Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country)
25 Apr 2025 evening – Jiva Gets Free from Maya (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About how Maya caught the jivas who turned their faces towards her instead of looking at Krsna. About transcendental knowledge, jnana, and the realization of knowledge, vijnana. To get free from Maya, it is important to cleanse the heart with Harikatha in sadhu-sanga. About Rupa Gosvami’s highest katha: when Srimati Radhika is looking at the beautiful and ever-fresh form of Sri Krsna eating fruit, and Krsna ends up kissing Her on the cheek, leaving a beautiful red mark. When you practice...
25 Apr 2025 midday – The Forms of Sri Krsna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Lila from the Brahma Purana where Siva talks to Parvati, and Siva explains to her how the name Radha is the best of all names. “A thousand names of Lord Visnu are equal to three names of Rama. Three names of Rama are equal to one name of Krsna. And a hundred names of Krsna are equal to one name of Radha.” Even with all these names, God is only One. However, with His inconceivable potency He manifests all these forms. God is always with His own potency, His sakti which is Srimati...
25 Apr 2025 morning – The Names of Krsna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the Names of Krsna. There are two categories of Names of Krsna, the Names in the mode of opulence and the Names in the mode of sweetness. How Caitanya Mahaprabhu very clearly instructs that in this Kali-yuga we should chant the Mahamantra “Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare” and not other versions. How Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructs that if we have love for Him, we should chant only the Mahamantra and not other names. A Bengali song that says: From morning to evening, go from...
