Browsing: spiritual world

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 May 2018, Radhadesh, Belgium, College of Vedic Studies Retreat Lecture: ‘Krsna Consciousness in the Real World’) The other day I was remembering Srila Prabhupada’s statement of…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 December 2017, Gold Coast, Australia, Bhagavad-gita 8.20) There is another world than the one we live in. It is transcendental and is not subjected to the…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa, Youth Group Lecture) Srila Prabhupada described how one corner of the spiritual world becomes covered, just as how a corner of the sky becomes…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa, Youth Group Lecture) Srila Prabhupada said 5+5 = 10, 2+2 = 4 but everything + Krsna is Vrindavan. So this formula is very…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Bhagavad-gita Lecture) The 5th Chapter of Bhagavad-gita gives us a metaphor of the lotus flower that sits on water but…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 April 2017, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.15.68) Srila Prabhupada explained that this material world is just a tiny little corner of the spiritual sky and that…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 September 2015, Midrand, Johannesburg, Lecture) When one corner of the spiritual world becomes covered by a cloud of illusory energy then Krsna cannot be seen, nāhaḿ…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 September 2016, Midrand, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 9.9) Continued from Surrender unto Me. When we read about Krsna’s neutrality, we need to understand it…

(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…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.52) We are not free to live life just as we want to: prakrteh kriyamanani, gunaih karmani sarvasah, the bewildered spirit…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 September 2014, Durban, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture)  If we can have Krsna in the foreground, in every situation – first Krsna and then everything – then…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 April 2016, Radhadesh, Belgium, Vyasa Puja Address) I was fortunate; I got the mercy of the dhama, of a world dedicated to Krsna. Of course, the external layer…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) Srila Prabhupada said that five plus five is ten, two plus two is four, and everything plus Krsna…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 July 2014, Swiss Retreat, Switzerland, Candramrta and Chandradoya Nataka Seminar, Part 4) We don’t know our eternal identity in the pastimes of Krsna at present. You…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) Krsna plays the flute, in an amazing way. Krsna is such a musician that he speaks through…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) Freedom! Where is freedom in this world? Somehow we became disconnected from our real self and therefore we…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 March 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.47) Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, is an abode that is free from anxiety. But as soon as you turn away from Krsna,…

(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, 13 January 2014, Mayapur, India, Lecture: Kirtan Academy 2) Transcendental knowledge is not some academic process. Sometimes, people say to me, “Oh, you know, I read the…