(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 August 2013, Abenthuer, Germany) om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya cakshur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace. You once mentioned to Bhavananda Prabhu that while you were a resident of the spiritual sky, Krsna approached you and said, “I want you

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, BTS Vyasa Puja Talk) Transcribed by Sukumari devi dasi Going earlier into Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja’s life, we see that Maharaja was already powerful, in the sense that he emerged from that black ghetto and came out as one of the very few, almost symbolic black

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 July 2013, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.6) In the maha-mantra, there is a relationship. There is Krsna, the all-attractive Supreme Lord, and the vocative form of Hara which is Hare and that is the hladini shakti, the pleasure potency – pure devotional service embodied by Radharani, but also referring to

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 March 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, BTS Vyasa Puja Talk) Transcribed by Sukumari devi dasi Bhakti Tirtha Swami was undoubtedly an outstanding person, even in his material life. If we read his biography (Black Lotus), then we see that he grew up in the United States of America where the Afro-American

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 July 2013, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.6) In the opening verse of the Hamsaduta, Srila Rupa Goswami says that he is praying that a certain blissful personality may enter into his heart. It is a nice way to start writing – about a certain blissful personality. We can see that