04 Aug 2024 midday – Bhakti Yoga Katha (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • When the lotus blooms, the bees come to collect the nectar.
  • Story of an intelligent person who followed varnasrama-dharma.
  • Material life is impermanent.
  • Learning to serve the Lord with Bhakti Yoga liberates us.
  • Sloka: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ… (Gopi Gita 9).
  • He who hears Krsna-katha is drinking nectar and will never die.
  • Harikatha liberates us from the three miseries of Maya.
  • Problems with our mind are very dangerous and 99% of people have problems in the mind.
  • Take medicine and follow the instructions of the Guru.
  • By following Sri Guru’s instructions, dharma, artha and kama follow and all inauspiciousness goes away.
  • The power of Bhakti Yoga!
  • We need to be patient, seeds take time to fructify.
  • Sloka: utsāhān niścayād…(Upadesamrta 3).
  • Reject whatever is inauspicious to Bhakti.
  • Only Guru gives us mercy, guru-krpa.
  • Devotee asks about loyalty to Srila Gurudeva Vana Maharaja.
  • The potency that the bona fide Guru gives us along with the japamala.
  • Self-realization is the best realization.
  • Knowledge, experiment and realization.
  • The Guru’s duty is to connect (yoga) our jiva (soul) with Sri Krsna.