07 Oct 2023 midday – How to Conquer Maya (English) – Gold Coast, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- The material world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world.
- Maya’s three dogs preside over the material world.
- Everyone has millions of faults in Kali-yuga.
- The supreme quality of Kali-yuga: nama-sankirtana.
- The lila about Narada Rsi’s instruction to Hanuman.
- In Kali-yuga it is very difficult to perform fire sacrifice.
- By chanting the holy names, we will be able to realise our constitutional form.
- Verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ (CC Madhya 20.108-109).
- We followed Maya’s instructions, and even so, she is not happy with us.
- The only hope of protection in Kali-yuga is Sri Sacinandana Gaurahari.
- Song: Mana Re Kaha Na Gaura Katha, by Narahari Sarakara.
- Gaurahari is the embodiment of magnanimity and bestows the highest prema.
- All problems will be solved for the one who chants the holy names.
- Song: Yamuna Puline Kadamba Vana Men, by Madhuri Priya Devi Dasi.
- The five stages of siddhi (spiritual attainment).
- Association with the sadhu is the only process to win maya.
- Before going to Goloka Vrndavana, all the sakhis train the sadhaka.
- Song: Palya Dasi Kori, by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
- What the gopis are like in the transcendental world, aged between seven and nine.
