religion: Buddhism

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2025, Bogota 2025, Colombia 2025, Glories of Guru, Guru-disciple Relationship, Guru-nishtha, ceremony: guru-puja, religion: Buddhism

11 Dec 2025 evening – Gurudeva Is Everything (English) – Bogota, Colombia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 11, 2025 6:00 PM

– Wonderful explanation of the meaning of guru-puja. – Chant the Holy Names to purify your mind and heart. – Reciting the diksa mantras is fundamental: di (divya-jnana/transcendental knowledge), and ksa (destruction of sins). – Difference between worldly faith and spiritual faith. – People don’t remember, but everyone is being born and dying in the cycle of lives and deaths, continuously passing through 8,400,000 life forms. – The Guru is the one who...

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. –...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Trancoso 2025, Brazil 2025, aparadhas (offences), religion: Buddhism, Vrajendra-nandana Shyamasundara

22 Jan 2025 morning – The compassion of Mahaprabhu (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 22, 2025 9:56 AM

PART 1 Higher class people dominate society and enjoy different things. Srivasa Thakura and Advaita Acharya told the people that soon Lord Chaitanya would come and solve our problems. The scholar Nimai Pandita became Bhavuka Nimai, the one devoted to spiritual life. Lila of little Mahaprabhu teasing brahmanas. Nimai gives His own remains to the brahmanas, but they think Nimai is an ordinary boy and contaminate them. Mahaprabhu took sannyasa out of compassion to help the offenders to remove...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Perth 2024, Australia 2024, age: old age, religion: Buddhism, self-realisation

05 Oct 2024 evening – The Human Body is a Rare Opportunity (English) | Perth, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

October 5, 2024 6:30 PM

Sloka: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ… (ŚB 1.3.28). The human body is very rare. Sloka: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ… (Śrī brahma-saṁhitā 5.1). The power of self-realisation. About Buddhism. The material world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world. The three aspects of Bhagavan: Brahma, Paramatma and Bhagavan. ⁠The capacity of the “computers” of Yamaloka, the seat of the Lord of Death Yamaharaja. The weak memory of the souls of this world. We belong to Brahma and will never be Him. The difference...

2023, Discourses in English 2023, London 2023, United Kingdom 2023, Christmas 2023, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), religion: Buddhism

24 Dec 2023 evening – Establish a Relationship With Your Isthadeva (English) – London, United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 24, 2023 5:42 PM

– Christmas is like Dipavali. – The five prominent religions and the five different rasas contained within them. – Description of Buddhism as santa-rasa, neutrality. – Description of dasya-rasa (with and without opulence), and how Hanuman serves Ramacandra. – How to transform your seva that is now for Maya into seva for Sri Krsna. – Description of sakha-bhava, friendship mood. – Stories of Sri Krsna manifesting His opulence mixed with madhurya in Vraja...

2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2023, Undisclosed, Brazil 2023, Shiva-chaturdashi (Shiva-ratri) 2023, maya: gunas, rasa dance: rasa-lila, religion: Buddhism

19 Feb 2023 evening – Maha Shiva-ratri (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

February 19, 2023 6:09 PM

Part 1 – Today is Shiva Maha-ratri-Shivalinga-puja; the meaning of linga-The influence of gunas on human beings-Sadashiva-tattva, Kailasa-Shiva tattva: when there is no jiva qualified to take Shiva’s position, the Lord takes it Himself-Vastu-parinamavada and shakti-parinamavada-Mahamorabhu explained 64 meanings of Brahma to Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya and established that the original Brahma is Krishna-The meaning of the word Shiva is beauty, auspiciousness-Shiva has 55 qualifications...

2022, Discourses in English 2022, Undisclosed, USA 2022, religion: Buddhism, Vrajendra-nandana Shyamasundara

25 Dec 2022 evening – Same Absolute Truth in Different Religions (English) – USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 25, 2022 6:35 PM

-Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura about different religions in Sri Krsna-samhitagrantha.-About Buddhism principles & how different religions like Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism are in different rasas.-All religious preachers’ aim & object is how to serve the Lord.-Sakaravadi & nirakaravadi in every religion.-Human body is very very rare & got it after 8.4 million species of life.-God is the embodiment of Divine Love.-Pure Christians are pure Vaishnavas.-Absolute...

2022, Discourses in English 2022, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2022, Undisclosed, Brazil 2022, Entry level discourses 2022, book: Bible, religion: Buddhism

12 Jul 2022 evening – The Science of God (English) – Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 12, 2022 6:59 PM

-You are not this body, you are the soul and servant of Krishna. -Milk transforms into yoghurt, but yoghurt cannot become milk again. Also the Supreme God creates His incarnations, which cannot become the Supreme God -The material world has a changeable nature. Everything in it is subject to destruction -People need to question the nature of their existence and God -The Lord resides everywhere -Soul and Supersoul -No one can be God except God Himself. The Bible and Srimad-Bhagavatam prove that ...

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