Forgetting our identity

Forgetting our identity

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, Australia, October 2011) We can also sometimes step out of the identity of being a devotee. Time is such a thing, we forget to chant our rounds…….everyday you are trying, but then you forget: ‘ Did I chant them anyway? What can I do?...
The body is a temple

The body is a temple

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, Australia, October 2011) When we are marking the body with tilak in twelve different places, it is said that the meaning of the tilak is that the body is a temple. It is not only that the body is a temple – we are actually installing...
Krishna owns everything!

Krishna owns everything!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, Australia,October 2011) Everything in this world belongs to Krishna, including our bodies, our children and all of our possessions. Therefore, everything is meant to be used for Krishna. Of course, we ourselves also need to live – we...
Being active

Being active

…It was the marathon and there was one devotee, whose name was Purusottama, he was so fired up that he would start sleep walking and in his sleep he started to distribute books! So he would shake you while you was sleeping and try to sell you a book! And the...
Stricter than strict

Stricter than strict

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Helsinki, Finland, 2011) Vedic culture is sometimes very rigid in following rules and regulations. Especially nowadays, they do not even know why. The main reason why many Hindus are becoming Christians is because their elders are enforcing all...