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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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Radhadesh evening lecture CC Adi 6.108 (30.01.2012.)

Radhadesh evening lecture CC Adi 6.108 (30.01.2012.)

By Matsya das A day after the wonderful and ecstatic festival of the Holy Name at Radhadesh Mellows finished, Kadamba Kanana Swami gave a beautiful talk based on the Caitanya-caritamrta – Adi-lila, from verses 6.108-110 . Please have a look and experience Kadamba Kanana Swami’s unique mood of happiness. Enjoy the lecture and if you

Sanyassa initiation Manor

Planting the holy name

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 10 I was here in Mayapur in the eighties and that time, our devotees in Russia were suppressed by the government, in labour camps and some were in mental hospitals and so on…it was very intense. So the other devotees started Amnesty International style campaign,

The beauty of the creator

The beauty of the creator

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46 The other day we were speaking about the early days, Matchless Gifts and Prabhupada was friends with Dr Misra, from before he came to the ashrama. He took the early Now York devotees to that asharama for a night. They were staying

Collecting spiritual wealth

Collecting spiritual wealth

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 We have to collect spiritual wealth in our spiritual life. We can’t just sit there. Like in the Hitopadeśa: ‘The lion cannot just sleep, and wait for the deer to walk into his mouth. It’s the lion who has to go out

Why do damage to our destiny? part 2

Why do damage to our destiny? part 2

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 Therefore, with our intelligence, we have to see all these factors. In the 11th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, it is said that there was a sannyasi who used to be a miser in his material life, and as a result his

Why do damage to our destiny? part 1

Why do damage to our destiny? part 1

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 23rd Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.14.4 Any standards below the four regulative principles is the standard of when one is suffering. Of course, there is a spiritual life without the four regulative principles, but understanding that one is suffering and therefore, one will do some damage in that

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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)