Categories
Compassion

For Radhanath Swami, People are above Projects

When the clock struck nine, my duties at school called me—but I ignored. Held captive by Radhanath Swami’s oratory, I couldn’t move from where I sat. As the audience that numbered in thousands drank- in every word he spoke, Radhanath Swami launched into a call for revolution. With a voice pitched high in compassion, he declared, “We must perform our duty selflessly, as a sacrifice, in divine consciousness and in devotion to God for the betterment of humanity.” Hearing that, my conscience whispered, “Continuing to hear this class, despite the call for a sacred duty; isn’t that selfish?” Yes, perhaps it was. I quietly walked out of the lecture hall to attend to my duties.

I worked as a construction engineer for the upcoming school building of the Gopal’s Garden High School. Housed in rented apartments for years, the school was now shifting to this new structure. Being a project inspired by Radhanath Swami, the school aimed to provide quality education with utmost focus on building the character of its students; and that made every service connected to this project sacred—including mine.

The students eagerly awaited the completion of the structure, and so did Radhanath Swami. Construction went full speed, demanding my presence on the site from early morning to late night. I worked even on weekends. Every morning I visited Radhagopinath temple, but came to the site much before the morning class at the temple even began.  On weekends however, since Radhanath Swami gave the morning class, I yearned to attend it. But midway through the discourse, guilt of insincerity would push me out of the lecture hall.

One day Radhanath Swami visited our site. Flanked by trustees of the project, he surveyed the building. Towards the end—to everyone’s surprise, including mine—he broke out of the elites and walked towards me. Did he know me?

“So, do you work here?” he asked.

“Yes.”

“Do you work on weekends too?”

“Yes, I have to.”

“You will have to come here early everyday, except on weekends when I give classes.”

I felt a tingle climb up my spine. How did he know my heart?!!! I was just one amongst thousands that attended his classes, and yet he knew of the ambivalence I was thrown into every weekend.

Apart from the mysticism that hovers about this episode, I was deeply touched by the humaneness of Radhanath Swami’s personality. For him, people are way above projects. Our project was on a deadline, but he ignored it to make my weekends happy.

–Siddeshwar Bhat

 

Related Posts:

188 replies on “For Radhanath Swami, People are above Projects”

Maharajah knows our heart. Another wonderful experience of his love and care.

Thank you very much for shring this experience with Radhanath Swami Maharaj

HH Radhanath Swami’s preachings are based on ancient vedic wisdom of use the things and love the people but not the modern society’s perverted version of use the people and love the things.

THis is wonderful experience. HHRNS knows the hearts of all of us as he really cares about each and every individual!!!Radhanath maharaj ki jai

Yes, we have personally seen this quality exhibited by HH RNS.Its so amazing how much he cares for people.

Amazing, really Radhanath maharaj cares for all. wonderful example of guru-disciple relationship. Thank you for sharing

Jai. Radhanath Swami fulfilled the desire of Hard-working Sincere construction engineer.

Radhanath Swami is the best mystic – one who can connect to the heart

Wonderful story which touches our hearts and increase our faith in Guru. Jai Gurudev!!!

Thank u very much for sharing such a wonderful personal experience with maharaj.

“For him, people are way above projects” this is so very true!!!! H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj Ki Jai!!!!!

Amazing how Radhanath Swami can read every ones hearts so well i am sure many must have experienced this With Swamiji. Thank you for sharing.

HH Radhanath Swami always care for people and becasue of his intimate loving relatioships in the mood of service, he easily attracts all hearts.

When you really love people and want to give them, you actually know their needs.
That’s why Srila Prabhupada could establish and run such a mega-movement single-handedly! And now Maharaj and other present Acharyas of our movement have been following in his footsteps excellently!

No wonder Radhanath Swami has been so successful in his spiritual community building efforts as he has always put people over projects!

Very very sweet exchange that can remain in memory for the entire lifetime! good great 🙂

Thank you for sharing such wonderful pastimes of Radhanath Swami Maharaj with his beloved disciples.

Gopal’s Garden school is one of the best project by ISKCON and Radhanath Swami. More than Doctors and MBA’s we need men and women of good characters. Thank you.

radhanath swami understands the language of the heart, he communicates through this language, the language of unlimited love,

This incident with Radhanath Swami confirms that The Guru is an external manifestation of the paramatma within the heart

Wow…amazing. How did he know? Ofcourse, those in touch with transcendence, their abilities are bigger than we can imagine.

This quality of Radhanath Swami of always caring for you is what makes people trust him completely.

What to speak of people, the great souls like HH Radhanath Swami extend their love and care for all species seeing them as part and parcels of God.

The spiritual master is not an ordinary person…and the relationship he shares with each and every disciple is special…this is just a testimony

Very heart touching experience…..thank you so much for sharing

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *