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28 May 2025 evening – How to clean our heart (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 6:00 PM

– If you dance in front of Thakuraji, Maya-devi will leave you alone. If you do not dance in front of Them, however, Maya-devi will make you dance in front of her instead. – Even spending a moment in the association of a sadhu is very powerful. – Our aim is to attain vraja-prema. – When a sadhaka attains prema, his soul is divided into two. One part serves in gaura-lila and the other in krishna-lila. – Vipralabha has four types: purvaraga, mana, pravasa and prema...

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28 May 2025 midday – Sapta Sindhu Gunavati Sri Radha (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 12:10 PM

– Sri Mahaprabhu’s visit to Gopala Bhatta family. – Verse: ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas… (Chaitanya Manjushta). – Mahaprabhu tells the Bhatta family about Lakshmi-devi’s failure to enter rasa dance, then gopi-tattva and mahishi-tattva. – Krishna accepts Lakshmi-devi as a golden line on His chest but in Her shukshma-sharira she cannot enter His rasa dance. – When a sadhaka enters sthayi-bhava, their mood will not change again: ‘nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema...

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28 May 2025 morning – Questions and Answers (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 8:05 AM

– Question: Is it true that our soul is sleeping somewhere else? – Two functions of maya: avaranatmika-vritti and vikshepatmika-vritti. – The subtle body (sukshma-sharira) and the gross body (sthula-sharira). – At the stage of bhava-dasha, a sadhaka gives up their gross and subtle bodies, and their atma-sharira manifests. – The soul is very minute: ‘bālāgra-śata-bhāgya-śatadhā kalpitaḥ ca…’ (Shvetashvatara Upanishad 5.9). – You will realise...

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28 May 2025 morning walk – Hari-katha (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 7:14 AM

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27 May 2025 evening – Diksa Mantras (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 27, 2025 6:58 PM

– A pastime where Durvasa Rsi is received by Yudhisthira Maharaja and Droupadi prays for Krsna’s help. – A dialogue between Krsna and Uddhava about who Bhagavan is. – Krsna states that Bhagavan always tells the truth, never lies, and has no 18 faults. – A pastime where the gopis have to reach the other bank of the Yamuna River with their preparations and deliver them to the sadhu Durvasa Rsi. – About the cow padma-gandha that only exists in Krsna’s...

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27 May 2025 morning – Nistha (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 27, 2025 8:35 AM

– Explanation about Vrajendra-nandana, the only One who touches Srimati Radhika, the One in whom She has nistha. – Srimati Radhika’s devotion and Her loyalty to Krsna. – Explanation about the name Kesava Krsna, its meaning, its manifestations and the origin of the pastime in which Krsna braids Srimati Radhika’s hair. – About the wealth of Mahaprabu that was transmitted to Rupa Gosvami. – Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami’s one-pointed devotion to Srimati...

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26 May 2025 evening – Mahaprabhu Bestows the Highest Love (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 26, 2025 6:32 PM

– Verse: anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau… (CC Adi-lila 1.4). – Who is Mahaprabhu and what is the process He describes for attaining God in this age of Kali: Harinama Sankirtana. – Sadhu-sanga assures the fruit of chanting the Holy Names. – Song: Ohe Vaisnava Thakura. – Song: Gopi Gita. – Verse: na pāraye ’haṁ niravadya-saṁyujāṁ… (SB 10.32.22). – The 6 types of people who do not want to accept Mahaprabhu’s mercy. – Song: Jadi Gauranga...

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26 May 2025 midday – Hari-katha (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 26, 2025 12:44 PM

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