We have to endeavour again and again

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We have to endeavour again and again

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (Jan) on 3/03/11

One has to say no. No! - to the lower nature and:
Yes! - to spiritual activity.
Every time - again. Never is there a time when we've done it, when we are successful.
"Now I've done it, now I've conquered my lower nature. Now I've conquered the material energy."
No! Again and again one has to conquer. Again and again.
And as soon as we stop, the material energy takes over again.

Just like the jungle: The plants, they just take over and you have to cut and to trim again and again, and they then grow back.

Or like the beard, or like the hair, every time again you have to shave – didn't shave this morning... It just never stops. It never stops. It keeps on growing'
"It's too much, this shaving."
Again and again - that's the nature of spiritual life!

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

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Projecting our desires to cover reality!

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Projecting our desires to cover reality!

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 6/03/11

When the mode of passion is afflicting us then the intelligence becomes distorted by our desires and we cover reality because we 'wanted it to be so beautiful.' Therefore Puranjan wanted Puranjani to be so extremely beautiful so he made her even more beautiful than she even was and therefore was saying;
'My Dear Goddess of fortune, Where is your lotus flower?
My Dear Laxmi Devi you must have dropped it somewhere'
and of course in doing so Puranjan was also fruitive - so at the same time he was flattering her by comparing her to Laxmi which made her feel kind of really special.
It is like friend of mine - we were walking in the forest - this was in the karmi days - a beautiful girl was sitting near a pond with water lilies and my friend just walked into the pond took a water lily and put it at her feet and she melted on the spot!!!
And I couldn't believe it - she melted on the spot!
So, it works like that, that's called "romantic,"
a little flattery and everything is done!
So, both of them were actually investing in their desires.
The hope for happiness is covering the material energy and it is making it even better that it actually is - and that is called the mode of passion and that is the inevitable need in the material world because the desire for happiness is so deep and grave that we just don't get it and we are looking for it and it's not here - it's not there….. and finally there is an opportunity – it has some defects but we just edit it out with the photo shop!
Everything looks good in photo shop and it was not invented on the computer - it was for a long time in our mind! So many things and details we took out to make it just a little better. - but unfortunately after a little while we come down to reality and one becomes aware of the limitations of the material energy.

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney 2010)

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No Limits

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No Limits

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (Jan) on 7/03/11

Everything simply should be offered to Krishna; and in that way we are a member of this movement.
Some people didn't realise, what they were becoming part of.
They liked the enthusiasm of this movement, but they didn't realise the level of commitment, that Srila Prabhupada came to ask for.

"Well, isn't that a bit too much?"
No, it's not much! It's not enough. We can do still more.

And if we do, then there is no limit - no limit to what we can experience in Bhakti. No limit!

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

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Choosing our influences for our sacred space

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Choosing our influences for our sacred space

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 8/03/11

We can choose what influences we allow to enter into our consciousness.
We can declare our consciousness as a sacred space:

"This consciousness is something that I declare a sacred space and within this consciousness I'll try and bring in influences that are uplifting, that are giving me strength and that are adding to my happiness"

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney 2010)

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Bird goes out and then straight back in the cage

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Bird goes out and then straight back in the cage

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 20/03/11

The only thing that has meaning is service to Krishna and everything else is totally empty and totally leads to nothing, no progress - Like Prabhupada when he was in New York he was imitating the sound of the cars and saying that they are travelling at neck breaking speed but they are not making any progress, they are not going anywhere.
So the whole world going so fast but not really going anywhere - just staying in the material energy, staying in the cage but not going anywhere.
Prabhupada said: we have a bird in the cage we take the cage and we put it out in the field and the bird goes out and straight back into the cage - that's also us- we have that opportunity to engage in devotional service but we don't really want it as we know this cage and it is a comfortable cage and there are nice things to eat and different levels to sit in the cage so we like to stay in our cage -

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm 2011)

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The spiritual master is always with us

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The spiritual master is always with us

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (Jan) on 19/03/11

Srila Prabhupada said that: "Now my spiritual master is no longer present on this planet."
He said: "But my spiritual master is always with me. Always - just like Krishna is always with me."
Because Krishna is always with us, residing in the heart.

But Krishna when residing in the heart, is not alone.
No, because Krishna is never alone. Krishna is always there with his associates. Therefore when Krishna is present in the heart it means all his associates are also present in the heart and therefore it means that even the spiritual master is also present in the heart.
He said: "And therefore my spiritual master is always present with me."

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

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Never Stop Doing Devotional Service.

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Never Stop Doing Devotional Service.

via kksblog.com by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 18/03/11

If we have bad qualities, what can we do? We can work on it, but they don't go away automatically. We will try and develop better personal qualities, but whatever we are, however fallen we are, at least do devotional service. That's the key!
Never stop doing devotional service. As much as possible, engage in devotional service, because that service will purify us. It is that by the process of bhakti, all the anarthas will be erased from the heart.
There are two ways to rectify fallen qualities. One is by making a conscious endeavour and trying to rectify ourselves, and the other is simply by engaging in devotional service and that devotional service will purify us. And of the two, engaging in devotional service is the most potent - That's the powerful way of transformation of rising above fallen qualities.
So let's just do a lots of devotional service.

Transcribed by Anisha
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, March 2011)

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Even Krsna cannot break it

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Even Krsna cannot break it

via kksblog.com 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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No Doubt

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No Doubt

via kksblog.com by Aatish on 6/04/11

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm 2011)

The material activities that interfere in our devotional service in a way blocks our absorption in pure devotional service to some extent – but devotional service is so powerful that it will always act and therefore gradually that devotional service will take over – There is no doubt about it…..

That is the illusory energy where we think that our Maya is so strong that it cannot be overcomed