22/07/22am – Bhakti vs Jnana (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

-Nama fulfills all desires. Eg: Gopa-kumara attaining different royal positions.
-Jnanis will fall down but devotees will never fall down.
-api cet su-durācāro sloka discussion.
-Krsna has so much love & affection with devotees.
-Jnanis have no seva-vritti. They acquire knowledge & use neti-neti: not this, not this.
-With just jnana you cannot conquer Maya.
-Comparison of jnana with a ghee lamp & bhakti with a gem stone.
-When bhakti manifests in the heart automatically, a service mood will come.
-What is Brahman & does Brahman have a form as per jnanis & bhaktas.
-Story of a guru-sevaka throwing away cabbage to signify how jnanis think.
-Lord Kapiladeva’s teachings on how a baby in a mother’s womb receives impressions.
Eg: Prahlada Maharaja hearing from Narada Rishi.
-Bhakti is feminine & jnana is masculine.
-Those having no faith in Lord’s form are offenders.
-Enumerating different types of bhakti & what is topmost among them.
-Enumerating different limbs of bhakti & nama-sankirtana is topmost among them.
-Bhakti devi will give you anything if you practise. Eg: Dhruva Maharaja getting benedictions from Lord Narayana.
-About Prahlada Maharaja’s & Ambarisha Maharaja’s suddha-bhakti.
-Deep attachment with Lord is bhakti. Attachment is the cause of seva.
-Seva-vritti depends upon sambandha-jnana & mamata.
-Bhakti manifests in the heart automatically, jnana & vairagya will come.
-3 types of knowledge & about different slokas on bhakti definition

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