Mother’s love is the highest. This world is a perverted reflection of a spiritual world. Love in this material world is selfish. You love because you want something. Only Bhagavan can give complete love because He is complete. Dasya-prema, sakhya-prema, vatsalya-prema, madhurya-prema. Material love is not pure because it is contaminated with the three gunas of maya. Verse: ananya-mamatā viṣṇau mamatā prema-saṅgatā… (CC Madhya 23.8). The case where Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja was...
Trancoso 2025
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Trancoso 2025, Brazil 2025, aparadhas (offences), religion: Buddhism, Vrajendra-nandana Shyamasundara
22 Jan 2025 morning – The compassion of Mahaprabhu (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 Higher class people dominate society and enjoy different things. Srivasa Thakura and Advaita Acharya told the people that soon Lord Chaitanya would come and solve our problems. The scholar Nimai Pandita became Bhavuka Nimai, the one devoted to spiritual life. Lila of little Mahaprabhu teasing brahmanas. Nimai gives His own remains to the brahmanas, but they think Nimai is an ordinary boy and contaminate them. Mahaprabhu took sannyasa out of compassion to help the offenders to remove...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Trancoso 2025, Brazil 2025, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart)
21 Jan 2025 evening – Reasons to Speak Harikatha (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Gurudeva speaks about the time of his Harikatha and the reason for giving devotees the opportunity to speak before him. Gurudeva declares that we need to listen to what devotees have to say. Harikatha corrects the heart of the speaker. We should be humble when speaking Harikatha, thinking that we did not practice spiritual life, that we did not do bhajana and sadhana. In this way, the mood of regret will arise. Without a mood of regret, Harikatha is useless. Whether the audience will reap...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Trancoso 2025, Brazil 2025, Bhagavan: Brahman effulgence
21 Jan 2025 morning – How to Reach the Spiritual World (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 Being born in Satya-yuga is no guarantee of reaching the spiritual world, one must practice bhajana and sadhana. This Kaly-yuga is special, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu came and promised to liberate all living entities, but one must practice spiritual life. Gurudeva explains the meaning of tat-tat-karma, sad-vrtti and sato-vrtteh, mentioned in the third verse of Sri Upadesamrta. Rupa and Santana, true sadhus, how they maintained themselves and how they did bhajana and sadhana. Santana...
