18 December 2011

KKSblog.com - Urgent! Please sign petition against ban on Bhagavad Gita

KKSblog.com - Urgent! Please sign petition against ban on Bhagavad Gita

Urgent! Please sign petition against ban on Bhagavad Gita

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:07 PM PST

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

There is an attempt in Russia to ban the Bhagavad Gita., we can not just let it happen without any form of protest. It’s time to speak up! Please sign this petition on line, we must try to do something to stop this.

They need the signatures on latest Sunday, Dec 18th!

It would be really good if everyone, who reads this, could sign the petition. Please do it now, without delay!

http://www.petitions24.com/gita

and please forward this link to others.

Your in service to Srila Prabhupada,

Kadamba Kanana Swami

The highest quality of mercy!

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST

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

It is interesting how one Personality of Godhead is worshiping another Personality of Godhead to appear. For an outsider, it is a very confusing part in our philosophy. Why is God worshiping God to appear? It doesn't make sense at all. No! It does because we remember that Lord Visnu's mission was:

'paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ
vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
sambhavāmi yuge yuge' (B.G.4.8)

To establish the principles of dharma, but only Krishna can give the love of God of Goloka, and no one else, and that is the only incarnation of God who can give it. So Advaita Acharya was certainly able to give people the process for attaining liberation – that he could give, and he could teach that without difficulty. But he could not give Krishna Prema, since only Krishna Himself can give that! Therefore, he wanted the Lord to appear. So it is for this reason that Srila Bhakti Siddhanta in his commentaries says:

"Therefore Advaita Acharya is the most compassionate, because his compassion it is not like the cheap cheating compassion of the materialist, but his compassion is that he wants to give the people the highest and the best. That he wants them to have love of God."

The highest quality of mercy is what he wants everyone to have, and particularly after Lord Caitanya appeared (after the Maha Prakash Lila where He revealed His transcendental nature). Lord Caitanya asked Advaita Acharya, to ask for a benediction.

And Advaita Acharya asked Him that His mercy would be given to the most fallen in particularly, and Lord Caitanya said:

"Yes, very well spoken. Yes agreed".

And Advaita agreed. So it is really from there that we get the strong claim for the saying:

"Lord Caitanya is the deliverable of the most fallen and that it was Advaita Acharya who established that!"

So that is the beginning of the claim and after that Lord Caitanya became the deliverer of the most fallen. Afterwards, most of them claimed it……Rupa and Santana Goswami claims it, Markhanda Thakur claims it…everyone claims it……we claim it! Everyone now claims:

"I'm the most fallen…and I should get!"

But it is all the strength of Advaita Acharya's benediction that became established!

Various programs around Durban

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 01:28 PM PST

The past week Kadamba Kanana Maharaja spent doing various programs around Durban. On tuesday evening he went to the nama hatta in Umlazi, an African township in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The program practically just consisted of one amazing and powerful kirtana, which went on for about two hours. After the Kirtana, Maharaja gave a short talk about the incredible potency of the holy name and distributed twenty zulu-books to the local devotees.

On Wednesday he gave the morning class in the Durban temple, speaking on the topic of the auspicious occasion of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disappearance day. After the talk he left Durban to Ladysmith, where he was to hold an evening program at the local temple. This very program included a lecture, which Maharaja built on 64 quotes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Thakura.
After staying the night in Ladysmith, Maharaja spent the next day with meeting the devotees of Ladysmith.

In the evening, he went on to Pietermaritzburg to give a program at the ISKCON centre there. Maharaja let a beautiful bhajana, followed by a talk on the Bhagavad Gita, establishing, how by surrendering to the Lord, then Krsna Himself starts to take care of our lives.

On Friday than Maharaja went to a home program in Hillcrest, near Durban. The lecture he gave there once again centered around the quotes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and enventually winded up in an open discussion.

The last program during the stay in Durban took place in the new Jagannatha Puri temple in Phoenix. In this evening program, Maharaja, besides leading a powerful kirtana, gave a presentation on the Bangladesh tour, which he went on with a group of devotees earlier this year.

Can’t view this slide show? Just visit flickr!

Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur: Establishing the Holy Dhama

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:50 AM PST

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 December 2011, Durban, South Africa)

14 December 2011 – Durban, South Africa

Disappearance day of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur

His father, Srila Bhakti Vinodh Thakur, established the birthplace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be in Sridhama Mayapur. Not everyone was ready to agree with that, particularly the caste goswamis, and the brahmin community in Navadwip was in total disagreement because they claimed the birthplace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be in Navadwip which was making Navadwip very prominent and also making them very prominent. When Srila Bhakti Vinodh Thakur had confirmed the birthplace in Mayapur, he had it confirmed by Jaganath Das Babaji, who was the most respected and prominent vaishnava archarya at that time, so there could be no argument. But still Bhakti Vinodh instructed Bhakti Siddhanta to serve Sridhama Mayapur and he did so by inaugurating the Navadwip Mandal Parikrama, based on the Navadwip Dhama Mahatmya of Srila Bhakti Vinodh Thakur, by physically visiting all the holy places that were identified in the Navadwip Dhama Mahatmya. Srila Bhakti Siddhanta established these holy places as the truth and gradually, in this way, the concept of the holy dhama, as Srila Bhakti Vinodh Thakur revealed it, became established and the glories of Sridhama Mayapur became established as a fact.

So Srila Bhakti Siddhanta spent substantial energy to establish Sridhama Mayapur as the birth-site of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He also established the entire tour of South India that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu made by establishing prints of the lotus feet Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in various places that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited. In this way, making the tour of South India famous and known to all so that if anyone might question: Did Caitanya Mahaprabhu really make that pilgrimage of South India?

Then that question would become totally irrelevant and it would become common knowledge that Caitanya Mahaprabhu was there. That mission is to be completed. Srila Bhakti Siddhanta himself only established 8 such footprints and his disciples later on established some additional. Lokanatha Maharaja established further footprints when Padayatra visited these places. That mission should be completed…

Srimad Bhagavatam class in Durban (11.22.13)

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:06 AM PST

Here is a class on the Srimad Bhagavatam (11.20.13), given by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami, on the 17 December 2011, in Durban, South Africa.

The verse relates to the three modes of material nature and Maharaja establishes how we have to take shelter of the mode of goodness.

Just click here to download the class.

 

My meditation

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST

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

I must say in Vrindavan, the presence of Krishna was strongly felt, but even more stronger was the presence of Srila Prabhupada in the Krishna Balaram Mandir. That presence was so strong that actually it touched me so more, than the presence of Krishna in Vrindavan dham.

Within time I became more and more drawn to Gaura-Nitai and to appreciate that Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda had appeared there as the forms of Sri Balarama, and Lord Sri Krishna as Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, and some of my meditation has been like that for so many years.

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