by KadambaFoundation | 11-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 December 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.26.41) Our favourite song which we chant so happily, “Sarīra abidyā-jāl, joḍendriya tāhe kāl, jīve phele viṣaya-sāgore, tā’ra madhye jihwā ati, lobhamoy sudurmati,” translates...
by KadambaFoundation | 10-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 June 1999) Once in India, I saw a serious drawing. It was a drawing of a frog and this particular frog was in somewhat of a precarious position because a snake had crawled up from behind and had half swallowed the frog! The mouth of the snake...
by KadambaFoundation | 09-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 December 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.26.41) One may want family life but how can you have a good family life without Krsna. Family life without Krsna will not be satisfactory; it will become very frustrating. It is only...
by KadambaFoundation | 07-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2009, Durban, South Africa, Lecture) There was a Mr Gupta who lived in Indore in India and he had a shop selling truck parts and the whole day people would visit his shop. But there was something special about his shop in that everywhere there...
by KadambaFoundation | 06-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 November 2016, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.18.1-8) In an initiation ceremony, we receive the maha-mantra. So it is like those birthdays where you get a big gift, you open up the box and inside is a gift that you already have, “Oh, I...
by KadambaFoundation | 05-Jan-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Untitled Lecture) When I approached my spiritual master for initiation, he said, “Hmmm, as good as God, are you prepared to accept that?” And I thought, “Umm, well, I don’t know…” but I just said yes with a weak voice because it is not so...