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• Don’t just recite it – cook it!
• Out and about in Melbourne
• Blessed by the best

Don’t just recite it – cook it! Posted: 24 May 2012 02:20 PM PDT (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13th May, Sydney, Australia) Lecture: Sunday Feast Bg 8.19 It's Gita Jayantii and we recite the entire Gita. What it means nobody knows, it doesn't matter but we recite it anyway, as fast as possible! We recite the whole Gita and everybody is chanting, it is so nice. Yes, it's wonderful, and no one understood a word of it! It's a very auspicious occasion. So that is the idea. Of course it is always auspicious to hear the Sanskrit of the Gita, but it is not just meant for recitation. What if Kurma were to come here on a Sunday and starts to recite the recipes. Kurma – great cook, great recipes: 'Add a pinch of salt and a bit of ginger, cut the potatoes into cubes, and so on.' Well after about ten recipes he is rattling them off. And we go: 'It is amazing, who knows so many recipes?' But that is not as impressive as when Kurma goes into the kitchen. As I remember in Melbourne when Kurma used to cook the offerings and there was a whole ritual, because the rule was that: no one can touch the Maha-Prasadam. If you dare to touch the Maha-Prasadam after it comes off the alter, and if you try to steal anything, then Kurma will kill you! Everybody knew it right? So watch out! He was serious about it, very serious. So anyway everyone would wait nearby for Kurma to personally collect it and then he would sit people down and serve it out. He had cooked extras and before you knew it there was ice cream as well and every drop of it was just nectar, everything was just perfect. What can we say? Therefore in reciting when it comes to cook books it is nice if some one can recite, but it is nicer if someone can actually cook the preps! In the same way with the Bhagavad-Gita it is not just for recitation, the Bhagavad-Gita is meant to be a key to life. It's meant to lift us up, it is meant to transform us, and it is meant to help us to get a grip on life, since otherwise it would be full of chaos! Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast)

Out and about in Melbourne Posted: 24 May 2012 04:53 AM PDT Please find below different classes presented by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami during his recent stay in Melbourne, Australia (16 – 22 May 2012). Included is a class given at a houseprogram, a seminar called “Following in the footsteps of the Mahajanas”, a class called “The path of the Buddha – a Vedic perspective” given in the Crossways restaurant in downtown Melbourne, a Q&A session in the Bhakti Bhavana near the temple, as well as the Sunday feast class (BG 8.19). To download the lectures, just right-click the titles and “save target as”. KKS – Houseprogram – 17 May 2012 in Melbourne KKS – The path of the Buddha – 16 May 2012 in Melbourne KKS – Seminar Following the Mahajanas – 19 May 2012 in Melbourne KKS – Seminar Following the Mahajanas II – 20 May 2012 in Melbourne KKS – Sunday feast talk, BG 8.19 – 20 May 2012 in Melbourne KKS – Q&A at Bhakti Bhavana – 19 May 2012 in Melbourne   Rating: 7.0/7 (2 votes cast)

Blessed by the best Posted: 24 May 2012 01:46 AM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami – Zurich, Switzerland – April 2012 – SB 1.5.34) By nature, we are weak! The weakness manifests in many ways. Earlier, I spoke about lust but another quality by which the inherent weakness of the living entity manifests is in pride. We are all very proud and we always take pride in something. This pride is the greatest danger in spiritual life because it is through pride that we become careless in following the process and in respecting our superiors. It is through pride that we think: I know, I know, I know, I know very well. It is due to pride that we commit offences and deviate. It is through pride that we spoil this rare opportunity to go back to Godhead this lifetime. So we have to cultivate humility, which is very difficult. Many times the question is being asked: How can we become humble? Well, one answer is that it begins by becoming honest because as soon as we are honest, we have to admit that we are not perfect. Anybody who is a little bit honest knows that actually, I have some faults… I am not great… I am small. This kind of honesty is what can help us to cultivate humility. So one must practice this… one must always say to himself: I have a lot to learn. At any time in life, even when one is at 99. So in this mood of humility, we can remain careful to serve the vaisnavas, to take shelter of Srimad Bhagavatam, to take shelter of the Holy Name, to remain grateful for devotional service, because as soon as one becomes proud, sooner or later one will experience service as a burden. Oh God, why do I always have to do this service? I don't know why in this temple that nobody is ever ready to do this and somehow or other, I always have to do this!! This is where pride came in and humility was lost. This is where gratefulness was lost. When we are humble, we are grateful. I am so fortunate that I am allowed to do this service. I am getting all the mercy. I don't deserve it. Why am I getting it, I don't know. Such gratefulness is just the opposite of pride. The key is this attitude of gratefulness and humility in spiritual life. We are always thinking that I am being blessed. Yesterday, we were remembering Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja who in his final days would say: I was blessed by the best! Rating: 7.0/7 (5 votes cast)

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