05 Apr 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavat-saptaha, day 4 (English translation) – Kashinagar, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • About Bharata Maharaja and Ambarisa Maharaja; by hearing about the lives of pure devotees we attain Bhakti.
  • What you think at the moment of death will be your destiny in the next life. Bharata Maharaja was a high devotee, he lost everything due to attachment.
  • The activities of Vaisnavas are beyond the understanding of materialists.
  • Jada Bharata was an Uttama-uttama-maha-bhagavata, always absorbed in transcendental moods.
  • The rules and etiquettes of Vedic culture contrast with the degradation of Kali-yuga.
  • Who is a fool, who is a king? What is the body, what is the soul? If someone travels, it is possible to ask where they are going, when they return, but when they die, no.
  • The body is only touched and moves because it has the soul inside. Without the soul, the body is a corpse, which no one wants to touch.
  • To reach God one must surrender to a self-realized soul and, by accepting the dust of its lotus feet, the understanding of the Scriptures and one’s own self-realization will occur.
  • Narada Rsi’s pastime with Kailasa presents that attachment is the reason why jivas are trapped in this material world.
  • Prayer of Vrtasura is: “may I not get attached to anyone”. This attachment is the cause of material captivity, what one possesses must be used in the service of the Lord.
  • Anyone who does not use their eyes to see the Lord will have to see Maya (material energy).