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
