07 Mar 2024 – The Mercy of Guru and Krsna (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Before asking questions, listen carefully. If you listen, you will understand.
- Krsna is in Vrndavana with His sakti, there is no difference between sakti and saktiman.
- We are tatastha-sakti (marginal potency) of Krsna. Example of the Sun and its rays.
- By derivation, we all belong to Goloka Vrndavana; explaining tatastha-sakti.
- Read the Jaiva Dharma. Our question now is how to reach the abode of the Lord.
- This material world is a chain of Maya. The most important thing now is to question how to get out of maya rather than where we came from.
- A person who is drowning wants to be saved, they don’t have time to explain how they fell into the ocean in that moment.
- Ask yourself: “who am I?” Sloka: ‘ke ami’ (CC Madhya-lila 20.102).
- The transcendental vibration enters through the ears and goes to the heart. If you are not hindered by offenses, bhakti will manifest.
- The soul has to be awakened. Song: Jiv Jago Jiv Jago.
- The sadhu helps in awakening people, those who were fortunate will awaken.
- Explaining: sukrti-uttanartha, duskrti-uttanartha, bhakti-uttanartha and aparadha-uttanartha.
- When the heart is free from anarthas, the soul will awaken.
- Krsna comes in the form of the sadhu (Nityananda Prabhu), the sastra, the guru, in many ways, to help us.
- Sadhus travel because when they chant the Holy Names, all beings benefit due to transcendental sound.
- After millions of lifetimes of accumulating sukrti, you have all come to this spiritual lineage. That’s the process.
- The munificent request that Prahlada Maharaja makes to Nrsimhadeva Bhagavan: prāyeṇa deva munayaḥ sva-vimukti-kāmā (Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.44).
- Who is better, the one who does sadhana and bhajana for himself, or the one who practices and helps others?
- Gurudeva is the one who practices and preaches!
- Sloka: labdhvā su-durlabham idaṁ (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.9.29).
