Author gurudasa

We see that the aboriginal lady had a basket of fruit and Krishna came as a child and He brought some grains to barter, but He dropped all the grains on the way – only a little left – but she didn’t care any more because He was just so wonderful she ga…

When we feel that life is long, do more service the more we get absorbed in devotional services the faster the time goes. One week will last only three days. You will feel: “My God, a week has gone! and I didn’t do anything” When we get absorbed in d…

In this way the tendency to think that we are exceptions, the tendency to think that our situation is different is there in all of us. After all, we are unique! Well… Not that unique, you know? We’re actually not so unique at all if you really lo…

Devotee’s question: In Kali-yuga our material situation is usually very disturbing. When we are so materially dissatisfied, where can one get strength to do everything for Krishna?

Maharaja’s answer: By doing, you get strength. Isn’t it? I think…

It is a fact that we made Spiritual life so complex.
I’m remembering Tribhuvanath Prabhu who was very simple by nature.
He had grown up as an orphan in an orphanage and as a result He didn’t get very good education. But that was Krsna’s perfect…

We were studying a little bit about Dhruva and we found, that in the Visnu Purana it is described that Dhruva in his previous life was a brahmana. As a brahmana Dhruva became kind of close with a particular king, and in the cause of this friendship, he…

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi(Kadamba Kanana Swami 2005)”You will see women as lust objects, you will not care to look after them. How can you look after them, you will not protect them, you will use them as though they are not human beings as if …

Anyone who gives his life in service is higher than a man who is thinking about himself.
“I and mine are the only things important in this world.”
A greedy person …. a miser.
But a person who gives to others and who cares about others and who …

Throughout the world in literature about religious topics, we are finding that people are being tested. Recently I was watching a movie about Islam, which was particularly a national geographic production. It showed the Hajj. The Hajj means the pilgrim…

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Chowpatty 2010

We think that we are in control but at one point when it gets very difficult we have to accept whatever the Lord desires.

I was in Iran and we were driving in a bus …well my …

So, many times we are speaking about pure devotional service and it feels so far away from our condition but for us it is our goal, a goal that we are meditating upon everyday. In the morning when we rise we meditate upon this goal and that we will try…

Surrendering to Krishna means that Krishna has given many directions. Surrendering to Krishna doesn’t just mean: thinking of Krishna, remembering Krishna…. Krishna…. Krishna. Seeing someone with a flute and a peacock feather – and you think – K…

We have so many false shelters. My family gives me protection, fallible solders what kind of protection can they give us? My money will protect me – and then you get some economical crises or suddenly your bank has gone bankrupted and you lose your mo…

Devotee: Maharaja, you mentioned that a devotee has to depend on Krishna for his happiness and sadness but I have heard sometimes from devotees that: ‘we must use our intelligence to protect ourselves and not put ourselves in situations where Krish…

For the pure devotee, every step is joyful, even if he or she has to be in the heaviest material circumstances – it’s still joyful for the pure devotee. A conditioned devotee comes with all sincerity and feels great joy to be in the temple, but then…

If anyone who acts exclusively for the pleasure of Krishna then one is in Vrindavan – then one’s mind has becomes Vrindavan and Krishna naturally has His residence in Vrindavan and then Krishna will have His residence in our mind.Transcribed by Madh…

After all we have no true relationship with the body. We are simply within this material body but it happens to be so that certain molecules are within our body. Yesterday most likely we had some rice, dal, sabji, some chutney, some sweets and so many…

Old habits die hard and if our old habits have been to serve Krishna, then that old age will only work for us. If you have gone for mangal aarti your whole life then in your old age you can’t stop, you just carry on. In your old age you just do what …

Transcribed by Bhakta Jan(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Vrindavana 2010)I first came to this movement here in Vrindavana in 1978. I had come reading Prabhupada’s Gita and I had become convinced and therefore I was in the Himalayas deciding to go down to Vrinda…

Taking shelter of Krsna means more than just putting tilak and it means more than putting neck beads. Initiation means more than 16 rounds and 4 regulative principles. It means to obey the rules of Krsna, to live by Krsna’s desire. The Spiritual Mast…

Srimad Bhagavadam 7.8.34Elderly men are supposed to be wise because they have been faced with life. An elderly person in spiritual life has become familiar with the process of devotional service therefore knows what to do and what not to do. He has tri…

Of course in the beginning we can hardly preceive Krishna. Where is Krishna? We are in the material world, we are adding Krishna to our life and little by little some Krishna is there. And then we are again caught up in the pushings of the senses. Our …

One can focus on the meeting and pastimes of Radha and Krishna in Vrindavan, and there are of course many scriptures describing these pastimes, but because these pastimes resemble the love affairs between male and female in this world, they are not rec…

Devotee : You were explaining at the time of death the Yamaduttas takes the soul to Yamaraja and on the way the animals he had killed bite him, but the soul doesn’t have a body, so how?

Maharaja: First of all let me explain that there is a gross bo…

Kadamba Kanana Swami wrote this message, 4pm today, 17th January 2010:”In the mid eighties, once a week we would all get on a bus and would go for Hari Nama in Delhi and other neighbouring cities. Here we are in Agra, we have walked in to the Taj Mahal…