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15 Jan 2025 evening – Guru-parampara and siddha-pranali (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 15, 2025 6:41 PM

Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu danced in the Ratha-yatra as a 16-year-old boy. Stupid people say that Gaudiya Vaishnavas have no guru-parampara. The description of our guru-parampara. Siddha-pranali is a perfect process to achieve a goal. Siddha-pranali of Mahaprabhu and Srila Rupa Gosvami. Your potential is within you, it cannot be changed, but it can be developed to appear (examples with different seeds, Pandavas and the disciples Vijaya Kumara and Vrajanatha). Verse: nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema...

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15 Jan 2025 midday – Anartrhas and aparadhas (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 15, 2025 12:37 PM

When Mahaprabhu travelled in southern India, He took tattva-siddhanta and rasa-siddhanta granthas with Him. Brahma-samhita is the tattva-siddhanta grantha. Verse: gururbrahmā gururviṣṇuḥ gururdevo maheśvaraḥ (Guru-stotra). Instructions to mothers to control their babies on hari-katha. Types of anarthas: svarupa-bhrama, hridaya-daurbalya, asat-trishna and aparadha. Nama-aparadha is very dangerous. Types of Vaishnava aparadhas. Types of anarthas. The Lord can do any kind of activity with any limb...

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15 Jan 2025 morning walk – False ahankara and true ahankara (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 15, 2025 7:34 AM

False ahankara is thinking “I am the doer”. Shuddha-ahankara is knowing your relationship with Krishna, just as Nanda and Yashoda know that they are Krishna’s parents. Sadhakas should not think that they are the parents or lovers of Krishna (ahangra-upasana). We are the servants of Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja. Transformation of jnana and vairagya in Vrindavana. Gopis do everything to please Krishna (krishnarte akhila-cheshta) and give up everything for His sake...

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14 Jan 2025 evening – Detachment and Surrender (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2025 6:29 PM

Afflictions to which we are subject: adhyatmika pains, those caused by oneself (physically or mentally); adhibhautika pains: those caused by other creatures; and adhidaivika pains: imposed by devas (demigods), earthquakes, volcanoes, heat, cold, etc. Song: Amara Jivana by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura that speaks of the endless desires of human beings. Story of the man chased by a tiger in the forest, who even exposed to various dangers does not abandon the temporary material enjoyment. Our death...

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14 Jan 2025 midday – Behavior of Vaisnavas (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2025 12:19 PM

Without a taste for Harikatha and chanting the Holy Names, even following varnasrama-dharma, it will not be enough to free us. Yamaraja gives us a subtle body to be punished for our sins. Knowledge and even birth into a high family are no guarantees for reaching the highest goal. Example of milk, yogurt, butter and ghee: where they all have the same origin, but have different qualities, and consequently different values. Example of the lotus that is born in the mud and yet is very beautiful and...

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14 Jan 2025 morning – Studying is Important (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2025 7:10 AM

Quote from Vaisnava Thakura’s book, translated by Sri Srimad BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, which deals with abhydheya and prayojana.

It is necessary to acquire all knowledge.

The meaning of aropa-siddha-bhakti.

The importance of knowing the mood of each sloka, verse.

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13 Jan 2025 evening – Sadhu-Sanga is Essential (English) | Zoom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 13, 2025 6:48 PM

After accumulating sukrti from many lives, we obtain sadhu-sanga, and after listening to the sadhu’s Harikatha, the desire for Bhakti manifests in the heart. Srila Visvanatha Cakravartipada says “adau sadhu-sanga” (first sadhu-sanga) and Srila Rupa Gosvami says “adam sraddha tatu sadhu-sanga” (first faith, then sadhu-sanga). Verse: anāradhya rādhā-padāmbhoja-reṇum… (Sankalpa Prakasa Stotra 1). Verse: rādhā-kuṇḍam ihāpi gokula-pateḥ premāmṛtāplāvanāt… (Sri Upadesamrta 9). The highest place...

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13 Jan 2025 morning – Maha Kumbha Mela (English) | Garopaba, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 13, 2025 8:34 AM

The origin of the Maha Kumbha Mela Festival. The story of the mother of serpents and the mother of Garuda. Garuda brought the pot of nectar from the heavenly planets to 4 places on Earth: Nasika, Ujjain, Haridvar, Prayagaraja, and Prayagaraja is where the Maha Kumbha Mela Festival takes place. By bathing in these places, all sins are extinguished. By attending the Kumbha Mela in Vrndavana, where Krsna performed lila with the demon Kaliya, one obtains suddha-bhakti. The story of Saubhari Rsi...

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