- Everyone needs to express their feelings, so we look for friends.
- The three gunas (material qualities) of Maya.
- God creates, maintains and destroys the material world.
- Story of the boy who caught a fish to raise out of the water. We, souls, are outside our habitat, we want eternal love, but this love we only find in the transcendental/spiritual world.
- What is the process for us to return to God? Mahamantra Hare Krsna!
- Sloka: govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami… (Brahma Samhita).
- In Vrndavana the houses are made of wishing stones (cintamani), the trees are kalpa-vrksa (wishing trees), and the cows are kama-dhenu (wishing cows).
- This world is transient and full of suffering.
- Sadhu-sanga is everything!
- Question: “Gurudeva, how do you have so much energy to travel non-stop, barely sleep and nourish so many people? Answer: “All this energy comes from the Lord, we don’t get any credit!”
- ”You are not ordinary people,
- Everyone needs to express their feelings, so we look for friends.
- The three gunas (material qualities) of Maya.
- God creates, maintains and destroys the material world.
- Story of the boy who caught a fish to raise out of the water. We, souls, are outside our habitat, we want eternal love, but this love we only find in the transcendental/spiritual world.
- What is the process for us to return to God? Mahamantra Hare Krsna!
- Sloka: govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami… (Brahma Samhita).
- In Vrndavana the houses are made of wishing stones (cintamani), the trees are kalpa-vrksa (wishing trees), and the cows are kama-dhenu (wishing cows).
- This world is transient and full of suffering.
- Sadhu-sanga is everything!
- Question: “Gurudeva, how do you have so much energy to travel non-stop, barely sleep and nourish so many people? Answer: “All this energy comes from the Lord, we don’t get any credit!”
- ”You are not ordinary people, for many lives you worshiped Vasudeva and that is why you came in this spiritual lineage, you just forgot about it.”
- ”The Scriptures say that those who chant the Holy Names are those who have worshiped Visnu for a hundred lives in a row: I believe this is your last life in the material world!”
- Sloka: tṛṇād api sunīcena… (Siksastaka 3).
- Give respect to everyone!
- for many lives you worshiped Vasudeva and that is why you came in this spiritual lineage, you just forgot about it.”
- ”The Scriptures say that those who chant the Holy Names are those who have worshiped Visnu for a hundred lives in a row: I believe this is your last life in the material world!”
- Sloka: tṛṇād api sunīcena… (Siksastaka 3).
- Give respect to everyone!
Hari-katha, Lectures in English, Hari-katha 2024
