– About the Gopi-gita being the heart of Srimati Radhika.– Some very important songs from Srimad-Bhagavatam: Venu-gita; Bhramara-gita; Pranaya-gita; Yugala-gita; Gopi-gita.– Pranaya-gita describes when the gopis hear Krsna’s flute and leave their homes to meet Him on the banks of the Yamuna.– The different melodies for the Gopi-gita, with kanak-manjari-chada being the highest, and their meaning.– About the Yugala-gita and its meaning.– The Bhramara...
Kuala Lumpur 2025
30 Sep 2025 midday – The Nectar of Instruction (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Explanation of the 4th sloka (verse) that instructs devotees on how to develop friendship for the Lord.– First: How to give and receive.– Feeding the Vaisnavas and receiving their remnants.– Second: How to ask confidential questions to the Guru and the Vaisnavas.– On the confidentiality of bhajana and sadhana.– Quote from Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Bengali song.– Offer your heart to Gurudeva and Krsna and do not take it back.– Story of...
30 Sep 2025 morning – Hari-katha (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Can conditioned souls have different destinies?– When conditioned souls manifest from marginal potency, they already harbor a potency in their hearts, and through association with a sadhu (sage), this potency manifests.– If you plant five types of seeds on the banks of the Ganges, different fruits will grow according to the potency of the seed.– Through association with a sadhu, anarthas are removed, and in sthayibhava (the state of stability/fixity), the mood will not...
29 Sep 2025 evening – Krsna and His Avatars (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
– The six opulences of Krsna. – Verse: rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu… (Brahma Samhita 5.39). – Krsna’s incarnations and expansions are non-different from Him in tattva-siddhanta. – Verse: barhāpīḍaṁ naṭa-vara-vapuḥ karṇayoḥ karṇikāraṁ… (SB 10.21.5). – Verse: kṛṣṇera yateka khelā sarvottama nara-līlā… (CC Madhya 21.101). – The devotees of Vaikuntha, Ayodhya, Dvaraka and Vrndavana have different...
28 Sep 2025 midday – Without Harikatha, Life is Useless (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* Wherever the exalted devotees of the Lord go, they become imbued with prema. * The benefit we receive is according to our faith. * Sadhu-sanga is hearing Harikatha, but without association, faith will not grow in our hearts. * Only Harikatha can protect us from Maya-devi. * There are two types of sadhus: bhakta-bhagavata and grantha-bhagavata. * First, we must try to understand: “Who am I?” The answer is in the verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya 20...