– Brief explanation about Lord Jagannatha’s Chariot and its meaning. – Lord Jagannatha’s Throne, its meaning. – About the stages of prema and anuraga, when love and affection arise. – About the darsana of Govinda’s form that causes forgetfulness of everything. – Story involving a Guru and his disciple in a city where there is no distinction/discrimination in the prices of products. – About the difficulty people have in understanding...
anuraga: deep attachment (stage of prema; intense love and constant attraction toward Krishna)
29 Jun 2025 evening – The Power of Karma and Kala in Our Lives (English) | Sao Paulo, Brazil
* According to your mood, you will reach your goal/perfection. * Only those who perform sadhana, bhajana and serve the Guru and the Vaisnavas can realize the tattva of the Lord and His heart. * The two symptoms of anuraga. * We must first understand material love in order to understand transcendental love. * The love of this world is temporary and changeable. * If you meet the Lord once, you will never be separated from Him again. * There are five very important things in Vaisnava philosophy:...
03 Apr 2025 evening – Birthplace of Jayadeva Babaji Maharaja (Hindi) | Haldwani, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Mahaprabhu’s mercy extends to the Western countries; He has predicted that all the villages of the whole world will chant Harinama Sloka defining the constitutional position of the jiva: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya-lila 20.108-109). The heron is not one-pointed, it only wants to eat the fish. Our Holy Scripture is the Bhagavad Gita. About Srila Svami Prabhupada’s preaching in the Western countries. Story of the reporter who asked Srila Svami Prabhupada why he...
01 Jan 2025 morning – Sakhya-rasa nourishes madhurya-rasa (English) | Guaruja, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Jaiva-dharma: a man who wanted to make money from the sea waves made a checkpoint and took money from those who wanted to go through. The destination point of our sampradaya and other sampradayas. God creates different relationships with His devotees in different rasas. Sakhya-rasa nourishes madhurya-rasa. Priya-narma-sakhas help organise Krishna’s conjugal pastimes. Two lilas in which Subala took the form of Srimati Radhika. On nishanta-lila. The meaning of arati. Two symptoms of...
25 Nov 2024 morning – Attaining Perfection (English translation) | Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
0:01:54 – How a sadhaka progresses in bhajan and sadhana: until we have realization of the atma, we cannot see our transcendental body. When we serve our inner ishtadeva (chosen Deity), it is called bhajan. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur says that during sadhana, by performing the practice, the sadaka attains perfection. 0:03:45 – The 28 tattvas (truths). Baladeva Vidyabhushana Prabhu describes the 28 tattvas. Some acharyas say there are 27 tattvas. The book Siddhanta-tattva describes 28...
25 Aug 2024 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of...
25 Aug 2024 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of...
09 Aug 2024 midday – The Stimuli of Pure Devotees (English) | Cavalcante, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The garland dances on the chest of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The uddipanas (stimuli) of a pure devotee, reminding him of Vrindavana. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Jarikanda forest. Mahaprabhu’s absorption in Vrindavana lila. Aropa-siddha-bhakti, sanga-siddha-bhakti and svarupa-siddha-bhakti. Prema is one-pointedness to Lord Vishnu. There is no such thing as pure love in this material world. Prema is compared to a hot stick of sugarcane. Sneha, mana, pranaya, raga, anuraga, bhava, mahabhava...