18 Jun 2023 morning – Questions and Answers (English) – Sao Paulo, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • How do you get paramarthiki-shraddha? You must have unshakable faith (atyantiki-shraddha).
  • Paramarthiki-shraddha awakens with mature sukriti.
  • Ajnata-sukriti and jnata-sukriti.
  • Eight types of worship of Tulasi Devi.
  • Ganga, Tulasi and Giriraja Govardhana are very important in Kali-yuga and will gradually disappear.
  • The conditioned soul seeks sense gratification.
  • The love and affection in the hearts of the gopis.
  • The lila of Kurukshetra at the Samanta-panchaka site: the meeting of the queens of Dvaraka, Srimati Radhika, the gopis and the Vrajavasis.
  • The three types of darshana (distant, near and close conversation).
  • The six symptoms of mahabhava.
  • Mahabhava-murti: Radha is the embodiment of mahabhava.
  • Rohini Devi pacifies mother Yashoda.
  • No one can pay the debt to the mother.
  • The nine stages of bhakti.
  • The five obstacles to the practice of sadhana and bhajana.
  • Lack of taste for chanting the holy names comes from many lifetimes of committing papa karma, so we have to repeat ‘again and again’.
  • Lord Ramachandra’s lila of killing the monkey Bali from behind.
  • Two-legged creatures are intelligent and four-legged creatures are less intelligent.
  • When Radha is in maan, She doesn’t want to see anything black.
  • How Vrajavasis use tortuous language to show love and affection.
  • Read the Chaitanya-bhagavata.
  • Do not associate with those who criticise Vaisnavas, because then you also commit vaishnava-aparadha.
  • Do prasada-seva and Ratha Yatra seva.
    Sao Paolo

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