00:01:34 – Mother Yashoda and the Milk: The Desire to Serve Krishna. Engaging Everything in Service.00:07:11 – The Selfish Desire for Liberation is Egoistic00:09:09 – Mother Yashoda Sprinkles Water: Ensuring the Milk Serves Krishna00:14:12 – Rupa Gosvamipada’s Definition of Bhakti. Types of Mamata (Possessiveness) and Bhava (Spiritual Emotions).00:21:26 – Subal and Krishna: Friendships in Vraja. The Pastime of the Cowherd Boys by the Yamuna.00:32:00 –...
India 2024
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, Srimad-Bhagavatam 2024, Kartika-vrata 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, rasa dance: rasa-lila
20 Oct 2024 evening – The Glories of the Bhagavat Saptaha in the Month of Kartika (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Kartik-vrata and Damodara-vrata destroy all anarthas. The presiding Deity of the month of Kartika is Srimati Radharani Herself, the internal potency of Sri Krsna. She is the embodiment of prema. Wherever Srimati Radhika looks, She only sees Sri Krsna. The essence of all prema is bhava, of all bhava is maha-bhava, and the essence of everything is maha-bhava-svarupini Srimati Radhika. The mahamantra is mentioned in the Kali Upanisad. Sri Krsna incarnated in the form of Srimad Bhagavatam. Lord...
2024, Discourses Translated into English 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, Srimad-Bhagavatam 2024, Kartika-vrata 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, rasa dance: rasa-lila
20 Oct 2024 evening – The Glories of the Bhagavat Saptaha in the Month of Kartika (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Kartik-vrata and Damodara-vrata destroy all anarthas. The presiding Deity of the month of Kartika is Srimati Radharani Herself, the internal potency of Sri Krsna. She is the embodiment of prema. Wherever Srimati Radhika looks, She only sees Sri Krsna. The essence of all prema is bhava, of all bhava is maha-bhava, and the essence of everything is maha-bhava-svarupini Srimati Radhika. The mahamantra is mentioned in the Kali Upanisad. Sri Krsna incarnated in the form of Srimad Bhagavatam. Lord...
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, guru: guru-nishtha, pure heart
20 Oct 2024 evening – Guru-nistha (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Through the bhaktas, Sri Krsna distributes His mercy. Lila of Narada Muni and Dhruva Maharaja. Take shelter of a pure devotee of the Lord. The Guru is looking for the disciple. We must know what kind of Guru we want to accept. The Lord inspires everyone, Guru and disciple. The Guru wants to give everything to the disciple and therefore prepares the disciple until he is ready to receive. Story of Vyasa Deva and Sukadeva Gosvami. In Vrndavana, on a road leading to the forest, Vyasa Deva sat and...
2024, Discourses Translated into English 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, guru: guru-nishtha, pure heart
20 Oct 2024 evening – Guru-nistha (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Through the bhaktas, Sri Krsna distributes His mercy. Lila of Narada Muni and Dhruva Maharaja. Take shelter of a pure devotee of the Lord. The Guru is looking for the disciple. We must know what kind of Guru we want to accept. The Lord inspires everyone, Guru and disciple. The Guru wants to give everything to the disciple and therefore prepares the disciple until he is ready to receive. Story of Vyasa Deva and Sukadeva Gosvami. In Vrndavana, on a road leading to the forest, Vyasa Deva sat and...
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, bhakti: stages
20 Oct 2024 morning – Sadhana Bhakti, Bhava Bhakti and Prema Bhakti (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Lila of mother Yasoda breastfeeding Sri Krsna and the milk boiling in the pot. One who has sradha is qualified to practice bhakti. The stages of bhakti, 81 types in total. The kanistha-adhikari has as its main quality faith in the Deity and in the words of Sri Guru. Our soul is the servant of Sri Krsna, not of demigods. Verse: jivera svarupa haya… (CC Madhya 20.108). We must develop exclusive loyalty because one cannot cross a river with one foot in each boat. Song: Damodarastakam. Sri Krsna...
2024, Discourses Translated into English 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024, bhakti: stages
20 Oct 2024 morning – Sadhana Bhakti, Bhava Bhakti and Prema Bhakti (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Lila of mother Yasoda breastfeeding Sri Krsna and the milk boiling in the pot. One who has sradha is qualified to practice bhakti. The stages of bhakti, 81 types in total. The kanistha-adhikari has as its main quality faith in the Deity and in the words of Sri Guru. Our soul is the servant of Sri Krsna, not of demigods. Verse: jivera svarupa haya… (CC Madhya 20.108). We must develop exclusive loyalty because one cannot cross a river with one foot in each boat. Song: Damodarastakam. Sri Krsna...
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Aligaon 2024, India 2024, Kartika-vrata 2024, anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), rasa dance: rasa-lila
19 Oct 2024 midday – The Month of Srimati Radhika: Kartika (Hindi) | Ali Gao, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The meaning of human life. The presiding Deity of the month of kartika, Urjesvari Srimati Radhika. Rasa-lila is the highest pastime of Sri Krsna. The Lord does not accept one who does not surrender to Him (saranagati). The story of the cow and the lion stuck in the mud. Guru and Vaisnavas have the duty to lift us out of the mud of material existence. The benefit of hearing bhagavat-katha and practicing what you hear. In this month we should think of Srimati Radhika. Srimati Radhika’s lila...