(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 June 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.75) Sometimes, it is nice to remember that kind of magic shortcut of giving out the mercy. It is amazing what mercy one can give. I sometimes tell the story of how I was in the Netherlands and I had to do a program in

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 May 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, Lecture at Govindas) Did you know that one Tulasi leaf has the same benefit as all the holy places in the universe? Every morning in the temple, we do parikrama – we go around Tulasi. This means we go around all the holy places in the universe each

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 May 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, Lecture at Govindas)   The wall of false ego is cemented by pride – ‘I’ and ‘mine’. When we take pride in ‘I’ and ‘mine’, that wall becomes higher and thicker and stronger. By cultivating humility, we diminish that wall of false ego and we gradually come

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 June 2014, Bhaktivedanta Manor, London, Caitanya Caritamrta Adi-Lila 8.63-66) When Krsna left Vrindavan and entered the wrestling arena in Mathura, which was all staged by Kamsa, it is described that different people in the audience were perceiving Krsna in different ways. Some were seeing Krsna as paramatma; the ladies in Mathura

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Lecture at House Program) I remember a Vyasa puja offering from Bhurijana, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada. He joined in 1968 and then around 40 years later, Bhurijana wrote an offering to Prabhupada. In the offering he wrote, “I do not really have anything to report.