Be a vaisnava first
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 April 2017, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.15.50) I had a disciple who was living in a small flat – just a one room studio with a…
Browsing: ashram
A lifetime in preparation
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 June 2012, Leicester, England, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-Lila 7.21) I remember the very first social development conference in ISKCON, which was very interesting because all the ashrams…
Time for Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 December 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.26.41) One may want family life but how can you have a good family life without Krsna. Family life without…
Temple life!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 September 2016, Durban, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) Living in a temple is nice – it is simultaneously the material world and the spiritual world. I…
Choose your suffering
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2-7) Through celibacy alone, can we get love of God? You can be celibate for a hundred lifetimes, do you…
Position yourself to succeed!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 April 2015, Radhadesh, Belgium, Vyasa Puja Morning Lecture, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila 24.124) There is a story of one sannyasi who was very dear to Srila…
The shelter of an ashram
(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…
The third star
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 May 2014, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.23.36) One can never be complacent! One can never think, “I’m there, first initiation! Yeah. I’m there, second initiation! You…
There is no magic fix
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 April 2014, Radhadesh, Belgium, Caitanya Caritamrta Lecture) At every moment, we are drowning in mercy – this is an amazing Movement! Our relationship is centered solely…
The brahmachari and the grhasta
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2014, Durban, South Africa, Lecture) There is the story of a wrestler in South India who was very much impressed by a beautiful girl and…