17 Jul 2022 evening – Qualities of a Perfect Disciple, day 3 (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

-Continuation/review of the qualities of a bona fide disciple
-Perform your duties, maintain your life, like the Gosvamis
-Think Krsna is my maintainer and protector
-Give up bad association
-Follow the footsteps of our previous acharyas
-If God wants to protect you, no one can kill you. If God wants to kill you, no one can protect you.
-Someone sent a blackmail message to the temple saying “one day your mission will be destroyed”. This is an envious person and only Krsna can control such a thing
-“All the audience is my Guru”: Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada glorifying the listeners of his hari-katha
-One sanskrit verse Gurudeva learned in his sanskrit studies: where no one wears cloth, what will the washerman do?
-The listeners of hari-katha protect the speaker from the calamity, from Maya, and inspire the heart of the speaker to give hari-katha
-Hari-katha depends on the audience. Without the audience, what would Gurudeva speak?
-Parasurama: his father told, cut the head of your mother. He performed it and then was told he could have any benediction
He asked for his mother to be alive again. Example of having firm faith
-How to follow the instructions of Guru
-Example of Lord Ramacandra going into exile without being told to by His father, because He realized his heart
-Understanding the yes and no of Guru
-Lila of the boy who called out to Madhusudana every day to cross the forest to get to school, because his mother told him to.
-Lila of the same boy and the Aksaya Patra cup of yogurt
-Lila of Lord Indra falling down from heaven because he chastised his Guru and become a pig

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