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2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 19.151, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, universe: brahmanda

17 Jan 2024 morning – Seva & Hari-katha (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 17, 2024 9:09 AM

– When Vaishnava is sleeping he is witnessing Radha-Krishna’s lilas. – Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti. – The topmost definition of shraddha by Srila Jiva Gosvami. – Brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva (CC Madhya 19.151). – Sing Gurvashtaka every morning. – Both seva and hari-katha are important so both should be present. – Hari-katha destroys all anarthas. – The story of how a pujari, a disciple of Srila Gurudeva, who did not listen to...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Cuernavaca 2024, Mexico 2024, Bhagavan: sach-chid-ananda (sat-chid-ananda), guru: guru-tattva, Radha: Gauri

16 Jan 2024 evening – The importance of one-pointedness towards Guru (English) – Cuernavaca, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 16, 2024 6:07 PM

How we achieve our highest goal, the divine love of Radha-Krishna. Nityananda Prabhu and Gaurasundara are our life and soul. Our aim and object is how to absolutely surrender at the lotus feet of Sri Sacinandana Gaurahari. Gau is Govinda, Ra is Radha. The difference between the mercy of Sri Krishna and of Sri Sacinandana Gaurahari. Nityananda Prabhu is undivided akanda-guru-tattva. Harikatha of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu kalna pastimes with Gauri Das Pandit and the sweet vigraha lila. In Kali...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Cuernavaca 2024, Mexico 2024, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, rasas: sakhya-bhava

16 Jan 2024 midday – The Many Glories of Bhakti (English) – Cuernavaca, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 16, 2024 12:03 PM

– Lord Krishna is completely controlled by vraja-raganuga-bhakti, devotional service unto Him. – Krishna explains to Narada Rsi where He stays. – Harikatha of Durvasa Rsi and his 60,000 disciples visiting the Pandavas, and Draupadi’s mystical Aksaya patra. – Raman-reti-lila by the bank of the Yamuna with Krishna, His friends and Durvasa Rsi. – Sweet sakhya-bhava pastimes of Krishna and His friends; how they control Him. – The sweetness of Damodara-lila...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Tepoztlan 2024, Mexico 2024, ghee lamp, liberation

15 Jan 2024 evening – Why We Are in the Material World (English) – Tepoztlan, Mexico

January 15, 2024 8:38 PM

Verse: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukhaataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha (CC Madhya-lila 20.117). Krsna appears in the world in the form of Sadhu, Guru, Sastra and, in His own original form, to help in the liberation of living entities who are entangled in Maya. To receive the Lord’s mercy it is necessary to be in sadhu-sanga. Verse: sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya (CC Madhya-lila, 22.54). ⁠To have sadhu-sanga it is necessary to have sukrti. One can obtain sukrti...

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15 Jan 2024 morning – Makara-sankranti (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 15, 2024 8:07 AM

– The meaning of the day of Makar Sankranti, the day the River Ganges arrived on this planet. – Chanting of the Holy Names destroys all sins in Kali-yuga. – Krsna explains to Uddhava, in the eleventh canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, about the pious activities that make a person able to chant the Holy Names due to purification. – Premananda Thakura: “Oh mind, why don’t you have a taste for chanting the Holy Names?” – Due to his sinful activities, papa...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart)

14 Jan 2024 evening – Spiritual Practice (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2024 6:01 PM

– Sadhu-sanga and harikatha are very rare. – Eating, sleeping, defending oneself and mating are common in animal and human life. – Being human means doing sadhana and bhajana for the Lord. – Siddha-bhakti is the desire to serve Sri Krsna. – Sloka: brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (Sri CC Madhya-lila 19.151). – The meaning in receiving diksa-mantras from the Guru is sambhanda-jnana and destruction of the anarthas...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, guru: guru-nishtha, guru: guru-tattva

14 Jan 2024 morning – The Glories of Nityananda Prabhu (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2024 8:59 AM

We must read the books of the Six Gosvamis to understand what the life of bhaktas is like. He who has Guru-nistha (faith in the Guru) can get out of the wheel of samsara. Sloka: prathamaṃ tu guruṃ pūjya tataś caiva mamārcanam kurvan siddhim avāpnoti hy anyathā niṣphalaṃ bhavet (Hari Bhakti Vilasa 4.344). Lila of a person questioning Nityananda Prabhu’s behaviour, telling Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that he had faith in Him, but not in Nityananda. Caitanya Mahaprabhu explains that Nityananda...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, book: Hari-bhakti-vilasa, mantras: diksha-mantras, service: vani-seva, service: vapu-seva, Six Gosvamis exemplary bhajana, Six Sandarbhas

13 Jan 2024 evening – Glorification of the Six Gosvamis (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 13, 2024 6:57 PM

– Day of transcendental disappearance (tirobhava-tithi) of Srila Jiva Gosvamipada. – Mahaprabhu’s first instruction given to the Six Gosvamis: go to Vrndavana and discover the places of lilas of Radha and Krsna. – Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu also instructed the Six Gosvamis to manifest raga-marga-bhakti and vaidhi-marga-bhakti. – Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed Srila Sanatana Gosvamipada to manifest suddha-vaisnava-sadacara (good Vaisnava behaviour). – Without...

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