(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)

In the material world (if some of you may remember), you go to the material party and it's a big thing. Then the morning after, you wake up with a huge headache from all the alcohol and everything. You feel terrible …and it's like a hangover from the night before – that's a material party.

But the spiritual party (besides the fact that we are having a good time whilst we are having a party) has a spiritual dimension, that you are also making an eternal spiritual advancement at the same time! We eat and stuff ourselves:

"Yes, I'll have some more of that apple pie…yes I will!"

But the apple pie is also giving us eternal spiritual benefit…………………..this is the amazing thing about this movement. One always makes spiritual advancement…..always!

Prabhupada once mentioned that:

"Even the devotee who is always sleeping – he makes spiritual advancement because at least he is sleeping in the temple!"

So like that, everyone is getting the benefit, and it is important that we appreciate how much benefit there is, how much mercy there is and how wonderful it is! It's just amazing how much better the quality of life of a devotee is!

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)

I was reading in 'The Padma Purana', that:

"All the holy places of the universe are in one tulsi leaf!"

And we just think about that…..when you're a sannyasi, they always give you a tulsi leaf, and when you get the carnamtra it sort of gets stuck in your throat…there were moments when I thought:

"Oh God, here comes the tulsi leaf again".

I was reading, then Krishna made me read:

"All the holy places of the entire universe are in one tulsi leaf!"

Even when it gets stuck in the throat, it's very good….very nice!

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Do I obsess about 9/11? At least I try not to. In short: The official story of the "terrorist attacks" appears to me a fraud. The fraud has apparently succeeded in accomplishing its objectives. And so goes yet another small chapter in the endless history of the material world.

But though I have better things to think about than 9/11, I do sometimes think about it, especially on the anniversary of the event, or when I'm subjected to extra searches by airport security, or when something about 9/11 I didn't know before comes to my attention as particularly striking.

Today, two such special items.

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)


Even with Vrindavan, there is a danger that we can become the enjoyer of Vrindavan, rather than in the mood of serving in Vrindavan. So there are many who are going to Vrindavan, not only in the mind but physically, enjoy Vrindavan:

'Oh Vrindavan….Vrindavan….Vrindavan!'

Even in Vrindavan one must always say:

"Well, what service can I do?"

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Berlin, September 2011)

The topmost level of devotional service is not to serve Krsna directly, because, in the topmost level of devotional service, one realises that what service can I render to Krsna to please Him?

"What is my capacity to please Krsna?  I am so limited!  I am small and insignificant, so even if I would render the greatest service that I could possibly do, even if I would go beyond all my limitations, and go to the maximum of what I can do and make the very best offering that I can, what is the meaning of it in comparison to the offerings that Srimati Radharani makes?  In comparison to the offerings the gopis make?  Therefore, the best I can do is act as an assistant."

(Sanskrit) So, in this way, to assist the assistants a hundred times removed from Srimati Radharani – that is the essence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings.

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