23 Feb 2012

One week in England

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Kadamba Kanana Maharaja spent the last week in the United Kingdom. His first stop was at Bhaktivedanta Manor in London. It was just for a day and Maharaja gave a Srimad Bhagavatam class. To find links to all the classes in England, please click here. The next day, Maharaja travelled to Leicester where he spent some [...]

Winter in Amsterdam

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It’s winter time in Holland with temperature way below zero! Snow and frozen canals in the city, which are of course extensively used by the citizens for ice skating! Here is a nice slide show, depicting Kadamba Kanana Maharaja in the streets of Amsterdam. Enjoy! Can’t view the slide show? Visit flickr!

Radhadesh Mellows

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Over the last weekend (28-29 January), the Radhadesh Mellows Kirtana Festival was hosted by the Radhadesh community in Belgium. Set amidst the rolling hills of the Ardennes Forest, it was the ideal location for two days of ecstatic 24-hour kirtana. The festival featured an all-star cast of kirtaneers like: HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, HH Sacinandana Swami, Krpamoya [...]

Cologne Sunday feast and Radhadesh stay

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From the Berlin Saturday feast Maharaja left to Radhadesh early the next morning. On his way he stopped in Cologne to attend the Sunday feast there. He once again rocked the crowd with amazing and powerful bhajanas and gave a nice lecture describing how material nature is not able to satisfy us but how actual [...]

Berlin and Kränzlin

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During the last week, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja stayed in the Jagannatha Mandir in Berlin. The main purpose of the stay was to record the soundtrack for the movie based on the Bangladesh tour which is currently being produced. Besides that, Maharaja also gave the daily morning and evening classes which are available on youtube. Unfortunately there is only [...]

A week in Leipzig temple

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From the ecstatic festival on the Nrsimha farm near Passau, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja boarded the Leipzig Sankirtana van to drive over 400 km up North to the Leipzig temple. Maharaja stayed there for a week to rest, to write and inspire the local devotees through some kirtanas and classes. On Thurdsay night he presented the [...]

Sankirtana festival in Simhachalam

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After his short stay in Munich, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja left to a farm-project near Passau in Germany. This is the place where Lord Nrsimhadeva resides and it is very fittingly called Simhachalam. It’s the venue for the yearly Sankirtana Festival which attracts dedicated Sankirtana devotees from all over Europe to gather. The festival is a [...]

South Africa to Germany

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 After leaving Cape Town, Kadamba Kanana Maharaj flew back to Johannesburg to attend the Sunday feast in Soweto, a nearby African township (25 December). He started-off with a fiery kirtana and then gave a wonderful class on the Bhagavad Gita. The next day, Maharaj headed-off to Sasolburg to a program that was organized by the [...]

European kirtana fever hits SA

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Harinama – A powerful preaching tool in South Africa In order to promote the December book marathon in South Africa, HH Kadamba Kanana Swami invited 3 stalwart sankirtana devotees from the Czech Republic to tour the country with him during his recent visit there. These devotees were Vishnujana, Gourakaruna and Prahlad; each uniquely talented in [...]

The Cape of Good Hope

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Maharaja’s South African tour continued with a week-long visit to Cape Town (18-25 December). At the Sunday Feast lecture he spoke on Bhagavad-Gita (1.1). Apart from glorifying the book, he also encouraged devotees to support the petition against Russia’s attempt to ban Bhagavad-Gita. At the end of the lecture, once again Maharaja handed-out packs of [...]

Various programs around Durban

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Kadamba Kanana Maharaja spent the last week doing various programs around Durban. On Tuesday evening he went to the nama-hatta in Umlazi, an African township in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The program practically consisted of one amazing and powerful kirtana which went on for about two hours. After the Kirtana, Maharaja gave a short talk about the [...]

Mahamantra in the mountains

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After the Ratha Yatra in Lenasia, Johannesburg Maharaja travelled to Durban. Finally, he was able to get back to his normal routine after a taxing tour of Bangladesh and India. He stayed at the temple where he gave Srimad Bhagavatam classes. Then, last weekend (09-11 December), Maharaja participated in the Krsna-Balarama (KB) Mela which took [...]

Lenasia Ratha Yatra, South Africa (3-4 December)

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Once again, the Ratha Yatra in Lenasia, Johannesburg took place on the 3-4 December. The special guests were Mahavisnu Swami, Madhava Maharaja, Bhakti Brhad Bhagavata Swami, Bhakti Vasudeva Swami, Ram Govinda Swami, Bhakti Caitanya Swami and of course Kadamba Kanana Swami. The Ratha Yatra procession was bejeweled with wonderful kirtanas. Devotees were dancing to Mahavisnu [...]

Harinama in Pretoria and Hammanskraal

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In South Africa, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja first visited the ISKCON temple in Pretoria, the country’s capital. Arriving there, Maharaja was warmly welcomed by the Pretoria devotees, as well as by three devotees from Czech, who are right now visiting South Africa to push forward the activities of book distribution, and Harinama during the Prabhupada December [...]

On the way back to South Africa

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From the Panchakula Ratha Yatra, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja headed to the ISKCON temple in Dehli. On his way he gave a home program at Patiala. He sang beautiful bhajanas and gave a lecture, establishing the sweetness of Krsna. After prasadam he again hit the road to Dehli. Arriving there late, Maharaja still decided to take [...]

Chandigarh and Panchakula Ratha Yatra

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Tucked away in Punjab, the city of Chandigarh was set ablaze with two back to back Ratha Yatra’s this weekend. Kadamaba Kanana Swami arrived from Mayapur on the eve of the first Ratha Yatra. He walked straight into an evening program at the home of our gracious host for this leg of the tour, Madan [...]

New temple project in Mayapur

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Here is an interesting slide show depicting the tour of Jayadvaita Swami and Kadamba Kanana Swami through the new temple project in Sri Mayapur Dhama. Enjoy the pictures! If you cannot view the slideshow below, just visit flickr!    

Two weeks in Mayapur

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The last two weeks Kadamba Kanana Maharaja spent in Sridhama Mayapur, West Bengal in India. Maharaja basically spent his stay teaching. In the mornings, for a total of ten days, he taught the Bhaktirasamrita Sindhu part of the Bhakti Sashtri course, which was translated by Srila Prabhupada as “The Nectar of Devotion“. This course covers [...]

A tour through Bangladesh

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For two weeks Kadamba Kanana Maharaja took a group of 25 men around the holy places of Bangladesh. On the bottom of this article you will find a slide show depicting this wonderful tour. In the brackets behind each title you can find the numbers of the photos depicting that very place. -          ISKCON Narsindi (1-11) [...]