Bhagavat-saptaha

12 Oct 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, day 3 (English translation) | Lucknow, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Gurudeva talks about the four auspicious days of the Vedic calendar, which are: Akshaya Tritiya, Rama Navami, Vasanta Pancami and Vijaya Dashami. About the celebration of the date of Ramacandra Vijayotsava. The conversation between Vyasadeva and Narada Rsi. We should just sit in front of the sadhu and listen to Harikatha. Self-realisation is the best realisation. In Kali-yuga we should take shelter of the Holy Names. The story of the liberation of Ajamila, who had a son named Narayana. About...

11 Oct 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, day 2 (Hindi) | Lucknow, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Only Mukunda can give us liberation. Srimad Bhagavatam was written in trance, it was not written in Sanskrit by Vyasadeva. About the place where Srimad Bhagavatam began. How the Rsis received the Gosvamis and asked the six questions that started the recitation of Srimad Bhagavatam. About how we should cultivate the quality of goodness. About the mantras that we acquire specifically through a book. About how everything we see in this material world comes from the Supreme Lord. The lila of Sri...

11 Oct 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, day 2 (English translation) | Lucknow, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Only Mukunda can give us liberation. Srimad Bhagavatam was written in trance, it was not written in Sanskrit by Vyasadeva. About the place where Srimad Bhagavatam began. How the Rsis received the Gosvamis and asked the six questions that started the recitation of Srimad Bhagavatam. About how we should cultivate the quality of goodness. About the mantras that we acquire specifically through a book. About how everything we see in this material world comes from the Supreme Lord. The lila of Sri...

10 Oct 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, day 1 (Hindi) | Lucknow, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1 Srimad Bhagavatam is an “incarnation” of the Lord. ⁠Correspondence of the Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam with the parts of the Lord’s body. ⁠The Lord comes to the material world in the form of Bhagavatam and, just like a bridge, He helps the jivas to cross the Ocean of Maya. ⁠The Bhagavatam is the deepest and heaviest Purana compared to all the other Puranas combined. ⁠Sukadeva recited the Bhagavatam for seven consecutive days and nights, without stopping. ⁠Lila of the appearance of Mohini...

10 Oct 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, day 1 (English translation) | Lucknow, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Srimad Bhagavatam is an “incarnation” of the Lord. ⁠Correspondence of the Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam with the parts of the Lord’s body. ⁠The Lord comes to the material world in the form of Bhagavatam and, just like a bridge, He helps the jivas to cross the Ocean of Maya. ⁠The Bhagavatam is the deepest and heaviest Purana compared to all the other Puranas combined. ⁠Sukadeva recited the Bhagavatam for seven consecutive days and nights, without stopping. ⁠Lila of the appearance of Mohini Devi...

25 Apr 2024 evening – Sri Bhagavat-saptaha, day 7 (Hindi) – Somnath, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1 Everyone must listen to Harikatha for the rest of eternity: Bhagavat-seva! ⁠Grantha-bhagavat and bhakta-bhagavat, both are lovely and necessary! ⁠Detailed description of Krsna’s lila with Sudama Vipra. ⁠About how Krsna treated Sudama with all affection; He even ate the remnants of Sudama and gave it to His wives to eat as well. ⁠Wonderful Sloka: api cet su-durācāro… (Bhagavad Gita 9.30) and (Subjective Evolution of Consciousness – Chapter: Pure Devotion). ⁠In Dvaraka, Krsna...