PART 1
- Everyone must listen to Harikatha for the rest of eternity: Bhagavat-seva!
- Grantha-bhagavat and bhakta-bhagavat, both are lovely and necessary!
- Detailed description of Krsna’s lila with Sudama Vipra.
- About how Krsna treated Sudama with all affection; He even ate the remnants of Sudama and gave it to His wives to eat as well.
- Wonderful Sloka: api cet su-durācāro… (Bhagavad Gita 9.30) and (Subjective Evolution of Consciousness – Chapter: Pure Devotion).
- In Dvaraka, Krsna teaches by example what the behavior of an ideal grhastha should be.
- We only become able to serve the Guru properly after knowing his heart.
- The little you give to God results in receiving thousands of times more from Him.
- Story of the stingy and miserly man.
- Mantra Aparadha-sodhana (mantra of asking forgiveness for offenses): mantra-hinam kriya-hinam bhakti-hinam janardana yat pujitam maya deva paripurnam tad astu me…
- How do you buy the jewelry that is the Holy Names of God? With faith!
- Nrg Maharaja makes thousands of cow offerings to two brahmanas who curse him because of a single cow.
- Nrg Maharaja is born as a chameleon in Dvaraka and is saved by Krsna.
- The greatest of all givers is the one who spreads the nectar of Krsna’s words: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ… (Srimad Bhagavatam 10.31.9).
- Story of the demon who wanted to kidnap Parvati and did tapasya to Siva in order to obtain the blessing of exploding every head he touched.
- Lord Siva tells Bhagavan that he does not worry about the blessings he bestows because he knows that He will protect him.
- Beautiful story of Bhrgu Rsi testing Brahma (raja-guna), Siva (tama-guna) and Visnu (sattva-guna) to reveal which of them is the Supreme Lord.
- Purification Mantra:
om apavitrah pavitro vā
sarvāvasthāṁ cat api vā
yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ
sa bahya abhyantaraṁ śuciḥ
śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu śrī viṣṇu (Srimad Bhagavatam 6.8.4-6). - Practice chanting the Holy Names, so that Krsna’s name will appear on your tongue at the time of death!
- Krsna is the Supreme Lord, the evidence is in Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.28: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ
kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam
indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ
mṛḍayanti yuge yuge.
PART 2
