Category: Life

How can one increase one’s faith in the holy name and in the process of Bhakti yoga?

Question to Radhanath Swami: How can one increase one’s faith in the holy name and in the process of Bhakti yoga?
Radhanath Swami Answers:The best way is to associate with people who have that faith, to perform those activities and to cultivate those thoughts that increase our faith, and to avoid those vibrations that distract our mind from that goal. Now, when we are living in society, there are so many distractions. But those distractions can actually help us if we are spiritually strong….

Scandals, Controversies, Criticism…no peace? Radhanath Swami shows the way to peace.

Question to Radhanath Swami: When we are wrongly accused of involvement in a scandal, when we are amid controversies, we know we have to take shelter of the holy names and other spiritual practices to be peaceful and happy. But in that situation, to do that seems so difficult.
Radhanath Swami Answers: A little child wants to walk, but first the child has to learn to crawl. Do you remember when you were learning to crawl? It was very difficult. When you had finally learnt how to crawl, you saw everyone around you walking, and you wanted to be like them….

How to give up bad habits?

Question to Radhanath Swami: How to give up bad habits?
Radhanath Swami Answers: The only real way to give up bad habits is to replace them with good habits. In order to have the determination and the strength to do that, it is necessary that we have association that will enliven us and protect us. What you associate with, we become like that—that is the law of nature.

To Follow the Brain or to Follow the Heart?

Question to Radhanath Swami : At times I get confused….to follow the brain or to follow the heart? How do we get that signal from God to take the right decision?
Radhanath Swami Answer : The same way you access a television station. You have to tune into the correct frequency and that comes by associating with the people who are tuned in. In their association, really learning how to hear from Holy Scriptures and from the holy Acaryas, we get the proper understanding.

How to connect to another generation?

Question to Radhanath Swami: How to connect to another generation?

Answer by Radhanath Swami:Young people are often tired of just listening to older people talk I think youth are always like that. They are idealistic; they see more than they hear. And if they feel we are genuine about what we say, that we are walking our talk, they take it seriously.. …