18/06/23 morning – Questions and Answers (English) – 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
