mantras: diksha-mantras

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into French 2025, Mirepoix 2025, France 2025, Sapta-sindhu-gunavati Sri Radha 2025, Radha's Qualities, Bhatta family (parivara): Venkata Bhatta; Trimalla Bhatta and Prabodhananda Sarasvati (nephew of Gopala Bhatta), gopis: nitya-siddha, mantras: diksha-mantras, Radha: radha-nishtha, rasa: rasa-siddhanta

28 May 2025 midday – Sapta Sindhu Gunavati Sri Radha (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 12:10 PM

– Sri Mahaprabhu’s visit to Gopala Bhatta family. – Verse: ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas… (Chaitanya Manjushta). – Mahaprabhu tells the Bhatta family about Lakshmi-devi’s failure to enter rasa dance, then gopi-tattva and mahishi-tattva. – Krishna accepts Lakshmi-devi as a golden line on His chest but in Her shukshma-sharira she cannot enter His rasa dance. – When a sadhaka enters sthayi-bhava, their mood will not change again: ‘nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Nainital 2025, Uttarkhand 2025, India 2025, Bhatta family (parivara): Venkata Bhatta; Trimalla Bhatta and Prabodhananda Sarasvati (nephew of Gopala Bhatta), Kalidasa, mantras: diksha-mantras

02 Apr 2025 morning – The Power of Hearing (Hindi) | Nainital, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

April 2, 2025 8:24 AM

The glories of the Govinda Bhatta family of devotees. Mahaprabhu stayed with the Bhatta family for 4 months. 4 ways of politics: sama, dama, danda and bheda. The best way to donate is to donate knowledge, because when you share it, it does not diminish. The story of the kapalika-sadhu and his question about the skull (King Vikramaditya and Kalidasa). The story of Vikramaditya seeing 3 dolls in the market. The gopis’ prema is spontaneous. Diksha-mantras build sambandha-jnana. The blessing...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Kuala Lumpur 2024, Malaysia 2024, Krishna-tattva, institution: ISKCON, jiva: jiva-tattva, mantra: gopala-mantra, mantras: diksha-mantras, rasa dance: rasa-lila, vishvasa: faith (firm trust in Krishna; confidence in the process of bhakti)

28 Aug 2024 midday – Krishna’s Descent and Mercy (English) | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 28, 2024 12:21 PM

Srila BV Svami Maharaja was asked why he called his society a name ISKCON. Shloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya (CC Madhya 20.108). Krishna is very happy when you celebrate His birthday and He is ready to fulfil all your wishes. Shloka: prema-rasa-niryāsa karite āsvādana (CC Ādi 4.15). – Krishna wants to relish the essence of prema from the hearts of the vraja-gopis and He wants to preach raga-marga bhakti. Ragatmika-janas (parikara-tattva) and raganuga-janas (jiva-tattva). Shloka: anugrahāya...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Buenos Aires 2024, Argentina 2024, Pundarika Vidyanidhi, Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura, mantras: diksha-mantras

14 Feb 2024 morning – Pundarika Vidyanidhi Appearance/Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura Disappearance (English) – Buenos Aires, Argentina | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

February 14, 2024 10:04 AM

Vamshi-chori lila (before prayer). People think that Pundarika Vidyanidhi is a complete materialist, but in fact he is a great Vaishnava in gaura-lila. Vaishnava-prayi and vishayi-prayi. Gadadhara Pandita took diksha-initiation from Pundarika Vidyanidhi. Keep your diksha-mantras secret. Pundarika Vidyanidhi at Jagannatha Puri. Starched clothes are considered impure. Lila of Ramanujacharya kicked out from one temple to another. Lord Jagannatha becomes very angry if someone criticises his pujari...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Rio de Janeiro 2024, Brazil 2024, Bhaktivedanta Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), mantras: diksha-mantras, renunciation (vairagya)

07 Feb 2024 evening – Srila BV Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja Appearance (English) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

February 7, 2024 8:20 PM

When you glorify Vaishnavas you are protected from maya. Bhajana is possible only in the human body. Labdhva su-durlabham idam bahu-sambhavante (Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.9.29). Nobody is happy in this material world. Srila BV Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja’s hari-katha was about Ravana who was very successful but not happy because he did not do bhajana and sadhana and disturbed the devotees. Srila BV Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja was so hard outside but so soft inside. Srila BV Trivikrama Gosvami...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Mexico City 2024, Mexico 2024, book: Hari-bhakti-vilasa, mantras: diksha-mantras, service: vani-seva, service: vapu-seva, Six Gosvamis exemplary bhajana, Six Sandarbhas

13 Jan 2024 evening – Glorification of the Six Gosvamis (English) – Mexico City, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 13, 2024 6:57 PM

– Day of transcendental disappearance (tirobhava-tithi) of Srila Jiva Gosvamipada. – Mahaprabhu’s first instruction given to the Six Gosvamis: go to Vrndavana and discover the places of lilas of Radha and Krsna. – Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu also instructed the Six Gosvamis to manifest raga-marga-bhakti and vaidhi-marga-bhakti. – Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed Srila Sanatana Gosvamipada to manifest suddha-vaisnava-sadacara (good Vaisnava behaviour). – Without...

2023, Discourses Translated into English 2023, Bhuj 2023, Gujarat 2023, India 2023, mantras: diksha-mantras, universe

02 Dec 2023 midday – The Greatness of God (English translation) – Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 2, 2023 12:58 PM

PART 1 Whatever happens in this world, Krsna is the primordial soul and everything emanates from Him. Bhagavan’s six opulences. Krsna controls everything and everyone! This universe is one of the smallest in existence. Krsna destroys the false ego of His devotee. The three forms of God: Brahma, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Krsna is the cause of all knowledge. Lila from when Lord Brahma thought he was the most powerful in the material universe. The size/diameter of each universe defines the...

2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Bhuj 2023, Gujarat 2023, India 2023, mantras: diksha-mantras, universe

02 Dec 2023 midday – The Greatness of God (Hindi) – Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 2, 2023 12:58 PM

PART 1 Whatever happens in this world, Krsna is the primordial soul and everything emanates from Him. Bhagavan’s six opulences. Krsna controls everything and everyone! This universe is one of the smallest in existence. Krsna destroys the false ego of His devotee. The three forms of God: Brahma, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Krsna is the cause of all knowledge. Lila from when Lord Brahma thought he was the most powerful in the material universe. The size/diameter of each universe defines the...

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