(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…
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(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, 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, 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…
In Durban, the Easter long weekend represents a time of celebration for Hare Krsna devotees as it is time for their world famous annual Ratha Yatra festival. The four day…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 August 2009, Lecture) Transcribed by Madhumati dd The four regulative principles, as Srila Prabhupada explained, is where human life begins. Anyone who does not follow the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 April 2012, Radhadesh, Belgium, Lecture) This morning, I opened my lecture with the topic of sex life because we have these material bodies. Prabhupada said in the Srimad…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 February 2015, Mayapur, India, Full Lecture: Srimad Bhagavatam 6.4.25) deho ’savo ’ksa manavo bhuta-matram atmanam anyam ca viduh param yat sarvam puman veda gunams ca taj-jno…
The Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture, in honor of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada This is the first annual Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture, given at Wits University in Johannesburg under…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.19) Srila Prabhupada explains, in terms of going to the forest, that the best of all forests is…
We wish you a Merry 2015, etc etc…. Did you know? We had 12673 views per month! (last years average was 8510) South Africans visited the blog the most with…
By: Brendan O’Connor Article from the Sunday Independent Gradually they are coming out the woodwork. And suddenly it seems that half the people I know are secretly meditating. They range…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 May 2014, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Caitanya Caritamrta Adi Lila 8.31) Sometimes, we have seen that people have discussed the svarupa of Srila Prabhupada, of what it…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 December 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.9.3) Faith is based on desire. The living being is by nature is pleasure seeking, ānandamayo ’vasāne, according to the Vedanta Sutra.…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2010, Mumbai, India, Lecture) Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi When you see women as lust objects then how can you look after them!? You will not protect…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 January 2013, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 12.8.46) It is an art to have to deal with others. For me too! I could be very peacefully chanting Hare…
We can appreciate how unique Prabhupada really is in the entire sampradaya. Lord Caitanya appears only once in a day of Brahma and after Lord Caitanya, who introduced Krsna Consciousness…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 June 2013, Czech Summer Camp, Slovakia, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.2.33) We have to look at our life from a perspective as a whole and not just become…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42) If we don’t get absorbed in the sankirtan spirit, we may still remain very self-centred because we are so fallen. If…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.50) Transcribed by Jnana-samudra das Meditation basically means to focus the mind. We have a mind and certainly we have…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.6) Krsna consciousness starts with inspiration. First, it is the unknown spiritual benefit which gets purified and then attraction…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.28.55) It takes maturity to come to the point where one becomes very serious and says, “No, I will no longer play with the material…
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23rd August 2012, Amsterdam, Lecture: SB 4.29.55) Sometimes in Srila Prabhupada’s purports you will find: The whole world is in the clutches of maya and is…
A lecture given by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 13 August 2012 in New Vraja Mandala, Spain We are reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, 6th Canto chapter 3 entitled, ‘Yamaraja instructs…
(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20th June 2012, Govinda’s, Prague, Czech Republic) Lecture: Free talk Devotee:I feel when I touch somebody, or when they touch me. So what is this…
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, Australia, 20th May 2012) Lecture: Seminar – Mahajanas II There is a Muslim speaker from Indian origin, who is quite well known and attracts very…
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, April 2012) Lecture: SB 5.12.5-6 The body has the pushing – the pushing of the senses and the pushing of the mind, tongue, belly,…
[update] It seems this is a duplicate post. It was already published by Hina on the 7th of April. Check the original out ! Bg 2.17, 21 mar 2012, Cape…
A lecture given by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Maharaja on April 18th 2012, in Pretoria, South Africa Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, Adi Lila, Chapter 9, “The desire tree of devotional service,” text 1: tam srimat-krsna-caitanya- devam vande jagad-gurum yasyanukampaya svapi…
(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27th March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Lecture: B.G. 2.17 Yesterday I was reading all kinds of quotes of different personalities. One poet said: ‘As…
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Soho St Temple, London, England, 14th February 2012) Lecture: SB. 10.23.8 We have to build up strength: ‘kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśās teṣāṁ jātā mayi…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, January 2012) Lecture: SB 5.18.9 It is explained that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu mentions to Sanatana Goswami that an important principle in devotional service is to…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 6 In the late seventies, I was staying in the Amsterdam temple. My service was to bring the laundry from…
A lecture given by HH Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 28 December 2011, Pretoria, South Africa jaya jaya sri-caitanya jaya nityananda jayadvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda sri-caitanya, nityananda, advaitadi bhakta-vrnda, sire dhari sabara carana svarupa, rupa, sanatana, raghunathera sri-carana, dhuli karon mastake bhusana Translation:…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011) Bhisma Dev was deep in his wisdom. He deeply understood the nature of the material world. Therefore Bhisma Dev was not attached. He was not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2004) ‘Asta-kalika-lila’ – more or less describes how Radha and Krishna meet at different times of the day, in different groves around Radha-Kunde. There are numbers of…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011) I once did a seminar in 1999 which was called: “From 66 to 99”. ‘In the 66 we are all going back to the spiritual world…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, May 2011) It is the nature of the material energy. It is the nature that things in this world will manifest and that they will cease…
Devotee: Maharaja, you were mentioning some points about how a devotee or country person should act, presuming he is a child or not. For instance, getting blessings from pre sectors. I was wondering of how much does a devotee know about the Vedic cultu…
Devotee: I was wondering how much should a devotee know about the Vedic culture?
Maharaja: Yeah, I think in the first instance, we should really learn what Srila Prabhupada gave in his books, and understand that the essence is all there, and study it…
The story is that sometimes the Lord also likes to fight. In the very beginning of the universal creation, there were some opponents of the Lord who appeared. Two extremely powerful brothers. They were conceived by Kaśyapa and Diti, and at an inapprop…
Student: If everybody gives up the material world and becomes devotees then how will this world be continuing? Maharaja: Thank you very much for asking this classic question. It is…
A lecture given by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami Maharaja, 26th December 2010, Durban, South Africa We’re reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, 11th Canto, Chapter 14 entitled, “Lord Krsna explains the yoga system to Sri Uddhava” text number 27: visayan…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Delhi, 2010)This process of bhakti is not a process of tapsya, ..a little tapsaya in the beginning but there is so much bliss as one is advancing…
Kadamba Kanana SwamiWe see that the way the person is dealing with sex life, that is the determining factor, how high the person will be placed in the universes. Tapalokas-…