bhakti: definitions of bhakti

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13 Dec 2025 morning – Bhakti Is Something Very Valuable (English) – San Jose, Costa Rica

December 13, 2025 7:00 AM

– Bhakti means the tendency to serve Krishna, and the root cause of Krishna-bhakti is association with the sadhu. – Sloka: bhaktis tu bhagavad-bhakta… (Brhan-naradiya Purana, 4.33). – The difference between punya-karma (pious activities) and sukrti (spiritual pious activities). – Trees also feel cold, heat, and pain, but they can’t do anything about it. – The states of consciousness of the soul are: acchadita-cetana (covered, as in plants), sankucita...

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30 Sep 2025 midday – The Nectar of Instruction (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 30, 2025 12:00 PM

– Explanation of the 4th sloka (verse) that instructs devotees on how to develop friendship for the Lord.– First: How to give and receive.– Feeding the Vaisnavas and receiving their remnants.– Second: How to ask confidential questions to the Guru and the Vaisnavas.– On the confidentiality of bhajana and sadhana.– Quote from Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Bengali song.– Offer your heart to Gurudeva and Krsna and do not take it back.– Story of...

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10 Sep 2025 morning – Definitions of Bhakti (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 10, 2025 7:00 AM

– There are many definitions of bhakti. – Verse: anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam… (Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu (1.1.11)). – Krishnarte akhila-cheshta and krishnarte bhoga-tyagi. – Ashraya-tattva and vishraya-tattva. – Srimati Radhika is a sevika. – Sevya, seva and sevaka. Bhagavan, bhakti and bhakta. – Anuloma and viloma. – The person you serve should be happy; otherwise, it is not seva. – Examples are given of Krishna being pleased...

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05 Dec 2023 morning – How to advance on the path of Bhakti (English translation) – Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 5, 2023 8:26 AM

Definitions of bhakti. How we can stay in Vraja by mind and heart. The six Gosvamis, as sadhaka’s, guide us how to perform bhajana. Why we should not think, “I am Nanda Maharaja”. The results of sadhana-bhakti and bhava-bhakti. The five processes of raganuga-bhakti. The potential is in our heart, like ghee is in milk. Sidhi will not come without sadhana. Nama Sankirtana is the topmost limb of bhakti. The forty nine ingredients leading to prema. The garland prasad of the Vaisnavas is very potent...

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05 Dec 2023 morning – How to advance on the path of Bhakti (Hindi) – Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 5, 2023 8:26 AM

Definitions of bhakti. How we can stay in Vraja by mind and heart. The six Gosvamis, as sadhaka’s, guide us how to perform bhajana. Why we should not think, “I am Nanda Maharaja”. The results of sadhana-bhakti and bhava-bhakti. The five processes of raganuga-bhakti. The potential is in our heart, like ghee is in milk. Sidhi will not come without sadhana. Nama Sankirtana is the topmost limb of bhakti. The forty nine ingredients leading to prema. The garland prasad of the Vaisnavas is very potent...

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25 Sep 2023 morning – Airport Darshana (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 25, 2023 10:50 AM

Srila BV Svami Maharaja is the divine empowered incarnation of Mahaprabhu’s nama-sankirtana. Does Rupa Manjari know everything, does she know even more than Mahaprabhu? The soul is pure, it knows everything, but when it comes to the material world, this knowledge is covered. Who is siddha, who are eternal associates? The types of gopis. Recollections on the National Credit Corps Bengal 42 and being a member of it. Question: Have you studied any grantha in your college time? Rupa Gosvami’s...

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25 Sep 2023 morning – Airport Darshana (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 25, 2023 10:50 AM

Srila BV Svami Maharaja is the divine empowered incarnation of Mahaprabhu’s nama-sankirtana. Does Rupa Manjari know everything, does she know even more than Mahaprabhu? The soul is pure, it knows everything, but when it comes to the material world, this knowledge is covered. Who is siddha, who are eternal associates? The types of gopis. Recollections on the National Credit Corps Bengal 42 and being a member of it. Question: Have you studied any grantha in your college time? Rupa Gosvami’s...

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31 May 2023 evening – Ekadashi (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 31, 2023 5:57 PM

Today is Ekadashi. 5 types of devotees. The definitions of bhakti. Bhakti should be ahaituki, causeless. Kirtana is not only chanting but also speaking hari-katha. Seva-aparadhas in archana. Give up material concepts and acquire transcendental concepts. Bhakti should be directed only to Bhagavan, not to demigods. Ambarisha Maharaja engaged his tongue in taking maha-prasada and engaged his feet in pada-sevana. Sita-devi once observed vidha ekadashi (Dashami mixed) Ambarisha – Durvasa katha...

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