by KadambaFoundation | 25-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
Chanting is not meant to be a musical performance. It can be, but now we will try to perform it in a different mood – in the mood of performing a yagna. In a yagna, the essence is to partake, just as when one throws grains in a fire, it’s nice if one is...
by KadambaFoundation | 25-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03/04/2010) ‘I have to be a rock, and Krishna sits on me all day, and the cowherd boys, they’re jumping around and playing with Him, and I always have to be the rock’, and then ‘What a drag! What a drag you know. Oh boy, Oh boy. Oh yeah, I...
by KadambaFoundation | 25-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24/01/2010) Krsna takes great pleasure in hearing His names being chanted. One should not think that Krsna is enjoying the chanting because it is a form of vanity in Him that He enjoys: ‘ Oh!! The’re chanting My name!!!’ No,...
by KadambaFoundation | 22-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
So the chanting of the Hare Krsna Mahamantra is a simple thing which can be done anywhere by anyone. One doesn’t need to be rich, or doesn’t need to be in a temple. It’s not reserved for big public festivals. It can be done at home. One can simply,...
by KadambaFoundation | 22-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
Those who are intelligent, they understand that the Supreme Lord has His energies that are all-pervading, but that He is also simultaneously a person. But that realization comes after many births. It says in the Bhagavad Gita (sanskrit) that it takes many births...
by KadambaFoundation | 22-Apr-2010 | Transcripts and Quotes
The Business people: ‘Aaah, Yes my Lord PLEASE ! I give you – you give me also! I give you small donation, You make me rich!’ Like that, we see in front of our temples in India, we have the money changers. In Vrindavan, there they have one paiysa coins –...