01/06/24 morning – About Spiritual Self-Realisation (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- The highest education is to study about Krsna.
- Examples of devotees who achieved perfection by following only one of the members of bhakti.
- Obtaining the association of pure devotees and hearing harikatha is the highest thing in this world.
- The greatest pain there is is being distant from the Vaishnavas. When this happens Maya comes and catches us.
- Explanation of the song radha-krsna-keli: which expresses the loving exchanges between Radha and Krsna.
- The problem is not mukti (liberation) but the desire for mukti.
- Sloka: anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ… (CC Madhya 19.167).
- Story of the barber who was jealous of the king’s first minister.
- The different categories of knowledge: pratyaksa, paroksha, aparoksha, adhokshaja and aprakrita-jnana.
- Differences between Vaikuntha and Vrndavana, compared with the mood of people who live in the city and those who live in the village.
- Explanation of gopala-mantra and kama-gayatri.
- Without duplicity and hypocrisy, as one does bhajana, automatically and little by little, all knowledge manifests itself in the heart.
- The lila of the creation of the material world of Lord Brahma.
- Knowledge is easy to obtain, but achievement is very difficult.
- Sloka: ceto-darpana-marjanam (CC Antya 20.12).
- About the samadhi stage.
- Study the Sloka: martyo yadā tyakta-samasta-karmā… (Srimad Bhagavatam 11.29.34).
- Realisation comes through the mercy of the Guru.
- Radha-prema is the highest prema.
- The importance of hearing about elevated topics, such as the humour of the gopis, but not trying to imitate, as this is a very dangerous thing!
