(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)

There are techniques you can use to control the mind. We can obviously chant in a peaceful place. We have to make sure that we have rested enough and things like that. We have to put business aside. These are the techniques for controlling the mind by discipline.

So there is an element of discipline that we are trying to control. The other element is that the mind becomes attracted by Krishna! That we actually become captured by Krishna! So I am interested in that part! That's what I want to develop that bigger and bigger….more and more!

When I am chanting that is what I am thinking about…Krishna's attractive features. What attracts me in Krishna, is that it inspires me. Sometimes before I chant, I first read until I get across something that really inspires me and then I start chanting…and then the chanting is very inspiring! Lke that I try to allow myself…my mind to be attracted to Krishna, because He is attractive!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)

Obviously there are many many superior personalities, who have somehow or other served the Supreme Lord. All throughout the universe, there are many great personalities such as Lord Siva, Lord Brahma and many other of the Devatas….or the manus…..there are many great devotees and all these devotees have blessed us! And can bless us more, since their blessings are a great benefit.

The blessing of the Spiritual Master is the greatest blessing! So all these devotees can bless us because they have credit with Krishna and therefore they can attract the mercy of Krishna! And in this way we can be uplifted even beyond what we deserve!

As we are going through life so many times we just choose the wrong thing, knowingly. We just choose something in this temporary world and it's just love and this love and that love and so much love and then so much misery! It's amazing, it happens and again and again it happens. And we think, 'well this time it's real, absolutely. This time it's different.' But it's not any different at all, it's the same as all the other times! Exactly the same, again and again.

That is what Bhagavatam is telling us. And we say, 'no, no, no…Bhagavatam doesn't know what it's talking about! That's a book and this is life. Not everything in life can be in a book.' No, it's all in the book, it really is. It's all in there. Everything that's there in life, it's all in Bhagavatam. It's not that something hasn't been included in the Bhagavatam. It's all there, it's all there…

(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, August 2010, Sweden)