-There are several holy places that one should visit, but none of them gives the bliss that is in Vrindavana. The nature of the soul is to attain the bliss of Vrindavana.-About Sanatana Gosvami’s Brihad-bhagavatamrita.-The story of two brothers doing bhajana at Radha-kunda.-Be careful, if Rukmini-devi makes a stamp on your body, Sri Radha will not accept you.-Vrindavana is where the saints are, and they manifest Vrindavana in their hearts through hari-katha.-The sound of Krishna’s...
Discourses in Hindi 2023
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Punjab 2023, India 2023, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, lineage: disciplic succession, nirguna: beyond material qualities (transcendental to the modes of material nature; free from material designations), sampradayas: four sampradayas, samskaras
08 Apr 2023 morning – Following the Guidelines of the Scriptures (Hindi) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 -Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti.-Raganuga-bhakti is practised when one has samskaras from other lives.-The spontaneous mood that is at the heart of the Vrajavasis is known as raganuga-bhakti.-On the days of Ekadashi, all kinds of sins fall into the five kinds of grains… If you need to eat, you can eat fruit.-Whoever comes to me, I never let him go empty-handed.-Prasada is nirguna, but, we should not honour grain prasada on Ekadashi because that is the scriptural rule and we have to...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Vraja 2023, Vrindavana 2023, India 2023
07 Apr 2023 evening – The Three Deities of Vrindavana (Hindi) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-When we left Vraja, we got to see the glories of Vraja, where everyone talks: Radhe Radhe!-How did the Deity Madana-mohana appear?-In Vrindavana there are three Deities: Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopinatha, and the three together manifested as the Radha-ramana Deity.-Krishna’s great-grandson, Vajranabha, made a request to Uttara, mother of Pariksit Maharaja: I don’t know Krishna, so under your guidance, I want to make a Deity of Krishna. But in the end he made three: Madana-mohana...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Chaitanya-bhagavata 2023, Chaitanya-bhagavata in Delhi 31 Mar -11 Apr 2023, Balarama Rasa-yatra 2023, Vedavyasa, Vyasadeva
06 Apr 2023 morning – Chaitanya-bhagavata [7] / Balarama Rasa-yatra (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-For two months this rasa dance takes place for the joy of the gopis… and the wonderful nature displays the beauty and glorification of Baladeva Prabhu.-Baladeva Prabhu performed this dance with His own gopis, like an intoxicated elephant.-Various musical instruments of the gandharvas are played… ; even the rishis enjoy the dance and glorify Baladeva Prabhu.-Srila Vrindavana dasa Thakura gives instructions on the proper conduct of sadhus.-Pariksit Maharaja asks Shukadeva Gosvami what benefit it...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Chaitanya-bhagavata 2023, Chaitanya-bhagavata in Delhi 31 Mar -11 Apr 2023, mantra: gayatri-mantras
05 Apr 2023 evening – Chaitanya-bhagavata [6] (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Lila on how little Nimai saw thieves breaking into His yard-Lila on how little Nimai frightened Shiva-worshipping girls that they would have old and poor husbands, and how he demanded that they worship him instead of Shiva-Lila on how little Nimai spat the Ganges water on the brahmanas-Anyabhilashita shunyam shloka discussion-Become a scholar, but not for the sake of defeat or competition with others-The three symptoms of bhakti-Self realisation is the best realisation-Keep chanting until Nama...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Vraja 2023, Vrindavana 2023, India 2023, anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage)
05 Apr 2023morning – The Glories of Vrindavana (Hindi) – Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Lord Brahma cannot enter Vrindavana. He dreams of going to Vrindavana at least as a stone on which the Vrajavasis wipe their feet after going to the toilet-By the mercy of Lord Ramachandra, the sages of Dandakaranya were born from the wombs of the vraja-gopis-Without taking birth in the wombs of vraja-gopis we are unable to enter rasa-lila-Lakshmi-devi tries to enter Vrindavana, but in vain-Everything that lives in Vrindavana, including the insects, are the eternal associates of Radha-Krishna...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, guru: guru-bhakti
04 Apr 2023 evening – House Program (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Vrindavana is our life and heart-Separation nourishes meeting-The mercy of Guru is readily available, but the mercy of Bhagavan is rare-Guru-nishtha, guru-bhakti, is the backbone of our spiritual life. The more we have guru-nishta, the more our bhakti will develop-Jarasandha was Kamsa’s father-in-law. Jarasandhas’s attempts to attack Krishna-Uddhava advises Krishna to release the kings imprisoned by Jarasandha and then to attend Yudhishthira Maharaja’s rajasuya-yajna-Uddhava was amazed...