11/07/23 evening – Glories of the Holy Names and the Lords associates (English translation) – Delhi | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • What are the qualities of a Vaisnava? Explanation of trinad api sunicena.
  • Duties of the four varnas.
  • An explanation of our ancestry from Lord Brahma (Why a baby cries at birth).
  • Our two births: shakra-janma (material birth) and savitri-janma (diksha initiation). Vipra-janma when we are qualified to study vedas.
  • Those who worship Bhagavad-nama, they are known as brahmana.
  • Story of a boy who forgot the sacred mantras and whose life was saved by the sacred thread.
  • Glories of chanting the holy names.
  • Smell of aparadha does not go away even at the stage of bhava.
  • Story of Srimati Radhika going to pick flowers from a tree at Kusuma-sarovara.
  • Story of Rupa Gosvamipada absorbed in this lila and the brahmana who had lost one leg.
  • The glories of Srila Haridasa Thakura.
  • The high-class austerity of hearing harikatha.
  • Austerity of taking part in a fire sacrifice. (Tales of ghosts and mustard seeds.)
  • Mantras are very powerful. Glories of the holy names are the most powerful.
  • In the sixth canto the holy names are established in Ajamila harikatha (Visnu-dhuttas, Yamadutas and Lord Yamaraja katha).
  • Story of when Ravana went to Kailash and put the mountain on his head instead of bowing down and offering pranams.
  • The benefit of sravanam, kirtanam is krishna-prema will manifest in your heart.

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