23 Jun 2023 evening – Primary Issues of the Spiritual Life (English) – Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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).
