06/06/24 evening – Sadhana (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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.
