00:04:00 – A brief story of Pāṇḍava Nirjalā Ekādaśī 00:14:00 – A story from Param Gurudeva about a girl who was making a garland for the Deities and said that if the Deities didn’t come, she would make sabjī out of the edible flowers — but this attitude is incorrect; there should be enthusiasm in bhakti, like in the example of Dhruva 00:24:00 – On following Ekādaśī 00:38:00 – Observing Ekādaśī for Kṛṣṇa 00:40:00 – A brief story of Mahāprabhu’s instruction to His mother about Ekādaśī; Śacī-devī...
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17 Jun 2024 evening – The Glories of Following Ekadasi (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The glories of bathing in the waters of the Ganges River. The water that bathed the lotus feet of the pure Vaisnavas is superior to the water of the Ganges, which is the water that bathed the lotus feet of the Lord. Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi. On Ekadasi, all sins reside in the five types of grains (rice, wheat, corn, dahl/beans and barley). In all forms of life, gratification is obtained from the senses (eating, sleeping, defending and reproducing). We are not the body, we are the soul. By...
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17 Jun 2024 morning – Questions and Answers (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
There are three types of jivas: those that manifest from Baladeva Prabhu, these are parikaras (eternal companions), always in Goloka Vrndavana. The jivas that manifest from Sankarsana and stay in Vaikuntha, and those that manifest from Karanodakasayi Visnu, these are of two types, the baddha jivas (conditioned to the material world) and the mukta jivas (liberated from the material world). If the potency of the jiva is madhurya-rasa, he has the good fortune to go to Goloka Vrndavana after...
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16 Jun 2024 morning – Shakti, Bhava and Rasa (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The jivas in this material world have the opportunity to go to Goloka Vrndavana. Jiva-tattva and parikara-tattva. Srimati Radhika satisfies Sri Krsna completely through Her hladini-sakti potency. Purna-sakti and purna-saktiman. In the transcendental world, every power is personified. The temporary powers of human beings and what they all have in common: feeling, desiring and knowing. “Caitanya” means one who possesses consciousness. Lila of Sri Krsna in whom, by desiring to create, makes...
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15 Jun 2024 evening – The Glories of Baladeva Vidyabhushana Prabhu (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:18:00 – The gift of the holy name (nāma) to the sādhaka; realization of the self (ātma-anubhūti)00:23:00 – Various sampradāyas that appeared after the disappearance of Mahāprabhu00:29:00 – The beginning of the spiritual biography of Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa00:33:00 – Types of paramparās, two paths of practicing bhakti, and the improper worship of Govindadeva together with Rukmiṇī and Satyabhāmā00:43:00 – Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa defeats incorrect philosophy at a sampradāya assembly; he...
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15 June 2024 midday – The Wonders of Bhagavan Sri Krsna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sloka: ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas… (Caitanya-matta-manjusa, by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura). Siddhanta from Harivamsa Purana, which provides evidence that Nanda Maharaja’s wife has two names: Devaki and Yasoda. Krsna in different moods in His different abodes, Dvaraka, Mathura and Vrndavana. The example of a perfect grhasta is Lord Ramacandra. About the ninety-six different types of heroes (nayakas) of Bhagavan Sri Krsna. The lilas of Dvaraka, Mathura and Vrndavana, and the...