06 Jun 2024 evening – Sadhana (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • The word love melts our heart.
  • ⁠Love is a transcendental feeling.
  • ⁠Love and lust are not the same thing.
  • ⁠When all desires are to give satisfaction to Krsna, that is love.
  • ⁠Hear about the sweet pastimes of the Lord and your heart will be clean and tidy.
  • ⁠Krsna-prema (love for Krsna) is an inherent potentiality of the heart: nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya … (CC Madhya-lila 22.107).
  • ⁠Sraddha is fundamental, faith in the Guru and the Vaisnavas.
  • ⁠Sadhu-sanga.
  • ⁠Anisthita-bhakti (unstable bhakti) is divided into six stages: Utsaha-mayi, Ghana-tarala, Vyudha-vikalpa, Visaya-sangara, Niyanksama, Taranga-rangini.
  • ⁠Speaking is easy, but realizing that we are eternal servants of Krsna is difficult.
  • ⁠Sanatana Gosvami asked Mahaprabhu: “Who am I?” (CC Madhya-lila 20.102-103).
  • ⁠Stories of how Maya deceives people.
  • ⁠It is very difficult to conquer Maya: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā …(Bhagavad Gita 7.14).
  • God is Love and Love is God, God is the Personification of Divine Love.
  • ⁠If you love God, you love everyone, but if you don’t love God, you don’t love anyone.
  • ⁠You are not residents of this material world, you are residents of the transcendental world.