Author Archives: Ananda Vrindavan Dasi

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 November 2013, Vrindavan, India, Lecture: Damodar Lila) Prabhupada’s preaching has not finished; it has not finished at all. As it continues to flood the entire world, more and more people will come. So, yes, let the new people come; let them go forward! Let them offer a lamp in the front […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Home Program) Damodarastakam, Verse 2 (Seeing the whipping stick in His mother’s hand) He is crying and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Home Program) Damodarastakam, Verse 1 To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence, knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings are swinging to and fro, who is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula, who (due to the offense of breaking the pot […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Home Program) The pastime of binding of Krsna is interesting. We remember that Yasoda was trying to tie up Krsna and each time, the rope was two fingers short. She added more ropes, still two fingers short; more ropes, still two fingers short – no matter how many […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Home Program) In the Bhagavad-gita 10.35, Krsna says that of all the months, “I am marga-sirsa,” which is a name for the November-December period. It is said that before Krsna, first comes Radha – Radha-Krsna, Radha-Syam, Sita-Ram, like that. First the consort of the Lord is mentioned. […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Home Program) During this month of Damodar, there is a chance of making special advancement. Those who go to Vrindavan during the month of Kartik are very fortunate. It is said that in Vrindavan during Kartik, one can make many times more advancement than under normal conditions […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 August 2013, Goloka Dhama, Germany, Hamsaduta Seminar Part 1) Compassion means that when we experience something ourselves then, we can do something for others who are going through what we are going through. I have thought about compassion as a topic and dealt with the topic. Every year, I have been […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 July 2013, Serbian Summer Camp, Fruska Gouranga, Seminar Part 2) When a living being leaves the spiritual world, it is not that you were in the pastimes with Krsna then you went to the material world. Let’s say you were cowherd boy and suddenly there is one cowherd boy less! Then […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 July 2013, Serbian Summer Camp, Fruska Gouranga, Seminar Part 2) I remember, one year I was with Sacinandana Maharaja and a whole group of devotees on a boat, sailing in Danish waters. Maharaja gave this seminar about Krsna’s sweetness. It was all about Krsna being so sweet, looks so sweet… and […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 July 2013, Serbian Summer Camp, Fruska Gouranga, Seminar Part 2) I remember, one year I was with Sacinandana Maharaja and a whole group of devotees on a boat, sailing in Danish waters. Maharaja gave this seminar about Krsna’s sweetness. It was all about Krsna being so sweet, looks so sweet… and […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 July 2013, Serbian Summer Camp, Fruska Gouranga, Seminar Part 2) Caitanya Caritamrta describes how Srimati Radharani is discovering the qualities of Krsna and each time that she founds a new quality of Krsna, she loves that quality also. In this way, her love for Krsna is eternally increasing, unlike material relationships. […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 May 2012, Melbourne, Australia, Bhakti Bhavan Program) Question: I feel that I suffer from depression. Can we please talk about it and do you have some solution? Well, it is good to be depressed about material life but one should be very optimistic about spiritual life. So, if we are depressed […]