Birthday Cakes
Stories from Radhagopinath Community of Love
For Radhanath Swami, spirituality isn’t about dry philosophizing; for him spirituality is an affair of the heart; it is about sharing love with God and sharing God’s love with others. And as Radhanath Swami himself puts it, he has learnt this principle from Srila Prabhupad.
In 1986, the temple began to attract a stream of regular visitors, numbering around sixty. Knowing my newly acquired cake making skills, Radhanath Swami put forth before me an astonishing request; he wanted cakes on the birthdays of all his regulars. He perceived birthdays as occasions to share God’s love. So I prepared a chart with all details: the name of the visitor, birthday date, address and phone number.
On any birthday, I woke up early, and the cake would be baked before dawn. Then, at about six in the morning, Radhanath Swami, my husband and I would set out for the surprise birthday celebration. We would visit the person’s home, however far off. Upon reaching there, we invariably incited ‘early morning birthday shocks’: so much love and affection is unusual, especially in cities.
But slowly, with such touching experiences, those initial visitors learnt the language of spiritual love. And then, when they went out to share the same love with the world—the community grew.
Mother Palika, (Neighbour)
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Wonderful story…personal lving care, thats what Maharaj teaches.
This kind of love and affection is very rare now-a days
Must have been such a wonderfull experinec and that brithday shock is the best birthday ever for that particualr individual
Thank you for sharing this story.
Its amazing to see the how much Radhanath Swami goes out of his way to share the treasure of Spiritual life and love he has. We hear about such saintly people in the scriptures, however need a practical example to understand/realize/be inspired to develop such qualities in todays times – where there is only selfishness and hypocrisy
Such a wonderful experience it must have been.Maharaj coming to your home to celebrate your birthday that to early.Early morning birthday shock.
Koti Koti Pranam & Dandavat Mataj for sharing such a wonderful seva..i never ever been heard story about shocking cake…thank you very much…
Thanks dear Mother Palika for sharing such a beautiful story! HH Radhanath Swami can share so much love with others because his heart is flooded with pure love for Krishna.
So beautiful and touching…
“If you really want to give someone a gift, try giving them your time and attention.” A loving heart doesn’t expect anything more than that. And Radhanath Maharaj has done, is doing and will be doing to all the people.
“Attention to details”….one of very very rare qualities that HH RNSM has.
Only one who sees all as children of GOD can be so loving towards all!!!
What a family atmosphere!
Thank you so much f sharing with us!
Hari bol!
Radhanath Swami Maharaj is wonderful and how fortunate those persons where to whose places Maharaj has personally visited for wishing their birthdays…Maharaj is really merciful.
It is really appreciable that not only Radhanath Maharaj, but Mother Palika and her husband put in a lot of efforts to pleasantly surprise the devotees with an early morning visit!!
Such genuine love is very rare. He truly is compassionate soul. And he practices what he preaches! Thank you mataji for sharing this incident. It is very inspiring. I hope and pray that I can also develop such genuine love for all the living entities.
Radhanath Swami takes so much care & effort to make sure that every visitor to RadhaGopinath temple gets the higher taste of life. What better way than birthday cakes to achieve this. This really shows us how much compassion he has for everyone -trying to share his love for God with everyone of us. Like he says, ISKCON is one big family indeed!
it is really amazing and touching experience for on and all
Awesome experience..maharaj is really great
Radhanath Swami often says hate the disease not the diseased. sometimes we start hating someone who does wrong to us or causes discomfort to us but if we keep this one sentence in mind we will be kind to everyone even to the one who doesn;t treat us right.
Wonderful!! Maharaj has a unique way of reciprocating with others.
Thank you Mataji for sharing this. It is Maharaj’s love that is the binding force at ISKCON Chowpatty mandir.
thank you mataji for sharing your past time with us.
The successof Radha Gopinath temple is because of personal care & love extended by Radhanath Maharaj to each member of the congregation……..
what a love…. amazing ….
Haribol!!
all glories to gurudev & SP
Teaching by example…as maharaj says everyone should get love & care that they feel secure & do not leave such association for any reason!!
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Such pastimes by Radhanath Swami opens our eyes to his caring nature. Radhanath Swami Maharaj himself set an example of how to nurture people and his followers are doing the same today – which has led to such a loving spiritual community emerging at Radha Gopinath temple.
Seeing is believing. at this place You feel at your real home
Wonderful experience. It is because of this personal touch of Radhanath Maharaj in all activities of our RadhaGopinath Temple that our temple congregation has grown by leaps and bounds. Hari Hari.
I have to thank god…and i am so fortunate that
we got such Maharaj who is taking care of everybody with his love and compassion..Maharaj is great. Mataji you are so fortunate you got such a great seva.
It is Maharaj who has made Radhagpinath temple our home
Such a personal touch to everything h does. This is simply amazing!
Nice experience to share with.
All Glories to H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj
THere can be so many ways of helping the masses to take to spirituality, only if we have the guidance of the Right Spiritual master.
Celebrating ones birthday the Krishna Conscious way was one of the means attempted to, so that the people appreciate the unconditional love of his fellow devotees and make firm his determination on the paths to bhakti.
Thank You Mataji, for sharing this wonderful incident.
Hare Krishna
thank you Pallika mataji,Radhakrishna Prabhu and H H Radhanath Swami for teaching us to be very sensitive and loving devotees
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story yes so much love and affection is very rare and unusual nowadays
In this age of STRESS ,this place is a sure Strees Releiving Center.
it was very interesting to read.
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I am happy now.
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thank! for this news it’s a good infomation !
radhanath swami is very great in engaging everybody in the loving devotional service to the supreme lord,
So wonderful!Entire Radha Gopinath community is such a wonderful example of pure Loving exchanges between themselves.Radhanath has sown the seed and nutured and cared for this wonderful Community to blossom in such a fantastic way.
i am happy to find it thanks for sharing it here. Nice work.
Maharaj’s anecdotes are a nectarian lake
And this one is really the icing on the cake!
His love which permeates every birthday cake
Perfect the life of the devotee does make!
Very inspiring By eating mataji’s spiritual cakes made under the order of maharaj they will end the repetition of birth and death. It was really their new birth.
Maharaj has a unique way to touch every heart..AND He is that touch stone that transforms each heart…this is His art of Transformation in this useless age of information(IT)….
Simply amazing and heart-melting. How wonderful it is to share your joys on your birthday with Radhanath Swami and other such loving devotees. Mother Palika you are glorious!
Thank you for sharing
a wonderful experience shared by the author about Radhanath Swami Maharaj.
maharaj is an ideal example on how to nourish relationship