I am a high school teacher based in Pretoria, South Africa. I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to transcribe the words of Kadamba Kanana Maharaj for KKSBlog as it helps focus my mind on his transcendental words.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 May 2015, Simhachalam, Germany, Seminar, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.8) trasto ‘smy ahaḿ kṛpaṇa-vatsala duḥsahogra- saḿsāra-cakra-kadanād grasatāḿ praṇītaḥ baddhaḥ sva-karmabhir uśattama te ‘ńghri-mūlaḿ prīto ‘pavarga-śaraṇaḿ hvayase kadā nu…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 May 2016, Vrndavana, India, Bhagavad-gita 3.34) We may say that we do not love chanting so much but if I, as the government, would give an order,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 May 2016, Vrndavana, India, Bhagavad-gita 3.34) Prabhupada used the traffic metaphor for spiritual life and I like this metaphor. It is like this, you start driving…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) We are currently serving in the material world and using the paraphernalia of the material world in the service…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) (Kirtan ends)…That tune did not work. Last week, it did. I forgot what I did different. That is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) Srila Prabhupada said that five plus five is ten, two plus two is four, and everything plus Krsna…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) Krsna engages in his external duties of paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge (Bhagavad-gita 4.8) to establish…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) By the mercy of the holy name, we are here. The holy name is being carried by devotees.…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 September 2015, Lenasia, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 7.7) Besides the holy name and transcendental knowledge, there is one more factor in our life which is life itself. Life,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 June 2015, Gita Nagari, USA, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.8) Srila Kavi Karnapura, in his Caitanya Candrodaya Nataka, explains how there are two types of devotional service which…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 June 2015, Gita Nagari, USA, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.8) This movement is not meant to be a comfort zone. It is not about having a nice-nice spiritual…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 June 2015, Bhaktivedanta Manor, United Kingdom, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.18.40) Today, I am focusing on mercy, especially the mercy of the spiritual master who is in our…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 June 2015, Bhaktivedanta Manor, United Kingdom, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.18.40) When we look at the temple, here we are in the Bhaktivedanta Manor, we can see that…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 May 2015, Sydney, Australia, Sunday Feast Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 7.20) The demigods can actually give us what the senses want. It is possible but we should know that all…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 May 2015, Sydney, Australia, Sunday Feast Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 7.20) We should read the Bhagavad-gita with a certain amount of introspection and a certain amount of reflection.…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 May 2015, Cronulla, Australia, Intro to Kirtan) Question: Just wondering, some persons have been chanting for quite some time now and have asked me and I would…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 April 2015, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.18.31-34) The situation of worshipping the husband is a Vedic injunction. In this day and age, it certainly just cannot…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 May 2015, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.9.42) Question: Why does maya make it so difficult for the jiva to attain Krsna when Mahaprabhu is wanting to…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) Some people think, “What is it in that food? What do they put inside!? Is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) Up to the sixth chapter of Bhagavad-gita, we get a description of different types of yoga – karma…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) Continued from “Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody” We are not speaking out against sexuality…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) Continued from Childish problems Sometimes, people say “Swamiji, I really like your movement but the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) Continued from Wake up, sleeping souls You know, you fall in love and then you…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) Continued from Sexual entanglement So now, let us shift to the soul. If we invest…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality) The body is not offering us just enjoyment alone. Sex, how much does it satisfy……
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) In the thirteenth chapter of Bhagavad-gita, there is an amazing list of pure qualities: amānitvam adambhitvam… (Bhagavad-gita…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) At the end of the eleventh chapter (of Bhagavad-gita), we have all the knowledge and we know…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) We can live a natural life in the world but it must be according to what is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) In the third chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Krsna speaks about lust. There are several verses describing lust and…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 December 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.10.24) One small anecdote comes to mind about Srila Prabhupada. It was late in the evening and Srila Prabhupada sat…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 March 2015, Pretoria, South Africa, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 1.1) If we become purified, we can see Krsna, otherwise naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah (Bhagavad-gita 7.25), for the conditioned soul,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2015, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.10.23) Srila Prabhupada reached out even in his old age. In the extreme heat in Dehli – I do…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2015, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.10.23) Misers hold on to whatever wealth they have and do not want to share, and the result is they…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.20) Question: A devotee mentioned that you have to stay on very good terms with your family and maybe compromise many…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 October 2014, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.43) Mokṣonmukhī sukṛti (Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.45 Purport) is pious activity that leads to liberation. So we have pious activities…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) It is interesting that Prabhupada was not a temple devotee! Prabhupada was that nice Mr De from the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) There is always mercy to give to people, at work also. Some people are such good preachers, it…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.3.18) There was a pujari in Mayapur, in the early days, worshipping Radha Madhava. He was a grhasta; he had…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.3.18) Krsna protects his devotees, even if unknowingly, some impurity slips into our life. One year in Vrndavan, His Holiness…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.3.18) Krsna is always our well-wisher. Always! No matter what happens, always! Therefore, never become angry with Krsna. That is…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) The stories of Brahmananda show incredible surrender. Are we ready to just take an order, no matter what? That…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 June 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.75) If sometimes, we feel a little dry in our Krsna consciousness – if sometimes we feel that chanting…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Harikesh was very smart, very intelligent. So when they were smuggling books behind the Iron Curtain, they had two…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Two years ago in Vrindavan, there was a devotee from a South American background who asked Brahmananda, “Brahmananda, in…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Another story that I have about Brahmananda – once in Vrindavan, Madhudvisa, another sannyasi, arranged that a picture would…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Brahmananda was telling stories in Vrndavan and I was listening to those. He was ill and Prabhupada did not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) There are many stories to tell of Brahmananda. In the early days, Brahmananda became Prabhupada’s trusted representative. His nature…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Srila Prabhupada came to the Western world. In the Western world, he began his movement and after a short…