Author: Candrasekhara

Is based in South Africa and enjoys transcribing insightful material for the blog!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2013, Summer Camp, Czech Republic, Initiation Lecture) Faith is essential. One must have faith that Krsna will protect me, rakshishyathi vishvaso. One must have faith that…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2014, Sydney, Australia, Bhagavad-gita 4.39) When things get diluted, it is second best – compromised. From a compromised position, we still can enter spiritual life because…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program) The weight of time is the biggest weight of all. Over time to maintain the standards of…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 December 2012, Phoenix, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) Vaisnava gives everything he has and a vaisnava gives his life.  He is ready to put his life…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, August 2013, Abentheur, Germany, Hamsaduta Seminar Part 1) Sri Lalita speaking to a swan (from the Hamsaduta), “O tilaka of the saintly devotees, taking the path famous in…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, August 2013, Abentheur, Germany, Hamsaduta Seminar Part 1) Sri Lalita speaking to a swan (from the Hamsaduta), “May all obstacles be cast aside. May your path be easy. …

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, August 2013, Abentheur, Germany, Hamsaduta Seminar Part 1) Sri Lalita speaking to a swan (from the Hamsaduta), “You live in pure waters. You find happiness among the lotus…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 April 2014, Korsnas, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.2) To try being a devotee in this age is like struggling against the current. All around us, nothing is designed…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 April 2013, Korsnas, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.1) We see that the threshold for the human form of life is lowered in different yugas. In the satya yuga, to attain…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2012, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Higher Taste Seminar) A lot of us think about this topic – THE HIGHER TASTE and actually I think that for most of…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, January 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.31.3) The one undivided absolute truth, the same truth, is known in three features, either Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan. But all part…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 4 January 2013, Ladysmith, South Africa) So little by little, by hearing and chanting, our remembering also changes. It says sravanam, kirtanam, smaranam – hearing, chanting and remembering.…

In this age of Kali, when Krsna left for His transcendental abode, dharma and knowledge left with Him and then the age of Kali began.  So it was at that…

Great sages are personalities who have knowledge.  They are not acting just according to their own ideas but great sages have absorbed, they have heard, they have absorbed transcendental…