• Speaking is easy, listening is difficult.
  • 3 types of listeners: shrota (one who listens); sarota (one who does not listen); and, sota (one who sleeps).
  • Not listening to hari-katha is an offence, but if you also gossip during hari-katha, it is a much worse offence.
  • We got the opportunity of the human body only after we were born into the 8,400,000 life forms. And the human body is given to us to hear hari-katha from the lotus-mouths of sadhus, gurus and vaisnavas.
  • God is in hari-katha.
  • Never listen to hari-katha from non-devotees, i.e. those who criticise Vaisnavas.
  • Song: Tava Kathamrita Tapta Jivanam
  • Milk is healthy, but you will die if you drink milk that has been touched by the poisonous tongue of a snake.
  • Rohini Devi’s Lila answering questions from the queens of Dvaraka about Krsna’s relationship with the gopis and Vraja’s amorous pastimes.
  • Lakshmi Devi and Uddhava do not understand vraja-bhavas.
  • You have all lost Krsna and are not weeping for Him.
  • A funny story about the old woman who had bad eyesight and was looking for the needle she had lost in the house on the street. Such is the conditioned soul.
  • By listening to hari-katha, whatever we already have in our heart will manifest.
  • Everyone wants to hear krsna-katha.
  • Ramanuja Acarya leaves his appearance party not to hear of his own glories.
  • Lila of Mahaprabhu not wanting to hear about His own glories.
  • Krsna and Durvasa Rsi.
  • All the queens of Dvaraka begin to cry when they hear from Rohini Devi about the gopis’ katha.
  • Narada Muni asks Krsna to manifest His mahabhava prakasa (molten) form of Jagannatha.
  • The Ratha Yatra represents the gopis taking Krsna from Kuruksetra to Vrndavana.
  • Samyogini Radha and Viyogini Radha.
  • Everyone come to the Ratha Yatra!

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