“Shri Radhanath Swami Maharaja’s Journey Home is like reading a modern day rendering of stories that we find in exalted spiritual texts like the Shrimad Bhagavatam. Truly, an opportunity to imbibe the accounts of God’s lovers is the fruit of our spiritual endeavors!”
- Shyam Das,
(Devotional practitioner, author, and musician)
“There is no way one can sum up or highlight the incidents and those events of Radhanath Swami’s life, and the only way one can feel the power of his telling is by reading the book.” Read the rest of this entry »
I recommend Radhanath Swami’s The Journey Home to all regardless of what faith/religion one participates in. It is a story for all — life changing!! Mind opening!! Awe-inspiring!!
“The Journey Home – Autobiography of an American Swami, is a great book and has made me learn how to balance life.”
- Anil Agarwal
(12th Richest Indian)
“The Journey Home by Radhanath Swami is a tale of the young boy & will reveal the love of God which is dormant within everyone’s heart and blaze. The reader is given a chance to change his life in the same way as the author.”
Vijay Bhatkar on Journey Home Book
The Journey Home is a spellbinding autobiographical narrative, permeated with the devotion and determination of Richard Slavin ( Radhanath Swami)
“This wonderful book shows how purity of heart can overcome all obstacles on the Spiritual Path. It sings to us of holding on to our dream of Real Love until it becomes Reality.
Come take this journey with Radhanath Swami!”
- Krishna das
(A Bhakti Yogi – Devoted to singing and teaching)
“Radhanath Swami’s, The Journey Home: Autobiography Of An American Swami, is as much a delight to read as it is a defining and pivotal literary work of an enlightened being. Readers of all ages and faiths will find unimaginable strength, a wonderful sense of humor, sheer epic adventure, an outpouring of compassion, wisdom, and inspiration in its pages.”
Radhanath Swami is a spiritual leader, author, and public speaker. A practitioner of bhakti-yoga for almost 40 years, he helps individuals find greater inner fulfillment through devotional service
Richard Slavin
“Our little Richie (later Radhanath Swami) is sweet but so strange. Why is he like this?” Gerald and Idelle Slavin often wondered why their little son had strange habits like refusing to sit in chairs, while eating, making his mother wash his clothes again and again until they became old or scraping his new shoes with rocks till they looked worn, sitting on the floor of the backseat of a new car.
Radhanath Swami explains that having better things than others made him feel embarrassed. Such was the unusual childhood of Radhanath Swami, who upon reaching the end of his teenage years embarked on yet another unusual quest – an overland journey from Greece to India. In this search for the true meaning in life, Radhanath Swami realized that the best things in life connect all of us to God and far from feeling embarrassed about them, he is sharing them with everyone.
Swami Prabupada, the famous Vaishnav monk, who founded the Hare Krishna movement in the West, accepted Radhanath Swami as his disciple in the early 1970s. and from the time on wards, Radhanath Swami has pioneered the establishment of monasteries, schools and a Hospital. Radhanath Swami inspired the Mid Day Meal scheme project to provide free nourishing meals to more than 200,000 underprivileged children in Mumbai, India. Barsana Eye Camp is another initiative mentored by Radhanath Swami which helps them restoring vision of up to 1000 patients every year from poverty stricken families in the most economically backward parts of North India.
Further details about Radhanath Swami’s life can be found at www.thejourneyhomebook.com. He travels around the world and frequently lectures throughout the United States and Europe. He is based at Radha Gopinath Temple in Mumbai, India.
