-There are several holy places that one should visit, but none of them gives the bliss that is in Vrindavana. The nature of the soul is to attain the bliss of Vrindavana.-About Sanatana Gosvami’s Brihad-bhagavatamrita.-The story of two brothers doing bhajana at Radha-kunda.-Be careful, if Rukmini-devi makes a stamp on your body, Sri Radha will not accept you.-Vrindavana is where the saints are, and they manifest Vrindavana in their hearts through hari-katha.-The sound of Krishna’s...
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08 Apr 2023 morning – The Bliss of Vrindavana (Hindi) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-There are several holy places that one should visit, but none of them gives the bliss that is in Vrindavana. The nature of the soul is to attain the bliss of Vrindavana.-About Sanatana Gosvami’s Brihad-bhagavatamrita.-The story of two brothers doing bhajana at Radha-kunda.-Be careful, if Rukmini-devi makes a stamp on your body, Sri Radha will not accept you.-Vrindavana is where the saints are, and they manifest Vrindavana in their hearts through hari-katha.-The sound of Krishna’s...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Punjab 2023, India 2023, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, lineage: disciplic succession, nirguna: beyond material qualities (transcendental to the modes of material nature; free from material designations), sampradayas: four sampradayas, samskaras
08 Apr 2023 morning – Following the Guidelines of the Scriptures (Hindi) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 -Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti.-Raganuga-bhakti is practised when one has samskaras from other lives.-The spontaneous mood that is at the heart of the Vrajavasis is known as raganuga-bhakti.-On the days of Ekadashi, all kinds of sins fall into the five kinds of grains… If you need to eat, you can eat fruit.-Whoever comes to me, I never let him go empty-handed.-Prasada is nirguna, but, we should not honour grain prasada on Ekadashi because that is the scriptural rule and we have to...
2023, Discourses Translated into English 2023, Punjab 2023, India 2023, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, lineage: disciplic succession, nirguna: beyond material qualities (transcendental to the modes of material nature; free from material designations), sampradayas: four sampradayas, samskaras
08 Apr 2023 morning – Following the Guidelines of the Scriptures (English translation) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 -Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti.-Raganuga-bhakti is practised when one has samskaras from other lives.-The spontaneous mood that is at the heart of the Vrajavasis is known as raganuga-bhakti.-On the days of Ekadashi, all kinds of sins fall into the five kinds of grains… If you need to eat, you can eat fruit.-Whoever comes to me, I never let him go empty-handed.-Prasada is nirguna, but, we should not honour grain prasada on Ekadashi because that is the scriptural rule and we have to...