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2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2025, Cuernavaca 2025, Mexico 2025, Christmas 2025, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), Jesus Christ, service: vaishnava-seva

25 Dec 2025 evening – Christmas (English) – Cuernavaca, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 25, 2025 6:00 PM

– We are celebrating the appearance day of the Lord Jesus Christ. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Jesus Christ is His son. – The jiva will never be God; the duty of the jiva is to serve God. – Jesus Christ went to many sacred places in India, met many philosophers there, and then began his preaching. – Sraddha (faith): accept what is favorable to bhakti and reject what is unfavorable. – Nourish yourself with foods of the quality of goodness...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Shorts in English 2025, Shorts with English Subtitles 2025, Discourses in Hindi with English subtitles, Discourses in Hindi with Hindi subtitles, Christmas 2025, book: Bible, Jesus Christ

25 Dec 2025 – Christmas 2025 (English)

December 25, 2025 12:00 PM

Over a century ago, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explained that the Supreme Truth reveals Himself through different spiritual relationships, or rasas, which gradually unfold across history and cultures. These moods are not confined to one land or one community; they appear wherever sincere hearts are ready to receive divine love. In his writings, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura described how vātsalya-rasa, the mood of loving parental affection toward God, crossed beyond India and manifested powerfully...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Shorts in Hindi 2025, Shorts with English Subtitles 2025, Discourses in Hindi with English subtitles, Discourses in Hindi with Hindi subtitles, Christmas 2025, book: Bible, Jaya Govinda Prabhu, Jesus Christ

25 Dec 2025 – Today is Christmas — a day of prayer, remembrance, and longing for God (Hindi)

December 25, 2025 12:00 PM

Today is Christmas — a day of prayer, remembrance, and longing for God.This story is not about one person alone. We have seen many devotees whose journeys began the same way — with a sincere prayer, a restless heart, and a deep desire to meet God in a living, tangible way. Some pray to Jesus. Some pray without knowing whom they are calling. But when the prayer is honest, God always responds — often by guiding the soul through a saint, a Guru, a living example of devotion. As Jesus said in The...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, Christmas 2024, anartha-nivritti: removal of unwanted things (cleansing of the heart; stage of bhakti development), bhajana-kriya: beginning of devotional practices (engagement in bhakti activities; stage after accepting guidance from guru), gopis: types, lineage: guru-parampara, siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers)

25 Dec 2024 evening – Our Guru-parampara (English) | Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 25, 2024 6:26 PM

Before taking diksha, carefully realise our guru-parampara. Pancharatriki-parampara and bhagavatiya-parampara. How Baladeva Vidyabhushana Prabhu proved that Srimati Radharani was married to Sri Krishna. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura boldly opened his siddha-pranali. 2 types of siddha-pranali. Shraddha, sadhu-sanga, bhajana-kriya, anartha-nivritti, nishtha, ruchi, asakti, bhava and prema. Do not hear hari-katha from a non-Vaishnava. Shloka: avaiṣṇava-mukhodgīrṇaṁ pūtaṁ hari-kathāmṛtam… (Padma...

2023, Discourses in English 2023, London 2023, United Kingdom 2023, Christmas 2023, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), religion: Buddhism

24 Dec 2023 evening – Establish a Relationship With Your Isthadeva (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 24, 2023 5:42 PM

– Christmas is like Dipavali. – The five prominent religions and the five different rasas contained within them. – Description of Buddhism as santa-rasa, neutrality. – Description of dasya-rasa (with and without opulence), and how Hanuman serves Ramacandra. – How to transform your seva that is now for Maya into seva for Sri Krsna. – Description of sakha-bhava, friendship mood. – Stories of Sri Krsna manifesting His opulence mixed with madhurya in Vraja...

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