Puebla 2024

27 Dec 2024 evening – Guru Parampara and Family Life (English) | Puebla, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

About Guru Parampara Tattva.

How the babajis criticize the Gaudiya Sampradaya.

About what happened to Swami Maharaja’s devotees after he left this world.

The importance of controlling our senses and cleaning the anarthas in order to practice bhakti.

About how the gopis take care of their family duties absorbed in Krsna.

About the need to work hard in family life.

About the katha of Vrndavana that glorifies Sri Radha.

27 Dec 2024 morning – Radha-nistha (English) | Puebla, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

The definition of sadhana-bhakti.

About Radha-seva.

Sri Radha criticizes Sri Krsna: Ramacandra’s lila in which Surpanaka wants to marry Him.

Sri Radha talks about how Krsna is deceitful and the example of Vamanadeva’s lila.

How Sri Krsna feels separation from Sri Radha.

About how after the rasa dance Srimati Radhika and Sri Krsna go to rest and the moment They are awakened.

About how Jatila tries to catch Radha and Krsna together.

26 Dec 2024 evening – Glories of Ekadasi (English) | Puebla, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

Ekadasi tithi occurs 11 days after the full moon and after the new moon. ⁠Some people fast on ekadasi for their own health, but in the Vaisnava Sampradaya we observe ekadasi for the exclusive pleasure of Krsna, this is suddha-bhakti. ⁠Sloka that defines suddha-bhakti (bhakti-pure): anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam… (CC Madhya-lila 19.167). On Ekadasi we should stay very close to the Lord by chanting the Holy Names. ⁠Story of King Rukmangada, his son Dharmangada and the glories of...