19/10/24 midday – The Month of Srimati Radhika: Kartika (Hindi) | Ali Gao, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

- The meaning of human life.
- The presiding Deity of the month of kartika, Urjesvari Srimati Radhika.
- Rasa-lila is the highest pastime of Sri Krsna.
- The Lord does not accept one who does not surrender to Him (saranagati).
- The story of the cow and the lion stuck in the mud.
- Guru and Vaisnavas have the duty to lift us out of the mud of material existence.
- The benefit of hearing bhagavat-katha and practicing what you hear.
- In this month we should think of Srimati Radhika.
- Srimati Radhika’s lila in maan (transcendental anger), putting cotton in Her ears so as not to hear the sound of Krsna’s flute.