16/10/23 evening – Where the Jivas Come From (English) – Christchurch, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- The jivas manifest out of Krsna’s marginal potency, tatastha-sakti.
- The two functions of Maya-devi that cover the jiva: viksepa-atmika-vrtti and avarana-atmika-vrtti.
- The three bodies of the jiva and the three modes of the nature of the material world.
- Through sadhu-sanga we get the opportunity to come out of this cycle of repeated birth and death.
- Two verses: brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān; mālī hañā kare sei bīja āropaṇa (CC Madhya-lila 19.151-152).
- The nine limbs of bhakti.
- Verse: kṛṣṇa-bhakti-janma-mūla haya ‘sādhu-saṅga’ (CC Madhya-lila 22.83).
- Verse: śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.17).
- Sadhu-sanga means listening to harikatha. The harikatha of the sadhu is like a sharp sword that cuts through all inauspiciousness.
- Definition of sadhu.
- Verse: ‘sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ – sarva-śāstre kaya (CC Madhya-lila 22.54).
- Self-realisation is the best realisation.
- Verse: śrī-bhagavān uvāca
ūrdhva-mūlam adhaḥ-śākham (Bhagavad Gita 15.1).
- The story of the princess necklace.
- Sadhana and bhajana liberate us from maya.
- Verse: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī (Bhagavad Gita 7.14).
- Verse: amnayah praha tattvam harim iha (Jaiva Dharma, Chapter 13).
- Three stages of bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhava-bhakti and prema-bhakti.
- The ten offences against the holy names.
- Chanting the holy names in Kali-yuga is the means by which our faults are mitigated and we achieve connection with the Lord.
