12/06/23 midday – How to Develop Our Sadhana and Bhajana (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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The conditioned souls, baddha-jivas, are contaminated by maya, so they do not see their true identity.
Some people are influenced by ghosts.
Jada-abhimana (false identity) is the ghost of false-ego.
Verse by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: nāhaṁ vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro (Cc, Madhya-lila, 13.80)
The real cause of fear is attachment to maya.
The 3 modes of nature (gunas) of maya, goodness (sattva), passion (raja) and ignorance (tama).
Verse from Bhagavad Gita: śrī-bhagavān uvāca kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhy enam iha vairiṇam (Bhagavad Gita 3.37).
The Guru gives instructions to the disciple, as a doctor gives the patient a prescription for medicine.
The types of offences we have in our hearts (aparadhas).
The medicine of this age is the maha-mantra, the highest medicine.
Duskriti-utha-anartha: sinful activities of past lives.
These activities result in a lack of taste in chanting the holy names.
Example of Bhishma Pitamaha’s question to Krsna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra about his karma.
Bhishma is one of the 12 mahajanas, great souls. Because of a sin in his 101st life, he lay on a bed of arrows.
A great devotee of the Lord does not do karma, all these pastimes are done for the learning of the living entities.
By chanting a namabhasa, all one’s sins will be destroyed, and also the desire to commit sinful activities.
Chant the holy names with unshakable faith (atyantika-shraddha).
The 4 types of anarthas are removed in 5 stages, step-by-step.
1) Ekadesha-varthini: the anarthas are partially removed. This happens in the shraddha and sadhu-sanga stages.
2) Bahudesha-varthini: More than half of the anarthas are removed from the heart, it happens in the stage of bhajana-kriya.
3) Prayiki: Almost all anarthas are removed from the sadhaka’s heart, in the stages of nistha, ruci and asakti.
4) Purna: All types of anarthas are removed from the heart, in the stage of bhava.
5) Atyantiki: There is no chance at all for the anarthas to return to the heart of the sadhaka, in the stage of prema.
The step-by-step procedure is explained in Madhurya Kadambini by Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura.
By learning to speak Sanskrit, Devanagari (the language of the demigods), various diseases disappear from the body.
Why does the sadhaka suffer? 2 reasons.
Maya-vijivrinta-lila: that which is not true but appears to be.
An example of indrajalika-lila: the story of the hunter who shot the arrow into Lord Krishna’s chest and at the same time Krishna left the prakata-lila.
The same hunter had participated in the Rama-lila, in Treta-yuga, as Bali, the brother of Sugriva.
The soul touches neither water nor air, is neither born nor dies (Srimad Bhagavad Gita).
Mahishi-harana-lila: the kidnapping of the queens of Dvaraka.
These lilas have the purpose of teaching the jivas, the karmis.
Sri Krishna does not need this, He is atmarama and aptakama, self-satisfied and gets all desires from Him, the cause of all causes.
Prema-vijivrinta-lila: The Lord accomplishes everything because of the divine love of His devotee.
One is ayshvarya (opulence) and the other is madhurya (sweetness).
Lord Krishna does not bond with the devotee who worships Him in a mood of opulence.
In Ayodya, Dvaraka, whoever has a relationship with the Lord cannot control the Lord with his love; but in Vraja, Krsna is controlled by Subala and Sridama through the mood of friendship. — Song: Sri Damodarastakam, recited by Satyavrata Muni and recorded in the Padma Purana by Sri Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa.
The example in Srī Damodarastakam of Krsna’s lila with Mother Yasoda is an example of prema-vijivrinta-lila.
The most precious crown of all the jewels of prema is the love of Srimati Radhika, Radha-prema.
The lilas that Sri Krsna makes are like a human being, but He is Bhagavan.
In Caitanya-caritamrta it is explained that sweetness is the essence of opulence.
Without seeing opulence, there is no way to see the sweetness of Krsna.
The prominent mood in Mathura, Vaikuntha, Dvaraka, the mood of opulence is prominent.
Krsna is doing His lilas to steal the love of the Vrajavasis, although Krsna is the personification of divine love.
By chanting krsna-nama, Krsna takes away all the sins from your heart.
The gopis control Krsna with their divine prema, which is like the waves of the ocean, uncontrollable.
Brahma, Shiva, Narada, Lakshmi-devi cannot attain this prema.
The 4 stages of bhava of the vraja-gopis: bhava-udaya, a mood that manifests and increases; bhava-shabalya, when another mood arises that supersedes the first; bhava-sandhi, a new kind of mood comes along with the other; and bhava-shanti, calm and quiet mood.
To understand this, read Sri Ujjvala-nilamani with Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakur’s commentary.
Rasa-raja-mahabhava-svarupa: Sri Caitnaya Mahaprabhu in gaura-lila.
Venu-madhurya: the sweetness of Lord Krishna’s flute, and rasa-raja-mahabhava, the form of Lord Krishna.
Gaura-lila is not less important than krsna-lila.
He who immerses himself in the ocean of gaura-prema will be enabled to reach Vrndavana. Trancoso, Brazil
