Badger 2024
03 Aug 2024 morning – Types of Faith (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
On Vaisnava suddha sadacara: good Vaisnava behaviour. Bhajana and sadhana are useless for one who commits offences. Only constant hearing of Harikatha can protect us from Maya. On nama-aparadha. In Kali-yuga people’s minds are contaminated by tama-guna, so it is difficult to meditate on the Lord. Even if your pronunciation is bad, the Lord accepts the chanting of the Holy Names anyway in Kali-yuga. The souls of Kali-yuga have innumerable defects and the Lord has invested all His potency...
01 Aug 2024 evening – How to Develop Spiritual Life in Sadhu-sanga (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhu-sanga and Harikatha are eternal! The devotee accepts what the sadhu says according to his capacity and moves forward. The process must be followed step by step: sadhana-bhakti; bhava-bhakti; prema-bhakti. Radha’s Lila writing a letter to Krsna whose content is Her tears. The different types of gopis: not all of them reveal themselves as manjaris. The forty-nine ingredients that come together in staybhava for the sadhaka to be able to taste love, everything happens step by step...
01 Aug 2024 morning – The Process of Bhakti (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
All of you are elevated sadhakas due to the mercy of Srila Gurudeva, you have all grown. Without sadhana it is not possible to achieve the perfection of the spiritual goal. Those who follow varnasrama-dharma attain Svarga and Brahma-loka. Devotees practise varnasrama-dharma along with sadhana aiming at the supreme goal. One practises sadhana through sambandha-jnana and, thus, one attains service to Krsna. Kamatmika are those who have spontaneous love for Krsna, divine love. Difference...
30 Jul 2024 evening – Ekadasi Tithi Katha (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Bhakti comes by Sadhu-sanga, association with high class devotee of the Lord. By kama, jnana, tapasya and yoga, we cannot attain Lord, only by the practice of Bhakti-yoga will bring us to Him. Material sound only acts in the body and mind; transcendental sound vibration, shabda-brahma, goes to the heart and cleans all our anarthas and pap. Sadhu-sanga means harikatha-sravana. Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura bhajana (Sri Gaudiya Giti-guccha page 39). We can perform sadhana and bhajana when Hari, Guru and...
25 Jan 2024 – Q&A (English) – Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The importance and power of maha-prasada. Maha-prasada should never be offered to God twice. Quick offering mantra is 1) gopala-mantra for those who have diksha initiation: 2) Hare Krishna maha-mantra for those who have harinama initiation. Sri Radha steals the heart of Krishna by Her activities, that is why She is called Hara. If you surrender to Krishna, He will hear your prayers. Narottama dasa Thakura, prema in the Ganges Atma-nivedanam: 6 processes. Sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana...
25 Jan 2024 evening – Krsna is Love and Love is Krsna (English) – Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 Love is essential in our life. Everyone wants love in their life, but in this world love is temporary and painful. Difference between love and lust. In the spiritual world there is love, in the material world there is lust. Process of sadhana: from shraddha to prema. From the first to the ninth Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam: sambhanda-tattva. The eleventh Canto of the Bhagavatam: abhidheya-tattva. The tenth Canto of Bhagavatam: prayojana-tattva. Sloka: anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy...