anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart)

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Alto Paraiso de Goias 2024, Brazil 2024, Jhulana-yatra (Swing Festival) 2024, Vraja-bhava, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), rainy season

08 Aug 2024 midday – Swing Festival (English) | Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 8, 2024 12:52 PM

About the Swing Festival that takes place in Vrndavana during the rainy season. Beautiful meaning and translation of the song: Jhula Jhule Radha Damodara. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu distributed the highest prema through namasankirtana. It is important to remove the anarthas, but also to cultivate Vraja-prema, just like when we clear the bush and cultivate a garden. It is not enough to just “cut down the forest”, it is necessary to plant/cultivate Vraja-prema. Cleanse your heart of the anarthas...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, California 2024, New Vraja (USA) 2024, USA 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), eternal nature of the soul: svarupa of the jiva (constitutional position; identity as an eternal servant of Krishna), Krishna: krishna-nama

31 Jul 2024 morning – The Power of Hari-katha (English) | New Vraja, CA, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 31, 2024 9:37 AM

The best friend is the one who gets others to listen to krishna-katha and krishna-nama. Shloka: parasparānukathanaṁ pāvanaṁ bhagavad-yaśaḥ (SB 11.3.30). The exemplary bhajana of the Six Gosvamis (shloka). Why the Six Gosvamis spent each night under a different tree. Srimati Radhika’s verse glorifying Giriraja Govardhana: hantāyam adrir abalā hari-dāsa-varyo (SB 10.21.18). 3 Haridasas: Yudhishthira Maharaja, Uddhava and Giriraja Govardhana. Giriraja Govardhana’s seva and his ecstatic symptoms of...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Badger 2024, USA 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: bhakti-yoga (path of devotion; the practice of connecting with Krishna through devotional service; the process of awakening love for Krishna), sound: material sound, sound: transcendental sound

30 Jul 2024 evening – Ekadasi Tithi Katha (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 30, 2024 6:27 PM

Bhakti comes by Sadhu-sanga, association with high class devotee of the Lord. By kama, jnana, tapasya and yoga, we cannot attain Lord, only by the practice of Bhakti-yoga will bring us to Him. Material sound only acts in the body and mind; transcendental sound vibration, shabda-brahma, goes to the heart and cleans all our anarthas and pap. Sadhu-sanga means harikatha-sravana. Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura bhajana (Sri Gaudiya Giti-guccha page 39). We can perform sadhana and bhajana when Hari, Guru and...

2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Houston 2024, Texas 2024, USA 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anugatya: following in the footsteps (submissive following of devotees; mood of guidance and service), bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, service: cooking

27 Jul 2024 morning – Sadhana-bhakti and Bhava-bhakti (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 27, 2024 8:22 AM

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, Discourses in English 2024, Florida 2024, Miami 2024, USA 2024, Sapta-sindhu-gunavati Sri Radha 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anuraga: deep attachment (stage of prema; intense love and constant attraction toward Krishna), anuraga: two symptoms, universe

25 Jul 2024 morning – The Seven Oceans of Qualities of Srimati Radhika (English) | Miami, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 25, 2024 9:04 AM

PART 1 The seven oceans of qualities of Srimati Radhika described in the beautiful sloka:vaiḍagdhya sindhūr anurāga rasaīka sindhūrvātsalya sindhūr atī sāndra kṛpaīka sindhūḥlāvaṇya sindhūr amṛta cchabī rūpa sindhūḥśrī rādhikā sphuratū me hṛdī kelī sindhūḥ (Rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidhiḥ 18, by Śrīla Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī Ṭhākura). Comparison between the seven oceans of Radha and the seven oceans of the Universe. ⁠Radha’s Lila angry because Krsna went to see Candravali. ⁠Krsna delighted seeing...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Itajai 2024, Brazil 2024, Vraja-bhava, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage)

17 Jul 2024 morning walk – The Origin of Jagannatha’s Form (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 17, 2024 7:08 AM

The form of Jagannatha: Lila of how the bodies of Krishna, Balarama and Subhadra melted. Gour Govinda Svami Maharaja on the Mahabhava Prakasha. Shravanam is a very powerful process for a sadhaka. 3 forms of Krishna in Vraja, Dvaraka and Mathura. Raghunatha dasa Gosvami glorified the Vrajavasis in Mana-shiksha. He remained only in Radha-kunda. 3 principles for attaining radha-dasyam. Hearing Vraja-katha with unflinching faith removes anarthas. The meaning of hridroga. How to get atyantika...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, London 2024, United Kingdom 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), mood: dakshina-bhava, mood: vamya-bhava

03 Jul 2024 morning – Rasas and Their Qualities (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 3, 2024 8:27 AM

Qualifications and the prominent sevakas in shanta, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya-rasas. Shloka: itthaṁ satāṁ brahma-sukhānubhūtyā dāsyaṁ gatānāṁ para-daivatena (SB 10.12.11). Impersonalists do not believe that Krishna has a form and the qualities. Lila of Durvasa Rishi who became speechless as he was taking darshana of Krishna in Ramana-reti. Shloka: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha (CC Madhya 20.117). We are here, in maya-karagara, the jail of maya, because we forgot Krishna...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, anarthas: four types, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhajana-kriya: beginning of devotional practices (engagement in bhakti activities; stage after accepting guidance from guru), faith: types, guru-varga, knowledge: jnana and vijnana, mantra: gopala-mantra, pure heart, rasa: rasa-siddhanta

24 June 2024 midday – The Form of Lord Jagannatha is The Manifestation of Mahabhava (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 24, 2024 12:58 PM

0:18:30 – Mahabhava-prakash of Lord Jagannatha; Srila Gour Goswami Maharaja explains that this is viraha (separation). Day and night Chaitanya Mahaprabhu experiences separation; there are two types of moods – outwardly separation, inwardly meeting with one’s Ishtadeva. In this way Mahaprabhu shows the sadhaka how to perform sadhana. 0:24:16 – Jagannatha is mahabhava-prakash; to understand this one must go through and know the stages of developing prema. 0:29:00 – Shraddha – the concept and...

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