23/06/23 evening – Primary Issues of the Spiritual Life (English) – Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • This world is not our home. We are travellers, moving from one body to another.
  • In each body we have a different bodily conception and identity: man, woman, animal, and so on.
  • Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
  • GOD = Generator/Operator/Destroyer.
  • God has many names and He is always with you.
  • We are in this material world because we have forgotten God.
  • The material world is a prison.
  • The three miseries of Maya: adhyātmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika.
  • In this world happiness is temporary.
  • The story of the woodcutter cutting a tree, the tiger, the snake, the crocodile and the river.
  • Death is certain. Science cannot prevent death.
  • Spiritual science can overcome death.
  • To believe or not to believe is not the question. Reality is independent of our beliefs.
  • Our subject is the cycle of birth and death. How can we defeat death?
  • Everybody wants to be young, healthy and happy.
  • The story of the cruel king and the 99 statues of himself.
  • Action and reaction.
  • Everything that is born dies, so how do you defeat death? When one reaches the abode of the Lord, one is no longer born in this material world.
  • The Lord calls everyone, but we turn our face to another side.
    -God created man in His image and likeness, because only in the human body do we have the ability to discriminate and question.
  • No one says “ex-son”, just as God never forgets us.
  • The saints go through this world and remind everyone: come home, come back to the Lord!
  • Everything in the material world is incomplete. The spiritual world is complete, perfect and good.
  • In this world there is good and bad in everything, everything has an antonym. But evil is the absence of good. God is totally GOOD and PERFECT.
  • Man has four defects: bhrama (error), pramada (illusion), karanapatava (imperfect material senses) and vipralipsa (tendency to deceive others).
  • Viseu

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