27 March 2025 evening – Sri Bhagavat-saptaha, day 5 (Hindi) | Kashinagar, South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Fortunate jivas have the opportunity to hear Bhagavd-katha.
Pariksiti Maharaja heard the Bhagavatam from Sukadeva Gosvami, the parrot of Srimati Radhika, but Pariksiti attained gopi-bhava.
The listener is not always inferior to the speaker: Srila Gurudeva exalts the audience.
Harikatha is spoken according to the qualification of the listeners.
Candidasa and Vidyapati performed wonderful kirtans and they took shelter of Mahaprabhu.
Narottama Dasa Thakura wrote the Prema Bhakti Candrika, a special book, the entire tattva-siddhanta is in this book.
Whoever spends the night in seva-kunja transgresses the law, and either goes mad or dies.
Without siddhanta one becomes sahajiya. Siddhanta is the foundation for building rasa.
There is no antonym for the word ananda/bliss.
Sloka on the apparently human form of the Lord: anugrahāya bhaktānāṁ… (SB 10.33.36).
Bliss appeared in the house of Nanda Baba.
Vaidhi-bhakti leads only up to Vaikuntha, at a certain stage this must be abandoned to follow raganuga-bhakti.
Krsna is happy to be called a butter thief (prema) and to steal the gopis’ clothes.
Krsna asks Uddhava to go to Vrndavana to pacify the vrajavasis, but the mathuravasis do not know the mood of Vrndavana, this is Krsna’s mercy towards Uddhava.
Krsna’s sweet chield lilas.
Drona and Dhara (they are jiva-tattva) worshiped Brahma, in the next life, Prsni and Sutapa worshiped Visnu, in the next life, Devaki and Vasudeva worshiped Visnu.
Lila of Mother Earth in the form of a cow going with Brahma to ask for help from Ksirokadasayi Visnu.
Srila Gurudeva BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja was so respected by all the scholars that he was given the title of Yuga Acarya. There are many Gurus but not all are Acarya.
Srila Gurudeva BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja is so elevated that everyone who had the good fortune to even see him is fortunate, imagine those who received diksa and siksa from him!
Lila in which Narada Rsi cursed Nalakuvara and Manigriva to assume the bodies of trees in Nanda Baba’s courtyard; the dambhanda-lila and other child lilas of Krsna.
