09 Jun 2023 midday – The Sweet Nectar of Hari-katha (English) – Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1

  • Sruti: oral transmission of knowledge.
  • Story of Gautama Rsi, the hosting of saints in the dry season and the imitation of the cow.
  • The saint needs a place to sit, food and water.
  • Gurudeva tells of the devotee from Spain who had to leave before him and whose flight was cancelled.
  • Gautama Rsi’s curse for saints to lose their memory of the Vedas.
  • The fruit comes from remembering hari-katha.
  • Listen and keep hari-katha in your heart.
  • The story of the king and the three dolls with different prices (the most expensive means the one who heard and kept in her heart).
  • Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa wrote the Vedas to remind us of the holy scriptures.
  • Gurudeva remembers how the saints gathered under the trees to hear hari-katha.
  • Explanation of the Gopi-gita verse: Tava kathāmṛtaṁ (SB, 10.31.9).
  • Kanak-manjari-chandan: best melody for chanting the verses of the Gopi-gita.
  • Cycle of reincarnation and the importance of listening to krsna-katha, gopi-katha.
  • If you hear hari-katha, you will go to Goloka Vrndavana.
  • Lila the swan, resident of Lake Mana-sarovara, and the conversation with the ducks.
  • Milk ocean churning lila.
  • The different kinds of nectar.
  • We should desire to drink the nectar of Goloka Vrndavana, hari-kathamrtam.
  • Hari-katha maha-prasada, maha-prasada hari-katha.

PART 2

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