(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Harikesh was very smart, very intelligent. So when they were smuggling books behind the Iron Curtain, they had two vans that were exactly the same. One van would drive over the border, out of the East Bloc, empty and then they would change the

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 October 2014, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.13.22) Kunti Devi is explaining that one must be materially exhausted and take no more pride in the position of one’s birth, wealth, learning or beauty. However, it is very challenging to overcome tendencies of taking pride in those things. On Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance day,

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 15 September 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) To always see Krsna everywhere and never forget him for a moment, to see everything connected to Krsna, is Krsna consciousness! In that way, we see Krsna’s energy and we see Krsna behind it. It may be that we see Krsna everywhere but

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 September 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture) Spiritual nourishment is a very important principle. Without it, there is no endeavour. We must always look for new, fresh inspiration and over time, you need more instead of less. In the beginning, you can do amazing austerities on relatively little nourishment because

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2014, Pretoria, South Africa, House Program) Two years ago in Vrindavan, there was a devotee from a South American background who asked Brahmananda, “Brahmananda, in the early days with Prabhupada, it was very intimate, very close with only few devotees, but later it became a bigger movement. Do you feel