Radhanath Swami Honors Bhaktivedanta Manor at House of Lords
New Vedic Culture Center Opening in Pune
Sri Chaitanya’s Message of Universal Brotherhood
Celebrating the Appearance of Krishna
INSPIRO 2012 Youth Fiesta – Mumbai
Expanding the Divine Vision: Barsana Eye Camp 2012
Flower Festival Delights Thousands In Mumbai
Spirituality in Healthcare – Radhanath Swami Addresses the Mumbai Medical Association
Meeting India’s President Patil
The Festival of Divine Dance
June 14, 2013
Built to advise the Crown Imperial since 1295, the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster hosted a gathering to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of Bhaktivedanta Manor. The House of Lords is the upper house of the UK Parliament. With the kind permission of the Lord Speaker, the event was hosted in the Principal State Room for an intimate gathering. Honorable guests included members of Royal families from the UK, Europe, Burma and Russia as well as over one hundred celebrities. Through the philosophy and culture of Krishna Consciousness,...
March 17, 2013
On February 24th, Radhanath Swami took part in the inauguration of ISKCON’s New Vedic Culture Center in Pune, India. The project was initiated and completed under the guidance of his student and disciple Radheyshyam Das. India’s President Pranab Mukherjee attended the ceremonies as a guest of honor as well as other dignitaaries and over 40,000 guests. The New Vedic Cultural Centre is one of Pune’s largest temples and cultural centers. Spread across six acres of land, it includes a spectacular Radha-Krishna temple, a South Indian style Balaji temple, a huge...
March 11, 2013
Radhanath Swami addressed an esteemed assembly of delegates in an international seminar on ‘Universal Brotherhood as propagated by as Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’ celebrating his 525th advent anniversary of Sri Chaitanya, organized by the Gaudiya Mission in Mumbai, India on Dec 1-2, 2012. The assembly of guests included representatives from the Gaudiya Mission, ISKCON and other spiritual organizations along with the Governor of Maharashtra Sri K. Shankaranarayanan. Radhanath Swami inaugurated the seminar by lighting the lamp in the presence of senior Vaishnavas and dignitaries including Bhakti Suhrid Paribrajak Swami and...
August 21, 2012
On Friday the 10th, and Sunday the 12th August, Radhanath Swami attended the appearance celebration of Lord Krishna at Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the Hertfordshire countryside of England, outside of London. Sri Krishna Janmashtami, as the festival is more commonly known, is celebrated by Krishna devotees around the world. As in previous years, Radhanath Swami was a special guest at the Bhaktivedanta Manor for the festivities. Over the course of the two days more than 70,000 people attended the festival. Each year it is the largest such celebration outside of India. The grounds...
March 24, 2012
“It is not it’s industry or business nor it’s entertainment or education – the foundation of Indian culture is it’s compassion and spirituality. I request all of you, that in all your endeavors you please keep this heritage of spirituality as the foundation and thus create a revolution of peace and happiness throughout the entire world.” With these words, Radhanath Swami addressed a crowd of over 15,000 students at the INSPIRO 2012 Youth Fiesta, at Mumbai’s Somaiya Ground. INSPIRO is a voluntary non-profit initiative that brings together a series of...
March 18, 2012
“Bhakti is like a cataract operation. When our eyes are decorated with ointment of love, then we can see Krishna everywhere” Radhanath Maharaja said while addressing the devotees and participants of the Barsana Eye Camp, 2012. The Barsana Eye Camp started in 1991 when devotees at Radha Gopinath Temple in Mumbai visited the divine birth place of Lord Krishna’s dearest consort Srimati Radharani at Barsana in North India with Radhanath Swami. They observed a great need to treat cataract patients, and as they already had the experience of holding cataract operating camps in Maharashtra, the...
February 17, 2012
On the 28th of January, the first day of the spring season according to the Vedic calendar (also known as Vasanta Panchami), Radhanath Swami lead six-thousand guests, including sixty American yoga practitioners and teachers, to a flower festival at Radha Gopinath Temple, in Mumbai. The festival began in the morning with hundreds of the temple’s congregants plucking flower petals from over a ton of of a wide variety of flowers bought from all over India. Then in the evening Radhanath Swami addressed the guests on the special significance of the festival of bathing...
December 13, 2011
Stressing the need for spirituality in healthcare, Radhanath Swami, along with doctors from the Bhaktivedanta Hospital, addressed the Mumbai Medical Association at Worli, Mumbai on December 11. The article below was published in India’s Daily News & Analysis (DNA). Greater Role for Spirituality in Health Care Stressed (Tuesday, December 13, City section page 7) With science and technology not being able to keep pace with the newer subtle lifestyle-related problems, doctors and spiritual organisations addressed the need for greater role of spirituality in the field of health care. Calling it the ‘Fourth dimension...
December 9, 2011
On January 6th, 2010, in honor of his service to the Country of India, Radhanath Swami was invited to meet India’s President Pratibha Patil. The meeting took place at Rashtrapati Bhavan, The Official Residence of the Head of the State, at Raisina Hill, New Delhi. Below is an excerpt from an article written by Radhanath Swami about the meeting. It was previously publish on The Huffington Post. The article can be read in it’s entirety here. “As a...
October 18, 2011
On the evening of October 15th, Sharad Purnima, a traditional festival of the Autumn full-moon, was celebrated at the Radha Gopinath Temple in Mumbai with Radhanath Swami and over five thousand guests. The Indian scriptures reveal that in the sacred land of Vrindavan, five thousand years ago on the night of Sharad Purnima, Lord Krishna performed a beautiful dance festival called rasa lila with his dear-most devotees, the gopis. Bhakti yogis congregate on this night to commemorate the event through the singing of beautiful devotional songs. The guests were also...