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(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: BG 18.64 Not only is Krishna in control of everything, He is also our Friend, and therefore it is all right. It’s okay that He is in control and that we are not. We don’t have to worry about it: ‘What’s going to [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 Even now there maybe some influence of Kali that is upon us, but we carefully stay in the community of devotees. The community of devotees is dedicated to Krishna Consciousness principles. So that is why in the community of devotees we are [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 So piety can save the day. Piety means just the small little things – to always be in a respectful and worshipful mood. That kind of piety we must have, and that is a great essence!

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 Devotee: When it comes to stumbling blocks in spiritual progress, with things like lust, pride and disturbances of the mind, then sometimes I can clearly see them coming (or even clearly realise them when they are there), but still they stay there [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 Everyone is looking for some justification to do what he wants to do. For example, what if I want to eat onions? Then I would say that: ‘I am eating them because it purifies the blood, and I have some issues with [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 In the present time one could think that: ‘This Vedic traditional knowledge has now come to the west, and western people are trying to take up eastern ways, and that maybe difficult!’ Sacinandana Maharaja tells a story of when his father met [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 The nature of illusion is that one tends to think that he’s not in illusion – that is the illusion: ‘I’m not in illusion.’ – That’s your illusion. So this is interesting. Therefore vaisnavas are taking shelter in humility realising that: ‘I’m [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.8 By acting in and voluntarily accepting the restrictions of dharma we become gradually lifted to the transcendental platform. So therefore the devotee must be very patient. We cannot expect that we will always feel completely inspired. We must understand that we are [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: SB.4.9.6 It’s one thing to hear everything, but how can you actually realise it? So Sanatana Goswami was very much aware of the dilemma of a devotee. We are receiving divya-jnana – transcendental knowledge, but how can you realise it within the heart? [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 We have to first strengthen our own life, and then when we are dealing with the world we can think of different ways to build bridges for people. If you walk in these sannyas clothing, through a small village then [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 Krishna is always having picnics with the cowherd boys and so on. Krishna’s mother is always worried that Krishna is not satisfied. They give Him the best. Everyday He gets the best of the best! Then He goes and eats [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 I was in Vrindavan (In India) for six years, and then they sent me to Australia. They paid for my ticket. When I came to the temple, the temple president said: ‘Do you have any money left from the money [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 Make your phone Krishna Conscious. Well I guess that a few of these applications have got to go, and could put some KC music, some KC lectures on there and pictures of devotees. In this way we purify the phone. [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 Make your house a holy place! I once visited someone who had painted all the walls black, and the door blood red! It was intense. If you live in a place like that then what will happen to you? I [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22 Umapati was one of Prabhupada’s disciples and he asked Prabhupada: ‘What comes from this chanting?’ Prabhupada said: ‘From chanting comes more chanting!’ So it is like that, from, chanting comes more chanting! One simply feels that: ‘Yes we must do [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Nove Sady, Czech Republic, 14th March 2012) Lecture: SB 11.5.32 Devotee: Do you think that there maybe a thousand and more ways of achieving a peace of mind? Maharaja: No, I don’t think so…to really have a peace of mind, then one needs to become self-realized, and ultimately that means [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Nove Sady, Czech Republic, 14th March 2012) Lecture: SB 11.5.32

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Nove Sady, Czech Republic, 14th March 2012) Lecture: SB 11.5.32 Everyone has to control the mind. When you walk into a shop and the mind says: ‘Put it in your pocket.’ But the intelligence says: ‘No!’ This is called controlling of the mind. So the control of the mind happens [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Nove Sady, Czech Republic, 14th March 2012) Lecture: SB 11.5.32 There’s no need to go here and there. Just worship Krishna. Serve Krishna. Offer what we eat to Krishna. Whatever we do, then do it as an offering to Krishna, and the result is that you will become peaceful. Nothing [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Nove Sady, Czech Republic, 14th March 2012) Lecture: SB 11.5.32 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, (one of our great spiritual masters) once said: ‘Even if a man has all the women in the world he will still not be satisfied.’ And to the women he would say: ‘The perfect dream man [...]