Browsing: austerity

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 May 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.11.25) There is an oasis in the middle of a desert, and in this oasis, there are many people living.…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 October 2018, Camp de Masque, Mauritius, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1) In the Bhagavad-Gita, it is mentioned that there is the austerity of the body, austerity of the…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: The secret of spiritual advancement) Krsna is our solution. Krsna will fulfil our desires. Everything we need, we…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011, Berlin, Germany, Lecture) In the earlier days of ISKCON, austerity was a big thing. It was considered spiritual, the more austere the more spiritual – the…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 February 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.12) Austerity is the wealth of the brahmanas. Great sages like Bhrgu had attained higher planetary systems above…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lecture) Austerity in itself is not a limb of bhakti. Bhakti has sixty-four limbs; this means that there are sixty-four types of activities which…

(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…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 April 2014, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.4.49-50) I like in the Bhagavad-gita that when austerity is mentioned – there is the austerity of the body, austerity…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 April 2014, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.4.49-50) We must, somehow or other, connect to Krsna and that changes everything. We had this one kirtan, a Ratha…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 July 2013, Vrndavan, India, Bhagavad-gita 14.22 – 25) Devotional service itself is the means to become absorbed. So, Gaudiya vaisnavas do not need to spend so…