Delhi 2024
09 Oct 2024 morning – The Intimate Pastimes of Radha and Krishna (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Prema-vilasa-vivartha grantha. Mahaprabhu covered Raya Ramananda’s mouth so that he would not speak in public about the intimate loving pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. Prema should be kept as camphor is kept in a bottle. The main meaning of the word Brahma is Bhagavan. Samvit, sandhini and hladini energies and their representatives. The connection between Bhagavan and Maya (the examples of a spider and its web and a man and his hair/nails). Radha and Krishna compete in Their beauty...
09 Oct 2024 morning – The Intimate Pastimes of Radha and Krishna (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Prema-vilasa-vivartha grantha. Mahaprabhu covered Raya Ramananda’s mouth so that he would not speak in public about the intimate loving pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. Prema should be kept as camphor is kept in a bottle. The main meaning of the word Brahma is Bhagavan. Samvit, sandhini and hladini energies and their representatives. The connection between Bhagavan and Maya (the examples of a spider and its web and a man and his hair/nails). Radha and Krishna compete in Their beauty...
25 Aug 2024 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of...
25 Aug 2024 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of...
24 Aug 2024 morning – The Nature of Love: Separation and Encounter (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Lila of Srimati Radhika suffering from separation from Sri Krsna and asking the sakhis to place Her body under a tamal tree. The nature of love is encounter and separation. Lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mood of separation. In the spiritual world it is impossible to forget one’s beloved. The description of prema, as the combination of poison and nectar simultaneously, heat and cold. Story of the two brothers who were in Vrndavana meditating on the banks of Radha-kunda for fifteen...