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Interview by Joshua Greene 
Q: What motivated you to write this memoir?
Radhanath Swami: For many years friends and well-wishers asked me to write this memoir because they heard me tell stories from time to time. But I always resisted because I felt it would be an act of arrogance to write a story about myself. But then something happened that changed my mind.
My very dear friend Bhakti Tirtha was brought up in the ghettos of Cleveland in the ‘50s and ‘60s and rose up to be a Princeton graduate and religious leader of the Bhakti movement and traveled around the world. Such people as Muhammed Ali, Nelson Mandela, Alice Coltrane were taking guidance from him. He wrote many books. He called me to his bedside in Pennsylvania in the last stages of cancer. I went just to offer my love and respect to him. At that time he said something that really changed my life. He said, “I want to die in your arms. Please stay with me.”
I spent the next eight weeks at his side, discussing spiritual inspirational subjects. And one day he looked at me with very deep concern in his eyes. He took my hand and said, “Why are you hesitating to write this memoir that everyone has asked for?” I expressed my heart. “Is it not an act of arrogance to write about myself?” He said, “This is not your story. This is the story of a young man who was called to try to find the same truths that everyone is searching for in this world. If your story can help other people on their spiritual path, then it would be arrogance not to write it.” Then he took my hand and said, “Please promise me, on my deathbed, that you will write this book.”
Just a few days later, surrounded by hundreds of loving well-wishers and followers, His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha passed away from this world. In honor of his love and friendship I have written this book, “The Journey Home.”
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