24 Sept 2025 evening – Sri Krishna Mukunda Grants Mukti (English) | Perth, Australia

– Everyone wants happiness, but often ends up unhappy instead.
– Great efforts in this material world lead to insignificant results (for example, a miner who finds a mouse instead of gems).
– Dharma, artha and moksha create distress and unhappiness.
– Govindadeva requested mukti from his ishtadevi, Durga-devi.
– If the demigods can grant anything, they take it from Krishna.
– Bad karma and good karma interchange.
– Verse: ‘kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ’ (Bg 7.20).
– We are all offenders. That’s why Maya-devi punishes us with adhidaivika, adhibhautika and adhyatmika.
– Song: Brahma-jape chatur-mukhe.
– Chant the holy names to be released from the jail of maya.
– The importance of chanting the holy names in brahma-muhurta.
– Song: Gurvashtaka.
– Dhana-Lakshmi brings prosperity to those who wake up during brahma-muhurta.
– The importance of wearing a Tulasi necklace.
– The word para-stri (the best wife) does not refer to women, but to Tulasi-devi.
– Types of mukti.
– Idam shariram vyadhi-mandiram: The material body is the temple of diseases.
– Srimad-Bhagatam (SB 2.10.6) provides the ultimate definition of mukti: service to Radha and Krishna.
– The song ‘Sri Radha Krishna Pada Kamale Mana’ is the ultimate definition of bhakti.
– ‘There is no guest in the prison’ — Maya-devi punishes us.
– Maya-devi is happy when we serve Krishna.
– The importance of self-realisation.