Spiritual Wisdom & Insights

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Offering to Srila Prabhupada

Gaudiya math’s biggest sanyasis were getting a lots of money to start centres. Here just some new devotees, some foreign hippies,

who just became devotees, who were just struggling to follow the principles and chant their rounds, and they don’t have any money, all they...

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Pure Devotional ServiceOne time a professor, scholar, Indian man asked Srila Prabhupada, “Krsna says in Bhagavad-Gita matra sparsas tu kaunteya (BG 2.14) yet we see Subhadra weeping when Abhimanyu was killed, Arjuna weeping after having heard the Bhagavad Gita. Why was he so disturbed? He wasn’t supposed...

Speaker: Indradyumna Swami
Source: The Postage – Stamp

One time, one of my god brothers was visiting a temple in Vrindavana in the 1970’s and was praying very sincerely in front of the deity and the pujari, who was a bit of a smartha brahmana at that time, said to...

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: We must cultivate proper desires

Yesterday, at Radha-Rasabihari temple, my dear god-brother, Srutakirti Prabhu, who was Srila Prabhupada’s longest standing personal servant, gave a class. He cited a particular incident that is so essentially instructive to all of us. He was talking about a morning walk. I believe it was...

Speaker: Yamuna devi
Source: Comes to England — The John and Yoko InterludeSPHis (Srila Prabhupada’s) schedule ran close to this: 1: 00 AM: Rises, chants japa and translates 3: 30 AM: Attends Aarti in his room, performed by either Purushottama or me 4: 30 AM: Attends Aarti, Srimad-Bhagavatam class, and kirtan in the main temple 6: 30 AM:...

Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Power of Inquiry-1

We become what we associate with. If we associate with impure people, impure activities, impure thoughts, we become polluted. If we associate with people who are pure, activities that are pure, and thoughts that are pure, we become purified. Srila Prabhupada, our guru, gave the example...