1. Gaura Purnima – Kirtan Teachings on the Day of the Appearance of Sri Caitanya

    March 8, 2012
    This evening we, the devotees of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya (linage), are celebrating the most sacred and auspicious of all evenings of the year. It is the evening of Gaura Purnima, the night when the Lord incarnated in this world as His most munificent and merciful of all incarnations, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is accepted as the Lord Himself by the followers of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya. Many people consider Him simply to be a great saint or a great devotee. But there are many references in sacred texts...

  2. Kirtan in the Thousand Pillar Hall – Ramesvaram

    November 12, 2011
    Radhanath Swami leads kirtan in the Thousand Pillar Hall of the Ramanathaswamy Temple, at the holy site of Ramesvaram, as thousands of devotees dance, during a pilgrimage of South India.

  3. Bhaktifest

    October 1, 2011
    September 8th-11th, marked the third annual Bhaktifest, a four day music festival featuring non-stop kirtan concerts, along with yoga classes, meditation, vegetarian cuisine, and midnight fire ceremonies (pujas), all set in the tranquil beauty of the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree, California. For the second year in a row Radhanath Swami attended Bhaktifest taking part in many of it’s featured events including the opening puja ceremony, several lectures and many of the kirtans. Radhanath Swami also sat on a panel for a discussion on the subject of bhakti, along with...

  4. In Giving We Receive – Thoughts on What Makes a Good Teacher

    September 27, 2011
    On Wednesday, September 7th, Radhanath Swami spoke at Jaya Yoga Center in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. He was joined by special guests Sacinandana Swami, a dear friend and Vaishnava sanyasi from Germany, and Acharya Sri Pundrik Goswami, a highly esteemed teacher of bhakti yoga who comes in the lineage of servants at the historic Sri Radha Raman Temple in Vrindavan, India. Among the audience of over one hundred were many students from the yoga center’s teacher training program. Radhanath Swami spoke on the character of a great yogi drawing...

  5. Spiritual Talks and Kirtan In The Bahamas

    July 10, 2011
    Radhanath Swami paired up with the ebullient Gaura Vani to lead a rejuvenating seven-day retreat on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The retreat was conducted at Sivananda Ashram. The Swami gave powerful discourses from the ancient Vedic scripture called ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ in the morning and evening, followed by soul-stirring kirtans by Gaura Vani’s band ‘As Kindred Spirits’. In between were walks on the beach, swimming in the mostly calm blue waters of the Caribbean, and delicious, vegetarian food prepared by the friendly volunteers and residents of the Ashram. ‘As Kindred...