India 2020

25 Nov 2020 (room class) – Damodarastakam 4: Developing taste for vraja-raganuga-bhakti only (Hindi) – India

4th sloka Damodarastakam;Children are very restless, but when we grow up, we get more serious (we see this in Krsna as well);In the Bhagavatam, Shukadeva Gosvami described the lilas of only one single day of Krsna.- Sukadeva using the word “etah” means that he is directly seeing all those lilas he’s described;This material body cannot tolerate prema (when one attains bhava, one dies);Uddhava glorifies the rudha-bhava of the gopis: what is the use of being Lord Brahma if we...

24 Nov 2020 – Seva-kunja + Bhandirvana (English translation) – India

Gopastami and Ashisheshwara MahadevaSeva kunja is the heart of Vrndavana, together with Nidhuvana;Srimati Radhika sometimes gets sulky in the nitya rasa and goes to the Mana-sarovara;Lalita kunda: Krsna quenches Lalita devi’s thirst;“Bhan” means to manifest (prakash);Srila Narayana Maharaja renovated this place;The wedding of Radha and Krishna: Baladeva Vidyabhusana went to Jaipur to protect the Gaudiya Vaisnava Siddhanta that Srimati Radhika should be worshipped with Govinda...

24 Nov 2020 – Kartik – Bhandirvana (Hindi) – India

“Bhan” means to manifest (prakash);
Srila Narayana Maharaja renovated this place;
The wedding of Radha and Krishna: Baladeva Vidyabhusana went to Jaipur to protect the Gaudiya Vaisnava Siddhanta that Srimati Radhika should be worshipped with Govinda deva;
The Deity of Krsna here is applying sindhor to Srimati Radhika;
Agnideva was lusty towards the wives of the rsis and thus was cursed by the them;
Krsna drank the forest fire and purified it.

23 Nov 2020 – Vraja mandala parikrama – Adi-badrinath (English translation) – India

Vrajavasis see themselves as normal people and want to go for pilgrimage;Importance of going to the tirthas and meeting the saints (it`s the duty of a human being)- the beauty of this place;Adi (origin) of all the tirthas;- Deva sarovar: demigods` austerities` place;There is no need to go to the other tirthas, because here is the origin;Mashul lila (the destruction of the Yadavas): how did Uddhav was saved from the curse of the brahmana?

23 Nov 2020 – Vraja mandala parikrama – Adi Kedarnath darshan (English translation) – India

Vrajavasis wanted to travel to pilgrimage places (tirtha yatra);those human beings who don`t visit the 4 dhamas, their life is useless;original pilgrimage places are all in Vrindavana (if you come here, you don`t need to go to the other tirthas);how dangerous it is to go to the 4 dhama yatra in North India;Everyone should give some money (at least for the bus fare), and there are consequences if you don`t;story of the Sethji who loaned money, and people could pay off the debt in the next life.