Discourses in Hindi 2024
25 Aug 2024 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of...
24 Aug 2024 evening – God is Transcendental (Hindi) | Ghaziabad, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The proper way to celebrate a birthday according to Vedic culture. The story of when Parvati asked Lord Siva at Kailash which Deity she should worship. The proper etiquette of asking a question. All demigods are servants of Krsna and follow His instructions. In this universe, Lord Brahma has four heads, catur-mukha, and Siva has five heads, panca-mukha. We are in the smallest brahmanda of all. Everything that exists is created, maintained and destroyed by the will of the Lord. Janma-lila...
24 Aug 2024 morning – The Nature of Love: Separation and Encounter (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Lila of Srimati Radhika suffering from separation from Sri Krsna and asking the sakhis to place Her body under a tamal tree. The nature of love is encounter and separation. Lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mood of separation. In the spiritual world it is impossible to forget one’s beloved. The description of prema, as the combination of poison and nectar simultaneously, heat and cold. Story of the two brothers who were in Vrndavana meditating on the banks of Radha-kunda for fifteen...
