16 Jan 2025 evening – Self-realization in Kali-yuga (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Viamao, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Animals and humans eat, sleep, defend themselves and have children, but only human beings are capable of practicing spiritual life.
The types of consciousness: avrta-cetana (covered/trees and mountains); sankucita-cetana (shrunken/animals), mukulita-cetana (emerging/humans), vikacita-cetana (flourishing/human who understands the soul and God), purna-vikacita-cetana (completely awakened/self-realized human aware of his own soul and God). – Sloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya 20.108-109).
The mahamantra is the spiritual practice of Kali-yuga.
Span of human life in each Yuga: Satya-yuga (100,000 years), Treta-yuga (10,000 years), Dvapara-yuga (1000 years), Kali-yuga (100 years).
Each age has a corresponding spiritual practice for the attainment of Self-realization.
