Śrīla Gurudeva Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vana Gosvāmī Mahārāja Make Your Home Vṛndāvana: Bhajana Over Opulence • Viraha Reveals Vraja: Praising the devotees’ kīrtana and the jhāṅkī of Uddhava’s visit to Vraja, Gurudeva explains that we understand what Vraja truly is only through viraha (separation), as the Vrajavāsīs felt after Kṛṣṇa left for Mathurā and Dvārakā. Hearing kathā and keeping sat-saṅga bear fruit only when we put them into practice through bhajana. • Rāvaṇa Had Everything: Rāvaṇa...
Discourses in Hindi 2026
13 Oct 2026 morning – Cleansing the Heart at Gundicha (Hindi) – Delhi, India
Cleansing the Heart at Guṇḍicā, Kṛṣṇa Never Leaves Vraja, and the Foremost of Thieves (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Chapter One) • Guṇḍicā-mārjana: Continuing Antya-līlā, Chapter One, Gurudeva explains that Mahāprabhu’s cleansing of the Guṇḍicā temple teaches us to clean the chariot of the mind and the throne of the heart so that Govinda can sit there. Dirt on the body is washed with water, but the dirt of the mind is washed only with the “soap” of the holy name, as Mahāprabhu’s ceto...
12 Oct 2026 afternoon – Patience in Bhajana (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Patience in Bhajana, the Gopīs’ Unequalled Surrender and Seeing with the Right Bhāva • Anxiety and Saṁskāras: Answering devotees who still feel tension and lack of ānanda (bliss) though they chant, Gurudeva explains that the saṁskāras (impressions) of many births take time to be washed away, just as a very dirty cloth needs long washing. Everything is going well, he assures them; have patience, do not worry, leave everything to Guru and Bhagavān and simply keep chanting. • Guru and the Gopīs’...
12 Oct 2026 midday – Making the Home Vṛndāvana (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Making the Home Vṛndāvana: Sat-saṅga, Niṣṭhā and the Glories of Girirāja and Rādhā-kuṇḍa • A Home Becomes Goloka: Blessing the hosts’ family, Gurudeva quotes Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s “je-dina gṛhe bhajana dekhi, gṛhete goloka bhāya” (the day bhajana is seen in the home, that home becomes Goloka). Quoting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (na yatra vaikuṇṭha-kathā-sudhāpagā…), he warns that a house without Hari-kathā and sādhus, however opulent, is like a hole that a rat digs and a...
12 Oct 2026 morning – Śivānanda’s Dog, and Rūpa’s Arrival in Purī (Hindi) – Delhi, India
Śivānanda’s Dog, Satyabhāmā’s Order and Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Arrival in Purī (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Chapter One) • Beginning the Antya-līlā: Gurudeva begins the first chapter of the Antya-līlā (final pastimes) of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, where Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, old and with trembling hands, says that Madana-mohana holds his hand and makes him write, expanding what he had only summarised (pūrva-likhita grantha-sūtra-anusāre, “according to the threads written before”). He...