23 Sep 2024 midday – The Best Benefit of Human Life is Hari Bhajana (Hindi) | Auckland, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- We should practise bhajana all the time because we do not know when we will depart from this world.
- Our devotion should be one-pointed towards Bhagavan Sri Krsna, and we should see the demigods as devotees of the Lord, thus giving them due respect.
- Verse: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja… (Bhagavad Gita 18.66)
- Shiva, Brahma, all the demigods chant the names of the Lord.
- Verse: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ… (Brahma Samhita).
- Song: Bhaja Hu Re Mana.
- Everyone should have Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam at home, and offer obeisances to these granthas.
- Lila of Bhrgu Rsi proving that Visnu is superior to Brahma and Siva.
- We should offer our obeisances to our parents.
- Sivaji chants the Holy Names of the Lord, that is why he became immortal.
- The significance of Upavasa (Ekadasi).
- Story of the princess who married an elephant.
