Online discourses 2025
13 Jan 2025 evening – Sadhu-Sanga is Essential (English) | Zoom | 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...
03 Jan 2025 midday – How to Serve the Guru Parampara (English) | Zoom, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
How, in the beginning, Lord Narayana manifested everything in the heart of His disciple, Lord Brahma. About the examples of how the Guru nurtures his disciples: those who surrender completely, without duplicity. About the three types of disciples that exist, those in the mode of ignorance, those in the mode of passion and those in the mode of goodness. Ekalavya, a disciple of Dronacarya, is an example of a disciple in the mode of ignorance. Karma, a disciple of Parasurama, is an example of a...
02 Jan 2025 afternoon (1) – Hari-katha on New Year’s Eve (Hindi) | Online from Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
0:00:30 – Everything is already destined and predetermined. Only Krishna knows when we will leave the body. One who is born will die; therefore, the body is born, but the Atma is eternal.0:07:00 – Mahaprabhu said: Krishna is very merciful; He granted me the association of devotees. Bhakta-sanga (association with devotees) and Hari-katha are very important in our spiritual life.0:08:35 – The story of Shrivasa Thakura in his home: when his son left his body, the Thakura did not...
02 Jan 2025 afternoon (1) – Hari-katha on New Year’s Eve (English translation) | Online from Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
0:00:30 – Everything is already destined and predetermined. Only Krishna knows when we will leave the body. One who is born will die; therefore, the body is born, but the Atma is eternal.0:07:00 – Mahaprabhu said: Krishna is very merciful; He granted me the association of devotees. Bhakta-sanga (association with devotees) and Hari-katha are very important in our spiritual life.0:08:35 – The story of Shrivasa Thakura in his home: when his son left his body, the Thakura did not...