(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2002)

Being indebted is a very natural feeling whenever some love is given. We experience this also in this world. If somebody in a very loving way goes out of his way for us, and really takes a lot of trouble for us – we can never forget it, and we always feel indebted. Later if that person needs our help – we'll help him – spontaneously we want to help him. We feel indebted to this person. We don't think:

" I have a debt to him, and I got to pay. I have to help him".

No! We want to because, he lovingly helped us so much in the past. So that is only material, so what to speak of the spiritual platform. The sense of feeling grateful for what one receives is so great that one wants to just always do whatever one can for that person, and that's how it worked with Prabhupada. The disciples at one point in the final days said to Prabhupada:

"Prabhupada you are driving us mad with love! You are driving us mad!"

And Prabhupada did. He gave so much mercy, and so much kindness in his teaching and he was just bringing his intimate disciples to a higher levels of Krishna Consciousness, which was driving them mad with love – he did. Therefore, the sense of how could you ever forget Prabhupada! So in the same way if we get krpā-siddha – that's is such a great thing – the wonderful love for Krishna, and we would naturally want to pay him back again and again!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, March 2011)

The well-wisher of all – that's a noble thought.  And that is the mood of Krsna and the mood of Krsna's devotee.  Therefore those who chant the Holy Name of Krsna, they get into that mood.  Instead of thinking about themselves, 'me, I and mine, and as much as I can get!'  To please and see what one can manipulate and get out of people… instead of that, they think of the benefit of all.  The benefit of everyone, not only my happiness, not my happiness based on the suffering of others – no, our happiness to include the happiness of all!  That is something, and if we can take up that, then that's a very great goal.

One can find the inspiration to really take that up by chanting the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra, because when we chant the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra, we become purified from our lower nature and then we begin to develop an attraction to serving Krsna.  The more we serve Krsna, the more taste we get and the more we become dedicated to serving Krsna, to the point where we become His instrument.  And when we are so dedicated that we become His instrument, then we can be the well-wisher of all living beings and then that becomes our own meditation.  Then we are on fire!   Then we are so inspired!  Then our whole life becomes meaningful

An inspiring event took place on April 29th 2011, as the Radhadesh community witnessed five college students receive initiated from Kadamba Kanana Swami. He spoke of the importance of the vows and performed the fire sacrifice. Eight other devotees joined the students, including one seventy-year-old Dutchman, who became Jagannath Dasa. The students' spiritual names are listed here:

Bisvajit Chandra Dasa became Vrndavan Dasa.
Gabi became Gayatri Devi Dasi.
Kumari Dasi became Kumari Kunti Devi Dasi.
Nimai Chaitanya Dasa became Visvambar Chaitanya Dasa.
Sukumari took second initiation.

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Transcribed by Dips Prabhu

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011)
I think there is one devotee in our movement who is really doing a significant service at the moment and his name is Vaisheshika. He is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who also is a Spiritual Master in America, who is having a program for weekend warriors – He is the founder of the weekend warriors, and weekend warriors: Yes, men and woman, old and young are all going out on the weekends and distributing some books.

It is very well organised and taken care of. For example when they take a new person out on book distribution they say: 'For the first few times you can not distribute books you can only watch' – He said that if someone is a natural they will disobey their order and will start doing it! but if somebody is afraid then they'll watch for three times and they will then feel good.

It makes it supportive, it is going on, this program is slowly catching on in California where he works – it is catching on in England and it is catching on in South Africa – It is definitely going to catch on!

I will do whatever I can to help that, because otherwise if we don't do something about Kali Yuga then we will just sit here waiting for Kali Yuga to come through the door and gradually it grows over the doors, it goes through the windows, the mode of ignorance – and that is how it is – the business of this movement is to put out the transcendental sound vibration everywhere – and of course we do not want to pressurise ..I am proposing the gentle way, like Vaishaishika was saying: "We used to think that in Sankirtana and Book Distribution you had to climb over the wall, sneek in illegally, duck the security, distribute books and that was real Sankirtana"

He says "Nowadays, we just ask for permission and most of the times we get it!"…. so that was a good point….