– Verse: śrī-rūpa, sanātana bhaṭṭa-raghunātha śrī-jīva, gopāla-bhaṭṭa, dāsa-raghunātha ei chaya gurura karoṅ caraṇa vandana yāhā haite vighna-nāśa, abhīṣṭa-p ūraṇa (CC Antya 1.3-4). – Story of Jiva Gosvamipada when, as a child, he met Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. – Each living entity has a svarupa (his own soul form) and worships a specific Istadeva (Adorable Deity) [of Krsna]. – The beautiful grantha (Scripture) that everyone should read: Svarupa da Jiva, by Syamarani Devi...
Discourses in English 2024
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024
12 Jan 2024 evening – Engage Your Mind in Krsna Consciousness (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Our main goal is to satisfy the Guru, be focused and hold tightly to his lotus feet: Sri Guruvastakam. – One must have firm faith in Guru. In this world, everyone faces many problems. But everything will be resolved by chanting the Holy Names and surrendering to Sri Guru. – Everyone wants love, but where can I find it in the material world? Love really only in Goloka Vrndavana. – Who’s your friend? The Lord is our friend, our father, our mother, everything to us...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, Rupa Gosvami, gopis: nitya-siddha, self-realisation
12 Jan 2024morning – Rupa Siksa: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Rupa Gosvami Pada (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 PART 2 Sri Rupa Gosvami is nitya-parikara, he does not need instruction. Mahaprabhu instructs him to help bhada-jivas who have forgotten their identity. Mahaprabu invested all the power of His heart in these instructions, so Rupa Gosvami can fulfill all of Mahaprabhu’s desires. Sloka: śrī-caitanya-mano-’bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale (CC Antya-lila 1.117). Mahaprabhu instructed Rupa and Sanatana to manifest a sacred book on good Vaisnava behavior, the Hari Bhakti Vilasa. Sloka: om...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, bhakti: bhakti-yoga (path of devotion; the practice of connecting with Krishna through devotional service; the process of awakening love for Krishna), karma: cycle of birth and death, renunciation (vairagya)
11 Jan 2024 evening – Bhakti-yoga (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Yoga means union: the difference between the jiva (soul) and Bhagavan (Supreme Lord). The soul is an integral part of the Lord. All souls are servants of the Lord. Sloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’ (CC Madhya-lila 20.108-109). We are not the body, the body is not our true identity. We are trapped in the cycle of birth and death, always changing bodies. Everyone is going to die but nobody thinks they are going to die. Harikatha...
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10 Jan 2024 evening – Bhagavad-dhama is Beyond Maya (English) – Bogota, Colombia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhu-sanga and hari-katha are very rare.
Adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika.
Go back to God.
The material world is the perverted reflection of Goloka Vrindavana.
The story of the princess who lost her necklace.
The Lord’s place, bhagavad-dhama is beyond maya.
How to defeat maya.
Nama-sankirtana is the astra (powerful weapon) of Kali-yuga.
Sri Guru is the captain to cross the ocean of maya.
Chant the holy names with the pure devotee of the Lord.
The glories of radha-nama.
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Bogota 2024, Colombia 2024, consciousness: conscious being
10 Jan 2024 midday – The Glories of the Holy Name (English) – Bogota, Colombia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The size of the atma. Chetana (conscious) and achetana (jada, inert). Feeling, willing and knowing are the symptoms of the conscious being. Food for the soul is hari-katha. Hari-katha is the method of purification of the heart. Krishna is in your heart, but you will see Him when your heart is clean of all dust. Shloka: Harer Nama Harer Nama Harer Namaiva Kevalam. Shloka: Tava kathamritam tapta jivanam. Lila: Sanatana Gosvami glorified the holy name to the devotee of Lord Shiva, which transcends...
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10 Jan 2024 morning walk – Srimati Radhika’s Disappearance Lila (English) – Bogota, Colombia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Krishna and the gopis in Kurukshetra; the separation of the gopis. – Lila of Srimati Radhika’s disappearance. – Vrishabhanu-nandini Sri Radha, Samyogini Radha and Viyogini Radha. – The queens of Dvaraka are the incarnations of Radha and the gopis. – The sleep of a conditioned soul and the sleep of a guru are completely different. – The bodily conception (dehatma-buddhi) of a conditioned soul. The example of the dog and the bullock cart. – 4...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Bogota 2024, Colombia 2024, Bhagavan: sach-chid-ananda (sat-chid-ananda), guru: guru-tattva, Radha: Gauri
09 Jan 2024 evening – Take shelter of the lotus feet of Guru (English) – Bogata, Columbia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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...