(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 May 2015, Brisbane, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.42) Yesterday, at the Sunday program, I mentioned that chanting changes us internally and it awakens our love for Krsna…
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 February 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.19.4) There was one devotee who had sort of given up spiritual standards for a while and I was…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 May 2015, Cronulla, Australia, Intro to Kirtan) Question: Just wondering, some persons have been chanting for quite some time now and have asked me and I would…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: The Golden Incarnation) Srila Prabhupada said that attentive chanting means to hear oneself chant. For me, hearing myself…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2013, Island Iz, Croatia, Seminar ‘A monk and his mantra’) Question: How can we avoid being inattentive while chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra? The question that…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 January 2015, United Kingdom, Lecture at Matchless Gifts) What do we really need? In the Bhagavad-gita, the quality of simplicity is glorified. If one can be…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 February 2015, Sridham Mayapur, India, Kirtan Mela, Address before kirtan) Srila Krsnadas Kaviraj Gosvami, in the Caitanya Caritamrta (CC Adi 14.1), writes the verse: kathañcana smṛte…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, October 2014, Mayapur, India, Siksastakam Seminar: Verses 1&2, Part 1) It was here in Mayapur, quite some years back, that once I chanted sixty-four rounds. It was probably…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 September 2014, Durban, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) Srila Gaura Kisora Das Babaji did not want to sleep. Sleeping is such a waste of time. But sleep is such…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2010, Sweden) I was just talking to a mrdanga player about how mrdanga playing is the most difficult thing! But why is mrdanga playing so difficult? It…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami) The key to build up a spiritual life must be a regular practice in hearing and chanting, preferably on a regulated schedule as much as possible -…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 January 2014, Mayapur, India, Lecture: Kirtan Academy 1) Kirtan happens on the pure transcendental platform. It is an interesting combination of Krsna’s name and a particular…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 December 2013, Soweto, South Africa, Lecture) This human form of life is a chance, we have got a chance! It is up to us. Srila Prabhupada’s…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 December 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.8.34) Elderly men are supposed to be wise because they have been faced with life. An elderly person…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 01 March 2012, New York, USA, Lecture) Everything is bound by time but the maha-mantra is eternal. So many things change in our life – it’s just…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 November 2013, Mayapur, India, Gurukula Lecture) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur explains that the holy name naturally comes together with Sri Dham. Sri Nam and Sri Dham…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 September 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa, Home Program) When having a small get-together, the idea is that some blessings are exchanged. We don’t know the workers who…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 July 2013, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.6) In the maha-mantra, there is a relationship. There is Krsna, the all-attractive Supreme Lord, and the vocative form…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2013, Vrndavana, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.16.34) The nice thing about the 24-hour kirtan is that you guys are not alone. First of all, these days…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 2) Now look at ourselves, at our own miserable, miserly condition. We know everything – that which was unknown before, we…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 February 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.19.4) Srila Prabhupada used to ask, ‘What comes from chanting… more chanting!’ With chanting everything is attained. We are not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.31-36) One should select a competent, bona-fide speaker and then hear from him. When the hearing process is perfect and…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 4 January 2013, Ladysmith, South Africa) So little by little, by hearing and chanting, our remembering also changes. It says sravanam, kirtanam, smaranam – hearing, chanting and remembering.…