Discourses in English 2023

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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24 Dec 2023 midday – Guru Nistha and Guru Bhakti (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 24, 2023 12:38 PM

Krsna consciousness is learning to give love and affection. The names and glories of the Bhagavad Gita. The importance of following the Guru’s instructions. With the Guru’s mercy, all achievements happen in the heart. Story of a boy who thought he had no bhakti and said so to his guru. Sri Krsna says to first glorify our master, and then Him. Sri Krsna says that He will respond according to the person’s surrender. The six stages of surrender, saranagati. Laksmidevi was unable to...

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24 Dec 2023 morning – The Original Form of Lord Jagannatha (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 24, 2023 9:23 AM

– Lord Jagannatha is the manifestation of mahabhava-prakasa. – Caitanya Mahaprabhu looked at the Deity of Lord Jagannatha and saw directly the son of Nanda Maharaja. – Caitanya Mahaprabhu cried day and night, totally absorbed in the mood of Srimati Radhika in separation from Sri Krsna. – Indradyumna Maharaja during the festival of Lord Jagannatha. – Originally the form of Lord Jagannatha has no eyes, arms or any member of his body. Its members are added to the...

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23 Dec 2023 evening – The Bhagavad Gita is Powerful! (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 23, 2023 5:36 PM

– The Bhagavad Gita is known as “The Sound Incarnation of the Lord”. – If you recite the verses of Bhagavad Gita, you will be protected from Maya. – The nature of the human body’s senses is to go towards objects that attract them. – The three sections of the Bhagavad Gita: karma yoga, bhakti yoga and jnana yoga. – Verse: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Brahma-samhita, 5.1). – The jivas are tiny and the Lord is grand, this is the main...

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23 Dec 2023 morning – How to Surrender to Krsna (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 23, 2023 8:34 AM

About the Bhagavad Gita, when Arjuna sees his loved ones in the battle of Kuruksetra. Srimad Bhagavad Gita talks about truth, and has the duty to establish varnasrama-dharma. The five types of knowledge contained in the Bhagavad Gita. About the elements that make up the material body. The story of Indra and Virocana. The story of the man who wanted to kill himself and met a sadhu on the way. He who is born has to die, but the soul is eternal and transcendental. He who merges into brahman feels...

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18 Nov 2023 evening darshana – Sravana, Kirtana and Smarana (English) – Govardhana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

November 18, 2023 6:01 PM

– Krsna gives pleasure to all gopis, cows, brahmanas through His sweet lilas that leave everyone intoxicated. – In this material world no one can give us unlimited happiness. – The lilas of Radha and Krsna in Giriraja Govardhana. – The meaning of raga and anuraga. – The verses recited by Srimati Radhika contained in the Gopi Gita. – The two symptoms that appear in the awakening of anuraga. – About the darsan that the gopis have of the beautiful faces of...

2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Govardhana 2023, Vraja 2023, India 2023, Shikshashtaka 3, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2023, Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), Westerners, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2023

16 Nov 2023 afternoon room hk – Srila BV Vamana GM Disappearance Day (English + Hindi) – Govardhana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

November 16, 2023 12:08 PM

Sloka: tṛṇād api sunīcenataror iva sahiṣṇunā (Siksastaka 3). Becoming a Vaisnava is very difficult because the humility of Vaisnavas is incomparable. Srila Vamana Maharaja was the embodiment of humility, he received diksa from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada. When Srila Narayana Maharaja joined the Vedanta Samiti, he received diksa from Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, but Vamana Maharaja glorified him. True Vaisnavas glorify others without interest. Srila Narayana...

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13 Nov 2023 afternoon – Jiva Tattva, Parikara Tattva and Dipavali (English+Hindi) – Govardhana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

November 13, 2023 12:10 PM

PART 1 PART 2 Bhajana-kriya, the purification of the sadhaka, happens by continually listening to harikatha. Upon reaching the stage of rati (attachment to Krsna) the heart becomes completely purified. The jivas manifest from Baladeva Prabhu. The Lord and His cit-sakti, maya-sakti and jiva-sakti powers. Manifestations of the Lord’s potency: svarupa sakti, are His parikaras (eternal companions). When the jiva is freed and goes to Goloka Vrndavana, it resembles the parikaras, as if it were...

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