– The Bhagavad Gita is known as “The Sound Incarnation of the Lord”. – If you recite the verses of Bhagavad Gita, you will be protected from Maya. – The nature of the human body’s senses is to go towards objects that attract them. – The three sections of the Bhagavad Gita: karma yoga, bhakti yoga and jnana yoga. – Verse: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Brahma-samhita, 5.1). – The jivas are tiny and the Lord is grand, this is the main difference between souls and God. – Krsna consciousness means discussing spiritual topics. – Verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ (CC Madhya 20.108-109). – Vaisnava philosophy explains these two points: the enjoyer (God) and the enjoyed (all other souls). – About the philosophy of the impersonalists. – The conscious being has three symptoms: feeling, desiring and knowing. – The story of the friend who reincarnated as a man’s son to pay off his debt from his previous life with him. – Verse: man-manā bhava mad-bhakto (Bhagavad-gītā 9.34). – The moods with which we can serve Krsna: santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya. – Krsna manifests His extra-marital sweet moods (parakiya) only in Vraja. – Sambandhatmika-bhakti and kamatmika-bhakti. – Verse: anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau (CC Ādi 1.4). – The nine questions asked by the gopis to Krsna. – The rasa-vicara and tattva-vicara conceptions of Krsna in His three abodes: Dvaraka, Mathura and Vraja.
Lectures in English, United Kingdom, United Kingdom 2023
