09 Jun 2023 morning – Q & A (English) – Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

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The song: Govardhanastakam by Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura.
The potency (shakti) is in japa-mala, so it is possible to chant the holy names without japa-mala, but the potency (shakti) will not manifest.
Every guru-varga says that we should chant with japa-mala.
Extract from the song: Sri Sri Sad-Gosvamiastakam, by Srila Srinivas Acharya.
Every day you must sing a certain number of rounds of japa-mala.
Japa-mala is no different from Radha and Krishna.
The 108 beads in the japa-mala are for remembering the rasa-lila-katha.
The 8 main sakhis: Lalita, Vishakha, Chitralekha, Champakalata, Tungavidya, Indulekha, Rangadevi and Sudevi.
The song: Yamuna Puline Kadamba Vana Men by Madhuri Priya Devi Dasi.
The song: Dekhite Dekhite by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
Verse: sevā sādhaka-rūpeṇa siddha-rūpeṇa cātra hi tad-bhāva-lipsunā kāryā vraja-lokānusārataḥ (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, 1.2.295).
Siddha-deha (realisation of one’s own spiritual form) and Guru-siddha-deha (realisation of Sri Guru’s spiritual form).
The guru is like the mother and the disciple is like the baby.
Without the compassion of the Guru one cannot ‘open one’s eyes’. Verse: om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.24.52).
Verse: Mane nija-siddha-deha kariyā bhāvana rātri-dine kare vraje kṛṣṇera sevana (CC Madhya 22.156-157).
-When the sadhaka reaches the stage of asakti-dasa, he will attain siddha-deha-abhasa (appearance/shadow of siddha-deha).
The song: Radha Krsna Prana Mora, by Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura.
How the sakhis instruct each other.
Srimati Radhika’s mana (transcendental anger) completely controls Krishna.
The meeting of Radha and Krishna and the bravery of Jatila and Kutila.

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