17 Oct 2023 evening – When will we give up material attachments? (English) – Christchurch, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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If you want to depart from this world of samsara, then you have to associate with sadhu and listen to harikatha.
Our Acaryas express harikatha again and again to make the samskaras, impressions on the heart.
Two things we forget: our birth and our death.
It is not so easy to give up the body, so much attachment is coming.
Papa-karma and punya-karma are both going with us into the next body.
God is calling us, but we are not listening due to samsara-basana, the tendency to enjoy sense gratification.
Srimad Bhagavatam explains that when Krishna plays the flute, the gopis give up their household duties and run to Him.
Our faith will come, visvasa, when we follow instructions of Guru and instruction of shastra.
This body is useless if we do not use it to practise sadhana and bhajana to the Lord.
Katha of blind man getting lost in the stadium, like we were lost in samsara until we received the mercy of Sri Guru.
Explanation of the 8,400,000 species of life that we have taken.
Our one hope is that when we give up this body we go home to the Lord.
Holy names are higher than Sri Hari Himself.
We are to only see our own faults: example of the sieve, who has one hundred holes, who points to the needle saying he has one hole.
The index finger is not qualified to serve the Lord as it is always pointing at others, but there is one service it can do: whilst chanting, point this finger at ourselves and look to see our own faults.
Harikatha of the pious prostitute lady and the critical sadhu.
