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

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Gopinatha Bhavana 2025, Vraja 2025, Vrindavana 2025, India 2025, Importance of Listening to Hari-katha, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti

02 Nov 2025 evening – Listening to Harikatha Makes Us Qualified (English translation) – Vrindavana, India

November 2, 2025 6:00 PM

* If we only follow vaidhi-bhakti, we will only reach Vaikuntha. To reach Vraja, we must perform raga-bhakti. * By following vaidhi-marga, we will gradually be able to enter raganuga-bhakti. * Greed comes from listening to Harikatha. * Loving exchanges become so profound that Krsna cannot maintain His composure and becomes restless. * If kirtan is performed along with the correct understanding of the meaning of those humors, then one can enter such humors. * The greatest desire (kama) of the...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Gopinatha Bhavana 2025, Vraja 2025, Vrindavana 2025, India 2025, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025, Bhaktivedanta Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja, Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), guru: siksa-guru, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025

24 Oct 2025 morning – Disappearance of Srila Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and Disappearance of Srila Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja (Hindi) – Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 24, 2025 7:00 AM

There is no distinction between siksa-guru and diksa-guru. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja was very intelligent and calm, possessing a very sharp memory; his nickname was “Gaudiya Dictionary”. Srila Narayna Gosvami Maharaja lived with Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja for 60 years and greatly glorified him. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and his mother went to do parikrama, and since then, Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja never wanted to leave the Matha again. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja...

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Gopinatha Bhavana 2025, Vraja 2025, Vrindavana 2025, India 2025, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025, Bhaktivedanta Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja, Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), guru: siksa-guru, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025

24 Oct 2025 morning – Disappearance of Srila Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and Disappearance of Srila Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja (English translation) – Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 24, 2025 7:00 AM

There is no distinction between siksa-guru and diksa-guru. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja was very intelligent and calm, possessing a very sharp memory; his nickname was “Gaudiya Dictionary”. Srila Narayna Gosvami Maharaja lived with Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja for 60 years and greatly glorified him. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja and his mother went to do parikrama, and since then, Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja never wanted to leave the Matha again. Srila Vamana Gosvami Maharaja...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Gopinatha Bhavana 2025, Vraja 2025, Vrindavana 2025, India 2025, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025, Guru-tattva, Mercy of Guru, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), guru-tattva: akhanda-guru-tattva (the principle of the undivided guru; unity of guru-tattva), guru: guru's mercy, guru: guru-tattva, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2025

20 Oct 2025 evening – The Guru’s Mercy Is Everything (Hindi) – Vrindavana, India

October 20, 2025 6:00 PM

Location: Gopinatha Bhavana – Baladeva Prabhu destroys all anarthas. – We should pray to the Guru’s manjari form, guru-rupa-manjari. – Song: Kabe Sri Caitanya More. – Baladeva Prabhu is akhanda-guru-tattva, but from the rasa point of view, Radharani is the Guru. – The seven oceans of Srimati Radhika. – Verse: iṣṭe svārasikī rāgaḥ paramāviṣṭatā bhavet… (Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu 1.2.272). – All rupanugas are raganugas, but not all raganugas are...

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Delhi 2025, India 2025, Bhagavata-saptaha in Delhi 2025, A Baby Crawled into the Fire and Was Resurrected by Agnideva, Brahma Wants to Leave His Service as the Creator, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), book: Pranaya-gita, Bhagavata-saptaha in Delhi 2025

14 Oct 2025 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, Day 6 (English translation) | Delhi, India

October 14, 2025 6:45 PM

PART 1 PART 2 On the need to be free from anarthas (impurities) to enter devotional service. Krsna’s innumerable pastimes in Vrndavana. Krsna’s birth from the womb of Mother Yasoda. Lila in which Krsna liberates the brothers Nalakuvara and Manigriva, sons of Kuvera, who had offended Narada Rsi. Yasoda Damodara’s pastime, when Mother Yasoda ties Krsna to a mortar. Mother Yasoda’s effort and the two missing fingers represent the sadhaka’s effort and the Lord’s...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Delhi 2025, India 2025, Bhagavata-saptaha in Delhi 2025, A Baby Crawled into the Fire and Was Resurrected by Agnideva, Brahma Wants to Leave His Service as the Creator, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), book: Pranaya-gita, Bhagavata-saptaha in Delhi 2025

14 Oct 2025 evening – Sri Bhagavata-saptaha, Day 6 (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 14, 2025 6:00 PM

On the need to be free from anarthas (impurities) to enter devotional service. Krsna’s innumerable pastimes in Vrndavana. Krsna’s birth from the womb of Mother Yasoda. Lila in which Krsna liberates the brothers Nalakuvara and Manigriva, sons of Kuvera, who had offended Narada Rsi. Yasoda Damodara’s pastime, when Mother Yasoda ties Krsna to a mortar. Mother Yasoda’s effort and the two missing fingers represent the sadhaka’s effort and the Lord’s mercy. Pastime...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Kuala Lumpur 2025, Malaysia 2025, Dhritarashtra and Sanjaya, Guru-parampara, Sampradayas, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), behavior: shuddha-sadachara, body: bodily conception, book: Hari-bhakti-vilasa, mayavada and shunyavada: difference, prema: eyes of prema, religion: Buddhism, sampradaya: Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya, sampradayas: four sampradayas, shunyavada

02 Oct 2025 midday – The Four Sampradayas and Their Philosophies (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

October 2, 2025 12:00 PM

– You must receive diksa from one of the Four Sampradayas to achieve soul perfection. – ⁠Sri Sampradaya (Laksmi Devi/Acarya Ramanuja); Brahma Sampradaya (Brahma/Acarya Madhva); Rudra Sampradaya (Siva/Acarya Visnu Svami); Sanaka Sampradaya (Four Kumaras/Acarya Nimbaditya). – ⁠Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted only the bhakti of each Sampradaya and associated Himself with the Brahma Sampradaya. – ⁠All the Acaryas of the Sampradayas defeated the mayavada philosophy. –...

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01 Oct 2025 morning – How to Chant Mantras (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

October 1, 2025 7:00 AM

– Chant the maha-mantra and the Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya mantra every day, and your mind will not be disturbed. – The ‘Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’ mantra has its own melody and is chanted out loud. – How Haridasa Thakura chanted the holy names. – There are three ways to chant mantras: loudly (ucchara), in a whisper (upansa), and in the mind (manasika). – We should chant the gayatri-mantra, the gopala-mantra and the krishna-mantra in our minds, and...

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