London 2024

2024, Discourses in English 2024, London 2024, United Kingdom 2024, Hari-katha at Airports 2014, Bhagavan: Brahman effulgence, guru: guru-bhakti, liberation: brahma-sayujya, service: guru-seva

15 Aug 2024 airport – Preaching is very important (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 15, 2024 2:41 PM

Question: People don’t know anything about yoga… Answer: When you preach, people will start coming. Question: Sometimes we spend a lot of money and effort and the result is insignificant… Answer: Don’t consider aiming at the result, that is not bhakti! You should just do your duty, Krsna says so in the Bhagavad Gita. Karmis aim at their own benefit, bhaktas don’t! Jnanis want to detach themselves with the help of knowledge and merge into the brahman effulgence (brahma...

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14 Aug 2024 evening – Guru-vakhya (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 14, 2024 6:47 PM

I am only speaking Srila Gurudeva’s katha. What Gurudeva says is the absolute truth. Material and transcendental sounds. Krishna enters our ears and purifies our hearts through hari-katha. Shloka: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ (Śrī Śikṣāṣṭaka (1)) Srila Rupa Gosvami fulfilled all the wishes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave Haridasa the title of Nama Acharya. Shloka: harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam (CC Adi 17.21). Without reading...

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14 Aug 2024 midday – Sri Rupa Gosvami Fulfilled All Mahaprabhu’s Desires (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 14, 2024 12:44 PM

Travelling means trouble. Our best doctors are Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda Prabhu. In Kali-yuga, all living entities are contaminated by maya. 6 types of people do not want to take vraja-prema from Mahaprabhu, but He gives it to them anyway. Srimati Radhika, as a village girl, wants to hear hari-katha from Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami. Rupa Gosvami surrendered completely to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and fulfilled all His desires. Jayadeva Gosvami could not write the verse...

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04 Jul 2024 morning – Krsna and Mahaprabhu (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 4, 2024 9:14 PM

Some lilas of Krsna manifest themselves in different ways and in different sequences, they do not always happen exactly the same in all kalpas and yugas. ⁠In one Brahmanda, one type of lila happens and, in another Brahmanda, another lila happens. ⁠Nitya-lila is in Goloka Vrndavana. ⁠Jatila and Kutila are not in Goloka Vrndavana because there is no mood of opposition to Radha and Krsna there, but Yogamaya arranges it. ⁠Krsna is independent, He does not need His lilas to happen in the same way in...

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04 Jul 2024 midday – Krishna-lila and Goura-lila (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 4, 2024 12:22 PM

Krsna-lila and Goura-lila happen simultaneously. ⁠Dhira-lalita-nayaka Krsna stays in Vrndavana; Mathuradish Krsna is in Mathura; Dvarakadish Krsna is in Dvaraka. ⁠Krsna appears once every kalpa (one day of Brahma), a period of time that corresponds to a thousand times the four yugas). ⁠Mahaprabhu distributed prema to everyone, whether qualified or not. In this Dhanya-Kali-yuga (special yuga), He promised to liberate all living entities. ⁠Krsna gave prema only in Vrndavana, and Putana is an...

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03 Jul 2024 evening – The Power of Sadhu-sanga (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 3, 2024 8:50 PM

Shloka: sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya (CC MAdhya 22.54).

Sadhu-sanga means listening to hari-katha.

Shloka: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ kavibhir īḍitaṁ kalmaṣāpaham (SB 10.31.9).

My slogan is ‘hari-katha, then maha-prasada, Maha-prasada, then hari-katha.’

The lila of Vasishtha and Vishvamitra.

Those who chant the holy names are called sadhus.

Srimati Radhika is the topmost sadhu.

2024, Discourses in English 2024, London 2024, United Kingdom 2024, anartha-nivritti: removal of unwanted things (cleansing of the heart; stage of bhakti development), bhajana-kriya: beginning of devotional practices (engagement in bhakti activities; stage after accepting guidance from guru), bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, karma: cycle of birth and death

03 Jul 2024 midday – Sadhana-bhakti and Bhava-bhakti (English) | London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 3, 2024 12:24 PM

Time and tide wait for no one. Remember 5 Tattvas: Ishvara, jiva, prakriti, kala and karma. Endless cycle of birth and death. Krishna says, ‘One who attains My Abode will not return to the material world. Sadhana-bhakti, bhava-bhakti and prema-bhakti. The stages of saddhana-bhakti: shraddha, sadhu-sanga, bhajana-kriya, anartha-nivritti, nishtha, ruchi and asakti. Kleshagni and subhada, the two leaves of sadhana-bhakti. Moksha-laghutakrit and sudurlabha, the two leaves of bhava-bhakti...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, London 2024, United Kingdom 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), guru: dakshina-bhava, mood: vamya-bhava

03 Jul 2024 morning – Rasas and Their Qualities (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 3, 2024 8:27 AM

Qualifications and the prominent sevakas in shanta, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya-rasas. Shloka: itthaṁ satāṁ brahma-sukhānubhūtyā dāsyaṁ gatānāṁ para-daivatena (SB 10.12.11). Impersonalists do not believe that Krishna has a form and the qualities. Lila of Durvasa Rishi who became speechless as he was taking darshana of Krishna in Ramana-reti. Shloka: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha (CC Madhya 20.117). We are here, in maya-karagara, the jail of maya, because we forgot Krishna...

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