21 May 2023 morning – Miracles Happen When We Practise Bhakti (English) – Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Our bhajana/sadhana should always be one-pointed.
- On the Vedic marriage ceremony.
- Devi Bhagavata or Devi Bhagavati?
- Why did Srivasa Thakura not tell Mahaprabhu during the nama-sankirtana that his son had left the body?
- The soul never dies.
- We should bathe in the Ganges after touching/seeing a dead body.
- The rules for cleaning/purifying in the Archana Dipika for worshipping the Deity.
- Why don’t women wear sacred thread/sing brahma-gayatri?
- About the urine/dung of cows.
- About accepting what is in the Vedas.
- We have to accept what nature (prakriti) creates. God is the Supreme Intelligence.
- Mahaprabhu talking to Prakashananda Sarasvati.
- Svarupa-mukti – the conch of Krishna cannot be obtained.
- The conch of Dakshinavarta.
- Verse anāradhya rādhā-padāmbhoja-reṇum.
- Bharata Maharaja katha
- What is sadhu-sanga? Verse dadati pratigrhnati.
- Story of the pandita who, at the end of the katha, asks the disciple about dakshina.
- What to ask Gurudeva.
- What is the duty of the sadhu?
- About the person who once went to ask Gaurakishora dasa Babaji Maharaja for a boon.
- The conditioned soul wants to hear about his own glories.
- The story of when Krishna and Narada Rsi disguised themselves as guru and disciple.
- Opulence is the cause of captivity.
- Example of Yudhisthira Maharaja.
- A woman should be like Draupadi and Sita and her husband should be like Yudhisthira.
- About the birth chart of the bride and groom before marriage, deva-gana, rakshasa-gana and manushya-gana.
- Sadhana-bhakti – klesaghni and subhada.
- Narada Rsi and the hunter of Mrigari.
- Krishna gives us everything, we just have to chant the holy names.
- Story told by Srila BV Narayana Maharaja about a detective looking for a murderer.
- Verse by Bilvamangala Thakur.
- Krishna keeps us and protects us.
- Countries at war, Krishna keeps the people.
- We are not poor, we are rich – story of the poor boy who meets a saint who tells him of the hidden wealth his father left him.
- When we practise bhakti, miracles happen.
- Verse ananyāś strapyanto māṁ.
- People do karma because they don’t have faith.
- Vatsalya-bhava – Krishna is happy to help us.
- Radharani takes the ingredients for rice pudding to Rupa and Sanatana.
- Who is a fool and who is a brahmana?
- Chaitanya-bhagavata – Mahaprabhu asks Srivas Thakur how he maintains his family.
- Krishna is our father and mother – the spontaneous nature of parents.
- The gopis ask Krishna about the types of love and in which category He is.
- Certain words are used only for etiquette.
- Friendship with 4 types of people that will never be reciprocated.
- The 9 types of love.
- In this material world all love has a cause.
- Verse na pāraye ‘haṁ niravadya-saṁyujāṁ.
- The prema of Krsna and the gopis is natural and spontaneous.
- The highest transcendental love of the vraja-gopis, kamatmika-bhakti.
- The gopis manifest from the internal potency of Krishna.
- Gopa Kumara attains Madhana-mohana in Goloka Vrndavana. Srimati Radhika Herself commanded him to come to the material world.
