(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 29 December 2011, Munich, Germany) We should know that Lord Caitanya’s movement is not to reclaim those who are in pure goodness. It is not the movement…
Author: Amrtavani devi dasi
Amrtavani devi dasi
I find inspiration in the colourful world of Kadamba Kanana Swami, and transcribing his classes is my saving grace. KKSblog provides me with the opportunity to relish the essence of Maharaja's spiritual instruction and take this to others. As an author (and former educator), my passion is introducing Krsna Consciousness to young people at schools in South Africa.
(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 29 December 2011, Munich, Germany) Why is the chanting of Krsna’s Name most pleasing to Krsna? Is it that there is a trace of vanity in His…
(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 29 December 2011, Munich, Germany) One of Srila Prabhupada’s godbrothers, Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Swami, wrote nice books and I read them sometimes. He is no longer in this…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Dusseldorf, Germany, September 2011) So the material world is like that. The material world is based on fear. We rather have everything grey so that no strange…
Srila Prabhupada says “to give-up this fruit of desire is only possible for a devotee who has love for Krsna”. Love for Krsna is not so difficult to attain. Of…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Berlin, September 2011) The topmost level of devotional service is not to serve Krsna directly, because, in the topmost level of devotional service, one realises that what…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Berlin, September 2011) It is often said that the devotee is not desiring anything in return for his service, and that is a fact. The devotee is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Berlin, September 2011) It is very interesting how selfless the love of Srimati Radharani and the gopis is, and she is of course, the topmost. I find…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Vrndavana, 2003) Every atom and every particle is Krsna’s energy, and then Krsna enters again into that energy. So it was already Krsna’s energy – it’s not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cologne, August 2011) Devotees should be very complete personalities. It is about developing all aspects of our personality, and we should be complete human beings. This is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) When you see a devotee, you have to think that Krsna is standing behind that devotee and that Krsna is smiling. We don’t just…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) A devotee is never desiring liberation. A devotee is simply desiring devotional service and he is just praying, (Sanskrit) “Life after life, please engage…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) Krsna reciprocates with His devotees. It’s not only that Krsna is the Supreme Controller and, pleased with the service of His devotee, is then…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Canberra, March 2011) Once upon a time, Sanatana Goswami had a sparśa-maṇi. A sparśa-maṇi is a touchstone. Nowadays these stones are not often found, but we have…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) Prabhupada was careful to engage the gift in the service of Krsna, to respect the gift, and to respect the relationship. So (sanskrit)…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Canberra, March 2011) When the Holy Name is being chanted, Krsna is at the same time giving darsana. This is the secret of chanting – that simultaneously…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, May 2011) Vaisnavas must develop relationships with one another of trust, of accepting each other. Trust and acceptance – acceptance with our shortcomings, with our faults,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) We are not just a movement where all the energy goes into itself. There is a danger that we become a…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) How to become attracted to Krsna? It comes naturally if we start to serve. And serving means giving – giving ourselves,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) The more we are chanting the maha-mantra, the more we are becoming freed from the sinfulness of Kali, and that is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) To not be concerned with one’s position, to give up all designations, not to consider: ‘I am this, I am that! …
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) The other day I was not feeling well. I was ill but I started reciting some verses, and as I was…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) We are always looking for the shelter, the shelter of the Vaisnavas. But not only are these Vaisnavas there to bring…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) The materialistic devotee, the kanishta-adhikari, has weak faith and as a result he is thinking that Krsna is so far away,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, March 2011) The well-wisher of all – that’s a noble thought. And that is the mood of Krsna and the mood of Krsna’s devotee. Therefore those…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, March 2011) We pray to Lord Caitanya for His mercy that we may attain pure love of God – nothing else. We are not going to…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, March 2011) Lord Caitanya became known to all the devotees as the Supreme Lord and it was not just a sentimental thing. It is said that…
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, March 2011) The Lord’s official name was Visvambhara. Visvambhara – the maintainer of the entire universe. Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami is explaining that the Lord…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Govinda Valley, March 2011) Everyone is thinking: everything is for my pleasure, everything for my purposes, for my comfort, for my protection, yes, for my profit, for…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Govinda Valley, March 2011) It’s a very special time. Not only did Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu give us a great gift by the process of chanting Hare Krsna,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Brisbane, March 2011) We can contemplate how Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears in this world and that Krsna is human-like, or one could say “Humans…
Excerpts from Q & A session at the Durban Ratha Yatra ’09, South Africa I think that many people who would have known me 40 years ago (I’m getting old…