Delhi 2025
14 Oct 2025 morning – Damodarashtaka (Hindi) – Delhi, India
Quote from Sri Satyavrata Muni’s commentaries on the Padma Purana, explaining the first verse of Sri Damodarastakam. About what led Krsna to break the pot and distribute butter to the monkeys, crows. Explanation of Krsna’s feelings when Mother Yasoda stopped breastfeeding Him. About how an obstacle to sense gratification causes anger. Story of a brahmana who out of anger mistakenly killed a mongoose. Explanation of how anger takes away our power of discrimination and is capable of...
14 Oct 2025 morning – Damodarashtaka (English translation) | Delhi, India
Quote from Sri Satyavrata Muni’s commentaries on the Padma Purana, explaining the first verse of Sri Damodarastakam. About what led Krsna to break the pot and distribute butter to the monkeys, crows. Explanation of Krsna’s feelings when Mother Yasoda stopped breastfeeding Him. About how an obstacle to sense gratification causes anger. Story of a brahmana who out of anger mistakenly killed a mongoose. Explanation of how anger takes away our power of discrimination and is capable of...
13 Oct 2025 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, Day 5 (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 PART 2 – The appearance of Srimati Radhika and the glories of Giriraja Govardhana. – Verse: anugrahāya bhaktānāṁ mānuṣaṁ deham āsthitaḥ… (SB 10.33.36). – Verse: prema-rasa-niryāsa karite āsvādana rāga-mārga bhakti loke karite pracāraṇa…(CC Adi-lila 4.15-16). – Srngara-rasa is the original rasa that generates all others. – Krsna’s soul is Srimati Radhika. – Sacinandana Gaurahari is the embodiment of magnanimity and munificence. –...
13 Oct 2025 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, Day 5 (English translation) | Delhi, India
PART 1 PART 2 – The appearance of Srimati Radhika and the glories of Giriraja Govardhana. – Verse: anugrahāya bhaktānāṁ mānuṣaṁ deham āsthitaḥ… (SB 10.33.36). – Verse: prema-rasa-niryāsa karite āsvādana rāga-mārga bhakti loke karite pracāraṇa…(CC Adi-lila 4.15-16). – Srngara-rasa is the original rasa that generates all others. – Krsna’s soul is Srimati Radhika. – Sacinandana Gaurahari is the embodiment of magnanimity and munificence. –...
13 Oct 2025 midday – The Mahamantra is Transcendental (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Where the sadhu speaks Harikatha, that place becomes a sacred place of pilgrimage, a tirtha.
Verse: nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ… (CC Madhya 17.143).
The Mahamantra is sabda-brahma, transcendental sound.
Verse: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ… (Sri Siksastakam 1).
The name of the Lord is more powerful than the Lord Himself.
Vibhisana chanted the Holy Name of Ramacandra.
13 Oct 2025 midday – The Mahamantra is Transcendental (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Where the sadhu speaks Harikatha, that place becomes a sacred place of pilgrimage, a tirtha.
Verse: nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ… (CC Madhya 17.143).
The Mahamantra is sabda-brahma, transcendental sound.
Verse: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ… (Sri Siksastakam 1).
The name of the Lord is more powerful than the Lord Himself.
Vibhisana chanted the Holy Name of Ramacandra.
13 Oct 2025 morning – The Characteristics of Krsna in Vraja (HIndi) – Delhi, India
PART 1 PART 2 – Explanation of Sri Damodarastakam. – Verse: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam… (Srimad Bhagavtam 1.3.28). – In Vraja, Krsna manifests with two arms, and in Mathura, sometimes, He manifests four arms as well, but in Dvaraka, He manifests more His four-armed form. – The characteristics of dhira-lalita-nayaka. – Vrndavana is madhurya-purna-dhama, and Navadvipa is audariya-purna-dhama. – Song: Kabe Gaura Vane. – Story of...