19 Sep 2024 evening – Preach and Engage Others (English translation) | Brisbane, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- When the Lord bestows His mercy, the jiva is able to enter His abode.
- On the importance of Caitanya Caritamrta.
- All who practice bhakti do so only because they have received the Lord’s mercy. Tulasi Dasa’s Ramayana says the same thing.
- More important than the Lord’s mercy is the Lord’s mercy: harau ruṣṭe gurus trātā gurau ruṣṭe na kaścana… (Hari Bhakti-vilasa 4.360).
- Preach and call devotees to hear harikatha. –
- One who is busy in saving only himself is selfish. Preach and engage others.
- It is important to have a Temple here in Brisbane: do something here with enthusiasm, a neutral place so as not to be left from one place to another.
- About the boon that Indra Deva grants to Mucukunda.
- The boons like artha, dharma and kama that the demigods grant are potency of the Supreme Lord. But they have no power to grant moksa.
- Ganesa grants mystical powers because he received mercy from Krsna.
- Only Govinda grants liberation (moksa) and devotion (bhakti).
- Three definitions of mukti: to remove sufferings; to attain the lotus feet of Visnu; to serve Govinda with one’s own soul form.
- Story of the asura Kaliavana with Mucukunda.
- The difference between punya and sukrti.
- Accumulated and mature sukrti leads one to the path of bhakti to the Supreme Lord.
- Those who attain bhakti accidentally do not remain, but those who attain it due to sukrti remain.
- Honoring mahaprasada creates sukrti.
- We will see the form of the Lord when we have eyes and the gaze of love.
