Browsing: preaching

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 May 2020, Durban, South Africa, Caitanya Caritamrta Lecture) It is our mission to share the fruits of love of God with everyone – in the form…

 (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 January 2017, Brisbane, Australia, Home Program Lecture) We may recall that Ramanuja Acarya’s spiritual master sent him to study under a great self-realised sage, and after…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2-7) We should never think that somebody is not a devotee. We should think that everyone is a devotee! The…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, May 2011, Radhadesh, Belgium, Lecture) Our ISKCON movement is growing every day, and not growing only in numbers but it is also growing in complexity! In the…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2003, Lecture) There are no limits to HOW we can preach but we must know that when we preach in the spirit of being compassionate, trying to…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 June 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.75) Sometimes small things can make such a big difference. When it does not happen, that can also make a…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 August 2009) What benefit will renunciation alone give us? Simply by fasting, simply by giving up the world will we get the mercy of Krsna? No!…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 17 June 2009, Japa Talks)  “This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting.” His Divine Grace…

(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, 12 November 2016, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.18.1-8) In the Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Lord Caitanya says, “I am only one gardener. I have so many fruits of love…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011, Helsinki, Finland) In preaching, we should not throw Krsna consciousness like a ton of bricks on people’s heads and all at once tell them, “You have…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 July 2016, Swiss Summer Camp, Switzerland, Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture) A sadhu (holy man) is a missionary. Preaching is the fruit of his labour. However, one must…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 March 2016, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) It is not desirable to worship out of fear… out of fear of the Lord or out of…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, October 2010, Melbourne, Australia, Lecture) Compassion only really begins if we appreciate that we have something better. If we have something better then we can be compassionate.…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) There is always mercy to give to people, at work also. Some people are such good preachers, it…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42) Question: Maharaja, our services and chanting are all absolute because our ultimate aim is to please Krsna. So, why does…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42) If we don’t get absorbed in the sankirtan spirit, we may still remain very self-centred because we are so fallen. If…

(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…