Lord Balarama: Part 2

Lord Balarama: Part 2

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 August 2014, Czech, Balarama Jayanti, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.1.8) Balarama and Krsna are the same but there are differences also. The principle difference is that Balarama is the Supreme Lord in the mood of serving Krsna, ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa,...
Lord Balarama: Part 1

Lord Balarama: Part 1

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 August 2014, Czech, Balarama Jayanti, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.1.8) In this verse, Maharaj Parikshit is inquiring about Balarama. How was it possible that Balarama was simultaneously in the womb of Devaki and the womb of Rohini? Whose son is he...
Looking back

Looking back

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 June 2015, New York, USA, Bhagavad-gita 9.33) When I was a kid, I was quite wild. One of my favourite games was to take a ball, throw it onto the roof of the house then climb up the drainpipe, grab the ball, come back down and throw it onto...
Sweet challenges

Sweet challenges

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 June 2015, Gita Nagari, USA, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.8) Srila Kavi Karnapura, in his Caitanya Candrodaya Nataka, explains how there are two types of devotional service which are: devotional service with nectar and devotional service without...
A genuine person

A genuine person

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Untitled Lecture) The other day, I was reading one page of the Lilamrta and it was a description of a person who had come to the temple for the first time and who met Prabhupada. Prabhupada was lecturing and the person said it was almost...