Germany 2024
04 May 2024 evening – Ekadasi-tithi (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany| Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Ekadasi-tithi is the mother of suddha-bhakti. How vaidhi-bhakti devotees follow ekadasi. From eight to eighty years of age, everyone must follow ekadasi. The correct way to follow ekadasi. Story of when Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja made several preparations for his spiritual brother on the day of ekadasi. Krsna is our maintainer and our protector. Story of the disciple who pretended to chant the Holy Names so as not to do other sevas. Lila from when Srimati Radhika goes to Nandagaon...
04 May 2024 midday – How to Chant Mantras (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About nama-aparadha and nama-abhasa. He who worships Vasudeva for a hundred births becomes qualified to chant the Holy Names. Sloka: harer nāma harer nāma… (CC Madhya 6.242). The Holy Names are sabda-brahma, they enter through the ears and reach the heart. The four types of brahma: nara-brahma (guru and vaisnavas), sila-brahma (vigraha – Deities), nama-brahma (sabda-brahma – Holy Names) and anna-brahma (maha-prasada). The heart of the conditioned soul is very hard, and the diksa...
04 May 2024 morning – The Stages of Spiritual Practice (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the philosophy of the impersonalists. Anubhava-lila. Story of the little lamb and the wolf at the top of the waterfall. The nine questions that the gopis asked in Sri Krsna’s assembly. About marriage in Vedic culture. The philosophy of Swami Vivekananda. The result of serving a worldly person and a Vaisnava. About nisthita-bhajana and anisthita-bhajana. Parents never forget their children, until they abandon their bodies. The problems of family life. Gurudeva tells of when he saw a...
03 May 2024 evening – Disappearance of Vrndavana Dasa Thakura (English) – Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Vrndavana Dasa Thakura is the literary incarnation, Vyasa Avatara, of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. – Vrndavana Dasa Thakura wrote the Caitanya Bhagavata, and Krsnadasa Kaviraji Gosvami wrote the Caitanya Caritamrta. – Vrndavana Dasa Thakura became totally absorbed in Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Without Nityananda’s mercy one cannot reach Caitanya Mahaprabhu. – Always meditate on the lotus feet of Guru, by his causeless mercy one can obtain liberation: dhyāna-mūlaṃ guror...