05 Feb 2025 morning – Aishvarya and madhurya (English) | Praia do Presídio, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

- Sadhaka stage and siddha stage.
- First, fix your mind to perform bhajana and sadhana.
- Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told Raghunatha dasa Gosvami to fix his mind.
- 6 stages of unstable bhajana.
- Maya Devi’s attacks on Haridasa Thakura.
- 5 stages of the removal of anarthas: eka-desha-vartini, bahu-desha-vartini, prayiki, purna, atyantiki.
- Maya-devi purifies the heart of a sadhaka.
- When Guru punishes, he gives his mercy (example of a mother punishing her baby).
- Damodarashtaka.
- Srimati Radhika covers the whole body of Krishna.
- Srimati Radhika is karuna-shakti.
- In the transcendental world there is no difference between body and soul.
- Externally we see that Krishna or Chaitanya Mahaprabhu give prema but in reality it is Srimati Radhika who is giving it.
- Transformation of aishvarya into madhurya.
- Srimati Radhika helps Krishna to hold Govardhana.
- When the airplane starts to shake even atheists start to pray to God.
- Nanda Maharaja does not see any aishvarya in Krishna but sometimes out of his humility his vatsalya-bhava turns into dasya-bhava.
- Aishvarya manifested by the gopis.