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Written by Rukmini dd It rains in Vrndavana. The Vrndavana rains are purifying. Maharaja pops his head into the bus apologising for the weather and the delay, and announces a change of plans. Today we will go to Govardhana. Jai Giriraj! The famous sandstone domes of Kusum Sarova come into vision. A bustle of pilgrims […]
The article ” Vrndavana Braj Parikrama – Day 3 ” was published on KKSBlog.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 May 2015, Simhachalam, Germany, Seminar, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.8) trasto ‘smy ahaḿ kṛpaṇa-vatsala duḥsahogra- saḿsāra-cakra-kadanād grasatāḿ praṇītaḥ baddhaḥ sva-karmabhir uśattama te ‘ńghri-mūlaḿ prīto ‘pavarga-śaraṇaḿ hvayase kadā nu (Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.16) “O most powerful, insurmountable Lord, who are kind to the fallen souls, I have been put into the association of demons as […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 May 2016, Vrndavana, India, Bhagavad-gita 3.34) We may say that we do not love chanting so much but if I, as the government, would give an order, “You are not allowed to chant! Chanting is forbidden.” Suddenly, you will have a lot more love for chanting than you think. Whereas now, chanting […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 May 2015, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.8) Lord Nrsimhadev is vigna vinasa – the destroyer of all the obstacles on the devotional path. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written these two books – the Navadvipa-Dhama-Mahatmya, which describes to us the parikrama of Sri Dham Mayapur and then he wrote the Navadvipa-Bhava-Taranga which […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 May 2016, Vrndavana, India, Bhagavad-gita 3.34) Prabhupada used the traffic metaphor for spiritual life and I like this metaphor. It is like this, you start driving in the night – no light and it is pitch dark. You cannot see anything of the road. All that you see are the white […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 May 2016, Vrndavana, India, Bhagavad-gita 3.34) We may not be fully Krsna conscious, our love for Krsna may not be so deep and there may be other desires. But this is just restlessness. How much faith do we have in these other desires? Which devotee can claim to have full faith […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) We are currently serving in the material world and using the paraphernalia of the material world in the service of Krsna. We read about the gopis in Vrndavana, who with their long hair, sweep the marble floor in the kunjas, the meeting places. We sweep […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) Only in Vrndavana is Krsna fully manifesting his pure transcendental nature which is based only on loving exchange and nothing else. It is not based on any sense of duty. Krsna is only purchased by pure and unalloyed love. To follow a sense of […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) (Kirtan ends)…That tune did not work. Last week, it did. I forgot what I did different. That is the nature of ecstasy. You can never just bring it back. It comes on its own and when you try to bring it back, it […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) Srila Prabhupada said that five plus five is ten, two plus two is four, and everything plus Krsna is Vrindavan. So this formula is very brilliant and very simple and if we can just apply this formula by adding Krsna, everything will change. That […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 October 2015, Chowpatty, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.41) Krsna engages in his external duties of paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge (Bhagavad-gita 4.8) to establish the principles of religion and annihilate the demons. In Dwarka, Krsna teaches by example. He comes into this world to teach the conditioned souls and deliver […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 September 2015, Randburg, South Africa, Youth Group Bhajans) By the mercy of the holy name, we are here. The holy name is being carried by devotees. In the Srimad Bhagavatam, there is a description of how the Ganga is entering into the universe – as Vamanadeva cracks the shell of the […]
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 September 2015, Lenasia, Evening Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 7.7) Besides the holy name and transcendental knowledge, there is one more factor in our life which is life itself. Life, is also is our teacher because Krsna is merciful to all living beings. It is said that the uttama-adhikari (topmost devotee) is seeing that everyone is […]