19 May 2023 evening – The Essence of Our Spiritual Life (English) – Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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About what gives us perfect happiness.
Not even Ravana with all his immense opulence was happy.
Whoever practices devotion to the Lord attains eternal happiness, because this is the spontaneous nature of the soul.
In relation to the Supreme Lord, the jiva is considered to be the spark of a great fire.
Sloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’ sūryāṁśa-kiraṇa, yaiche agni-jvālā-caya svābhāvika kṛṣṇera tina-prakāra ‘śakti’ haya
Everything in this world is transient and will end.
It is important to have a questioning mood: “who am I?”
You are born successively in countries and planets, you just forgot about it.
Story of the king who asked his minister, “where is God, who has seen God and what is He doing?”
Swami Prabhupada claims that he sees God and talks to Him.
To be able to see the Lord it is necessary to have a transcendental vision, a look of divine love, not a look of lust.
One who practices the process of sadhana-bhakti will attain to see the Lord at the stage of bhava/prema. -God moves things and people around, in one life if he is a king, in another beggar, and so on.
Story of the man who, when leaving, met a lady who said he would not eat that day.
Man proposes and God disposes.
The Lord is the Supreme Controller.
Pure Vaisnavas travel all over the world to distribute Vaikuntha’s message.
You are not residents of this world, you are all refugees, successively changing bodies, planets and universes.
Mahaprabhu brought the medicine: Harinama.
Music: Jiva Jago Jiva Jago.
We receive the results of our actions (karma) good and bad.
He who surrenders to the Lord receives special protection.
Only demonic-minded materialists do not want the Lord’s help, because, arrogant, they think they are very powerful. -Nrsimhadeva was not Hiranyakasipu’s enemy, but Hiranyakasipu considered Nrsimhadeva his enemy.
You make friends with those you have affinity with (same level). Likewise, God has no enemies, for no one is a match for Him. The Lord has vatsalya-bhava (fatherly feeling) for all living entities.
