(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 April 2013, Korsnas, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.1) We see that the threshold for the human form of life is lowered in different yugas. In the satya yuga, to attain the human form of life, one has to be very qualified because in satya yuga human beings are very qualified. In the treta yuga, they

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany) Sometimes when reflecting on my life, there are a good number of years in Krsna consciousness and there was also a life before that, but in reflecting on my life then sometimes I think, “Well, I did not really learn anything from the scriptures. Actually everything I learned, I learned from

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42) If we don’t get absorbed in the sankirtan spirit, we may still remain very self-centred because we are so fallen. If we’re self-centred then the desire for self-aggrandizement, for our own glories will remain, which is a subtle form of sex desire, pratiṣṭhā. So this pratiṣṭhā – the desire

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42) We see that Srila Prabhupada based this movement on practical service and not on chanting the whole day, prāyeṇa deva munayaḥ sva-vimukti-kāmā maunaṁ caranti vijane na parārtha-niṣṭhāḥ, (Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.44). And not only on practising for our own salvation, naitān vihāya kṛpaṇān vimumukṣa eko, (Srimad

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 May 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.50) Transcribed by Jnana-samudra das In this material world, we are born with a vacuum within our heart – a big empty heart!  When the heart is big and empty, then the bats of sinful desires fly around in the big cavities that are within