Shelter in transcendental knowledge
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 April 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.1.33) In my family, they appreciate me at the time of a disaster. When something goes totally wrong, then I’m appreciated…
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Naimisaranya dd
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.
Everybody knows “Hare Krsna”
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 April 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.1.33) The whole day, we’re bombarded by billboards and advertising and we just have to consciously say, “No!” Otherwise, when…
Joy of the soul
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, BYS Picnic Talk) Kirtan, or mantra meditation, is something that you got to do. How can you describe it? It’s like,…
False sense of security
(Kadamba Kadamba Kanana Swami, 1 March 2013, Vrndavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.28.10) Somehow, the living being clings to the material body. Srila Prabhupada states that although the condition in the material…
Yoga is a mentality
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 January 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday Feast Lecture) Do you have a yoga mat? I do. Do you use your yoga mat? Yeah, I don’t. Like most people,…
Purification is the program
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 January 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday Feast Lecture) There are three modes of nature in the material world: goodness, passion and ignorance. Places in goodness, passion and ignorance.…
Can’t buy me love
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 January 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday Feast Lecture) I grew up 20-25 kilometers outside of Amsterdam. My family, in 1940, they were 20 years old. So in…
Our saving grace
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 February 2013, London, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.5.13) So the illusory energy, maya, is very strong as it is described. So strong that it bewilders everyone. This is…
The path of responsibility
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 February 2013, Bhakti Dhama, Bratislava, Slovak) So, like I said before, the road to freedom is the path of responsibility. And what is responsibility? There are different…
Freedom through responsibility
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 February 2013, Bhaktiloka, Bratislava, Slovak) In 1997, I received the order of sannyasa in the Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK. Well, the renounced order of life, is a…
Never forget for a moment
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Radhadesh Mellows Class) In the Caitanya-candramrta (1.5), there is a description from Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura and he writes: durdāntendriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī, protkhāta-daṁṣṭrāyate. Then he says: viśvaṁ pūrṇa-sukhāyate. He…
Man in the mirror
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 6 January 2013, Lenasia, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) Question: How do you avoid vaisnava aparadh? By avoiding it! (laughing) There is really no other way. What…
Eagerness for initiation
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 6 January 2013, Lenasia, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) And they say, “Yeah, I want to be (initiated). You know, I’m trying… but the relationship with my…
Have a little courage
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 6 January 2013, Lenasia, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) I have one disciple who is very sincere and who has a problem with stammering. So you can just…
