Everyone forgets their previous lives. About the marriage ceremony. The life in which one accepts a bona fide spiritual master corresponds to the last birth in the material world. The human form of life is very rare. One should take advantage of this life to chant the Holy Names. The sufferings of those who live in the material world. Only those who chant the glories of the Lord are happy. What one sows, one reaps. Example of someone who sows a mango seed and reaps mangoes. About the mantra “Om...
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2024, Discourses in Hindi, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
27 Jul 2024 afternoon – Human Life is for Serving the Lord (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Everyone forgets their previous lives. About the marriage ceremony. The life in which one accepts a bona fide spiritual master corresponds to the last birth in the material world. The human form of life is very rare. One should take advantage of this life to chant the Holy Names. The sufferings of those who live in the material world. Only those who chant the glories of the Lord are happy. What one sows, one reaps. Example of someone who sows a mango seed and reaps mangoes. About the mantra “Om...
2024, Discourses translated into English, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
27 Jul 2024 midday – The Importance of Faith (English translation) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Story of the boy who cried while reading the Bhagavad Gita with faith in his guru’s instructions, and was questioned by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The sastras say that the first gurus we have at birth are the mother and father and after, the spiritual master. Sloka: tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te… (Bhagavad Gita 16.24). The material world is full of sadness and joy and they are temporary. The poorest thinks that the richest is happy, the king thinks that the king of heaven is happier, and so...
2024, Discourses in Hindi, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
27 Jul 2024 midday – The Importance of Faith (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Story of the boy who cried while reading the Bhagavad Gita with faith in his guru’s instructions, and was questioned by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The sastras say that the first gurus we have at birth are the mother and father and after, the spiritual master. Sloka: tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te… (Bhagavad Gita 16.24). The material world is full of sadness and joy and they are temporary. The poorest thinks that the richest is happy, the king thinks that the king of heaven is happier, and so...
2024, anarthas, anugatya, cooking, sadhana-bhakti, vaidhi-bhakti, Discourses in Hindi, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
27 Jul 2024 morning – Sadhana-bhakti and Bhava-bhakti (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the Bhajana Rahasya Grantha. Bhajana means to serve. The two functions of sadhana-bhakti: to practice to remove the anarthas and to attain the mood of the vrajavasis. Sadhana and bhajana are different things. The first symptom of bhava-bhakti is santi (peace). The instructions that Pariksit Maharaja received from the various classes of sadhus upon learning that he would die after seven days. Sloka: harer nāma harer nāma… (CC Madhya 6.242). Doing seva, bhajana and sadhana without chanting...
2024, guru-seva, Discourses in Hindi, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
26 Jul 2024 evening – Guru-seva and Sadhu-sanga (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Shloka: dhyāna-mūlaṃ guror mūrtiḥ (Sri Guru Stotra). Sri Gurvashtakam. There is no happiness here. Everyone thinks someone else is happy. The importance of guru-seva. Fragrance from the body of a sadhu opened the gate in the hell planet and people from hell came to Vaikuntha. Shloka: sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya (CC Madhya 22.54). Gurudev inspired us to come today. My Gurudev Srila BV Vamana Gosvami Maharaja was the personification of trinad api sunicena. The liberated...
2024, guru-bhakti, guru-nistha, renunciation, Discourses translated into English, Houston, Texas, USA, USA 2024
21 Jan 2024 midday – The Glories of Lord Ramacandra (English translation) – Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– The human body is very rare and it is even rarer to obtain sadhusanga. – Rama-katha is very sweet. – Rama-raja-lila. – Story in Valmik’s Ramayana: Lord Ramacandra received His people at court to resolve and sentence disagreements, including those of animals, for example, He listened to a dog. – Sri Bhagavan knows the language of all living beings. – Story in which Lord Ramacandra receives in His court a crow and an eagle who were fighting for a nest...