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Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna

Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna
Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna

Even Krsna cannot break it

 
 

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via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Yadurani dd) on 27/03/11


Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said, "I will hear from that person, who has bound Krsna with such a strong bond of love in his heart, that even Krsna Himself cannot break it."  Let's fix ourselves in commitment to a principle, let's fix ourselves is some service, let's fix ourselves in commitment to chanting Hare Krsna and then maintain it..... and then fix ourselves in more of the same and more and more...and never take a step backwards. Just follow in the footsteps of the great devotees, gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Padyavali 74). Then one day, we will obtain that unbreakable love...

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2011, South Africa)

 
 

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The temple is a railwaystation

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via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Jan) on 27/03/11

Although devotees are meant to have ideal relationships, it's not always like that. One devotee complained to Prabhupada and Prabhupada said: "Don't expect that it is Utopia!"

It's not about the temple!

"But I thought when I would join the temple that everything would be really just wonderful, and I thought that basically we would be in the spiritual world."

No, no, no. The temple is the railway station. There you board the train to the spiritual world. It's not that it's already the spiritual world.

It is the station and well you know, you say: "I'm not getting on board of that train! I'm not! I'm not getting on board of this train!"

"Why not?"

"Because I don't like the station!"

That's ridiculous. That's crazy, right?

"I'm not getting on board of that train, because I don't like the station!"

That's stupid, because the train is going to get you out of that station!


(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2011)

 
 

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What is the greatest challenge?

 
 

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via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Jan) on 28/03/11

There are many challenges that we are facing in spiritual life. And if we ask ourselves: "What is the biggest challenge that we are facing in spiritual life?"

If you really think about it, most people would say: "Material desires! If only I could become free from my material desires then it would be easy – I could fly in Krishna consciousness because I have a taste for Krishna consciousness. But, I have these material desires and if only I was free from these material desires."

Therefore it seems that the biggest obstacle in spiritual life is our material desires.

But that is not at all the conclusion of the scriptures. The conclusion of the scriptures has a totally different angle on the matter. The scriptures are saying that th-e biggest problem is not material desires because material desires are doomed, they can't survive.

The one thing that is a problem in spiritual life are offences. Offences made against the Name and against the Vaishnavas. Disrespect for the Name and disrespect for the Vaishnavas. Disrespect for the deities and disrespect for the scriptures. This kind of attitude can cause a delay in spiritual progress. Therefore this is our biggest problem.

This kind of attitude can bring out a tax of material desires which otherwise will automatically diminish. And therefore, this attitude of serving the Vaishnavas and treating the Vaishnavas with the greatest respect is actually the solution in our spiritual life. It will take us to the point where we will begin to experience taste.

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Brisbane, Australia, March 2011)

 
 

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Eternal servants

 
 

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When we come to the point to realise that we are the eternal servants of Krishna, then nothing can change that. Nothing! Because no matter what happens – it's eternal! Nothing in the world, even if the whole world ceases to exist, we are still the eternal servant of Krishna.

And that is how a devotee becomes like a lamp in a windless place, a lamp that doesn't flicker. Because once that knowledge is there, once that conviction is strong and firm then nothing can change our position, nothing in the world can affect that position.

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2011)

 
 

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A Play of Nectar on the Tongue!

 
 

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via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Hina) on 29/03/11

There is one kind of sweet rice which is known as the amrta keli. Keli means it's playing - it is like a play of nectar on the tongue – amrita is nectar – amrta keli ….Do you know how to make sweet rice? Maybe you don't but I will tell you:


It is said that the perfect mix of rice sugar and milk – is one to sixteen – one rice two sugars and sixteen milk. Some people when they make sweet rice, they put the rice in and they boil it. When the rice is sort of cooked, "sweet rice hogaya! Baaniya!". Then put some almond flakes in there and there you have it. Let it cool down and then serve it out, but then the rice is at the bottom and the milk is at the top. That is useless! That's not sweet rice! That's milk with rice!


Real sweet rice means that you have to stir! You are there and you are stirring and stirring and when the milk is on the fire – then do not leave it alone, not even for a second! Stay there and stir and stir and keep stirring it up. In this way we are stirring and stirring and gradually the natural water in the milk begins to evaporate and it becomes thicker. The rice is cooked and the two begins sort of merge into one substance, where you cannot separate the rice from the milk – it has become one! Now don't keep stirring and stirring and make it thick like rice pudding, since it still needs to be liquid, but one substance –that's called sweet rice.

But, that's not amrta keli. In amrta keli, what you need to do is when it gets to the perfect substance then you add more milk and then you boil it down again and you keep on stirring… you stir more…and then at one point the rice just begins to dissolve and you cannot see the difference anymore between the rice and the rest of the substance – it has become one paste - this is amrta keli!

You can get that only in one place in the world. Mainly in Yamuna where the deity is known as a Khira Joyti Gopinath or the deity that stole the kheer. So that must be a good sweet rice – even the deities were stealing it! He stole it for his devotee – Madhavanda Puri. When Madhavanda Puri got the pot of that sweet rice – he ate the sweet rice and after that he also ate the pot! Seriously – everyday he broke it, and he ate a little piece of the clay pot. So,if the Lord has stolen it you, than that is the right mood.

Anyway, that is what we require. We have to make our spiritual life 'amrta keli' - so we have to make it more thick and we have to boil it down even more. First the quantity, such as - more time with the devotees, more servers, more chanting, more kirtan. Then improve the quality - try to become a real servant! Try and really bow down to the dust of the feet of the vaishnavas! In that way we can gradually get the taste – that's the trick. So it's not cheap! It's not a matter of walking in and walking out, it's not instant – but this is what we want!In this world nowadays people have instant coffee and everything - instant enlightenment:

" I am have already been chanting for 3 days and still no prem – I think it does not work!"

No ! One has to stir and stir – and make it thick and rich! And fill ones life with worship of Krsna!





(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Chowpatty, 11th December 2010)

 
 

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