Radhanath Swami Livres

World-renowned spiritual leader Radhanath Swami draws from his path toward enlightenment and his personal experiences to demystify the ancient devotional path of bhakti, capturing its essence and explaining its simple principles for balancing our lives

The Journey Home is an exhilarating autobiographical account of Radhanath Swami, a chicago born Gaudiya Vaishnava guru. The book rightly portrays the truly amazing spiritual journey made by the author exploring his inner self. Filled with real life experiences of swami, the book can inspire the readers to introspect.Adopting a very simple yet captivating style of narration, The Journey Home explains to the readers the author's transition from a 19 year old American Jew to a hindu monk. Throughout his journey, he seeks the real meaning of human life. The author's journey from West to East inturn is filled with many conflicting experiences that it emerges to be his exploration of his soul. With little money in hand, Swami travels for about 6 months to reach India through Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The encounter with various cultures helps him realise his heart's calling.The book also includes detailed accounts on swami's meeting with Srila Prabhupada and the subsequent transformations that happened in his life.

Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Readers follow Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago to the caves of the Himalayas as he transforms from young seeker to renowned spiritual guide. The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine. Through near-death encounters, apprenticeships with advanced yogis, and years of travel along the pilgrim’s path, Radhanath Swami eventually reaches the inner sanctum of India’s mystic culture and finds the love he has been seeking. It is a tale told with rare candor, immersing the reader in a journey that is at once engaging, humorous, and heartwarming.

Soul-wise: Wisdom ArticlesExcerpts from the talks given by Radhanath Swami.Real learning has to be holistic and not just in one dimension. When learning happens using multiple faculties, the depth of its influence is always greater. Historically, knowledge has always been combined with art. Our experience and the experience of the world is that each form of learning can influence us equally powerfully. So in this book you will find a combination of the wisdom of the heart with the wisdom of the art. This combined wisdom can make us ponder, wonder and help us overcome the blunder of ignorance which leads to suffering and sorrow.

Radhanath Swami war gerade einmal neunzehn Jahre alt, als er 1970 Chicago verließ, um sich auf die Suche nach spirituellem Wissen und dem Außergewöhnlichen zu machen. Seine Reise führte ihn durch Europa und Asien, bis er sein ersehntes Ziel erreichte: Indien. Dort lebte er lange Zeit als Wandermönch und kehrte schließlich mit einem reichen Schatz nach Amerika zurück: mit der Weisheit, die er von den vielen heiligen Männern und Frauen in Indien empfangen hatte. Nun wollte er den Menschen die Schönheit und die Erfüllung eines Lebens nahebringen, das ganz der Liebe zu Gott gewidmet ist. Radhanath Swamis Autobiografie Journey Home ist prall gefüllt mit faszinierenden Charakteren, mystischen Erfahrungen und Abenteuern. Ein Kritiker nannte sie „… eine fesselnde Saga, eine Liebesgeschichte und die Beschwörung eines spirituellen Paradieses in all seiner Pracht, Wildheit und Einsamkeit“.