Boston University
Columbia University
New York University
Stanford University lecture
November 19, 2010
On Wednesday, November 17 Radhanath Swami was hosted by the Boston University Holistic Yoga Club. Radhanath Swami spoke about how to be the change we wish to see in the world – through yoga and psychology. He quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said “the truest life is when we live our dreams while we’re awake.” He said the deep underlying disease that causes anxiety and suffering is ignorance of who we are and what we really want. “We are all seeking inner fulfillment or pleasure. The highest pleasure is to...
November 15, 2010
On Tuesday November 9, Radhanath Swami visited Columbia University to speak to the students. He told his gripping, inspirational tale of how as a teenager – a young product of the counterculture, desperately seeking the answers to life’s profound questions – he began his journey eastward on a spiritual quest to find the truth. Radhanath Swami explained the humble beginning of his journey in Europe, where he examined the spiritual traditions of the West, spending long hours daily working to extract the truth from their teachings. Dissatisfaction with a lack...
November 14, 2010
On Monday, November 8, 2010 Radhanath Swami spoke at the Krsna-Bhakti Club at New York University (NYU). The Krsna-Bhakti Club hosts a weekly Vegetarian Cooking Class, which is open to all NYU students, faculty, and friends. The event was also sponsored by The Gita Circle, a new NYU student-run club which meets every week to discuss the practical philosophy of the classic Eastern wisdom text the Bhagavad-Gita. Having spent many years in the 1980′s helping to run similar student clubs in universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Radhanath Swami expressed his...
September 24, 2010
On August 5th, 2010, Radhanath Swami delivered a talk at the Graduate Community Center of Stanford University. The lecture was entitled “Yoga and the Environment”. Topics covered include the BP oil spill, the ecology within, and karma-yoga.