(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31st March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.26 The Supreme Lord is omniscient. He is present everywhere. He knows everything. The Supreme Lord knows everything that goes on in the heart of every living being. He knows the thoughts of every creature! Image that, it is a lot [...]

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, Australia, October 2011) (Transcribed by Smita Krishna Devi Dasi) At the time of initiation, we are receiving diksa or transcendental knowledge. Such transcendental knowledge means that we understand that: ‘bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ’, (Bg 7.19). After many life times, we come to [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31st March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB. 7.15.26 The spiritual master sees himself as a fallen soul and as: ‘I am somehow or other trying to be a good instrument and I am falling short in so many ways.’ But others don’t see it like that! They don’t [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 7 April 2012, Durban, SA) When Krsna gives us austerity by taking things away, it is Krsna’s arrangement to make us stronger. So Krsna tests us to give us the strength. The suffering in this world is in the design. Why is there suffering in the world? It is exactly for that [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 Devotee: Is it bonifide to say that the pictures which they see of Krishna aren’t the artist’s rendition? Maharaja: They are artists who have renditioned themselves, but how much transcendental are these artists? And how often are they just painting [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 Devotee: Sometimes what I find when I’m speaking to people about the Hare Krishna movement and what I’m getting involved in. If they maybe have some idea already of the movement and have seen some pictures of Krishna. Therefore they [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 Prabhupada was a communications nightmare and he would say things that you are not suppose to say. He would go right there to the sore point. It is like he was getting into it and sometimes people didn’t like it [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 One has to maybe find that little bit of interest in a person. Srila Prabhupada could find the spark and fan it. Whatever sparks our interest, find it and fan it. When someone wanted to learn Sanskrit and thought it [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 I have a story about the Harinama party, which we started in Amsterdam. It was summertime and there was a street artist who drew a picture of God on the street with a chalk. He drew Michelangelo as God who [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 How are we going to convince people about Krishna? I think that sometimes we make it difficult. We think that people will not be attracted to Krishna and that is not the fact. Krishna is all attractive. He really is [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: SB 7.15.25 The lower modes of material nature are particularly entangling us, more and more in the material energy. It is said that the mode of ignorance are those kinds of activities, which are detrimental to a person’s progress. Activities of laziness; [...]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 1 March 2012, New York) Everything is bound by time, but the maha mantra is eternal. So many things change in our life and it’s just amazing what can change but somehow or other this chanting never changes. It’s constant and is always there because the name Krsna is Krsna Himself, who [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: CC-Adi 11.3 When one turns to superior authority, then one must be willing to take direction and who wants that? We don’t mind taking blessings: ‘Please bless me. Please give some mercy!’ But who will actually take the greatest mercy? Which is [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 All right so let’s punish ourselves for all the inattentive chanting we do daily: ‘Oh, I’m chanting so badly. Oh, I’m so terrible. I’m so fallen and sinful!’ We can punish ourselves more by having all the sinful thoughts: ‘Oh [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 We really must do something on these special days. It’s not that the vaisnava calendar is just invented as a form of entertainment. Well we do not want the TV anymore but we have the vaisnava calendar. No the vaisnava [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 Yesterday I was reading all kinds of quotes of different personalities. One poet said: ‘As we are getting older, we realise that we are still children.’ I was thinking about this and I woke up this morning thinking: ‘Yes you [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 Of course, there are some days where you wished that you had never gotten up, and it leads from one thing to the next. Yesterday I was breaking everything. I broke everything that I had touched. I put my towel [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 Sometimes I make the point that before losing material desires one must lose faith in them. It maybe there but just lose faith in them. Faith in the sense of: ‘These things will make me happy. Now if I buy [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 Sanatana Goswami was simply always glorifying Krishna, hearing about Krishna and remembering Krishna. His last book just overflowed with Krishna Katha! For him it wasn’t that he was thinking: ‘What am I going to say now? I have to go [...]

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th March 2012) Lecture: BG 18.64 Yogis can do amazing things! There is a stage where the in-going breath and the out-going breath can enter into a stage of equilibrium. This stage of equilibrium is called kumbhaka, and at that point the yogi can stop breathing and [...]