(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 February 2013, London, England, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.5.13) When we speak about the disciplic succession, there is an idea – maybe a little overly simplified idea – that a disciplic succession means that a guru instructs his disciple, trains his disciple and then the disciple gives the very same knowledge as he has

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 February 2013, Leicester, England, Bhagavad-gita 4.37)  It is said that when rivers flow into the ocean, the water from those rivers does not affect the ocean, because the ocean itself is so full of water. So Krsna explains that, in the same way, if the heart is full of service to

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 1) So in the Adi-Lila, Lord Caitanya is a devotee only for a very short time when the love of God is there but it is not described very much in the Caitanya Caritamrta. But there is a lot of it in the Caitanya

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 1)   We can look at all the miracles in Lord Caitanya’s life and make a list. For example, as a child, Nimai gets kidnapped and the thieves carry him away but somehow or other, they runaway carrying the child and in the course

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 February 2013, Bhakti Dhama, Bratislava, Slovak) So, like I said before, the road to freedom is the path of responsibility. And what is responsibility? There are different levels. There is responsibility in our jobs, responsibility at home, responsibility in society and so on. But those things are secondary because they are just about surviving

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 January 2013, Radhadesh, Belgium, Caitanya Caritamrta Seminar 1) Sometimes, I think that when Srila Prabhupada presented Krsna consciousness to the world, he went about it a little bit different than the institution that he came from; in the sense that the Gaudiya Math is very Caitanya-centred. Like the Gaudiya Math in India, Mayapur