(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) Devotional service can change anything. It doesn’t matter since it can capture the impious. The impious can also engage in devotional service, and we see how much of an expert Jayananda was at that: “Excuse me. I‘m just doing some work……could you for a moment hold this plank, while

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) I remember the story of how Srila Prabhupada went to Scotland in Glasgow. They made a very nice arrangement and hired out the theatre. It was a nice theatre with balconies on the side and in the centre. It was just packed. Everywhere there were people, there were even

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) Sometimes it is said that in the initial stages of faith of when there is the initial phase – that we are travelling but the journey goes uphill. But we are appreciating the association of the devotees and we are with the devotees, but the path is still going

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011) There are different types of benefits one can get. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura in his own anubhasya – commentary on the Caitanya-caritamrta explains, that there is: ‘Karma-unmukhī sukṛti’. There is ‘mokṣa-unmukhī sukṛti’ and, ‘ bhakty-unmukhī sukṛti’ (C.c.Madhya 22.45) He said: “There are pious activities for which you will get

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011) Only a proud man thinks that he can approach the Supreme Lord directly. A humble person understands: “Who am I? Contaminated as I am with all the vices of the world – lust, greed, anger and envy. All these qualities are in me. Who am I to go before the

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011) We are used to whatever we have – to always be a little bit empty, and therefore we always have an open eye to see if there is anything more we can get, to fill the vacuum that is in our heart. This is just a normal state of consciousness.