17/12/23 evening – Sukrti and Bhajana (English translation) – Bengal, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- If the holy names are transcendental and our language is material, then how is it possible for us to touch the holy names?
- God, His form and His names, everything in Him is transcendental.
- By the desire to serve Sri Hari and through His mercy, all the material senses of the devotee become “as it were” transcendental.
- First control your mind and then you can control your senses.
- In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asks Sri Krsna how to control his restless mind, and Sri Krsna responds: abhyasa and vairagya.
- Story of a king who challenged someone to make a goat lose its desire to eat.
- If we have firm faith we can sing and, thus, the holy names will dance on our tongue.
- Follow Sri Guru’s instructions in practice.
- Sri Krsna went to Duryodhana to ask that the Kuruksetra war should not happen.
- Duryodhana did not have enough sukrti to have faith in Sri Krsna’s words.
- There are many lives collecting sukrti, to be able to develop firm faith in Guru and God.
- The glories of Ganga Devi.
- The way out of this cycle of births and deaths is bhajana, chanting the holy names.
- With the accumulation of sukrti you inevitably become a Vaisnava.
- To distribute mahaprasada is to distribute sukrti.
- The good fortune of being in association with a Vaisnava Guru is very rare, it takes a lot of sukrti.
- Story of a demon who fell in love with Parvati and performed austerities to get blessings from Sivaji.
- Sivaji is very kind to his devotees, he is Bolenath.
- There is a proverb in Bengali that says to stay away from bad associations and do bhajana.
