USA 2024
03 Aug 2024 morning – Types of Faith (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
On Vaisnava suddha sadacara: good Vaisnava behaviour. Bhajana and sadhana are useless for one who commits offences. Only constant hearing of Harikatha can protect us from Maya. On nama-aparadha. In Kali-yuga people’s minds are contaminated by tama-guna, so it is difficult to meditate on the Lord. Even if your pronunciation is bad, the Lord accepts the chanting of the Holy Names anyway in Kali-yuga. The souls of Kali-yuga have innumerable defects and the Lord has invested all His potency...
02 Aug 2024 evening – Clean the mirror of your heart (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 PART 2 It has been a long journey to get here. 4 processes common to animals and humans. Human life is a life of self-realisation. God created man in His own image. Terms: body and soul. The name of the body and the name of the soul. Ghi is in the milk, it takes a process to see it. In the same way bhakti-yoga is the way to see God. The power of transcendental vibration. The explanation of Kali-yuga and maha-mantra. Shloka: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ (Sri...
01 Aug 2024 evening – How to Develop Spiritual Life in Sadhu-sanga (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhu-sanga and Harikatha are eternal! The devotee accepts what the sadhu says according to his capacity and moves forward. The process must be followed step by step: sadhana-bhakti; bhava-bhakti; prema-bhakti. Radha’s Lila writing a letter to Krsna whose content is Her tears. The different types of gopis: not all of them reveal themselves as manjaris. The forty-nine ingredients that come together in staybhava for the sadhaka to be able to taste love, everything happens step by step...
01 Aug 2024 morning – The Process of Bhakti (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
All of you are elevated sadhakas due to the mercy of Srila Gurudeva, you have all grown. Without sadhana it is not possible to achieve the perfection of the spiritual goal. Those who follow varnasrama-dharma attain Svarga and Brahma-loka. Devotees practise varnasrama-dharma along with sadhana aiming at the supreme goal. One practises sadhana through sambandha-jnana and, thus, one attains service to Krsna. Kamatmika are those who have spontaneous love for Krsna, divine love. Difference...
31 Jul 2024 evening – Sambandha-jnana (English) | New Vraja, CA, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Ambarisha Maharaja served Krishna with all the limbs of his body. Shloka: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha (CC Madhya 20.117) – We do not serve Krishna, but merciful Guru and Vaishnavas always engage us in krishna-seva. Sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana are important in our spiritual life. Govinda, Gopinatha and Madana-Mohana deities take the form of Radha-Ramana deity. Gurupada-padma is the one who gives sambandha to his disciples. Shloka: dhyāna-mūlaṃ guror mūrtiḥ (Sri Guru...
31 Jul 2024 morning – The Power of Hari-katha (English) | New Vraja, CA, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The best friend is the one who gets others to listen to krishna-katha and krishna-nama. Shloka: parasparānukathanaṁ pāvanaṁ bhagavad-yaśaḥ (SB 11.3.30). The exemplary bhajana of the Six Gosvamis (shloka). Why the Six Gosvamis spent each night under a different tree. Srimati Radhika’s verse glorifying Giriraja Govardhana: hantāyam adrir abalā hari-dāsa-varyo (SB 10.21.18). 3 Haridasas: Yudhishthira Maharaja, Uddhava and Giriraja Govardhana. Giriraja Govardhana’s seva and his ecstatic symptoms of...
30 Jul 2024 evening – Ekadasi Tithi Katha (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Bhakti comes by Sadhu-sanga, association with high class devotee of the Lord. By kama, jnana, tapasya and yoga, we cannot attain Lord, only by the practice of Bhakti-yoga will bring us to Him. Material sound only acts in the body and mind; transcendental sound vibration, shabda-brahma, goes to the heart and cleans all our anarthas and pap. Sadhu-sanga means harikatha-sravana. Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura bhajana (Sri Gaudiya Giti-guccha page 39). We can perform sadhana and bhajana when Hari, Guru and...