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LOVE, PEACE and the RASCAL

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa)

Srimad Bhagavatam

When we come to the spiritual platform, we think it's only love and only peace, that there's only one feeling, one emotion… LOVE and PEACE.

But no, no, no… true spiritual emotions are not only 'lovey dovey', it is also YOU RASCAL! We know one of Prabhupada's favourite words was rascal. In fact, I didn't even know the word before I started reading Prabhupada's books. I learnt the word from Prabhupada. It may even be an out-dated word but in Iskcon it's a bit of an endearing word.

When people were doing all kinds of things, Prabhupada was ready to call them rascals! The whole world is engaging in all kinds of abominable activities and in a modern way of thinking, we start to think of them more and more like victims… a victim of the circumstance. But Prabhupada would say rascal! Because it would make people responsible… because you know what you are doing… and you know what you supposed to do… you know it's wrong…and still doing it… rascal!

So the paramahamsa platform means to take responsibility to rearrange one's life.

But ohhh, so much work (one may say), then lazy rascal… too lazy to rearrange your life!

Well, it's so difficult, it takes so much energy. I mean I'm trying…

No, trying is not good enough, you must do it. Trying basically means that you are not doing it… that means RASCAL!

Like that Prabhupada has this refreshing spirit of being rebellious and had a fighting spirit. Not just being defeated… ohhh, it's so difficult. And we make it more difficult than it already is so that we don't have to do anything about it and everybody will say: Well, that's very reasonable. You have presented so many points there and we understand. Because everyone, in the back of their mind, is thinking that tomorrow it may be my turn. This is a pact that the rascals have with each other!

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Surcharging the world with happiness

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta Part 2

The appearance of Sri Krishna Caitanya Prabhu Nityananda had surcharged the world with happiness! As the sun and moon drives away darkness by their appearance and reveal the nature of everything. These two brothers had dissipated the darkness of ignorance – covering the living beings and enlightening them with the absolute truth…………………By the grace of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, this darkness is removed and the truth is brought to light!

The absolute truth is Sri Krishna, and loving devotion to Sri Krishna exhibited in pure love is achieved through congregational chanting of the holy name which is essence of all bliss. The sun and moon dissipates the darkness of the external world and thus reveals external material objects, like pots and plates.

But these two brothers, Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda had dissipated the darkness of the inner core of the heart and thus they help one meet the two kinds of bhagavatas (person or things in relationship with the Lord). In the Mangalacarana, the line:

'hṛdaya-kandare sphuratu vaḥ śacī-nandanaḥ' (C.c.Adi1.4).

'Hṛdaya-kandare' - means deep caves or cavities in the heart, or the inner most chambers…….. One of the bhagavatas is the great scripture – Srimad Bhagavatam and the other is the pure devotee absorbed in mellows of loving devotion.

In these actions of the two bhagavatas, the Lord instils the mellows of the transcendental loving service in the heart of the living being, and thus the Lord (in the heart of His devotees) comes under control of the devotee's love. The first one is that both brothers appear simultaneously, and other is that they illuminate the inner most dance of the heart!

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Becoming sinless…

(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 11 December 2011, Durban)

No one can become sinless on his own. One cannot decide that, 'from today on I will be sinless.' It doesn't work like that. One might temporarily give up some sinful activities, like on the 1^st of January, people have all these good promises like, 'I'll stop smoking, I'll stop this…and I'll start…' so many things. But on the 2^nd of January it gets tough and if you make it to the 3^rd then you're doing extremely good! So it is like that. Some people are extremely determined and they can give up some sinful activities. Someone can say, 'I'll stop smoking…' and then smoke the last and then finished! Very determined, but all this is not durable. Just by a good decision, good intentions and so on, one cannot become sinless. It won't work. Well many of us might of have thought of many things we could do to become sinless. But the only real way to become sinless is to engage in constant devotional service. That's the only way to become sinless- to hear about Krsna, to glorify Krsna, to serve Krsna in some way or another- all the time! As we increase that devotional service, all the sinfulness is pushed out of our life, permanently!

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