(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2002)

In washing powder you have the active ingredients – the enzymes and whatever it is that cleanses out the dirt. So in the same way, that's the purifying agent – the cleansing agent, and you could write all these things on the package, ' The cleansing agent – the purifying agent'. So the only real cleansing agent is Krishna! It is Krishna! So wherever there is Krishna – there is purity! And where there is no Krishna than there is impurity!

From Germany it was off to Finland, Helsinki. After a very warm welcome from the devotees, Maharaja gave a small talk in the Helsinki temple and took an early rest to prepare for the next day. The day after we then went to some older house somewhere way out in the nature of Finland, where for three days a retreat was to take place. On the way there we stopped in the town Turku,  to bless the city with the chanting of the holy name in the form of harinama. The Harinama was received with a lot of enthusiasm, and some people even joined in the dancing.

The retreat was a relaxing weekend, filled with a lot of chanting and singing. Maharaja gave many classes about nama-tattva, which was also the topic of the retreat. There were also many programs for the devotees, like yoga, walks in the nearby forests, a real Finnish sauna and of course prasadam, which was cooked over open fireplaces.

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011)

The materialistic devotee, the kanishta-adhikari, has weak faith and as a result he is thinking that Krsna is so far away, the spiritual world is so far away… what does it have to do with everyday life?  But that is illusion, because the fact of the matter is that Krsna is always with us, every moment.

In the Nectar of Instruction, Srila Rupa Goswami is saying that we should always hear, chant and remember the name, fame and glories of Krsna, and in that way we will reside in Vṛndāvana.  We must become residents of Vṛndāvana.  We must think: my home is the spiritual world.  My home is to be with Krsna.  Wherever Krsna is present in His eternal abode, that is my residence.  Everywhere else, I'm in transit – transit passenger.  Durban – transit passenger.  Anywhere… South Africa – transit; Europe – transit; America – transit; Vṛndāvana- home!

And Srila Rupa Goswami continues to explain that if we cannot physically reside in the Holy Dhama, then we should mentally reside there.  And that is the secret of devotees who are very determined.  They have accepted that the spiritual world is more important than the material world, and therefore the spiritual world is what has meaning to them.  And they spend their time remembering the glories of Krsna, the activities of Krsna, the nature of Krsna, the descriptions about His associates and pastimes, and there, they realise, is where real pleasure is experienced, and the pleasure is especially experienced if somehow or the other they are acting in service for Krsna's pleasure.  That is the secret.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2002)

If we do a lot of hearing and chanting, our mind also begins to remember Krishna, but that's not the actual remembering – it happens at a deeper level – the soul gets awoken, and begins to remember. Therefore, at one stage, the hearing and remembering at one place stays at remembering of Krishna, and is no longer here in the mental sphere of the head, but is right there in the heart!

(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….