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Depicted is the first day’s parade of the Durban Ratha Yatra. The day started with an inspiring talk about the varnaprasta ashrama, given by His Holiness Jayadvaita Maharaja. After the class all the devotees went to the starting point of the Ratha Yatra. There a huge crowd gathered, an African dance groop performed traditional dances [...]
Transcribed by Hina (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Vrindavan) If we think that there is more juice in one thing than another, then we are not yet accessing the actual juice! The actual juice is by being a servant! If we are thinking that one type is better than another – if we think that: “Well preaching [...]
Transcribed by Yamuna Devi Dasi (Kadamba Kanana Swami, South Africa 2010) Family of Vaisnavas is somehow or other our support and Srila Prabhupad made this movement and it is a very personal movement. In the beginning we overlook the fact of how important relationships are, because we are not use to it. In material world [...]
Our trip through South Africa now reached it’s last destination: Durban, the little Vaikuntha, where Sri Sri Radha Radhanatha reside. Maharaja led a big kirtana during the sunday program and gave an amazing talk about topics of the Bhagavad Gita. He also attended some house programs during the week. The temple is now filling up [...]
To be a servant means to put our own ideas aside, ‘Oh, I want to do this. I like this; I don’t like that. I like this service; I don’t like that service. I like this temple; I don’t like that temple…’ No, sooner or later one has to come to the point where he [...]
It’s who you know in this world, they say. It’s all about who you know. Well, Prabhupada knows Krishna very well, right? Quite close, you know, quite close. And he also knows Lord Caitanya, who is extremely merciful. He is very well connected. So when Prabhupada prays it helps. It helps a lot! When Prabhupada [...]
After the great Ratha Yatra festival in New Castle, Maharaja went on to an even smaller town called Lady Smith. On Ramnavami, Maharaja gave a talk about the wonderful pastimes of Lord Ramacandra and gave some insights on the differences between Lord Rama and Lord Krsna. He then led a powerful kirtan and the devotees [...]
Our trip brought us further to a smaller town called New Castle, in which a wonderful Ratha Yatra took place. After Bhakti Caitanya Maharaja had given an introductory talk about the glories of the festival of chariots, Kadamba Kanana Swami and also other great singers led the procession through the streets of the city. Several [...]
After a one week stay in the Pretoria temple, which was filled with ecstatic Harinamas and various programs, Maharaja made his way to a university program in Johannesburg. The program was a kirtana evening, consisting of two hours of constant singing of the holy name. What started as a sitting bhajana turned into a wild, [...]
Here are some further pictures from the temple, house and university programs, which were held by Kadamba Kanana Swami in Pretoria. If you cannot view the slide show below, please visit flikr.
After Maharaja’s stay in Cape Town, it was off to Pretoria, the home of kirtana! Maharaja inspired all the devotees to go out on harinama in the city. The Africans certainly relish the singing and dancing of the Lord’s holy names as a feast to the soul. See below some great pics of Maharajas travels [...]
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Transcribed by Annie (Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2011, Melbourne) We are residents of Kaliyuga. We are inclined towards sin, inclined to cut corners, inclined to be slack, inclined to sense gratification, inclined to cheat, inclined towards dishonesty, to say “Oh! It’s too difficult!’ inclined to make endless excuses to escape. We have to be serious.
Transcribed By Hina (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cranberra March 2011) Prabhupada many times used to say to some of his disciples: “You are dull …..you are very dull!. You are not registering. It’s all going, and it’s just happening but you are not there! Only half present! Half mind – Dull!” Yes this is our condition [...]
Transcribed by Hina (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Vrndavana) Let us just read things we like and select things that we like. Let us not be too much in the mood of a scholarly student. Let us just be devotees and just go straight for the nectar. Why not? Why not just stick our fingers in the [...]
Here is part 2 of the 12h kirtan party that happened in Melbourne some time ago. The music is rocking again, the mrdanga is pounding and the harmonium is steaming. Yes, Kadamba Kanana Swami is at it again. If you cannot view the video below visit youtube
Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm 2011) The material activities that interfere in our devotional service in a way blocks our absorption in pure devotional service to some extent – but devotional service is so powerful that it will always act and therefore gradually that devotional service will take over – There [...]
Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011) “I know that my chanting is poor. I know that all that I am offering is broken names and that I’m not really chanting very purely. But I have hope: ‘hope against hope’ that with Prabhupada’s mercy it will be possible to go back to Godhead.” Therefore, [...]
Transcribed by Bhakta Jan (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, March 2011) Ramananda Raya was such a devotee, because Ramananda Raya, he understood the pure love that the Gopis had for Krishna. He was able to explain that and he explained how it was completely selfless and how in their worship there was nothing like: [...]
Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick (Kadamba Kanana Swami, January 2011) Some years ago in Germany, they had on the Autobahn, where there is no speed limit, they had a sign, and the sign said: “Turtles to the right,” Yes, You saw a whole line of turtles walking and then in the middle lane there’s a medium [...]
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