21 Jan 2025 evening – Reasons to Speak Harikatha (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Gurudeva speaks about the time of his Harikatha and the reason for giving devotees the opportunity to speak before him.
Gurudeva declares that we need to listen to what devotees have to say.
Harikatha corrects the heart of the speaker.
We should be humble when speaking Harikatha, thinking that we did not practice spiritual life, that we did not do bhajana and sadhana. In this way, the mood of regret will arise.
Without a mood of regret, Harikatha is useless.
Whether the audience will reap fruits or not, this thought should be avoided.
The thought should be: I did not practice bhajana and sadhana and my life was in vain.
As in the song of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura that says: My life is going into the Ocean of Maya, and there is no way to recover.
The speaker when speaking Harikatha should think of the instructions of the satras, scriptures, which are for him and not for others.
One who is full of anarthas cannot purify the hearts of others.
He should be aware that he is unqualified and that he is only repeating the words of our Acaryas.
Quote from Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, and his analogy with the postman.
Krsna, is our best friend and is advising us.
Quote from the Tenth Canto of Srimad Baghavatan, which deals with Krsna’s letter to the Vrajavasis, which is read by Uddhava.
Uddhava says exactly what Krsna told him.
Uddhava stays in Vrndavana for ten months, and declares: how is it possible to explain the language of love; Love is something very confidential, it is necessary to know the heart of the lover and the beloved.
Story told by Mahaprabu about a girl who performs all her tasks perfectly, but whose mind is absorbed in her lover.
Explanation of the love of the gopis and it is something very confidential.
Love is like camphor, to preserve it you need to protect it.
In the material world, subject to the three modes of nature, love is always selfish, always dependent on a cause, unlike in the transcendental world.
