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A Voyage To Transcendence

Navigate the ocean of material life with Kadamba Kanana Swami’s new book. Use the boat of bhakti to reach the far shore of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental abode. In A Voyage to Transcendence, Kadamba Kanana Swami offers a map and companionship. Drawing on Gaudiya Vaişnava teachings and lived experience, the book presents bhakti as the boat that carries us across the wide waters of nescience. Read more....

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Motherly tendencies

Motherly tendencies

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.28.55) Devotee: Your explanation implies that every woman wants to be a mother?   I think deep down within every woman, there is a motherly tendency and that must be encouraged in culture as something which is positive. Of course, in modern society sometimes that tendency is buried under so

A lesson on life

A lesson on life

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2 June 2012, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.13.5) Worms are eating your insides, right now! You feel the pains here and there. Worms are eating your liver. Worms are eating your heart. They eat your heart out while you sit there. There are even worms living in your brain, I read about this! It’s not that

Cape Town – Part I

Cape Town – Part I

Could it be Maharaja’s love for the devotees in Cape Town or perhaps the enthusiasm with which the devotees receive him here that since his arrival, he has temporarily suspended his strict resting schedule and committed to doing programs almost daily. Maharaja travelled from Durban to Cape Town on Saturday (22 December). He did a

Cultivating our devotional creeper

Cultivating our devotional creeper

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa)                     In the Hare Krsnna movement, when we speak about mercy, we are certainly not speaking about grace only…mercy only. It’s not that someone has died for us and suffered for our sins and now all

Krishna prema

Krishna prema

Trascribed by Nama-rupa dd (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 September 2012, Durban, South Africa) When Krishna places His lotus feet in the river Yamuna, the water plants in the Yamuna are holding on to Krishna’s feet and will not allow Krishna to pull His feet out of the Yamuna again. Yamuna then stops flowing and

Material weight

Material weight

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 October 2012, Melbourne, Australia, Lecture at Bhakti Bhavana) When we are walking, we put weight from one leg onto the other leg. First it is on my left leg, in the back and then I move one foot to the front and put it down. But there is no weight on

I've created this foundation to preserve my media and to support African preaching programs in South Africa

Kadamba Kanana Swami

Kadamba Kanana Swami

1953 - 2023

HH Kadamba Kanana Swami Departs

Dear Devotees

On Thursday 9th March at 12.06pm, under the gaze of Śrī Giriraja, in the holy land of Śrī Vṛndāvana dhāma, in the loving company of his spiritual master and the vaisnavas, with a resounding kirtan party, His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami departed from this material realm.

 

"Intelligent persons who take shelter of beautiful Vrndavana's opulent vines melting with motherly love, and throw far away the idea that they are material, become supremely successful, both in this life and also after death." (Prabhodananda Saraswati, Vrindavana Mahimamrta)