11 Jul 2023 evening – Glories of the Holy Names and the Lords associates (English translation) – Delhi, India | 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.
