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2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Chinese 2024, Online discourses 2024, sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, tava kathamrtam tapta-jivanam, Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.31.9, Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.23, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: stages, energy: achintya-shakti, rasa dance: rasa-lila

05 Dec 2024 midday – The Power of Harikatha Spoken by a Pure Devotee – Harikatha Online for Chinese Devotees (English) | Skype, Netherlands | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 5, 2024 12:47 PM

Srila Gurudeva speaks sweet words to the Chinese devotees. Krsna is wonderful and merciful and arranges for the devotees to meet Gurudeva. One must nourish the soul, not just the body. Harikatha nourishes the soul. If we do not hear Harikatha, material desires enter the heart. Prahlada Maharaja said: śrī-prahrāda uvāca śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ… (SB 7.5.23-24). Hearing Harikatha brings great strength to our body, mind and soul. Rasa-lila-katha is a powerful medicine. ⁠Harikatha removes all...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Vraja 2024, Vrindavana 2024, India 2024, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2024, rasa: rasa-siddhanta, tattva-siddhanta and rasa-siddhanta: philosophical conclusions and rasa conclusions (established truths about reality; conclusions about devotional relationships and spiritual emotions), Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2024

29 Oct 2024 morning – The Good Fortune of Doing Vraja Parikrama (English) | Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 29, 2024 8:36 AM

Sloka from the Bhagavad Gita that instructs everyone to follow the Supreme Person. Krsna worships the feet of Srimati Radhika, for this reason we are following Srimati Radhika. Explanation about sastra-siddhanta and rasa-siddhanta. ⁠Krsna is the Supreme Personality, Visaya Vigraha. Mahaprabhu tells us who our Worshiped Deity is. The importance of tattva-siddhanta and rasa-siddhanta in the process of attaining prema (condensed love for Krsna). Vrndavana is the abode of rasa. In Vrndavana...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Delhi 2024, India 2024

19 Oct 2024 room – Jiva Tattva (English) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 18, 2024 1:37 PM

Some jivas manifest from Baladeva Prabhu.

Other Jivas are direct extensions of Srimati Radhika, like Lalita or Visaka.

The jivas who come to the material world.

About Vaikunta.

Where do the jivas go when everything is destroyed?

About our material conception and our transcendental form.

About false ego and false conceptions.

Maya does not enter Vaikuntha.

About how the jivas have no connection with Maya.

Mahamantra is like medicine, people are transformed when in contact with Mahamantra.

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Perth 2024, Australia 2024, Bhakti Pramoda Puri Maharaja, service: vani-seva, service: vapu-seva, spiritual paths: vidhi-marga

07 Oct 2024 evening – Divine and Transcendental Appearance of Srila Bhakti Pramoda Puri Gosvami (English) | Perth, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 7, 2024 6:17 PM

PART 1 Life story of Nitya Lila Pravista Om Visnupada Srila Bhakti Pramoda Puri Gosvami Maharaja. Mahaprabhu emphasised three practices: vigraha-seva (Deity worship), vaisnava-seva and nama-sankirtana. Verse: sādhu-saṅga nāma-kīrtana bhāgavata-śravaṇa… (CC Madhya-lila 22.128). Vaisnavas are higher than brahmanas. All Vaisnavas are brahmanas, but not every brahmana is a Vaisnava. Aikantiki Vaisnava is one-pointed towards Srimati Radhika. Vani-seva is higher than vapu-seva. The difference between...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Perth 2024, Australia 2024, age: old age, religion: Buddhism, self-realisation

05 Oct 2024 evening – The Human Body is a Rare Opportunity (English) | Perth, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 5, 2024 6:30 PM

Sloka: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ… (ŚB 1.3.28). The human body is very rare. Sloka: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ… (Śrī brahma-saṁhitā 5.1). The power of self-realisation. About Buddhism. The material world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. The three aspects of Bhagavan: Brahma, Paramatma and Bhagavan. ⁠The capacity of the “computers” of Yamaloka, the seat of the Lord of Death Yamaharaja. The weak memory of the souls of this world. We belong to Brahma and will never be Him. The difference...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Perth 2024, Australia 2024, animals: dogs

04 Oct 2024 midday – Diksa (English) | Perth, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 4, 2024 12:07 PM

This human life is very rare and we can leave the body at any time. That is why it is so important to practise bhajana and sadhana now. About the verse in which Radhika speaks of Krsna’s sweet Harikatha and how He makes us go to the transcendental world. About realised souls like Sukadeva Gosvami. How Krsna teaches Sukadeva Gosvami to chant the Holy Name of Radha. The importance of receiving sambandha-jnana and diksa from your Gurudeva. Definition of the word “diksa”. The...

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