Browsing: cape town

Written by Sesa Das  On Saturday morning (01 October), Kadamba Kanana Swami flew from Durban to Cape Town and was joyfully welcomed at the airport by a group of devotees,…

Written by Vasanti dd The devotees of Cape Town were very happy to finally have Kadamba Kanana Swami’s association again since his visit in December last year. He arrived on…

Written by Vasanti dd Arrival – 18 December The air was buzzing with activity at the ISKCON Cape Town Temple of Sri Sri Nitai Mayapurchandra.  Devotees had flown in from…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) Krsnadas Kaviraj Goswami describes how the tongue is desert-like… always dry and in constant need of an endless flow…

The recent travel posts of Kadamba Kanana Swami have not been published according to the sequence in which they happened. It is mostly because our team has not been able…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.26)  Prescribed duty does not exactly sound like following the path of ecstasy. It sounds like, “Oh, I do…

Report by Nicole  After a six week stay in Mayapur, Kadamba Kanana Swami arrived in Cape Town on Saturday, 20 December, for a short visit. After just a night of…

Report by Brhat Mrdanga Das Maharaj arrived in Cape Town during the afternoon of the 15th and one would not be able to tell that he had done a Ratha Yatra in Soweto…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program) Prabhupada danced on so many occasions! But the most importance statement about Srila Prabhupada’s dancing is…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program) I remember a Vyasa puja offering from Bhurijana, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada. He joined…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program) In a small temple, with predominately congregational devotees – that means devotees who are maintaining a…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program)  I was reading a quote from the German philosopher which I liked, and he said, “When an…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Rama Naumi Initiation Lecture) There exists our internal life. One cannot just be fixed on dharma by determination,”Okay, by intelligence…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Rama Naumi Initiation Lecture) Initiation is not only about the ceremony but afterwards, success in spiritual life always depends on…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, BYS lecture) There’s a famous story of Alexander the Great who walked into this particular town. Apart from the presence of…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.31)  Sometimes we have people who are so much into the rules and regulations but with that, they…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.7) Allen Ginsberg, the poet, had conversations with Srila Prabhupada. In reading Srila Prabhupada’s conversations, I liked the ones…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.7) One can take out insurance, there is no harm in that. As long as one is trying…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.7) Some theologians have come up with a theory and said, “God was initially involved with the creation but…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.7) Why are the gopis classified as the top most devotees? Because they gave up everything. These gopis,…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 1 October 2006, Cape Town, South Africa, Initiation lecture) The first and foremost process in our Krsna consciousness is the chanting of the holy name of the…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 1 October 2006, Cape Town, South Africa, Initiation lecture) When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was in Jagannatha Puri, the vaisnavas from Navadwip went to see him and they asked him…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.39) One living being is food for another. So that is a very brutal design, basically intense! And…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.7.4) Srila Prabhupada was in Japan and he went to Dai Nippon which  was a printing company and they…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.7.4) We should care about devotees. It is difficult but we want to look after devotees. When it comes…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.7.4) There is a story which describes a man who got hit by a vehicle. It was a…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) I saw a mathematician, Stephan Unwin, who wrote a book. He was a professional consultant for insurance companies and a big…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) Srila Prabhupada many times addressed mayavadi impersonalists because as soon as you go shopping in the marketplace…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srila Prabhupada Evening) One picture that I like very much is that famous picture of Prabhupada in Tompkins Square Park, under…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Bhagavad-gita Chapter 5) Question: I was just thinking of how we could treat everyone as friends. Maybe we should not be…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Bhagavad-gita Chapter 5) So what’s wrong with stress, a little stress? If there is no stress, or if you don’t…

Audio recordings Please find below, the remaining lectures and bhajans by Kadamba Kanana Swami while he was in Cape Town. On Thursday (28 December), an evening program was held in glorification…

Ratha Yatra 29 December 2012 There are many Ratha Yatra festivals in South Africa throughout the year. However, the one in Cape Town is unique due to its cosmopolitan appeal.…