India 2025

01 Nov 2025 morning – Govinda-kunda (English translation) – India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

* Sri Krsna assumed the form of a cowherd and went to Madhavendra Puripada. * The Annakuta Festival performed by Madhavendra Puri for Sri Nathaji took place over the course of a month. * Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches that we should not climb Govardhana Hill. Thakuraji herself descended and gave darsana to Sri Mahaprabhu. * Indra came to Govinda Kunda, and when he realized that Krsna is Bhagavan, he took shelter in a surabhi cow. * For seven days and seven nights, Lord Krsna lifted Govardhana...

01 Nov 2025 morning – Govinda-kunda (Hindi) – India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

* Srila Gurudeva explains the difference between maan and anger
* The modes of material nature (Maya) cannot reach the spiritual world.
* Examples of the maan of Laksmi Devi and Satyabhama.
* The mood of the gopis, especially the mood of anger (maan), enables the gopis to control Sri Krsna.
* Srila Gurudeva explains the meaning of Bhagavan (God) and Svayam Bhagavan (Supreme Personality of Godhead).

31 Oct 2025 afternoon – Bhandiravana (Hindi) – India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Sridhama has a very close relationship with Krsna and was feeling separation from Him in this place. Different pastimes took place here in Vamsivat and Bhandirvan, such as herding cows. A rasa-lila also took place in this location. In the transcendental world, when love becomes very condensed, it becomes maan. There are different types of maan. The banks of the Yamuna River are a very enchanting place. The forest in this place is so dense that neither the sun’s rays nor the moon’s...

31 Oct 2025 afternoon – Bhandiravana (English translation) – India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Sridhama has a very close relationship with Krsna and was feeling separation from Him in this place. Different pastimes took place here in Vamsivat and Bhandirvan, such as herding cows. A rasa-lila also took place in this location. In the transcendental world, when love becomes very condensed, it becomes maan. There are different types of maan. The banks of the Yamuna River are a very enchanting place. The forest in this place is so dense that neither the sun’s rays nor the moon’s...

31 Oct 2025 At Surya-kunda there is a sacred stone (Hindi)

At Suryakund, there rests a sacred stone known as the Mukut Shila — the crown-imprint of Srimati Radharani. Once, when Radharani came here with Her sakhis, She placed Her crown on a nearby rock before bathing in the kund. In that moment, the crown — a conscious being in Goloka — suddenly felt separation from Her divine touch. Overwhelmed by longing to again be upon Her head, the crown burned with the fire of separation, and the stone beneath it melted, leaving behind the eternal mark of its...