17 Jul 2024 evening – The glories of Ekadashi-tithi (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- On Ekadashi do not eat 5 kinds of grains as all sins remain there.
- Sri Vishnu glorifies sadhu-sanga in front of Narada Rishi (a black bee, a cuckoo bird, a newborn baby)
- Shloka: āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ (Hitopadesha 25).
- Sukriti will bring you before a sadhu.
- Worldly people will not solve your problems, they will only create more. Only a bona fide guru can solve all your problems.
- Shloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya – kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ (CC Madhya 20.108).
- The soul in our body is the source of our feeling, will and knowledge.
- Janaka Maharaj tells Ashtavakra Rishi about his inauspicious dream.
- Lila of Indra transforming into a pig body.
