– Harikatha listeners are recipients of the Lord’s mercy, for otherwise who could endure sitting for so long?
– Pariksit Maharaja sat for seven days and seven nights without eating or drinking, only drinking the nectar from the lotus mouth of Sukadeva Gosvami.
– The sastras glorify the listeners much more than the speaker.
– Listening to Harikatha with concentration is not easy at all.
– Srila BV Vana Gosvami Maharaja has been writing down everything he has heard from Srila Gurudeva Narayana Gosvami Maharaja in his notebooks since 1981.
– There are two causes for which Sri Krishna appeared in this material world, the primary and the secondary.
– Regarding the primary cause, there are five to seven main points.
– In the spiritual world, there is no birth lila of Sri Krishna nor death lila of demons; for this reason, what exists here is a perverted reflection and not a faithful reflection of the spiritual world.
– About bhava-matra (the lila of feeling).
– About Putana’s past life (which signifies duplicity, falsehood, and hypocrisy).
– When Krishna kills someone, He gives that person a good destiny.
– About Putana’s pastime of never bathing and drinking the blood of babies, moksha lila.
– The family we love so much is merely paying our debts from past lives to these beings.
– Krishna has two qualities at the same time: omniscience and innocence.
– If we develop bhakti, we will obtain knowledge and renunciation.
– Vrndavana is the land of sweetness.
– Regarding the pastimes of baby Krishna with Trnavarta, which teaches us to eliminate the impurities from our hearts.
– As long as the desire for liberation remains in our hearts, we will never attain suddha-bhakti.
– As long as we have the tendency to sin in our hearts, we will never be able to practice bhagavad-bhajana.