16 Feb 2024 evening – How to Reach the Abode of the Lord (English) – Cochabamba, Bolivia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Everyone wants love and affection, happiness and freedom from suffering.
In different languages, the Scriptures say that the spontaneous nature of living entities is love and peace. Love is God and God is Love.
Who is God? God is the Supreme, the Absolute Truth. Everything manifests itself from Him, remains in Him, is destroyed by Him, and returns to Him.
The Scriptures say that God manifests himself in three ways: as Brahman (effulgence), Paramatma (in the heart of every being), and Bhagavan (Supreme Lord in person). Understanding will come with practice, with realisation and intelligence.
The body transforms at all times, from baby to death, this is the material world. But the soul and the Supersoul are eternal and transcendental, they never change.
Whoever is in this world suffers three miseries caused: by their own mind, by demigods and by other living entities.
To reach the Abode of the Lord, practise devotional service, bhakti-yoga, chant the Holy Names Hare Krsna, and everything will reveal itself.
The Lord invested all His potency (sakti) in His Holy Names, which are very powerful.
By singing you will reach mercy. But, if he yields, he avoids offences, duplicity and hypocrisy.
How to surrender to the Lord? Like a baby surrendered to its mother. Saranagati, surrender to Guru and Krsna.
If you think you are independent and think you are doing everything, you will not reach the Lord.
