02 Mar 2024 morning – The Power of the Holy Names (English) – Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 2

  • The acarya founder of our Gaudiya mission is Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.
  • Preaching without practicing bhajana and sadhana is useless, fruitless. Therefore we must practice and then preach.
  • To defeat the Mayavadi philosophy, one must understand it.
  • Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu established the acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva philosophy.
  • The jivas (souls) are eternal, minute, portions of the Lord, and will never be transformed into Brahma.
  • Meaning of BODY (body) in English: b (birth: born), o (old: grows old), d (diseases: diseases), y (Yamaharaja: the lord of death will pick it up and take it to Yama Loka).
  • Material things are subject to change, while the soul is eternal and immutable.
  • Acintya means: that which cannot be understood through material arguments.
  • The three inconceivable things with mystical powers present in the material world: stones, mantras and herbs.
  • Everyone wants money, so chant the Holy Names and the money will come!
  • The Holy Names grant dharma (religiosity), artha (economic development), kama (enjoyment) and moksa (liberation).
  • Try to understand this: the Holy Names are very powerful!
  • Have faith that the Lord is our eternal well-wisher and He knows everything that is happening to each one of us.
  • Story of Gurudeva with three brahmacaris when they went to preach in Nepal.
  • The story of the king who lost his finger, which Srila Gaura Govinda Maharaja tells to demonstrate how the Lord is our eternal well-wisher.
  • We should always chant Hare Krsna and think about how to reach the abode of the Lord.
  • If you go to Dhama, don’t stay for too long, because the nature of the conditioned soul is to point out other people’s faults, and these bad habits will come.
  • In a large festival, a list must be made where each person must become responsible for a specific service, that’s the only way it works.

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