27 March 2025 midday – Material Life and Sadhana (English translation) | Kashinagar, South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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There are 8,400,000 species of living beings, and among these, 400,000 are human species.
What do we understand by sadhu-sanga? The meaning of human life is to do Hari-bhajana.
Without Hari-bhajana, human life is wasted, and then we have to suffer in the 8,400,000 species of life.
Chant the names of Gouranga!
Chant the Holy Names and do not return to this world, as Mahaprabhu says in the sloka: harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam… (CC Adi-lila 7.76).
Prahlada tells his father Hiranyakasipu that “he is the best of the demons”, and he becomes happy.
In the wedding fire ceremony the bride and groom take a vow by chanting a mantra that they will never leave each other.
On attachment to material life.
Create a relationship with Govinda, so there will be no attachment to worldly relationships.
Prahlada Maharaja explains what material life is in this sloka: śrī-prahlāda uvāca tat sādhu manye ’sura-varya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt hitvātma-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta (SB 7.5.5).
Meaning of the story of the man who, running from a tiger, holds on to a branch over an empty well.
