21 Mar 2024 morning – Nirdaya-ghata (English translation) – Sri Navadvipa-dhama, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Why do we do Navadvipa Parikrama?
Caitanya Mahaprabhu bathed here.
Sloka: aradhitam nava-vanam vraja-kananam te (Navadvipa Satakam 78). Whoever takes shelter in Navadvipa reaches Vrndavana, whoever does not take shelter will never reach it. Whoever takes shelter of Mahaprabhu reaches Krsna, otherwise he will never reach it.
After Mahaprabhu accepted sannyasa, He began to do kirtana at Srivasa’s house.
Mahaprabhu accepted sannyasa from Kesava Bharati in Kantara-nagara.
About your types of people who don’t want to accept Mahaprabhu.
Mahaprabhu accepted sannyasi to protect the “curse” that a brahmana pronounced on Him.
People suffer in the material world because they run after illusions, just as the gazelle runs to the desert thinking there is water there.
Mahaprabhu came in this Kali-yuga, that’s why this era is called Danya Kali-yuga.
In this Danya Kali-yuga, Kalki does not come.
About Mahaprabhu’s favorite foods, among others, banana flower.
Mahaprabhu’s lila with His wife and mother the night before leaving married life and householder.
Mahaprabhu chants the sannyasa-mantra in the ear of Kesava Bharati for him to initiate Mahaprabhu. So who starts who?
Beautiful and funny lila from Nitai deceiving Mahaprabhu so that He doesn’t go to Vrndavana, and Advaita Acarya seeks Mahaprabhu by boat.
On the philosophical foundation of the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya.
About the five tattvas: Isvara, jiva, prakrti, karma and kala.
