(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 September 2022, Vrndavana, India, Balarama Hall Program) The nature of time is that it is constantly passing. Everything comes into being, everything grows, everything flourishes, gives…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 1 August 2020, Radhadesh, Belgium, Initiation Ceremony Lecture) It is the Holy Name of the Lord that awakens our natural love for Krsna. So by hearing and…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 April 2011, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) Srila Prabhupada wrote two letters after the departure of his spiritual master. In the first letter, he said,…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 November 2017, Mayapur, India, Nectar of Devotion Seminar) “The places in the eighty-four square mile district of Mathura are so beautifully situated on the banks of…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2008, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lecture) What will please Srila Prabhupada the most? Well, I remember a story of Tamal Krsna Maharaj. He was appointed as the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 August 2014, Krišnův dvůr, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.43) In 1977, I started to take interest in Krsna consciousness but then, in the same year, one…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 September 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Initiation Lecture) One year in Vrindavan during Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance day program, one of Srila Prabhupada’s earliest disciples, Gargamuni, was present. Now, Gargamuni…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2015, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.10.23) Srila Prabhupada reached out even in his old age. In the extreme heat in Dehli – I do…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) It is interesting that Prabhupada was not a temple devotee! Prabhupada was that nice Mr De from the…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) The stories of Brahmananda show incredible surrender. Are we ready to just take an order, no matter what? That…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Two years ago in Vrindavan, there was a devotee from a South American background who asked Brahmananda, “Brahmananda, in…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Another story that I have about Brahmananda – once in Vrindavan, Madhudvisa, another sannyasi, arranged that a picture would…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Brahmananda was telling stories in Vrndavan and I was listening to those. He was ill and Prabhupada did not…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) There are many stories to tell of Brahmananda. In the early days, Brahmananda became Prabhupada’s trusted representative. His nature…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Srila Prabhupada came to the Western world. In the Western world, he began his movement and after a short…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 August 2014, Krišnův dvůr, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.43) Wherever Prabhupada went, everything became transformed, everyone became transformed! I went to Matchless Gifts a few years…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.52) Because we are in the spiritual world, we are not really here in this material world. We’re only here…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 December 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.10.24) One journalist came to Srila Prabhupada. He had done some homework. He said to Srila Prabhupada that he heard…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Lecture) Success in spiritual life depends on how much faith you can develop in Srila Prabhupada. That is really what it means –…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 September 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa, Home Program) There are favourable principles described: dadāti pratigŗhnātiguhyam ākhyāti pŗcchatibhuńkte bhojayate caivaṣaḍ-vidhaḿ prīti-lakṣaname, (Nectar of Instruction, Verse 4) It is said…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 4 May 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Free Lecture) When we see everything in relation to Krsna, then we can be very relaxed. “Okay, it’s Krsna’s external energy. I…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.6) Krsna consciousness starts with inspiration. First, it is the unknown spiritual benefit which gets purified and then attraction…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.31-36) I remember that quite some years ago, there was a seminar here which was called, ‘Unzipping Prabhupada’s purports.’ And the…
Excerpt from Newcastle class, September ’08, HH Kadamba Kanana Maharaja Prabhupada would sometimes ask his disciples to do impossible things…Syamasundara went from America to England and Syamasundara had been close…