01 Oct 2023 evening – The Development of Spiritual Life (English translation) – Sydney, Australia

  • The different dynasties (gotras).
  • The two births: the first in the womb and the second when we receive gayatri-mantras.
  • For singing many rounds of japa, Haridasa Thakura was called Brahma Haridasa by Mahaprabhu.
  • The identification of the soul is with eternity.
  • Sanatana Gosvami asked Mahaprabhu: ke āmi’ – “who am I?” (CC Madhya-lila 20.102).
  • We must ask: “why am I suffering the three miseries of maya?”
  • Verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ (CC Madhya-līlā 20.108-109).
  • Nama-sankirtana cleanses the heart.
  • There is material knowledge and transcendental knowledge.
  • The liberation processes indicated for each era (Yuga).
  • The entire Srimad-Bhagavatam glorifies nama-sankirtana.
  • Story of Ajamila on his deathbed.
  • The Bhagavad-gita explains the three classifications of food: tamasik, rajasik and sattvik.
  • The wheel of samsara is covered with sorrows.
  • The law of karma.
  • We forget what the pain of birth and death is like.
  • The glories of the holy names.

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