by KadambaFoundation | 02-Mar-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 September 2014, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.4) We are all in a material situation and I sum it up as, “Sometimes you are on top of the elephant and at other times, the elephant is on top of you!” That is material life, it is...
by KadambaFoundation | 01-Mar-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 October 2014, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.43) It is a blessing to have some good karma. It is a blessing to be detached. It saves one a lot of trouble. It is a shortcut. Such piety is valuable. The blessings of bhakti are...
by KadambaFoundation | 28-Feb-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 February 2009, Srimad Bhagavatam 11.6.11) Some people think that this world is a gift from Krsna to us, “Krsna was so kind that he made this material world for us so that we can have a good time!” That thought is going on and in the middle of...
by KadambaFoundation | 27-Feb-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 January 2017, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.13.5) Caitanya Caritamrta gives the three categories of pious activities. There is karma unmukhi sukriti, moksha unmukhi sukriti and bhakti unmukhi sukriti. Sukriti means spiritual benefit....
by KadambaFoundation | 23-Feb-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 October 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa, Nama Hatta Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 9.10) The four regulative principles are not so easy to follow. It is only possible if we have an intimate relationship with our spiritual master and we really feel...
by KadambaFoundation | 22-Feb-2017 | Media news, Transcripts and Quotes
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 April 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.1) Although it is mentioned that harer nāma harer nāma, harer nāmaiva kevalam, kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva, nāsty eva gatir anyathā (CC Adi 7.76), that this chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra...
