Delhi 2024

19 Oct 2024 morning – The Glories of Kartika Month (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

00:00 – Introduction: The Glory of Kartik Month 01:23 – Desires Fulfilled in Kartik: Offer a Lamp for Incredible Blessings 02:22 – Srimad Bhagavatam: The Sweet Fruit Tasted by Srimati Radharani’s Parrot 05:22 – Param Gurudev on Hearing Katha in Kali Yuga & the Path of Practice and Renunciation 09:10 – Raghunath Das Goswami in Manah Siksha: We Must Chastise Our Senses 09:35 – Story: Raghunath Das Goswami Tries to Punish His Eyes with Chili Powder...

19 Oct 2024 morning – The Glories of Kartika Month (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

00:00 – Introduction: The Glory of Kartik Month 01:23 – Desires Fulfilled in Kartik: Offer a Lamp for Incredible Blessings 02:22 – Srimad Bhagavatam: The Sweet Fruit Tasted by Srimati Radharani’s Parrot 05:22 – Param Gurudev on Hearing Katha in Kali Yuga & the Path of Practice and Renunciation 09:10 – Raghunath Das Goswami in Manah Siksha: We Must Chastise Our Senses 09:35 – Story: Raghunath Das Goswami Tries to Punish His Eyes with Chili Powder...

19 Oct 2024 morning – Damodarashtaka (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Song Damodarastakam. Lila of Mother Yasoda churning yogurt to serve Gopala. The best milk of Vrndavana: the milk of the Padmaganda cow with the aroma of the lotus flower that only exists in the houses of Nanda Maharaja and Vrsabhanu Maharaja. The glory of offering ghee lamp in the month of kartika, considered something very auspicious. When there is possessiveness, the devotee does the seva personally. Only with a feeling of sambandha-jnana or possessiveness (mamata) is service possible. Grta...

19 Oct 2024 morning – Damodarashtaka (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Song Damodarastakam. Lila of Mother Yasoda churning yogurt to serve Gopala. The best milk of Vrndavana: the milk of the Padmaganda cow with the aroma of the lotus flower that only exists in the houses of Nanda Maharaja and Vrsabhanu Maharaja. The glory of offering ghee lamp in the month of kartika, considered something very auspicious. When there is possessiveness, the devotee does the seva personally. Only with a feeling of sambandha-jnana or possessiveness (mamata) is service possible. Grta...

19 Oct 2024 room – Jiva Tattva (English) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Some jivas manifest from Baladeva Prabhu.

Other Jivas are direct extensions of Srimati Radhika, like Lalita or Visaka.

The jivas who come to the material world.

About Vaikunta.

Where do the jivas go when everything is destroyed?

About our material conception and our transcendental form.

About false ego and false conceptions.

Maya does not enter Vaikuntha.

About how the jivas have no connection with Maya.

Mahamantra is like medicine, people are transformed when in contact with Mahamantra.

18 Oct 2024 morning – Lilas of Gopala and Mother Yasoda (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

About how Krsna steals butter from the gopis’ house. Comparison between devotees and karmis. The story of the donkey from the Himalayas who is usually tied with an imaginary rope until the next day. About how we should serve and chant the Holy Names: totally absorbed and eagerly, like Mother Yasoda. The story of the Muslim who bought little shoes for Gopal. About the difference between Kirtana and Sankirtana. About how everything that exists in Vrndavana is conscious and transcendental...