01 Oct 2023evening – 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.
