20/06/24 evening – Material World and Spiritual World (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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!”
