05 Oct 2023 evening – True Sadhu-sanga (English) – Murwillumbah, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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.
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.
