Q&A with KKS: First trip to Vrndavan
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 07 January 2018, Brisbane, Australia, Q&A Programme) How did you go to Vrndavan? Is this when you took up Krsna consciousness seriously? I was walking with the cows…
Browsing: Vrndavan
Such a vision
(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…
The holy dhamas
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 November 2017, Mayapur, India, Nectar of Devotion Seminar) In the Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 13, we are talking about residing in Mathura dhama or Mathura mandala which refers to…
Vrindavan, November – Part 4
Written by Rukmini dd This is the last part of the Braj Parikrama 2016 series of posts. Chir ghat India is the land of making easy things impossible and impossible…
The mercy of Vrindavan
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 June 2014, Stockholm Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.14) What do we do in Vrindavan, when we visit there, to get more of Krsna’s mercy? Hearing, chanting and…
Direct service
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2013, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.16.34) To really serve in a mood of trying to please Krsna is not so easy. Obviously, a lot of…
Unlimited beauty
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2013, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.16.34) So this merciful aspect of Krsna is very important. To be merciful says something about the state of the…
Causeless mercy
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2013, Vrndavan, India, Lecture to the kirtan group) Krsna is so kind, he gives us the spiritual world. I often think about that. Krsna thought to…
Why walk when you can fly!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 3) In the sky, there are many birds and all are sort of assigned on different levels. We see…
Seeing good in others
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 March 2013, Vrndavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.27.10) In general, we have to give credit to people. Only senior vaisnavas, who take the responsibility for the spiritual life…
Humility in great vaisnavas
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 March 2013, Vrndavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.27.10) Srila Prabhupada would occasionally speak out in great humility. For example, there is the purport of Srimad Bhagavatam, in…
Vegetarianism
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 3) Tamal Krishna Maharaja told the story of when he went to China. He said that he was a vegetarian. They asked,…
Hiding the lower nature
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 March 2013, Vrndavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.27.10) I saw a cartoon where there were two people sitting next to each other and they are hiding their inner…
Blessings come with instructions
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 3) In our sampradaya, we see siksa connections but these siksa connections existed between maha-bhagavats, between great devotees. Because…
Entrance into Vrndavan!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 3 March 2013, Vrndavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.27.10) We have taken birth in this age of kali. Those living beings who are qualified, and there are so many, actually go…
Vaisnava etiquette
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 3) From the Caitanya Caritamrta, everything can be restored. Everything is in there but what is actually in there?…
To perform a great mission!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 2) It is described that Madhavendra Puri was the śaktyāveśa-avatāra of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That explains everything; that explains…
The worship of Lord Nrsimhadev
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 2) Sometimes, we may wonder why are we worshiping Lord Nrsimhadev in our sampradaya? Are we not just focused…
What a vow!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamtra Seminar Part 2) Madhavacarya was extraordinary because he was worshiping Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We find Madhavacarya seated…
The roots of our sankirtan movement
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 February 2013, Vrndavan, India, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 2) Everyday when we offer bhoga, we chant certain mantras. We chant a mantra glorifying Lord Caitanya who distributed krsna…
Go to Vrndavan
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Class) There are devotees who say, “You know, I haven’t been to Vrndavan for twenty years!’’ I don’t know…
“They cannot be worshiped as a couple!”
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 December 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) Govindaji was the deity that had been installed in Vrndavan by Srila Rupa Gosvami. For a period…