Hera-panchami

30 Jun 2025 evening – Hera Panchami (English) | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

– Krsna appears where He is glorified.
– The difference between maan, maan-abhasa and kroda.
– The devotee does not only yearn for the darsana of the Lord, but also for performing loving service to Him.
– Mahaprabhu manifests Himself in 3 forms in Kali-yuga: nama, vigraha and svarupa.
– ⁠Verse: sādhu-saṅga, nāma-kīrtana, bhāgavata-śravaṇa… (CC Madhya 22.128).
– Verse: nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ… (CC Madhya 17.33).

11 Jul 2024 evening – Hera Pancami or Laksmi Vijaya (continued) (English) | Pindamonhangaba, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

According to the mood of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, devotees perform the Laksmi Vijaya lila. ⁠Detailed description of lila Laksmi Vijaya. ⁠Laksmi gets angry because Jagannatha didn’t send news for five days and because He left all of Vaikuntha’s opulence to stay in Vrndavana. ⁠Laksmi Devi orders her servants to beat Jagannatha’s servants. ⁠Description of the difference between Vaikuntha and its opulence, and, the beautiful simplicity of Vrndavana. ⁠Beautiful description of the...

11 Jul 2024 midday – Hera Pancami or Laksmi Vijaya (English) | Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Hera means “to seek”, and Pancami means “five days after the Ratha Yatra”. ⁠Detailed description of lila Hera Pancami or Laksmi Vijaya. ⁠Story of the man who received a wrong message after his wife’s death. ⁠Story of the young son of a Hindu woman and a Muslim man, who went to war with his father and then went to see Lord Jagannatha. ⁠Krsna has the mood of Vrndavana and Laksmi has the mood of Vaikuntha, which is why Jaganntha did not take Laksmi on His trip to the Gundica Temple. ⁠About...

11 Jul 2024 morning – Hera Pancami and Other Lilas (English) | Pindamonhangaba, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Hera Pancami.

Detailed description of Balarama’s lila accepting Duryodhana as Subhadra’s fiancé.

⁠Detailed description of Krsna arranging Subhadra’s marriage to Arjuna.

⁠Those who get married have to take responsibility.

⁠Yudhisthira Maharaja curses his mother and all women not to keep secrets.

30 Jun 2023 midday – Hera Panchami (English) – Helsinki, Finland | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Five days after Lord Jagannatha travelled and did not report back, Laksmi Devi goes to look for Him in anger. What Laksmi Devi feels is not maan, it is anger. The difference between maan and anger.-On Kaikei’s anger encouraged by Manthara, his servant. About Satyabhama’s anger. On the humility of Sri Radha. Krishna gets very angry with Satyabhama and the queens, speaks very harshly and praises the incomparable beauty of the gopis. What Satyabhama feels is maan-abhasa. The gopis feel...

28 Jun 2023 morning – Hera-panchami (English) – Helsinki, Finland | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1 Jagannathadevа goes to the Gundicha temple. Yudhishthira Maharaja curses women so that they will no longer be able to keep secrets. In this material world there is no love, only sense gratification. The anger of Lakshmi-devi when she met the servants of Jagannathadeva returning from Gundicha temple. Why did Jagannathadeva not take Lakshmi-devi with Him? The lila of Krishna giving a parijata flower to Rukmini. You can’t hold the deities with your bare left hand, you have to hold...

25 Jun 2023 midday – Hera Panchami (English) – Coelhosa, Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Why do we get a cold/flu? Jagannatha spends 15 days very weak and alone. The fresh mind X the anxious mind. Where do disturbances come from? God is our eternal well-wisher. Parents know their children. Twameva mata cha pita twamevaTwameva bandu cha sakha twamevaTwameva vidhya dravinam twamevaTwameva sarvam mama deva deva. Things come and go. We have to accept the will of the Lord. The story of the boat in the storm and the saint who helped the water come in. The desire of the Lord is the best...

06 Jul 2022 morning – Hera-panchami (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

-Lakshmi-devi is angry with Her husband Jagannathadeva for two reasons-People do not want to stay on villages nowadays-Material anger, krodha vs transcendental anger, mana-Pure mana is manifested only in Vraja-Satyabhama displays mana-abhasa (semblance of transcendental anger) when Krishna gives parijata flower to Rukmini-Krishna manifests vraja-lila in Dvaraka and Satyabhama displays mana-Srimati Radhika’s mana-Opulence of Vrindavana-Gopis walk as like they dance-Govinda’s venu dhani-The...