02 Jun 2023 evening – Snana-yatra (English) – Santos, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Human life, sadhu-sanga and hari-katha are very rare.
  • The human body is the door that leads us to the Supreme Lord.
    -The Bible says that the Lord created man in His own image and likeness.
  • Human life has the power of discrimination.
  • Spiritual life is the path of light, material life is the path of darkness.
  • Ghosts dance in the dark at night.
  • Purnima means full moon.
  • Beautiful lila of Srimati Radhika coming out on a full moon night dressed in white.
  • About the Snana Yatra of Lord Jagannatha.
  • Caitanya Mahaprabhu is no different from Lord Jagannatha.
  • Three and a half persons: Svarupa Damodara, Raya Ramananda, Sikhi Mahiti and Madhavi-devi – this is not said because Madhavi-devi is a woman.
  • Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s lila in Jagannatha Puri with Sikhi Mahiti, Madhavi-devi and others in Lord Jagannatha’s temple.
  • Lila of the lady who, out of greed, climbed on Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s back to see Lord Jagannatha in the crowded temple.
  • Sikhi Mahiti’s dream about Mahaprabhu and Jagannatha.
  • Srila Gurudeva explains the sloka: athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno na cānya eko ‘pi ciraṁ vicinvan
  • Srila Gurudeva explains: Krsna viraha-vidhur Radha (Mahaprabhu), Radha viraha-vidhur Krsna (Jagannatha).
  • Without Radha, there is no rasa dance.
  • Krsna feels viraha-ajni, the fire of separation.
  • The conditioned souls burn in the fire of material existence with the three miseries: adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika.
  • Whoever listens to the hari-katha about the Snana Yatra of Lord Jagannatha has his anarthas purified.
  • Whoever brings a drop of honey or ghee or yoghurt for Lord Jagannatha’s Snana Yatra will have no lack in life.
  • About the greatness and beauty of the Deity of Lord Jagannatha in Jagannatha Puri.
  • Explaining how Lord Jagannatha gets flu from bathing so much.
  • Gopis don’t like to have darsana of Krsna in the form of four arms; they like the three-fold form with a peacock feather on the head.

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