South India Tour 2025
20 Mar 2025 evening – Mahaprabhu’s Mood (English translation) | Sri Rangam Temple, South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About Mahaprabhu feeling like Radha in separation. The Bhatta family lived here and they were from the Sri Sampradaya. Mahaprabhu spoke about the highest prema. The Bhatta family loved to hear Mahaprabhu speak Harikatha. Mahaprabhu teases the Bhatta family that Laksmi Devi is a chaste Visnu wife but wants to enter the rasa dance with Krsna. Krsna explains to Laksmi about everything she has to learn from the gopis to qualify to enter the rasa dance, but she does not want to learn...
20 Mar 2025 evening – Mahaprabhu’s Mood (Hindi) | Sri Rangam Temple, South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About Mahaprabhu feeling like Radha in separation. The Bhatta family lived here and they were from the Sri Sampradaya. Mahaprabhu spoke about the highest prema. The Bhatta family loved to hear Mahaprabhu speak Harikatha. Mahaprabhu teases the Bhatta family that Laksmi Devi is a chaste Visnu wife but wants to enter the rasa dance with Krsna. Krsna explains to Laksmi about everything she has to learn from the gopis to qualify to enter the rasa dance, but she does not want to learn...
20 Mar 2025 morning – Birthplace of Sri Ramanujacarya (English translation) | South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Explanation of the Four Authorized Sampradayas. It is not enough to read the mantra in a book, it is necessary to receive it from a bona fide Guru. Explanation of how the seed of the fig tree is potentiated by the organism of the bird that ate the fruit. The Guru who has attained perfection is able to grant mantra-siddhi, the mantra with the potency to bear fruit when the disciple recites it. Ramanujacarya is the preeminent Acarya of the Sri Sampradaya. He is not an ordinary person, he is an...
20 Mar 2025 morning – Birthplace of Sri Ramanujacarya (Hindi) | South India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Explanation of the Four Authorized Sampradayas. It is not enough to read the mantra in a book, it is necessary to receive it from a bona fide Guru. Explanation of how the seed of the fig tree is potentiated by the organism of the bird that ate the fruit. The Guru who has attained perfection is able to grant mantra-siddhi, the mantra with the potency to bear fruit when the disciple recites it. Ramanujacarya is the preeminent Acarya of the Sri Sampradaya. He is not an ordinary person, he is an...
19 Mar 2025 – Sri Tirupadi Venkateshvara Baladevaji (Hindi) | Kanchipuram, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Yesterday we had the divine darshana of Sri Venkateshvara at the Balaji temple in Tirupati. Katha on how Krishna was killed by a Jara hunter in Balka-tirtha. Pravritti-marga and nivritti-marga. The lila on how Bhrigu Rishi came to the conclusion of who Bhagavan is. A husband is like God, a wife is like Lakshmi-devi. Different kathas are told by local people: how Lakshmi-devi left Narayana and did austerities, how Lakshmi-devi became Padmavati and Narayana became Venkateshvara, how Narayana...
17 Mar 2025 evening – The Manifestation of Nrsimhadeva in Ahobilam (Hindi) | Anobhilam, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Mahaprabhu visited Ahobilam in South India to have darsana of Lord Nrsimhadeva. Verse: rāmadāsa mahādeve karila daraśana ahovala-nṛsiṁhere karilā gamana… (CC Madhya-lila 9.16). There is no way to enter into bhakti without the mercy of Nrsimhadeva, for He removes all obstacles. The Lord did not kill the demons willingly, He killed them because it was their karma. Verse: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām… (BG 4.8). The gopis say that Kamsa died according to his karma. Krsna declares that...