Discourses Translated into English 2020

29 Nov 2020 evening – Kartik – Parikrama in the pandemic: nistha in guru (English translation) – Govardhana, India

– Preaching, publication and parikrama should never stop; – The mercy of Guru; – Guru is always with us: story of the disciple and the footprints on the sand; – Everybody come to Nabadwip parikrama.

29 Nov 2020 evening – Damodarastakam verse 8 (English translation) – India

– verse 8 Damodarastakam; – Krsna and the rope around His waist (the rope they tie to babies’ bellies in Bengal for protection); – Mother Yashoda sees Krsna’s universal form twice (eating the mud lila and yawning lila); – Some bondages bring happiness, others bring distress; – Krsna accepts being bound by His mother; – The “krsna krpa kataksa” song; – How Krsna performs rasa-lila if He appeared to establish varnashrama-dharma;...

29 Nov 2020 – Kartik – Prema Sarovara (English translation) – India

– Krsna actually doesn’t go from one dham to another, but in prakata lila, looks like this is happening;- Actually there are 64 kinds of meeting and separation;- Prema sarovara: Prema vaicittya katha (viraha in milana);- The reason why Srimati Radhika is Shyama;- Meaning of “madhusudana”;- Why Krsna wanted to go to Mathura;- Wife knows the heart of the husband, but the husband doesn’t know his wife’s heart;- Radha is saying: in the next life, I will be Krsna...

28 Nov 2020 – Narada-kunda (English translation) – Vraja-mandala parikrama – India

– Original Svarupa: Naradiya gopi;- Narada doesn’t create quarrel, he increases the love;- Service in gaura-lila as a grhastha Srivas Thakur;- Son of Srivas gives up his body in the middle of the kirtan;- 5 places in which Mahaprabhu is always present;- Srivas’ mother-in-law and the brahmachari who used to drink only milk who wanted to see the nama-sankirtan lila in Srivas Thakur’s house;- What is the purpose of renunciation and mauna-vrat (ārādhito yadi haris tapasā...

27 Nov 2020 – Raval – Appearance place of Srimati Radhika (English translation) – India

– In different eras, Srimati Radhika appears in different ways (from egg, from fire etc);- “Vraja” means to move: Nanda Maharaja and Vrsabhanu Maharaja used to live close by no matter where (Nanda Gaon/ Varsana, Gokula/ Raval);- Parvati and Shiva concerned that Nandi and Ganesha might be carried away with all the donations that Nanda Maharaja was giving;- The beauty of the nature in the moment that Vrsabhanu Maharaja finds Srimati Radhika on a lotus in the Yamuna river;...