28/03/24 evening – Serve Guru and Krsna (Bengali) – Contai, Bengal, India| Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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The aim of life is Goura-bhajana, otherwise we will be serving Maya.
This world is full of sorrows, Maya is always applying the three types of miseries.
Maya is never happy with our service and she always punishes us severely.
When we serve God, Maya liberates us.
Story of the sinner who, in hell, told the Yamadutas that they would worship his feet.
Everyone, including animals, sleeps, mates, eats and defends themselves. What is the difference between humans and animals?
Story of Ajamila, his fall, the name of his son, and his salvation.
Don’t give your children meaningless names.
There are ten types of samskaras (ceremonies for the stages of life).
The difference between sukrti (spiritual pious merit) and punya (material pious merit).
Service to Guru and Vaisnavas generates sukrti.
After collecting sukrti for thousands of lives one attains sadhu-sanga.
Ajamila is approached by three yamadutas (representatives of sins committed through the mind, words, actions); and by four visnudutas (representatives of the conch shell, cakra, mace and lotus flower of Visnu).
Yamaraja instructs the Yamadutas not to approach those who chant the Holy Names.
All sins are found inside the grains on the day of ekadasi.
Don’t compare yourself to God!
Mahaprabhu’s lila honoring Jagannatha’s rice prasada only at the time of breaking the ekadasi fast.
