Brazil 2025
07 Feb 2025 evening – Mayavadi Philosophy (English) | Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the Mayavadi philosophy spread by Sankara Acarya.
How Sankara Acarya was actually a Vaisnava and guided people to suddha-bhakti.
About how we should meditate on the form of God and not on the nonexistence of form.
About how we are made in the image and likeness of God, but His body is sat-cit-ananda.
About how when we speak the truth, many people get angry, but one day they will realize this truth.
About the purity of Swami Maharaja’s disciple lineage.
07 Feb 2025 morning – The Importance of the Temple (English) | Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the Temple and the importance of installing Takurajis in it.
About the three things we need to develop spiritual life: a space, asram, a spiritual master who will guide us in an appropriate manner, and the grantas, which are the sacred books.
How in our Sampradaya there are three types of mrdangas: the musical instrument, the books of the Acaryas, and the spiritual master.
About how everything happens by Krsna’s desire.
06 Feb 2025 evening – The Message of Krsna Consciousness Is the Mahamantra (English) | Brasilia, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Meaning of yoga. Difference between soul (atma) and Supersoul (Paramatma). One who attains the abode of Krsna does not return to this world. One who does not follow the Lord remains trapped in the cycle of birth and death. The mahamantra leads to self-realization. Only the human body has the power of discrimination. The story of the blind man inside a huge stadium. Sadhu-sanga and Holy Names! We are eternal servant souls of Krsna. Sloka that defines the soul: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera...
06 Feb 2025 morning – Day of the Disappearance of Sri Madhvacarya and His Glories (English) | Fortaleza, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The Vedas and Puranas say that the Lord possesses saktis/potentia, so whoever says otherwise is an offender/aparadhi. Madhvacarya says that the Lord is saktiman (The possessor of all potencies). Difference between jiva and jiva; jiva and inert matter (Maya); jiva and Bhagavan; inert matter (Maya) and inert matter (Maya); inert matter (Maya) and Bhagavan. About the different humors of the jivas, the liberated and the conditioned, panca-bheda (five differences). The conscious being is the one...
05 Feb 2025 evening – Advaita Acharya’s letter to Mahaprabhu (English) | Fortaleza, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Yesterday was Advaita Saptami. 5 places where Mahaprabhu promised to stay forever. Mahaprabhu tasting prema with one hand and distributing with the other. Advaita Acharya writing a symbolic letter to Mahaprabhu. The story of a servant teaching his master how to write a letter. A doctor’s handwriting is sometimes difficult to understand. Svarupa Damodara is concerned as to why Advaita Acharya wrote this letter to Mahaprabhu. How to welcome sadhus. Mahaprabhu remembers Advaita...
05 Feb 2025 midday – Raseshvari Srimati Radhika: Vasanta Rasa Dance (English) | Praia do Presidio, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Yesterday was Advaita Saptami. An Advaita Acharya is a pure devotee. That’s why Krishna heard his call. Verse: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ… (SB 10.31.9). Verse: āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām… (Shikshashtaka 8). The gopis gave up all the rules and regulations of society. And yet Srimati Radhika’s love for Krishna is incomparable. No one can explain it. Madanakya-mahabhava is Srimati Radhika’s prerogative. Ananya-mamata. Samanjasya-rati, sadharani-rati, samartha-rati. Out...
05 Feb 2025 morning – Aishvarya and madhurya (English) | Praia do Presidio, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhaka stage and siddha stage. First, fix your mind to perform bhajana and sadhana. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told Raghunatha dasa Gosvami to fix his mind. 6 stages of unstable bhajana. Maya Devi’s attacks on Haridasa Thakura. 5 stages of the removal of anarthas: eka-desha-vartini, bahu-desha-vartini, prayiki, purna, atyantiki. Maya-devi purifies the heart of a sadhaka. When Guru punishes, he gives his mercy (example of a mother punishing her baby). Damodarashtaka. Srimati Radhika covers the...