Visaya-Bhagavan knows everything, and at the same time He is innocent. All of Krsna’s qualifications are manifested in the Guru except rupa (form), venu (flute), lila (pastimes) and prema-madhurya (conjugal love). The activities of the Guru are like the lila of a human being. Guru-asraya, also knows everything, and simultaneously does not know. Krsna, visaya-tattva is the Supreme Enjoyer, and the gopis, asraya-tattva, are enjoyed. Bhakti: who savors, what is savored and the act of...
Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country)
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Shikshashtaka 3, maya: gunas
20 Jun 2024 evening – Material World and Spiritual World (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Everyone needs to express their feelings, so we look for friends. The three gunas (material qualities) of Maya. God creates, maintains and destroys the material world. Story of the boy who caught a fish to raise out of the water. We, souls, are outside our habitat, we want eternal love, but this love we only find in the transcendental/spiritual world. What is the process for us to return to God? Mahamantra Hare Krsna! Sloka: govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami… (Brahma Samhita). In...
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20 Jun 2024 midday – About Installation of Thakuraji (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The fragile faith of the neophyte devotee (kanistha-adhikari). The difference between the three categories of Vaisnavas: uttama, madhyama and kanistha. Each of the categories of Vaisnavas is subdivided into uttama, madhyama and kanistha. To reach Krsna/Mahaprabhu, surrender completely to Nityananda Prabhu. Have an unshakable faith like Haridasa Thakura. Without Krsna’s desire nothing happens. Sita Rama-lila. Why did Rama run after the golden deer? Because this is His lila, for the...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Chida-dadhi Mahotsava 2024, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, guru: guru-tattva, mantra: Kama-gayatri, renunciation, renunciation (vairagya)
20 Jun 2024 morning – Glorification of Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami received blessings from Nityananda Prabhu (akanda-guru-tattva). Raghunatha Dasa is Rati Manjari. Caitanya Mahaprabhu brought all His associates when He came to this world. Raghunatha Dasa was born into a very rich Vaisnava family, but they were Vaisnava-praiy (Vaisnava in appearance). Yadunandana Acarya gave diksa to Raghunatha Dasa. Haridasa Thakura influences Raghunatha Dasa to chant the Holy Names. Raghunatha Dasa ran away from his home to practice sadhana, but...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, soul: size of the soul
19 Jun 2024 evening – The Genuine Nature of the Soul (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Human life is very rare. The nature of the soul is to serve Krishna; 3 stages of water. How Newton opened his law. The size of the soul. GOD is Generator, Operator and Destroyer. God is calling us, but we are not turning our face to Him. If you just turn your face, He will take you on His lap as a loving Father. God loves us a thousand times more than our parents. The transcendental world and its components have no end. You will not be satisfied until you meet the Lord. If you love God, you...
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19 Jun 2024 midday – Be One-pointed Towards Srimati Radhika (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Hari-katha is like a tonic, it gives spiritual and even physical strength. Lila on how Lakshmana was brought back to life with sanjivani-botika, healing herbs. Without bhakti a devotee is like a dying horse, but with shuddha-bhakti he is always energetic. Kleshagni and shubhada. Avidya, lack of knowledge of Krishna. Tat-padartha-jnana, tvam-padartha-jnana. Lila of Hanuman, taken away from the Lord’s service by Lakshmana & given another service of folding his hands when Lord Rama yawns...
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19 Jun 2024 morning – Krishna’s Incarnation Sacinandana Gaurahari (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About Krishna’s incarnation, Buddha.
Judaism is vatsalya-rasa, Islam is sakhya-rasa.
Svakiya and parakiya.
Parakiya is pure only in Goloka Vrindavana, in the material world parakiya is a sin.
The reasons why Krishna came into this world as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Shloka: śrī-rādhāyāḥ praṇaya-mahimā kīdṛśo vānayaivā shloka (CC Ādi 4.230).
How often Krishna comes into the material world as Shachinandana Gaurahari.
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Ekadashi-vrata 2024, bhakti: enthusiasm in bhakti
18 Jun 2024 evening – How to Follow Ekadashi (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:04:00 – A brief story of Pāṇḍava Nirjalā Ekādaśī 00:14:00 – A story from Param Gurudeva about a girl who was making a garland for the Deities and said that if the Deities didn’t come, she would make sabjī out of the edible flowers — but this attitude is incorrect; there should be enthusiasm in bhakti, like in the example of Dhruva 00:24:00 – On following Ekādaśī 00:38:00 – Observing Ekādaśī for Kṛṣṇa 00:40:00 – A brief story of Mahāprabhu’s instruction to His mother about Ekādaśī; Śacī-devī...