05 Mar 2025 midday – The Power of Devotee’s Shelter (Bengali) | West Bengal, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- The essence of a very rare human life is to worship Sri Hari.
- Demigods want to be human because only through the human body is it possible to attain God.
- On killing and eating fish.
- If we serve our family without serving God, our life is completely useless.
- Bhrama, pramada, vipralipsa, and karana-apatava.
- Indradyumna Maharaja becoming an elephant after being cursed by Agastya Rishi.
- The crocodile that fought with an elephant was a man cursed by a sadhu after he jokingly pulled a sadhu into the water.
- Fight between an elephant and a crocodile.
- God first saved a crocodile because he took shelter in the lotus feet of an elephant, a devotee of the Lord.
- If we cry like an elephant and beg for God’s help, God will hear our prayer.
- Gurudev said, “Be a brahmachari for one life, and you will see what mercy God will give you.
- It’s very auspicious if a cow makes a sound on a hari-katha.
- Gurudev is a boatman who helps cross the ocean of material existence.
- Take the shelter of harinama.
- Maha-prasada and hari-katha is our motto.
