12 Oct 2023 evening – The Power of the Holy Names (English translation) – Brisbane, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • According to past karma, we live the results of that karma in the present life.
  • Without knowing the difference between sin and piety, people misuse money, for example, with alcoholic drinks, and thus suffer the reactions of their actions.
  • The Bhagavad Gita says that birth, death, decay of the body and sickness are inevitable. But we always forget the sufferings of birth and death.
  • Story of Gajendra.
  • Why does everyone honour Hanuman?
  • How Nal and Nil and the monkeys built the bridge to Lord Rama with the potency of His name.
  • The beautiful lila of Hanuman explaining to Lord Rama why He could not make a stone float.
  • You have to know how to live, chanting the holy names is the art of living!
  • Most people don’t know what cleanliness and purity are.
  • Yamaraja instructs his Yamadutas not to approach those who wear tilaka and chant the holy names.
  • The different processes of self-realisation in each yuga.
  • The life span in Kali-yuga is 100 years; in Dvapara-yuga it is 1000 years; in Treta-yuga it is 10,000 years; and in Satya-yuga it is 100,000 years.
  • By chanting the holy names in Kali-yuga, one gets all the fruits that one gets in other yugas.
  • Lila of Narada Muni with Ratnakara, the dangerous bandit who later took the name Valmiki and became a great saint.
  • God will accept your humour even if you mispronounce the names.