11 Jun 2023 evening – The Way to the Direct Perception of the Soul (English) – Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

- Without Krishna’s desire, nothing happens.
- Krishna is the Supreme Controller.
- mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa-carācaram
hetunānena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
(Bhagavad-gita 9.10).
- G.O.D.
- Today we are here, tomorrow no more.
- He who is born will surely die.
- The soul is eternal and transcendental.
- The body is like a tree with two birds sitting on two branches: the soul and the Supersoul.
- How to reach/see the Lord.
- Karma is very complex to understand.
- The gross body and the subtle body.
- The cycle of repeated births and deaths.
- Chewing what has already been chewed: eating, sleeping, defending and mating.
- The story of the circus, which was very attractive from the outside and only one person could enter at a time.
- The three kinds of suffering of maya.
- This world is full of suffering and sorrow.
- The transcendental world is full of bliss.
- The Lord is the embodiment of divine love.
- In this world there is no true love and no full happiness.
- How to return to our true home.
- Chanting the holy names.
- This body is very rare to get.
- labdhvā su-durlabham idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte
mānuṣyam artha-dam anityam apīha dhīraḥ
tūrṇaṁ yateta na pated anu-mṛtyu yāvan
niḥśreyasāya viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.9.29)
- Why do we suffer?
- Karma is like deep roots.
- The lines of the hands.