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On a flight with Radhanath Swami

On a flight with Radhanath Swami

That journey will be forever etched in my memories. With Radhanath Swami sitting next to me, I wouldn’t be in a sweat even if that plane had flown forever.

At the Netaji Shubas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, Radhanath Swami and I boarded our flight to Mumbai. This was in 2002 when I was sixty three, and yet I felt the excitement of a six year old boy, out on a trip, alone, with his favorite sports star. Radhanath† Swami occupied his seat, while I occupied the one next to his.

Time crawled, and I was conscious of every passing moment, not knowing what to expect at the moment next; everything around seemed to disappear, except for myself and the passenger next. As the plane lunged ahead on the runway and soared into the sky, Radhanath Swami turned to me and grinned. “Should we discuss some spiritual subjects?” I nodded in approval. “You should begin the discussion. Speak something,” he implored me. A story from the Caitanya Lila flashed by my memory, and I babbled that out—quickly: I was restless for what would come next—drops of spiritual nectar from him.

He began to speak from the Srimad Bhagavatam, an episode called ‘Brahma Vimohana Lila’. Every word that spewed out was soaked in the spiritual conviction of his heart. My mind slowly tuned-in to only visualize the episode he narrated and everything around—the plane, the crew, the passengers, and even I and Radhanath Swami—now seemed a distant reality. Time now flew faster than the Jet we were in. In the midst of that enthralling experience, I was interrupted by a thought—untimely, yet profound.

Radhanath Swami is discoursing to me with the same intensity and absorption as he discourses to a crowd of several thousands!

The plane unfortunately landed, and the world around jostled into my mind once again. But I still wonder what makes Radhanath Swami speak the way he speaks. From my observation on that flight, he definitely isn’t driven by the externals: the stature of his podium or the numerical strength of his audience.

Professor Bhaskar Hosangadi,

Retired Head of Bombay University for the department of Chemistry

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71 replies on “On a flight with Radhanath Swami”

thanks to giving a deeper insight into the deeply personsal self of HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj. This gives a clue to be charged up with the same intensity in all circumstances. Thankyou very much.

Hare Krsna,

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. You are very fortunate to get an association of Maharaj. Please keep sharing more of them to enlighten and encourage us.

this incident shows us that maharaj is so humble & personal to all of us he is so simple & welcomes everybody with a warm heart of love & compasion.
hari bol

Thank you sharing wonderful moments with His Holiness, while reading I remembered, one of pastimes of HDG Srila Prabhupada where in he was preaching to the interviewer even after TV show is over.

Hare Krishna,

Thank you for sharing the wonderful moments you were blessed with. It helps us understand that hearing and discussing Krishna Katha should always go on with same interest and eagerness ir-respective of externals surrouding us.

Hare Krsna ! Dandavat. You are so fortunate Prabhuji to have had the association of Guru Maharaj and to get to hear Krsna katha from Him. Guru Maharaj’s katha actually takes you to the scene of events, and you can get totally absorbed into the katha. My humble and sincere obesiances to Guru Maharaj.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !
All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga !!

Thank you prabhu theses realisations aer only hope for me to sustain in K.C.

hare krsna , thank you a lot for sharing prbji. pls bless us that we too should associate with maharaj and hear more and more krsna katha from him.
al glories to gurudev!!

I have to say that Maharaj speaks with a lot of conviction. The way he renders his class, it is as if the entire pastime is being enacted in front of our eyes. He brings all the characters to life. It as if he is a part of the pastime of the Lord.

To know more about this splendorous personality, visit
http://dandavats.com/?cat=50

Awesome Quality! Even though flying thousands of miles high in the air, His Holiness has a very down to earth personality and is deeply absorbed in the pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna.

Kindly visit http://radhanath-swami.info/ for more info on the book ‘The Journey Home’.

Beautiful story that reveals Maharaja’s consciousness which is independent from the externals. He is always KC! We are lucky to have such an exalted association.

Professor Hosangadi is really very very fortunate to have the intimate association of such a great saintly person like Radhanath Swami in the airplane. Great experinece..

Rajat

What an experience !! Truly, when Radhanath Swami speaks, he is not himself . . and he takes us to a different plane altogether. For reading transcripts from his lectures, please visit : http://radhanathswami.info/

Hare Krishna!

You r very fortunate to have such an close association with Maharaj!
Plz bless me also to get Maharaj’s mercy!
Thank u so much for sharing!

Hare Krishna!
Dandvats!
You r very fortunate to have such an close association with Maharaj!
Plz bless me also to get Maharaj’s mercy!
Thank u so much for sharing!

Hare Krishna….
You r very fortunate to have such an close association with Maharaj!
Plz bless me also to get Maharaj’s mercy!
Thank u so much for sharing!

Radhanath Swami makes each one feel so special. Truly never considering the size of his audience. Each soul seems so valuable to him.

Radhanath Swami, my beloved Guru deva, whom i have seen to really see only good in others. He is mercy and compassion personified and the most confidential servitor of His beloved spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada.
Please visit http://www.radhanathswamiweekly.com for getting daily meditations on quotes from him

Radhanath Swami is very spontaneous with his feelings, thoughts & words. This is mainly because Radhanath Swami practices what he preaches.

when maharaj narrates krsna’s pastimes he sells a magic on everyone’s ears through his words…all seem to be personally experiencing and taking part in those pastimes…

when maharaj narrates krsna’s pastimes he spells a magic on everyone’s ears through his words…all seem to be personally experiencing and taking part in those pastimes…

whenever maharaj narrates passtimes of krishna he really brings us to vrindavan. and it so sweet to hear from maharaj.

Maharaj’s words are always very intimate……….directly from his heart……..for 1 person and also for Thousands of people

Radhanath Swami has on a previous occcassion has a sepaking assignemnt in a Mumbai based medical college. Only one person turned up. But Radhanath Swami spoke with the same intensity. That person who attended is now a fulltime ashram inmate following the path of elightenment.

Thank you for giving this post.

Really Maharaj is so enthusiastic while giving lectures on spiritual subjects…

These kind of posts helps us to associate with Maharaj through a different and unique mode.

Thank you so much prabhu for sharing your realizations with us. Maharaj takes us to a different world altogether when he gives classes.

very true!!!! Radhanath Swami takes us with him to a wonderful flight while he speaks which v feel should never land.

Indeed it is always a pleasure to hear about Lord Krishna from Maharaj. Thank you for sharing.

Hare Krishna
Radhanath Swami really goes deep into the pastimes and gives great insights and lessons for us.
I love Radhanath Swami and i pray to Krishna that may He engage me in service of my Guru Maharaj.
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Most of the times in this world when we are out in public, we have a tendency to project a certain image of ourselves; once we are back in a private place – we come to our true colours, so to say.

Here we can see an example of how intensely Radhanath Swami seems to be always aborbed on SPiritual platform – that even on a flight back after a yatra (which is very demanding for him healthwise), he is speaking with same intensity.

Saintly people like Radhanath Swami who are connected to the Spiritual realm sacrifice things of this world to offer that connection to others

This proves that though being spiritually so advanced Maharaj never treats devotees and non devotees with partiality and hence sees every one on one platform and help them by distributing his Spiritual positivity

My 93 years old mother also felt the same and the amezing thing is that Swami can not understand Hindi and My mother can not understand English but still she felt for sure that she was special for her