(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 6 July 2021, Goloka Dhama, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.18) In spiritual life, liquor is not really glorified like one of the material pleasures in life. It is…
Browsing: bhakti
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 November 2019, Brisbane, Australia, Sunday Feast Lecture) Just like children only want to eat sweets, we only want kirtan. But we must not forget about the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 June 2020, Radhadesh, Belgium, Caitanya Caritamrta Lecture) When we fly to greater heights in the sky of bhakti, we become free from darkness in ourselves. ākāśa…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 September 2017, Phoenix, Mauritius, Sri Sri Golokananda Temple Lecture) If you go to Mayapur and you go on the side of the Ganga to take a…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 February 2019, New York, United States of America, Bhagavad-gita 7.7) In the tenth chapter of Bhagavad-gita, ahaà sarvasya prabhavo mattaù sarvaà pravartate (Bhagavad-gita 10.8), we can…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 07 January 2018, Brisbane, Australia, Q&A Programme) In this age, which path of yoga (karma, jnana or bhakti) should we follow? Karma yoga basically means that we engage…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 December 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.8.34) Let us be devotees but let us not punish ourselves, “I am a failure, I am not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2015, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture) You cannot just love like that. At first, love is in practice. We can say, love-under-construction just as in work-in-progress. So…
(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, 20 June 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.75) Sadhana-bhakti is like the Ganga. When we take bath in the Ganga, in Mayapur then on the side of…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, May 2016, Coimbatore, India, Hospital Conversations) Initiation is beginning of our spiritual life and is based on prescribed duty. One should never see the spiritual master as…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, May 2016, Coimbatore, India, Hospital Conversations) Desire and hate, lust and anger manifests because we do not understand Krsna and this is due to our attachment to…
From Chandramukha Swami When BHAKTI enters FOOD, FOOD becomes PRASAD, When BHAKTI enters HUNGER, HUNGER becomes a FAST, When BHAKTI enters WATER, WATER becomes CHARANAMRIT, When BHAKTI enters TRAVEL, TRAVEL…
Transcribed by Kristin (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 September 2013, Durban, South Coast Hall Program, Class “Living in truth”) I was reading a story where it is said that “Knowledge” and…
(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…