0:00 – Question: What to do when doubts arise?5:00 – When should one stop association?13:00 – Question about the pastimes (lilas) in the universe.22:00 – On the importance of making the mind steady; the stages of steady and unsteady bhajan.28:00 – Question: How to become absorbed, for example, on Ekadashi?30:00 – On following Ekadashi; all efforts are for Krishna’s happiness.40:00 – Briefly about the katha of Mandava Rishi.49:00 – An example...
Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Itajai 2025, Brazil 2025, age: old age, book: Bible
09 Jan 2025 evening – The Material Body and the Soul (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
God created human beings in His image and likeness. Human beings and animals eat, sleep, mate, and defend themselves. Spiritual science explains the difference between animals and human beings. Human beings have the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. We are not the body, we are the soul, integral parts of the Lord. The Bible speaks of vatsalya-bhava, that we are children of the Lord. God is one but has different names. Try to understand the meaning of God and the soul. Birth, old...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Itajai 2025, Brazil 2025, rasa dance: rasa-lila
09 Jan 2025 midday – Funny Lilas (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Bhavi-viraha: feeling of future separation; Bhavya-viraha: feeling of past separation; bhavan-viraha: feeling of present separation. Story of Yamaraja with Rsi Mandap. Sloka: śrī-gopya ūcuḥ aho vidhātas tava na kvacid dayā… (SB 10.39.19). Explanation of the different types of viraha. The suffering of the gopis in separation from Krsna after He went to Mathura. Funny lila of the gopis asking Krsna why He is dark. He says it is because He was born at midnight and other hilarious explanations...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Itajai 2025, Brazil 2025, Morning walks 2025, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), maya: gunas, renunciation: aptakama ((those whose desires are fulfilled), siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers)
09 Jan 2025, morning walk – Prema (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Dialogue about prema between the gopis and Krsna. Categories of prema:Hetu-prema: love with a cause;Ahetu-prema: love without a cause;Aptakama: self-satisfied;Aptarama: fulfills one’s desires;Gurudrohi: offender;Krtajnata: gratitude;Akrtajnata: ingratitude. Krsna tells the gopis that His feelings are not in these categories of prema because He has sahaja-prema: spontaneous love. It is not perfect to say “I love Gurudeva” because Guru is asraya-tattva and we feel love for visaya-tattva...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Jaragua do Sul 2025, Brazil 2025, Bhagavad-gita 2025, Gita-jayanti 2025, Krishna: krishna-nama
08 Jan 2025 evening – The glories of Srimad Bhagavad-gita (English) | Jaragua do Sul, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The glories of Srimad Bhagavad-gita. Keep 3 things in your house: Tulasi, Giriraja Govardhana and Srimad Bhagavad-gita or Ganga-jala. Srimati Radhika is the internal potency of Krishna. Maya is Krishna’s servant and she keeps far away from Him. If you read Bhagavad-gita, all darkness will disappear from your heart. DIfferent types of yoga are described in Bhagavad-gita. The fruits of karma should be offered to Krishna. Adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. You are the soul, not the body. Give...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Matinhos 2025, Brazil 2025, liberation
08 Jan 2025 morning – Srimati Radhika is svadhina-bhartrika-nayaka (English) | Matinhos, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Matinhos 2025, Brazil 2025, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), renunciation: aptakama ((those whose desires are fulfilled)
07 Jan 2025 evening – How to Get Rid of Anarthas (English) | Matinhos, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The gopis, cowherd girls of Vrndavana, asked Krsna several questions, mainly about prema, love. Krsna disappears from the rasa dance, and the gopis glorify Him in the Gopi Gita. Description of the beautiful form of Krsna, His yellow cloth, and His garland that had been offered by the gopis. The gopis offer asana to Krsna, the seat offered is their cloths wet with tears and stained with kunkuma. The gopis are happy that Krsna accepts the seat offered by them. Krsna-Yogesvara, He manifests...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Matinhos 2025, Brazil 2025, guru: guru-bhakti, guru: guru-nishtha, mantra: Klin
07 Jan 2025 midday – The Different Names of God (English) | Matinhos, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
When guru-nistha and guru-bhakti, steadfastness and loyalty, manifest in the heart, it is possible to render devotional service to the Lord. The practice of a disciple without guru-nistha is like throwing ghee on ashes, a waste. Srila Haridasa Thakura declares that even if his body is cut into pieces he will never stop chanting the Holy Names. The different names of God: the primary names and the secondary names. The meaning of the name Radha Raman Bihari. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu discourses on...