India 2025

13 Mar 2025 – Navadvipa-parikrama Day 5: Places Visited on This Day (Hindi) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

About Bhagiratha and Jahnu Rsi. The glories of the Ganges River. Everyone should have Ganges water, Bhagavad Gita and Tulasi at home. The Ganges purifies, but seeing a Vaisnava purifies more, however, hearing Harikatha promotes complete purification. It is not enough to follow varna-asrama, you must practice sadhana-bhajana, otherwise you will go to hell. The story of Indra who shared the sin of killing a brahmana with the trees, women, water and Earth. ⁠Take a little water and sand from the...

13 Mar 2025 – Mamagachi: Birthplace of Vrndavana Dasa Thakura (English translation) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

We passed through Jahnudvipa and Saranga Murari. ⁠Lila of Mahaprabhu advising His devotee Saranga to accept a disciple. ⁠Saranga did not want to accept disciples because in Kali-yuga there are no good disciples. ⁠Saranga sees a corpse floating in the Ganges and sings the Mahamantra in the corpse’s ear, thus resurrecting the young Murari. ⁠Guru is the one who frees the disciple from death, he takes the disciple to a good destination. ⁠About Vrndavana Dasa Thakura, son of Narayani who...

13 Mar 2025 – Mamagachi: Birthplace of Vrndavana Dasa Thakura (Hindi) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

We passed through Jahnudvipa and Saranga Murari. ⁠Lila of Mahaprabhu advising His devotee Saranga to accept a disciple. ⁠Saranga did not want to accept disciples because in Kali-yuga there are no good disciples. ⁠Saranga sees a corpse floating in the Ganges and sings the Mahamantra in the corpse’s ear, thus resurrecting the young Murari. ⁠Guru is the one who frees the disciple from death, he takes the disciple to a good destination. ⁠About Vrndavana Dasa Thakura, son of Narayani who...

12 Mar 2025 evening – Take Shelter of Navadvipa-dhama (English translation) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1 PART 2 Srila BV Narayana GM chastised his disciples and thus gave them mercy. We need the stamp of Navadvipa-dhama to enter Vrindavana. Navadvipa-dhama is so merciful. Only Mahaprabhu can give vraja-prema in this age of Kali. Hanuman’s dasya-rasa and radha-dasyam are not the same. In Vrindavana a meeting is primary and in Navadvipa a separation is primary. Maha-prasada given to Srila BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja from Sri Radha Herself. Just chant the name of Gaurasundara and you...

12 Mar 2025 evening – Take Shelter of Navadvipa-dhama (Hindi) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Part 1 Srila BV Narayana GM chastised his disciples and thus gave them mercy. We need the stamp of Navadvipa-dhama to enter Vrindavana. Navadvipa-dhama is so merciful. Only Mahaprabhu can give vraja-prema in this age of Kali. Hanuman’s dasya-rasa and radha-dasyam are not the same. In Vrindavana a meeting is primary and in Navadvipa a separation is primary. Maha-prasada given to Srila BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja from Sri Radha Herself. Just chant the name of Gaurasundara and you will get...

12 Mar 2025 (room, 16:55h) – It All Depends on the Mood of the Devotee (English translation) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

On Samudra Sena (briefly). Krishna giving darshana according to a devotee’s wish. How Hanuman in the Ramayana saw all the flowers red because of his anger at Ravana, when in fact they were of different colours, as described by Valmiki. The mood of Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the mood of Krishna’s friends and Chanura and Mushtika. Siddha-svarupa is embedded in the jiva. Uddhava is amazed at the bhava of the gopis. If you do not feel separation, you are not doing bhajana...

12 Mar 2025 (room, 16:55h) – It All Depends on the Mood of the Devotee (Hindi) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

On Samudra Sena (briefly). Krishna giving darshana according to a devotee’s wish. How Hanuman in the Ramayana saw all the flowers red because of his anger at Ravana, when in fact they were of different colours, as described by Valmiki. The mood of Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the mood of Krishna’s friends and Chanura and Mushtika. Siddha-svarupa is embedded in the jiva. Uddhava is amazed at the bhava of the gopis. If you do not feel separation, you are not doing bhajana...