- What the Scriptures say about the difference between brahmana and sudra.
- By practising karma, yoga, tapasya it is not possible to achieve suddha-bhakti.
- Little by little the heart is purified by listening to harikatha, chanting the Holy Names, doing kirtana and other spiritual practices.
- About self-realisation (atma-buddhi).
- The meaning of a miserable, petty person.
- The story of the rich boy who went to see an astrologer.
- The main cause of the emergence of bhakti is sadhu-sanga.
- Bhakti-yoga means serving the Lord, and this mood already exists naturally within the hearts of all beings.
- Worldly services should be directed to Krsna.
- If you do things for your own pleasure, it is karma. If you do things for the pleasure of Guru and Krsna, it is bhakti.
- Lila by Rupa Manjari massaging Krsna’s lotus feet.
- Radha-carana-seva: the desire to serve the lotus feet of Srimati Radhika, this is something extremely rare.
- Learn this Sloka: śrī-rūpa-mañjari-karārcita-pāda-padma… (Vilapa-kusumanjali, 72).
- Sloka: kṛṣṇa-bhakti-janma-mūla haya ‘sādhu-saṅga’… (CC Madhya 22.83).
- Abandon bad association and always associate with sadhus.
- Story of the brahmana who worshipped Lord Siva and met Sanatana Gosvami.
- What is inferior is automatically abandoned when acquiring something of greater value. Example of money notes.
- The sadhu, through his association, delivers that which is most valuable: krsna-bhakti, krsna-prema.
- Srila Gurudeva says that he has been to Las Vegas twice and what that place is like in terms of betting and the desire to get more and more money.
- Example of ghee that is inside the milk but we cannot see it. The power is within the heart but we need to awaken it.
France, Lectures in English, Translated into French, France 2024
