“When we come to each of these individual places, we absorb ourselves in all of those specific characteristics of that holy place. Krishna is called Manohara, one of His unlimited names. Manohara means ‘Who attracts the mind’. We control our mind by fixing it on hearing in Vrindavan of the beautiful pastimes of the Lord. This is the best way to control the mind. One day our minds and our hearts will be spontaneously attracted to all these wonderful pastimes of Krishna.”

[ – His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Talavan, 2015 ]

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Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Talavan during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.

“Everyone’s auspiciousness will come by preaching about Lord Caitanya. Like itinerant merchants you should take the wares of Caitanya-vani throughout the globe. If necessary, go to all four corners of the earth. Violence to oneself and others under the name of nirjana-bhajan must be stopped. Every single door must be knocked on at least once. If the inhabitants sincerely inquire as to which manner of hari-bhajan may be performed aright, tell them that the only way is through the bhaktivinode-dhara, the line of Bhaktivinode Thakur.”

Quoted by Indradyumna Swami in a facebook post from November 18, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.

“Ter Kadamba is a very sacred place and it’s for that reason that one of the greatest acharyas in our disciples succession made this place, which was really a jungle in those days, as one of his places of bhajan. What does bhajan mean?

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna

Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

22 hours a day! In a deeper sense, bhajan means that the pure Devotee is pouring his heart out to the Divine Couple, Radha and Krsna. And sometimes while doing so, like Jesus said, “My cup runneth over with love.” Sometimes the ecstatic symptoms of love of Godhead become manifest on the body of the pure Devotee. And this whole area became permeated with the bhava, or love, of Srila Rupa Goswami for the Divine Couple. And because it’s transcendental, it’s eternal. It’s still here. So as the ether, a very subtle element becomes contaminated by sin, similarly the ether becomes purified and becomes full of prema by the presence of the pure Devotee. So this here at Ter Kadamba is concentrated nectar.”

[ Spoken by Hi Holiness Indradyumna Swami in his Kartik Parikrama lecture delivered at Ter Kadamba, October, 21, 2017]

To see the original lecture on the “Kartik Parikrama with Indradyuma Swami” facebook page, please click here.