when he is in town, check out his other videos...Otherwise, we could go back and forth all day, and it wouldn't really get us anywhere...If you are trying to determine if he is real or fake just by his speech pattern, well....good luck with that...Hare Krishna! =]
Its a good question. But the situation is to be conceived in a different way.It's not that God is cruel but by sending people to hell (and how ever hell is not permanent, its just like a jail.... sentenced for few years for the mistake...meant to suffer the mistake and make other people afraid in doing any in future )....but its rather you who is choosing to go to Hell....just like a good government doesnt want to put a citizen in jail.but its the citizen committing mistake and choosing jail..
Dear Nick, I appreciate your intelligent discrimination. I agree with you. What you said is well put. We should be careful not to lose our discrimination in the name of sentimentalism, where we claim oneness where isn't oneness.
well im not going to put down any religion......but i personally don't practice religion, i live within the means of my spirituality, perfect is not the key to my life, because the flesh says we can't be perfect...and if we could be perfect, what would we need god for.............people wake up to the mind body and soul and bring them into unison.......
that's not what fake means. and though i've seen this kind of attitude many times before I've never seen it in a child. kindness is not the point. when i want to sound kind i don't have ten second dramatic pauses after every sentence
I apologize...Fake means to say something and do another, and you can check out for yourself what he is doing on his website, Radhanath swami dot com(Google it)...Also, it cannot be designed to impress if that is simply who he is and has been since he was a child(this is probably the reason as well)...A very contemplative and thoughtful person who speaks with a lot of kindness and consideration...He is quite impressive though...=]
Do not be so quick to judge, it really does nobody any good...Listen to what he is saying...Can you not see that he is simply trying to bring about love and unity, unconditionally...
well that's perhaps part of the problem. has he embraced a drunkenness of love? is he so set on loving everything that he can't see that some things shouldn't be loved? and you answer none of my questions.
This sort of solemn pious attitude, the excess of long dramatic pauses....what is the reason for it? this and other attitudes that we see only in religion, what are they? are they fake? designed to impress? or are they real? If they are real, are they good or are they merely the result of obsession with one idea to the point of becoming drunken with emotion? Perhaps I just don't understand, but I prefer that a person speak to me as a person with the full range of human feelings.
you say "fake or real" as if it's such a black and white thing, as if he's either a prophet or a demon. I'm not thinking along those lines at all. I merely wonder if there is some aspect of something wrong in it. A good man can still have his weaknesses and a wise man can still in some ways be blind. To be honest, I'm not really interested in learning about him. I much prefer his philosophy to the usual religions, but it doesn't strike me as divine truth
dude the scriptures try to explain something but fail to explain anything. The scriptures were written by people who imagined the world "to be" according to their time. Now science explains things better. Those scriptures were relevant for their time. Check the Prabhupadas view on women. harekrishnawomen.wordpress(dot)com/about/
Radhanath Swamy is wrong in saying that there is communal hatred between Hindus and Muslims in India. There is no such thing. This man had witnessed the worst communal clash in Mumbai when a right wing party of goons had attacked and killed muslims. Hence that impression stuck to this man's mind. Had he travelled more and seen more of India he would have realized that there is no hatred. I guess everybody has his/her prejudices and this is Swamy's prejudice.
Dude there is no god... Wake up. They created imaginary sin to sell you imaginary cure. Read books like God delusion, Magic of reality, Greatest show on earth.
Unfortunately this "swami" is not following the instructions of Srila Prabhupada to the misfortune of his followers. Sentimentalists may like this but those who know what Srila Prabhupada's desires are,reject this man as not a sadhu. Please find out for your own good what these deviations are . Hare Krishna.
if it takes so little for You to make such a judgement about him by the way he talks, I feel sorry for you because I dare not to think what boils your mind when someone sneezes or laughs or does anything the way he/she does
@bowelstrouble, I'm a confirmed Lutheran and have read this man's autobiography. He is not phony, this is a thoughtful man dedicated to God of love and compassion. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension how anyone could find trouble in this words of this lecture. The message here is not just one of tolerance and respect for others that are different but also unites humanity in love and compassion. How you can say that is no good ... As a Christian I pray for you.
Thank you for posting this.
More I listen to him more I like him. We need more Swamis like him .
Few years ago i met him in Houston. I am glad he is visiting again to Houston soon
Yes, we are very fortunate to have him our guide. As per the scriptures finding a bonafide spiritual master like Radhanath Swami Maharaj is very rare.
This message is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for posting.
Wow so beautiful.
I hope I get to meet swami radhanath someday. He is definitely a most inspiring human being in my life🙏❤️
Well, you can become his disciple. ;) Start by writing a letter to his office: www.radhanathswami.com/contact-us/
All religions are supposed to unite all to serve the only one Supreme Father. All glories to HH Rdhanatha Svami Maharaja.
Beautiful.. :) :) All his lectures are just so good,so wonderful, filled with truth, knowledge, compassion and his humility.. jai Guru maharaj :)
Yes indeed!
This is the first lecture I ever heard from HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj!
I was in tenth standard then.(2012)
My friend copied it in a DVD
And now I am hearing it again...
Hare Krishna Maharaj...
Dandavat Pranam...
Your sweet words are always inspiring and enlightening🙏
HH Radhanath Swami ki yai!
His speech is absolutely true because true religious connect to our Lord whatever culture comes infront of us to reconnect to our God and give them a peace and happiness for everybody life. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from New Zealand
Just as an ant cannot fathom the intricacies of human civilization, similarly a person limited by his/her own experiences cannot access the pure purpose of the great souls who help others to remember the purpose of life and serve God.
Also, the scriptures of all authentic religions mention that the world is simply the mirror of our own consciousness. Thank you very much for posting this wonderful and illuminating video.
hare krishna hare ram
jai shreeram
jai hanuman
jai bhagwat geeta
Radhanath Swami Ki-Jay! Srila Prabhupada Ki-Jay!
This is beyond AMAZING! Such a soul is very rare! Thank you so much for enthusiastically posting this video.
I AM REALLY COUNTING ON THIS PRABHU TO ENLIGHTEN ME THANKS
Amazing....I just love swami....
beatifull lecture,hare krsna
Yes indeed!
Brilliant ...... miracle of Srila Prabhupada .... AGTSP
Also, I found a quote by the founder of ISKCON, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who is the Guru of Radhanath Swami, who said "Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation." You can find this quote in the purport of Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 3 Verse 3....He explains further, if you want to check it out...I think if you google it, you'll be able to find the whole purport...=]
even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth -- all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.
Great vids! Way to go!!
Radhanath Swami is an expert .
beautiful... thank you for this precious video
Divine from Beginning to End. Thank you very much.
All glories for one who inspire and distribute Divine Grâce.
I leaned from this lecture that:
We need to recognize our master-Lord though he is in different country, dress or has a different name.True religion is to reconnect our self to God & get the happiness & share with others.
Purpose of life is to love god and that is what is taught by each religion. Essence of religion is Transform our consciousness showing compassion to all.
Very fundamental which i was searching to know and understand since last 20-25 yrs.
Great video... Thank you for posting it...
HARIBOL thanks for uploading this! Great audio and video quality too. At some point I will turn this into a lecture song when I get my computer back, there are some lecture songs already online if you google astottara -on facebook- :D
Just have to say this, beautiful talk. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Awesome
super awesome lecture, I'll share this with as many people as i can.
Thanks very much for posting such a beautiful video.
How nice and rational...!! Like to hear again and again..
Jaya Gurudeva
Read his book The Journey Home...It's Radhanath Swami's spiritual/physical journey...If you're into spirituality, you'll probably like it...=]
motivational!!
hare Krsna very wonderful class
guru maharaja ki jai
Certainly. Such clarity of thoughts from Radhanath Swami Maharaj.
Jai Sri Krishna
As for hell, I have found shockingly clear description:
That people who want to serve to others are getting to higher reality. That people who want to use others are going to hell where they can fulfil there wishes! So going to hell is just our own idea, not punishment. But as hell is the place where everyone wants to use each other it is really not a pleasant place to be. And the only use of it is to understand our real nature and wishes.
In Garuda Purana, and also in Bhagavata Purana canto 5 chapter 26 www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/26 there's a clear description of the lower planes. They are neither just an idea nor a pleasant place to be.
Namasta guruji
Pranam
When you said that, I thought to find something relative in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is...Krishna says: BG 13.8-12: Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; continued...
@dmbrox2003 Jay!! :D Thanks for your comment, I'll pray for you that pray for the others! :D
great talk...hari bol
Indeed!
▶ Lecture - Radhanath Swami @radhanathswami~ The Essense of Religions: th-cam.com/video/ygQ-n50bZbI/w-d-xo.html ~'Uploaded Jan 7, 2011
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@Peta_de_Aztlan
Only with krsna can we have a better life.
Fab
Agreed.
philosophy is largely just speculation, but the keys to finding truth are inside all of us and eventually logic, philosophy, and passion will lead one to truth and spirituality. Religion is nothing more than believing in something because someone told you to and performing a bunch of silly rituals.
Kabhi ate hai asie Mahan vicharak
very true:D
Only smooth...
If you are really interested in knowing about Radhanath Swami, then read his book, see if you can catch him when he is in town, check out his other videos...Otherwise, we could go back and forth all day, and it wouldn't really get us anywhere...If you are trying to determine if he is real or fake just by his speech pattern, well....good luck with that...Hare Krishna! =]
I don't know of Jews who wouldn't believe that they are chosen. Thats integral part of their doctrine....
My biggest question is: If god is all loving why does he send people to hell?
Its a good question. But the situation is to be conceived in a different way.It's not that God is cruel but by sending people to hell (and how ever hell is not permanent, its just like a jail.... sentenced for few years for the mistake...meant to suffer the mistake and make other people afraid in doing any in future )....but its rather you who is choosing to go to Hell....just like a good government doesnt want to put a citizen in jail.but its the citizen committing mistake and choosing jail..
REMEMBER YOUR STILL LIVING WITHIN THE BUBBLE
i am recorded
Dear Nick, I appreciate your intelligent discrimination. I agree with you. What you said is well put. We should be careful not to lose our discrimination in the name of sentimentalism, where we claim oneness where isn't oneness.
well im not going to put down any religion......but i personally don't practice religion, i live within the means of my spirituality, perfect is not the key to my life, because the flesh says we can't be perfect...and if we could be perfect, what would we need god for.............people wake up to the mind body and soul and bring them into unison.......
that's not what fake means.
and though i've seen this kind of attitude many times before I've never seen it in a child. kindness is not the point. when i want to sound kind i don't have ten second dramatic pauses after every sentence
He/she/it.... does not sent you to hell...you do it if that is your choice...
be very attentive who you choose for your Spiritual Teacher. "there is a price that will be paid"!!
I apologize...Fake means to say something and do another, and you can check out for yourself what he is doing on his website, Radhanath swami dot com(Google it)...Also, it cannot be designed to impress if that is simply who he is and has been since he was a child(this is probably the reason as well)...A very contemplative and thoughtful person who speaks with a lot of kindness and consideration...He is quite impressive though...=]
Do not be so quick to judge, it really does nobody any good...Listen to what he is saying...Can you not see that he is simply trying to bring about love and unity, unconditionally...
well that's perhaps part of the problem. has he embraced a drunkenness of love? is he so set on loving everything that he can't see that some things shouldn't be loved?
and you answer none of my questions.
This sort of solemn pious attitude, the excess of long dramatic pauses....what is the reason for it? this and other attitudes that we see only in religion, what are they? are they fake? designed to impress? or are they real? If they are real, are they good or are they merely the result of obsession with one idea to the point of becoming drunken with emotion? Perhaps I just don't understand, but I prefer that a person speak to me as a person with the full range of human feelings.
you say "fake or real" as if it's such a black and white thing, as if he's either a prophet or a demon. I'm not thinking along those lines at all. I merely wonder if there is some aspect of something wrong in it. A good man can still have his weaknesses and a wise man can still in some ways be blind.
To be honest, I'm not really interested in learning about him. I much prefer his philosophy to the usual religions, but it doesn't strike me as divine truth
The essence of religion is protecting children from abuse and not protecting abusers.
godot93 - I pray that Krishna help you see more clearly, for you are committing a Vaishnav aparaadh.
dude the scriptures try to explain something but fail to explain anything. The scriptures were written by people who imagined the world "to be" according to their time.
Now science explains things better. Those scriptures were relevant for their time. Check the Prabhupadas view on women. harekrishnawomen.wordpress(dot)com/about/
prayers dont work.
I hope Joker Zakir Naik is listening to this -
What's a swami's religion ?
Oh ok now I get it
there is no god dude wake up.. there is no hell below....
Radhanath Swamy is wrong in saying that there is communal hatred between Hindus and Muslims in India. There is no such thing.
This man had witnessed the worst communal clash in Mumbai when a right wing party of goons had attacked and killed muslims. Hence that impression stuck to this man's mind. Had he travelled more and seen more of India he would have realized that there is no hatred.
I guess everybody has his/her prejudices and this is Swamy's prejudice.
Dude there is no god... Wake up.
They created imaginary sin to sell you imaginary cure.
Read books like God delusion, Magic of reality, Greatest show on earth.
Unfortunately this "swami" is not following the instructions of Srila Prabhupada to the misfortune of his followers. Sentimentalists may like this but those who know what Srila Prabhupada's desires are,reject this man as not a sadhu. Please find out for your own good what these deviations are . Hare Krishna.
if it takes so little for You to make such a judgement about him by the way he talks, I feel sorry for you because I dare not to think what boils your mind when someone sneezes or laughs or does anything the way he/she does