Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:22 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46

Haridāsa Ṭhākura would chant his rounds whilst preaching! He went out as a sankirtan partner with Nityananda, and he was chanting all the way. It was not like:

'I'm in sankirtan, yeah! There is no need to chant!'

He was just walking there and constantly chanting. He would also give lectures. If you chant three hundred thousand names everyday then, you manage to find some time to give a lecture. One even can sleep a little, eat a little and take a bath and do all of those things. For us, even if we tried to chant three hundred thousand names, then we wouldn't have the time. It's like to chant sixty four rounds can take the whole day – it can take a lot of time! To chant a hundred and twenty eight rounds, and to chant hundred ninety two rounds takes serious time.

So Haridāsa is out preaching and chanting at the same time! And his lips and tongue were always moving! Even when Haridāsa was listening, his tongue was chanting! There were other associates of Lord Caitanya’s whose tongues were always chanting. This comes up in the Caitanya Bhagavta as a theme where the tongues that were always chanting!

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Taking responsibility

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:18 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town, SA, 19th Dec 2011) Lecture – SB 7.13.46

The world is engaging in all kinds of abominable activities. In the modern way of thinking, we started more and more to think like victims…. just a victim, what can you do about it? Just a victim of circumstance. Like Prabhupada who would say:

"Rascal!"

Because it makes people responsible. No, rascal, since it means that you are responsible! You know what you are doing, and we know what we are doing…. we know that we are not suppose to do it; we know that it's wrong, but yet we are still doing it – rascal! So the paramahaṁsa platform means to take responsibility to rearrange one's life!

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One week in England

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:30 PM PST

Kadamba Kanana Maharaja spent the last week in the United Kingdom. His first stop was at Bhaktivedanta Manor in London. It was just for a day and Maharaja gave a Srimad Bhagavatam class. To find links to all the classes in England, please click here.

The next day, Maharaja travelled to Leicester where he spent some time working on his book. Over the weekend, he gave morning classes at the local temple. On Saturday, Maharaja was invited by Pradyumna Prabhu (JAS), the temple president of Leicester, to visit the new temple project which is a massive three storey building that was formerly used as a bank. The building measures twice the floor space of Bhaktivedanta Manor and is certainly an eye catcher for the public. In the evening, Maharaja led an ecstatic two hour kirtana which the devotees thoroughly enjoyed.

On Sunday, Maharaja was asked to lay the foundation stone for the Krsna Conscious School that is soon to be established in Leicester. In that ceremony, Maharaja installed Lord Anantadeva to invoke auspiciousness upon the building. Later that day at the Sunday program, Maharaja once again performed an ecstatic one hour kirtana and gave a talk about Ratha Yatra.

On Monday, Maharaja returned to the Manor, again just for a day, and on Tuesday he went to Soho Street Temple in central London. Here he led the Guru Puja ceremony and presented the Srimad Bhagavatam class. On Wednesday then he eventually flew back to Amsterdam where he will stay now until he leaves to Sweden on Friday.

Two hour kirtana in Leicester (Sa evening)