Instructions by Kadamba Kanana Swami Part 2 – Festivals of Krsna’s Glories
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 September 2022, Vrndavana, India, Balarama Hall Program) It is now my service to stay here in Vrndavana. This service of mine is not the service of…
Browsing: preaching
Instructions by Kadamba Kanana Swami Part 1 – Connecting with Srila Prabhupada
(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…
Sharing the fruits
(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…
The more we give, the more we gain
(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…
Q&A with KKS: Current preaching mission
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 07 January 2018, Brisbane, Australia, Q&A Programme) Since you accepted the sanyas order, you have been travelling around the world. Can you tell us a bit about…
The welfare of all the people of this world
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 November 2017, Mayapur, India, Russian Morning Class, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.6.10) The spirit of giving the mercy to others should be our focus and we can do…
Find the devotee
(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…
Diversity with a common goal
(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…
Fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s desires
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, May 2011, Radhadesh, Belgium, Lecture) Srila Prabhupada emphasised book distribution and that emphasis will never go away no matter what we do! There was a time when…
Inspired preaching
(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…
What if …
(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…
Prabhupada was ready to deal with anything and anyone…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2017, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.13.4) We have three categories of liberated souls – one with both feet in the material world, one with one…
Attracting mercy
(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!…
Meeting Krsna
(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…
Pleasing Srila Prabhupada
(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…
There are many ways to spread Krsna consciousness
(Kadamba Kanana Swami) Preaching will not become successful if we are not endearing ourselves to Krsna. Preaching does not just depend on some techniques otherwise we could all learn hypnosis…
Active preachers
(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…
Effective preaching
(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…
The missionary aspect of a sadhu
(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…
To serve Krsna out of love
(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…
What is compassion?
(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.…
Memory Lane: The Gauranga Bhajan Band
The whole world is full of festivals dedicated to Krsna and miracles happened; we have seen it with our own eyes. In the former Yugoslavia, in the 80s, there was…
Whomever you meet, instruct them about Krsna…
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 May 2015, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.10.23) Trivikrama Maharaj tells the story of when Prabhupada said, “My spiritual master made in into a diamond!” A diamond,…
Preach everywhere
(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…
The thrills in Krsna consciousness
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Leicester, UK, Pandava Sena Program) There are thrills in the material world and there are many thrills in Krsna consciousness but the difference is that thrills in…
Attracting special mercy
(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…
Losing all glory
(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…
Effective preaching
(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…
Powerful preaching
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Amsterdam, 23rd August 2012) Lecture: Part 2 – SB 4.29.55 Big cities have many levels of people. We can get in on many levels. You…