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His Holiness Radhanath Swami (1951-present) is a leading member and guru within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness who works largely from Mumbai in India and also travels exstensively throughout Europe and America. He is well known throughout the society largely through his lectures on the philosophy of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

Born in America as Richard Slavin, Radhanath Swami studied a number of religious paths in his early days such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam on a quest for spiritual truth. Then at the age of 19 he decided to geographically widen his field of exploration and began travelling and hitchhiking through Europe and Middle-East, eventually ending up in the Himalayas. There he spent a considerable time devoted to the tradition of Shaivism and was living as a renunciate Shaivite in India when he first met with Krishna devotees near Delhi. He was forced to leave a train at Vrindavana due to the train breaking down which happened to be the day of Janmashtami (Krishna's 'birthday'). Through contact with the devotees in Vrindavan Radhanath Swami began to focus exclusively on his spiritual path in Krishna Consciousness, and in 1971 came into contact with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada during the ISKCON Cross Maidan festival in Mumbai. Prabhupada called Radhanatha Swami up onto the stage to speak with him. After leaving India, Radhanath Swami returned to the United States where he joined the New Vrindaban ISKCON farm community in West Virginia during July 1972. There he accepted initiation during February, 1973, becoming one of Prabhupada's disciples (and receiving the name 'Radhanatha dasa').

Photo Gallery: Vrindavan Yatra 2008
Website: http://www.radhagopinath.com/