(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 October 2012, Melbourne, Australia) Commonly in most traditions, God is accepted as all powerful, all knowing, timeless, ageless, beyond matter and not affected by it – eternal, in other words. We have a concept of God who has no limitation, who is not limited by anything. He is unlimited in all

By Kadamba Kanana Swami  Ayurveda There’s not much going on externally. It’s a health retreat. Confined by bodily limitations. So there are no travels, no programs but rest, some exercise, diet and lots of ayurvedic medicine – better than steroids though. But Krsna is always there. Prabhupada was describing how the devotees had become transformed

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21st November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Spiritual life is interesting because we are meant to surrender and come to a point where we commit for a lifetime. But how can we commit for a lifetime when we don’t know what a lifetime is going to do to us? A lifetime comes

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21st November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) Vrndavan is not at all an ordinary place. In Vrndavan, everything is intensified. In Vrndavan, Krsna is more present than anywhere else. When we go to Vrndavan, there are so many beautiful places. Barsana, beautiful palace on the hills… just walk on top of that hill and

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21st November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa) I have very little capacity when it comes to sādhana-bhakti or devotional service in practice. My capacity is not very great. That is of course not uncommon because after all: ‘prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ sabhya kalāv asmin yuge janāḥ mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ,’ (SB 1.1.10) It says that in