morning walks 2025

31 Dec 2025 morning walk – Radha-Krishna’s Lilas (English) – Palhoca, Brazil

– If you didn’t eat sandesh and mishri in Navadvipa, your trip was useless!
– In Vrindavana, everyone helps Radha-Krishna’s lila, including snakes, spiders and monkeys.
– The lilas of Radha and Krishna take place in different brahmandas.
– Prakata-lila, aprakata-lila and dhrishtaman-prakasha.
– Song: Gaura mana re kaha na gaura katha.

28 Dec 2025 morning walk – Knowledge Obscures Madhurya (English) – Sao Paulo, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

The reason why Krishna is bathed with five ingredients. Lila about the first time Srimati Radhika prepared butter and Krishna disguised Himself as sakhi. According to logic, it is impossible to establish Krishna-lila. Jnanis want to know everything according to their logic, while prema-bhaktas ask nothing, they only savor. Knowledge obscures madhurya. Jnani is a masculine word and lila is feminine. Love is spontaneous, it doesn’t ask the reasons why one loves. Love is not seeking a reason...

11 Dec 2025 morning walk – Questions and Answers (English) – Bogota, Colombia

– Srila Swami Maharaja received sannyasa initiation from Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja. – We are all in the lineage of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada, he is the original Acarya of Gaudiya Vaishnava and blesses all who preach throughout the world. – You should keep your distance from the babaji sampradaya because they do not accept the teachings of the Six Gosvamis, nor the humor of Mahaprabhu. – The babaji sampradaya does not follow...

24 Sep 2025 morning walk – Srila BV Svami Maharaja in the Hyde Park (English) | Perth, Australia

– Srila BV Svami Maharaja used to come to Hyde Park in the mornings for a walk. He would sit under a tree and speak hari-katha. – Verse: ‘Bhavad-vidhā bhāgavatāḥ…’ (SB 1.13.10). – Verse: Naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu… (SB 1.2.18). – If one listens to hari-katha from the lotus lips of a pure devotee, one’s nishtha will be to chant the holy names and perform bhajana-sadhana. – Song: Krsna Tvadiya Pada Pankaja. – Kaumara acharet prajno:...

17 Sep 2025 morning walk – The Nine Questions of the Gopis to Krishna (English) | Whangarei, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

The gopis asked Krishna what lust was. The gopis also asked Krishna why He had caused them so much pain by disappearing. The gopis wanted to hear about the different types of prema from Krishna. These types of people never return your love or friendship: atmarama: self-satisfied (Shukadeva Gosvami); aptakama: whose all desires are fulfilled (Janaka Maharaja); guru-drohi/aparadhi: akritajna, ungrateful. Hetu-prema is love with a cause (examples: birds love the forest for its fruits, a woman...