04/08/24 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.
