25 Jun 2023 midday – Hera Panchami (English) – Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Why do we get a cold/flu?
- Jagannatha spends 15 days very weak and alone.
- The fresh mind X the anxious mind.
- Where do disturbances come from?
- God is our eternal well-wisher.
- Parents know their children.
- Twameva mata cha pita twameva
Twameva bandu cha sakha twameva
Twameva vidhya dravinam twameva
Twameva sarvam mama deva deva.
- Things come and go. We have to accept the will of the Lord.
- The story of the boat in the storm and the saint who helped the water come in.
- The desire of the Lord is the best desire.
- Total surrender.
- We must become members of the Trust Society, that is, the society of trust/faith.
- We trust the relationships we have because it is necessary to live in this world.
- Karma-tattva
- Without the wish of God, not even a leaf can move, proverb.
- Mahaprabhu tells Sanatana Gosvami the story of the baby deer surrounded by danger on all sides.
- The power of harinama.
- Faith in God.
- Husband and wife must always travel together.
- If the husband is alone, he should always send a message to let her know that he has arrived safely at his destination.
- Concern for those we love.
- Lakshmi-devi has not heard from Jagannatha for 5 days.
- She will punish the Lord’s servants. Description of her clothes, the servants, the carriage…
- Mahaprabhu organises this play, on the day of Hera Panchami, in the Jagannatha temple.
- Mahaprabhu asks Sanatana Gosvami why he did not take Lakshmi with him.
- Sundarachala Vrindavana.
- Jagannatha went with Subhadra and Baladeva.
- Svarupa Damodara’s reply.
- Sukriti, sadhu-sanga and Bhakti-devi.
- Bhakti leads to God.
- bhaktir evainaṁ nayati
bhaktir evainaṁ darśayati
bhakti-vaśaḥ puruṣo
bhaktir eva bhūyasī (Madhva-bhāṣya sūtra 3.3.53)
- The difference between bhakti and other paths.
- How does one go to Vrindavana?
- The fruits received in Navadvipa-dhama, even without doing parikrama.
- Lakshmi-devi is in the mood of opulence.
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