Conditioned souls do not have spontaneous love for Krishna, for this reason they have no taste for hearing Harikatha, chanting the Holy Names and performing devotional service. We must first understand about ragatmika-bhakti, and then we can understand about raganuga-bhakti. Raganuga means following in the footsteps of the Vrajavasis. Radha and Krishna have the same svarupa. Krishna disguises himself as Syamala-sakhi and steals butter. We can obtain vraja-prema when greed arises in our hearts...
Costa Rica 2025
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13 Dec 2025 evening – The Glories of Srila Gurudeva BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja (English) – San Jose, Costa Rica | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 The mercy and relationship of Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Vana Gosvami Maharaja and Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Who can judge who is a neophyte devotee and an advanced devotee? It all depends on the samskaras, pratanika-samskara (impressions from past lives) and adhunika-samskara (impressions from the current life). The meeting of Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Vana Gosvami Maharaja and Srila Bhaktivedanta Raksaka Sriddhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja...
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13 Dec 2025 morning – Bhakti Is Something Very Valuable (English) – San Jose, Costa Rica
– Bhakti means the tendency to serve Krishna, and the root cause of Krishna-bhakti is association with the sadhu. – Sloka: bhaktis tu bhagavad-bhakta… (Brhan-naradiya Purana, 4.33). – The difference between punya-karma (pious activities) and sukrti (spiritual pious activities). – Trees also feel cold, heat, and pain, but they can’t do anything about it. – The states of consciousness of the soul are: acchadita-cetana (covered, as in plants), sankucita...
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12 Dec 2025 evening – Appearance/Disappearance of Glorious Acaryas (English) – San Jose, Costa Rica
– Gurudeva appeared in this world to give us his mercy. – Guru and Vaishnavas descend directly from the transcendental world (Goloka Vrndavana). – The day of appearance is also called Vyasa-puja. – The conditioned soul has no idea what the transcendental world is, they know nothing about the Supreme Lord, so the Sacred Dhama itself descends to the material world out of mercy for the bhada-jivas. – Normally, conditioned souls are not performing spiritual activities...
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14 Feb 2025 evening – From Vaidhi Bhakti to Raganuga Bhakti (English) | Costa Rica | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About who we are, eternal souls. We are a part of God, eternal servants of Krsna. How we must go through sadhana-bhakti, then bhava-bhakti and finally prema-bhakti. For this we must practice vaidhi-bhakti and then comes raganuga-bhakti and finally vraja-bhakti. The importance of always hearing Harikatha, but from the mouth of a pure Vaisnava. About Krsna’s relations, which are very close with the vrajavasis, they never think that Krsna is God. About how Krsna loves the gopis so much that...
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14 Feb 2025 morning – How Animals and Plants Are Servants of Radha and Krsna (English) | Costa Rica | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
When Sri Krsna plays His flute in Giriraja Govardhana all the deer come to Him. About how the cows become when they hear the sound of Krsna’s flute. About how the birds of Vrndavana are all Munis and Rsis, sadhus who take this form. How even the trees and flowers love Krsna and how they embrace Krsna when they see Him. How in Vrndavana the trees and vines are couples of grihasthas. The flowers are the daughters and the fruits are the sons. Where Krsna is, there is Radha, and if we are in...