USA 2024
13 Dec 2024 midday – Introduction to the Process of Bhakti (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1
About the process of Bhakti.
About how we are eternal servants of Krsna.
About our physical and subtle bodies.
The example of Dhruva Maharaja’s practice.
About who Bhagavan is.
About what Maya does.
About how the Guru gives the mantra, and how the devotee does his practice.
PART 2
13 Dec 2024 morning – Who is Bhagavan (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About who Bhagavan is and His opulences.
About how He is the Supreme Controller of all jivas and all material worlds.
About how He is the creator, the maintainer and the destroyer.
His names: Yasodanandana and Syamsundara.
About His original form and His beauty “Sri”.
The example of the mother frog who due to her vanity ended up exploding.
About the tilaka.
About Bhagavan’s unparalleled qualities.
About the Universal form that Krsna manifests to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
13 Dec 2024 morning – Who is Bhagavan (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About who Bhagavan is and His opulences.
About how He is the Supreme Controller of all jivas and all material worlds.
About how He is the creator, the maintainer and the destroyer.
His names: Yasodanandana and Syamsundara.
About His original form and His beauty “Sri”.
The example of the mother frog who due to her vanity ended up exploding.
About the tilaka.
About Bhagavan’s unparalleled qualities.
About the Universal form that Krsna manifests to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
12 Dec 2024 morning evening – The Essence of Bhagavad Gita (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Dhrtarastra listens to Sanjaya’s narrations. Thirta-bhumi, a place of pilgrimage. Dhrtarastra’s mental disturbances regarding the social position of his children. The conditioned soul is attached to the material world (me and mine). When we understand that what we have does not belong to us and serve Krsna, our mind will become calm and peaceful. We are neither the doers nor the owners. The material elements. The body has 5 doors. Vastu-sastra. Ask yourself, “Who am I?” Try to...
12 Dec 2024 afternoon – Gita Jayanti (Hindi) | New York, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Today is Gita Jayanti and Ekadashi. On Mokshada Ekadashi Krishna told Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna. Greed and attachment are destroyed when we read Bhagavad-gita. Everything about the soul is described in Bhagavad-gita. If we read Gita every day, our self-confidence will increase. A message from Gita: Whatever you eat, first offer it to God. Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. There are 18 chapters in Gita. It consists of karma-yoga, bhakti-yoga and jnana-yoga. Where Bhagavat-gita...
11 Dec 2024 evening – Bhagavad-tattva (English) | Bronx, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Today is Giya Jayanti and Mokshada Ekadashi.
Different chapters of Bhagavad-gita are about different types of yoga.
Atma-tattva from Bhagavad-gita.
Anu-chaitanya (jiva) and brihad-chaitanya (God).
Three aspects of the Lord.
Sloka: vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam… (SB 1.2.11).
6 opulences of Bhagavan.
Everyone is enchanted with Krishna’s beauty, His glance, His garments, His flute.
Absorption and greed of the gopis.
Lila: the new bride took darshana of Krishna and went mad.