16 Oct 2024 morning – The Power of The Holy Names and Nama-Abhasa (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Ajamila uttered nama-abhasa.
- For impersonalists nama-abhasa destroys only prarabdha-karma and for pure devotees nama-abhasa destroys both prarabdha-karma and aprarabdha-karma.
- Be careful not to make nama-aparadha and vaishnava-aparadha.
- Shloka: api cet su-durācāro (BG 9.30).
- Story of a sadhu and a prostitute.
- The service of a mother to her child.
- If you borrow money, pay it back.
- Avoid bad associations, be one-pointed towards Krishna.
- Benefits of neem.
- Dvivida vanara katha.
- Do not criticise those who do bad things. Rather keep distance from them.
- The mind is like an elastic band, it expands when it sees the object of sense gratification and shrinks when the sense is not satisfied.
- Practise and renunciation are the methods of controlling the mind.
- Wake up slowly so as not to have a heart attack. Women should start from the left feet and men from the right feet.
- Heart attack happens when the mind separates from the body.
- In the morning, take darshana of the lotus feet of Govinda and chant the holy names.
- A case of a devotee twisting in a train while chanting mantras, trying to correct the direction of the body.
- Comparison of the birth and death of a devotee and a non-devotee.
