Unknown spiritual benefit
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2 January 2023, Vrndavana, India, Balarama Hall Q&A Program) In the Caitanya-caritamrta, Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami has given us a verse which is an open invitation. He…
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Relationship with Vrndavana
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 4 February 2022, Radhadesh, Belgium, Zoom Disciple Meeting) We are building a relationship with Vrndavana, and as we know, Vrndavana is all about devotional service. Whether you…
Love is based on conquering
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 November 2020, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture) Krsna is conquered by all, but most by the devotee who gives the most, who does the most. Love…
Learning to give
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 November 2018, Adi-Badarinatha, India, Parikrama 2018 Lecture) In the Age of Kali, it is not going to be that beautiful. It is not possible to just…
Every service matters!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 September 2020, ISKCON Simhachalam, Jandelsbrunn, Germany, Table Talks 11 Lecture) Each service is a preparation for a greater service in the future. Watch the full video…
Seeing Krsna is beyond our imagination!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 September 2018, Durban, South Africa, Northdene Program Lecture) It is our goal to always be one in thought with Krsna. One of the symptoms of surrendering…
Attracting Krsna to us!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 August 2020, Radhadesh, Belgium, Serving devotees and Srimati Radharani Lecture) More so than us becoming attracted to Krsna, let us do something that attracts Krsna to…
Krsna will win!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 May 2019, Melbourne, Australia, Bhakti Vriksha Program) Krsna is so attractive, yet our material desires constantly bounce back up like a ball in water. We push…
Being bound by love
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 April 2019, Amritsar, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.6.37) Devotional service binds us to Krsna in responsibility. The first time we do little seva, we gradually start to…
Happiness means full freedom
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 April 2019, Amritsar, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.6.37) Full happiness means full freedom. As long as we are not fully happy, we are chained, we are trapped…
Flood the entire world!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 February 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Caitanya Caritamrta Adi Lila 1.2) Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had one desire. He had a desire to flood the entire world with…
A gradual progress
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 March 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.9.8) Question: When it comes to stumbling blocks in spiritual progress, with things like lust, pride and disturbances of…
A movement based on sincere efforts
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 31 December 2018, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.21) Woody Allen once said, “You can go to a church, a temple or a mosque but that does not…
Why do bad things happen to good people?
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2015, Vrindavan, India, Video Interview) Good and bad things happen to everyone in this world – no one is exempt. This is the nature of a…
My service
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) Only in Vrndavana is Krsna fully manifesting his pure transcendental nature which is based only on loving exchange and…
Spontaneous devotional service
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 January 2018, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.23-24) Our first Ratha Yatra in Jaipur was a humble attempt. The devotees had just recently opened a small little…
Second chances
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 October 2017, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.3.17) When someone is caught stealing red-handed and you talk about it, “That person is not honest because he is a…
Captured by Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 September 2017, Petite Riviere, Mauritius, Lecture) Srila Rupa Goswami said, “Do not go to Kesi Ghat if you have material desires.” But when Krsna plays his…
STRICTNESS but not FANATISM
(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…
Taking shelter of Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011, New Ekachakra, Slovakia, Lecture) One can never take Krsna for granted. One should never think, “I’ve done so much service… so much! You know in my…
Different but the same
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 August 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.13.3-4) Every devotee is an individual. We are not all stereotypes – all walking the same and all saying Hare…
Real freedom comes in relationship to Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden, Lecture) The desire to be free is in every living entity but there are always some obstacles to our freedom. For children, it is…
Devotional service is a natural activity
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, August 2010, New Radha Kunda, Sweden, Lecture) Devotional service is so powerful that it will always have an effect. Therefore, gradually devotional service will take over our…
‘Death be not proud’
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.1.3) We must come to the stage of being fearless of death. We will become truly fearless of death…
We are for Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 April 2013, Korsnas, Stockholm, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.1) In one of the early Back to Godhead magazines, there was a cover with a butcher slaughtering an animal…
No loss in devotional service
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2005, Lecture) Sometimes there are tests and we do not pass them. It means that we did not do our homework! Before a test, if you did…
“My devotee will never perish!”
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, April 2011, Durban, South Africa, Lecture) In the association of vaisnavas, especially advanced vaisnavas, we become uplifted beyond our normal limitations of holding onto material security. We…
Say YES to devotional service!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 September 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture) Every day we remind ourselves of Krsna’s eternal activities because we know that it will capture our mind. At…
Keep the fire going…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 July 2010, Japa Talks) The current temple of Lord Jagannatha in Puri is 800 years old and during that time, the fire in the kitchen of…
In kali yuga, we do not curse
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2017, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.13.4) In kali yuga, we do not curse. This is not our business. In the Vedic times, cursing and counter…
Karmic conviction
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 October 2014, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.43) It is a blessing to have some good karma. It is a blessing to be detached. It saves one…
Pious activities
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2017, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.13.5) Caitanya Caritamrta gives the three categories of pious activities. There is karma unmukhi sukriti, moksha unmukhi sukriti and bhakti unmukhi…
Loving exchanges
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 November 2012) Tamal Krsna Maharaj used to keep this picture in his house in Vrindavan. Prabhupada is so blissful in this picture that Tamal Krsna Maharaj…
No more suffering
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 January 2005) We must develop the spirit of compassion. Compassion, in a sense, is natural because we ourselves are experiencing suffering in this world and we…
MY service
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 December 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.26.41) Our favourite song which we chant so happily, “Sarīra abidyā-jāl, joḍendriya tāhe kāl, jīve phele viṣaya-sāgore, tā’ra madhye jihwā…
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…
New beginnings!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, July 2007, Phoenix, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) Sometimes we get so disturbed by the past that the clock stops, “On 12 December 1937, I …” and…
Many issues, One solution
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 December 2011, Durban, South Africa, Morning Lecture) Piety has diminished many generations ago. But the mercy of Lord Caitanya that has come into the sinful life…
Eternal wealth
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 December 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Bhagavad-gita 10.10) People are striving for wealth; they try to make material progress. This is not easy because we are not in…
Inspiration to serve
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 November 2007, Mayapur, India, Lecture) It is one thing to take up devotional service but it is another thing to become absorbed in devotional service. Many…
Elusive Krsna
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 September 2016, Midrand, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 9.9) brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (CC Madhya 19.151) Life after life, we are…
The basics of spiritual life
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2016, Durban, South Africa, Sunday Program Lecture) Question: Swamiji, can you please give me some basics on spiritual life? Serve the devotees! That’s the basics.…
Improving our spiritual life
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 April 2016, Durban, South Africa, Sunday Program Lecture) Let us dedicate our whole life to Krsna. Let us gradually get rid of interruptions. It is said…
Assist me whether I am here or not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 April 2016, Radhadesh, Belgium, Vyasa Puja Address) I thank all the vaisnavas for their prayers. So many prayers. I will tell you the truth, my astrology…
Lessons from Coimbatore: Part 4
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, May 2016, Coimbatore, India, Hospital Conversations) The spiritual world is where we should be. Residents of the spiritual world descend to the material world to preach. As…
Yours forever!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 January 2015, Soho Temple, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.77.33-37) I was reading a verse where it says, “Not by any means nor by any weapon, can one…
Let’s get serious
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 01 December 2014, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture 6.1.50) Question: You have said that we are on our own and it is up to us to go…