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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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Deep spiritual emotions

Deep spiritual emotions

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2nd March 2012, New York) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta Sometimes the discussion comes up that the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, is post graduate literature, which is translated as: ‘It’s radioactive! You can’t read it. Have you finished the Bhagavatam?’ ‘No.’ ’Then you can’t read it. It’s maya…it’s offensive!’ Prabhupada said: ‘It’s postgraduate. It comes after the

Philosophical wildlife

Philosophical wildlife

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2nd March 2012, New York) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta In Orissa there was a lot of philosophical wildlife! Even Prabhupada mentions that: ‘What comes out of Orissa is not considered so reliable!’ He also makes that statement. Not that with that we can write off everyone and everything, but we must be careful

Living relationship, part 2

Living relationship, part 2

(H.H. Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, part 11) Here in Mayapur, Malati was appointed to do the cooking, and it was very difficult. That was when Prabhupada was still living in a hut. Now that hut is gradually being surrounded by skyscrapers, and I hope that hut will always stay there. That was

Living relationship, part 1

Living relationship, part 1

(H.H. Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, part 11) It is said that Brahmananda’s mother came again and was complaining that her sons were bowing down to Prabhupada. Prabhupada said: ‘Yes…yes, I am also bowing down to my spiritual master. That is the standard, that is the way it’s done.’ So Prabhupada never made

Applying the instructions

Applying the instructions

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11 The point is that you go on the path but you still go through your own experience on that path, and you also have to use your own intelligence on how to deal with it. It is said that the disciple must become

It’s so simple you might just miss it!

It’s so simple you might just miss it!

A lecture given by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 28 February 2012 in Modra, Slovakia. Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya A number between 1 and 18? Audience: 9 Okay. A number between 1 and 34? Audience: 18. Okay, 9.18. This is…

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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)