(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, [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19 We cannot trace out how long we have been in the material world. Life after life, we are changing bodies – that is to say we are changing the gross bodies but the mind (or the subtle body which is made up [...]

 (Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 9 February 2012, Bhaktivedanta Manor) Only by constantly taking shelter are we protected. One should not underestimate the power of the illusory energy- it is very, very strong and very powerful. If we leave a gap then Maya will enter. And we say, ‘ya it’s okay, nothing happened, nothing will happen. I [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 When the atheists are coming up and looking for arguments to prove that God doesn’t exist, and they are just trying to find the arguments. It’s a difficult thing, since coming up with arguments is not so simple…you have to think about [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Oct 2011, Govinda Valley, Australia) Lecture: Faith retreat part I Transcribed by Smitakrishna Devi Dasi ‘oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya’, So these are the opening words of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The word ‘Oṁ’ is the all inclusive – every aspect of the lord is included in ‘Oṁ’ – all His unlimited energies, His [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 Satsvarupa Maharaja describes how his parents were very upset. He was speaking to them on the phone, with his father who had finally told him: “Look son, either you give up that Swami or you don’t have to come back home anymore!” [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 Haridāsa Ṭhākura would chant his rounds whilst preaching! He went out as a sankirtan partner with Nityananda, and he was chanting all the way. It was not like: ‘I’m in sankirtan, yeah! There is no need to chant!’ He was just walking [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 The world is engaging in all kinds of abominable activities. In the modern way of thinking, we started more and more to think like victims…. just a victim, what can you do about it? Just a victim of circumstance. Like Prabhupada who [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 10 I was here in Mayapur in the eighties and that time, our devotees in Russia were suppressed by the government, in labour camps and some were in mental hospitals and so on…it was very intense. So the other devotees started Amnesty International style campaign, [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 The other day we were speaking about the early days, Matchless Gifts and Prabhupada was friends with Dr Misra, from before he came to the ashrama. He took the early Now York devotees to that asharama for a night. They were staying [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 We have to collect spiritual wealth in our spiritual life. We can’t just sit there. Like in the Hitopadeśa: ‘The lion cannot just sleep, and wait for the deer to walk into his mouth. It’s the lion who has to go out [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 Therefore, with our intelligence, we have to see all these factors. In the 11th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, it is said that there was a sannyasi who used to be a miser in his material life, and as a result his [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 Any standards below the four regulative principles is the standard of when one is suffering. Of course, there is a spiritual life without the four regulative principles, but understanding that one is suffering and therefore, one will do some damage in that [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 8 In the Adi Lila, it is said that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared under the astrological sign of Leo – the rising sign of Leo. So that is the Vedic astrology of the rising sign – the ascendant Leo. He was like a lion and [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, January 2012) Lecture: SB 5.18.9 Once upon a time there was an Iskcon where you judged everyone! One step over the line, then you were off…….two steps over the line and if you stayed there, then you become a demon, and so many other things! We were very judgemental in [...]