05/10/23 evening – True Sadhu-sanga (English) – Murwilambah, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Sadhu-sanga is serving and listening to harikatha with love and affection, realising the Guru’s heart, and preaching.
  • About vapu-seva and vani-seva (brhad-mrdanga-seva).
    -Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His servant Kala Krsna Dasa who got involved with the gypsies and gave work to Mahaprabhu.
  • Sloka: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī (Bg 7.14).
  • Without surrender, bhakti does not manifest in the heart; and the nine limbs of bhakti. Sloka: śravaṇa, kīrtana, smaraṇa, pūjana, vandana
    paricaryā, dāsya, sakhya, ātma-niveda (CC Madhya-lila 22.121).
  • About the meaning of each of the nine limbs of bhakti.
  • Whoever surrenders completely to Guru and Krsna will never fall.
  • In the same way that eating sugar reduces jaundice, listening to harikatha eliminates the disease of attachment to matter.
  • The conditioned soul is like a person possessed by a ghost.
  • About the wonderful book Vilapa Kusumanjali by Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami.
  • Sloka: vairāgya-yug-bhakti-rasaṁ prayatnair (CC Adi-lila 5.203).
  • The difference between bhakti and bhakti-rasa. When the sadhaka is stabilised in his stayibhava, he is able to drink the sweet nectar of transcendental love (prema).
  • Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes about all tattvas in Bhajana Rahasya.
  • Sloka: anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ (CC Madhya-lila 19.167).
  • Avyapti-dasha (too restrictive of the concept) and Ativyapti-dasha (too broad of the concept).
  • Mother Yasoda tells the Ramayana to Krsna baby.
  • Bring the forty-nine ingredients (bhavas/ingredients of love) tomorrow, and we will make a delicious bhakti-rasa juice.
  • Chant your diksa-mantras remembering the Deities of each mantra and following the rules that your Guru taught.

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