The day after London Ratha Yatra, Maharaja flew to Stockholm, Sweden. It was Pani Hati Maha Mahotsava, and Maharaja gave the evening class describing the pastime which took place over 500 years ago upon the instruction of Nityananda Prabhu to Raghunatha Dasa Goswami.

In the days that followed, Maharaja gave morning Bhagavatam classes at the nearby BBT headquarters of north-east Europe. The classes dealt with the departure of Bhismadeva and Maharaja narrated inspiring stories from the Mahabharata in glorification of him.

In the evening, Maharaja gave classes at the Stockholm temple. The Swedish devotees received Maharaja in a very sweet way and each time he left the temple, they accompanied him to the car with a Harinama. During our last day in Sweden, Maharaja and some of his disciples met to perform some wonderful bhajanas outside the temple, enjoying the wonderful weather and the chanting of the holy name.
In this way, it was a very pleasant and inspiring stay.

If you want to listen to the lectures that Maharaja gave during his stay in Sweden, please visit the website of the Stockholm temple!

If you cannot view the slideshow below, please visit flickr.

Here are also some aditional pictures, taken by Nama Rupa Mataji. Please view them on picasa!

Kadamba Kanana Swami (Croatia, August 2010)

Question: Can you define lust?

If we serve our own senses, then it's called lust but if we serve the senses of Krsna, then it's called love. So love is about giving and satisfying others and lust is about satisfying ourselves.

So when we are the centre in every situation… we are the centre of the universe… we are the main person here and everybody must be pleasing to us… and if somebody is not pleasing to us causes a disturbance – that's all lust.

But if we are trying to be pleasing to others… if the others are more important and we are trying to act in such a way that they will become pleased and happy…then we are free from lust. As soon as we think that others are there to please us then we are LUSTY. And from one level of lust comes intense lust and then we want to enjoy on the bodily platform. We have to serve the senses of Krsna and His devotees… everyone is a devotee of Krsna, only some know it and others don't.