05/04/24 evening – Sri Bhagavat-saptaha, day 4 (English translation) – Kashinagar, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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).
