(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 March 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.17) The other day, I was reading some quotes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura and they are still fresh in my mind so they are coming out on this day. He was describing how one of his disciples had spent his life savings to built

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 October 2014, Sydney, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.43) Mokṣonmukhī sukṛti (Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.45 Purport) is pious activity that leads to liberation. So we have pious activities like renunciation, austerity and knowledge. These kinds of pious activities liberate us from material entanglement. If one engages a lot in these things, then in

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2014, Mayapur, India, Youth Class Lecture)  I was invited by Ganga Prabhu for some Italian lunch. I was in his house and then at one point, he started to talk about the making of the Panca Tattva deities. He described that at that time, the sthapatis of South India said, ‘No,

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.25) Question: You explained about the necessity of stretching ourselves and raising the bar of our devotion. How can we know if we are stretching too much or too little? We must begin to accept some of the practices of devotional service and

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, October 2014, Vrindavan, India, Lecture at Ter Kadamba) There was Hans Keilman. He was travelling in India and somehow he came to the Bombay Temple. While the devotees were talking to him, they found out that he was an architect. They brought him before Prabhupada, and said, “Prabhupada, this is Hans from

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 January 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture: Nityananda’s Appearance Day) When we are reaching out to people who have no transcendental knowledge, then we relax the rules and we look at spontaneous service. In this way, we can engage so many people and bring them closer and bring them into our