09 Oct 2023 evening – The Importance of Knowing and Having Faith in the Scriptures (English translation) – Brisbane, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1

  • Sadhana is both the goal and the path.
  • We have five motor senses and five senses of knowledge.
  • The twenty-eight essential tattvas.
  • To fix the mind it is necessary to enter into tattva-siddhanta.
  • Vaidhi-marga (path of rules and regulations) leads to Vaikuntha. The raga-marga (path of spontaneous devotion) of the Vrajavasis leads to Goloka Vrndavana.
  • With sadhu-sanga comes jnana and vijnana (knowledge and realisation).
  • Faith in the guru (sadhu-visvasa) and the scriptures is the basis of bhakti.
  • The story of when Mahaprabhu denied mercy to Sacimata for offending the Advaita Acarya.
  • Pay obeisances to the lotus feet of Sri Krishna every day.
  • Story of Bivamangala Thakura.
  • Everything must first be offered to Sri Govinda.
  • Story of when Advaita Acarya first offered prasada to Haridasa Thakura.
  • Just by having the darsan of the Vaisnavas, a person becomes purified.
  • Paurnamasi Yogamaya went to Krsna to tell Him about the university of the gopis.
  • The lilas between Radha, Krsna and the gopis in Vrndavana.
  • Krsna’s efforts to break Srimati Radhika’s maan.

PART 2

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