Offering a lamp

Offering a lamp

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 October 2010, Melbourne, Australia, Lecture) When we offer a lamp to the deities, we try to lock the deities in our heart! We follow the shape of the deity as we are waving our lamp and we are trying to lock the deity into our heart. As we...
Who are we really?

Who are we really?

(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 never know how much of our eternal identity is coming through in our...
Changing ashram

Changing ashram

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 June 2013, Czech Summer Camp, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.2.33) Sometimes, household life is compared to a deep dark well in the scriptures. It maybe that one is a brahmacari or brahmacarini and then one feels, “I cannot do this anymore. It is time...
On the edge

On the edge

Transcribed by Kristin (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 July 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.13.20) Maya is not just waiting for us to fall down. Maya is just waiting for us to get close to the edge and suddenly, she would slap us down! Maya will slap you...