23 Dec 2023 morning – How to Surrender to Krsna (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • About the Bhagavad Gita, when Arjuna sees his loved ones in the battle of Kuruksetra.
  • Srimad Bhagavad Gita talks about truth, and has the duty to establish varnasrama-dharma.
  • The five types of knowledge contained in the Bhagavad Gita.
  • About the elements that make up the material body.
  • The story of Indra and Virocana.
  • The story of the man who wanted to kill himself and met a sadhu on the way.
  • He who is born has to die, but the soul is eternal and transcendental.
  • He who merges into brahman feels neither happiness nor sadness, it is like a state of deep sleep.
  • The spontaneous nature of all living entities is to serve Krsna.
  • Verse: man-manā bhava mad-bhakto (Bhagavad-gītā 18.65).
  • Verse: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (Bhagavad-gītā 18.66).
  • If you are not one-pointed with Guru and Krsna, you cannot reach the highest.
  • The story of the poor brahmana named Arjun Misra who read the Bhagavad Gita every day.
  • Radha and Krsna manifest themselves to one who reads the Bhagavad Gita daily.
  • Guru-nishtha is the backbone of our spiritual life.
  • Verse: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
    sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Śrī brahma-saṁhitā 5.1).
  • The Bhagavad Gita teaches how to surrender unidirectionally and completely to Sri Krsna, and to no one else.