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(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2nd March 2012, New York) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta Sometimes the discussion comes up that the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, is post graduate literature, which is translated as: ‘It’s radioactive! You can’t read it. Have you finished the Bhagavatam?’ ‘No.’ ’Then you can’t read it. It’s maya…it’s offensive!’ Prabhupada said: ‘It’s postgraduate. It comes after the [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2nd March 2012, New York) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta In Orissa there was a lot of philosophical wildlife! Even Prabhupada mentions that: ‘What comes out of Orissa is not considered so reliable!’ He also makes that statement. Not that with that we can write off everyone and everything, but we must be careful [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11 Here in Mayapur Malati was appointed to do the cooking, and it was very difficult. That was when Prabhupada was still living in a hut. Now that hut is gradually being surrounded by skyscrapers, and I hope that hut will always stay there…………………That [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11 It is said that Brahmananda’s mother came again and was complaining that her sons were bowing down to Prabhupada. Prabhupada said: ‘Yes…yes, I am also bowing down to my spiritual master. That is the standard, that is the way it’s done.’ So Prabhupada [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11 The point is that you go on the path but you still go through your own experience on that path, and you also have to use your own intelligence on how to deal with it. It is said that the disciple must become [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11 It is often so that the one who shows us the path is not necessarily following that path. Sometimes yes, and other times no. In my case within my home town the people who were into devotional service were also into devotees. But [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Modra, Slovakia, 28th February 2012) Lecture: BG 9.18 When devotees come to your house then your house becomes purified! Whoever chants the holy name once, becomes purified! The living being when he becomes embodied he has two bodies – the gross body and the subtle body. The subtle body is [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Modra, Slovakia, 28th February 2012) Lecture: BG 9.18 Many people say they are very happy and you look at their life and say: ‘Well, I don’t want to change to be like them.’ You work in a horrible factory from Monday to Friday in hell, and you are very happy. [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 10 Sometimes Lord Caitanya would manifest Himself through a devotee. He would manifest His qualities, and we could see that Srila Prabhupada manifested so many qualities……….and in that way Prabhupada gave it like an echo – like a fresh push…. and now it’s echoing [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 10 The Lord is independent in causeless mercy. Another aspect of causeless mercy is that the Lord may give it to someone who is apparently not deserving it. So although in the Bhagavat-gita: ‘ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham.’(Bg 4.11) I award [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB.7.13.5 We may not at all times be inspired about devotional service. We may not always be blissful. Although we know that Krishna Consciousness is the way better way of life. There maybe times when it’s austere. Although we are full of compassion for [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB.7.13.5 It is easier to engage in kirtan than in japa. In japa we are alone with Krishna. We are thrown back on ourselves. In japa we are confronted with whatever Krishna Consciousness there is within us. In kirtan we feed off everybody else! [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Soho St Temple, London, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB. 10.23.8 Prabhupada used to say: ‘We are not aiming to please the audience. We are aiming to please Krishna.’ But with that it doesn’t mean that we can’t use a little tact and some strategy and so on. We have a [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Soho St Temple, London, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB. 10.23.8 We have to build up strength: ‘kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśās teṣāṁ jātā mayi na karuṇā na trapā nopaśāntiḥ,’ (CC. Madhya 22.16) The senses have no mercy….not good enough….they have no mercy! They will entangle us in the three [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Soho St Temple, London, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB 10.23.8 No matter how much pleasure we experience from so many activities in this world, there cannot be fulfilment. Tried everything, and still not satisfied…still hungry! Heard it all, seen it all, done it all and still not satisfied – this [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 I gave the example of pride – when suddenly someone loses everything and is humble: ‘Alright Krishna wants me to develop humility.’ Or someone may experience anger and how it is getting out of hand. I myself had an experience as a [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 The material world is sometimes presented as an educational model – a place where we have to learn a lesson. This life is meant for that purpose. Krishna is trying to teach us in this life. So it’s in that mode that [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 There are stories that people in New York keep crocodiles as a pet, and when they grow up, then they put them in the New York sewers! And there are crocodiles living there underground in the New York city – there are [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 I grew up in the Netherlands where it is sort of a place where a few activities are going on, which are not really found in all the scriptures….or not recommended at least! Sometimes they are mentioned as a path to the [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 Our true identity remains hidden underneath all these layers of material conditioning. That true identity is not something we cannot access at the present. We have no idea who we really are in the spiritual world. What our eternal identity truly is, [...]