08/06/24 morning – The Fortune of Dhanya Kali-yuga (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Why Dhruva Maharaja ruled for thirty-six thousand years.
- We should abandon all kinds of speculative knowledge and just listen to harikatha from the lotus mouths of sadhus.
- The mind’s conceptions of what is pure and impure.
- Bhakti is superior to jnana, as it arises through the heart of the pure devotee of the Lord.
- Sloka: kṛṣṇa-bhakti-janma-mūla haya ‘sādhu-saṅga’… (CC Madhya 22.83).
- The one-pointed devotee of Krsna should be considered sadhu (saint), even if he has numerous faults.
- About the power of choice that Krsna gave us.
- About the process of surrender to Krsna.
- Sloka: sad-anga saranagati hoibe… (Introduction of the song Saranagati, by Bhaktivinoda Thakura, 5).
- Krsna of Dvaraka meets with the gopis.
- It is important to understand Bhagavan’s tattva-siddhanta.
- About jiva-tattva and maya-tattva.
- The different jivas (souls) existing on other planets.
- About Dhanya Kali-yuga and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s prediction that Kalki Avatara will not appear at the end of this era.
- Maya Devi punishes those who do not chant the Holy Names.
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will liberate everyone in this age through the congregational chanting of the Holy Names.
- Nityananda Prabhu is akhanda-guru-tattva.
