maya: gunas

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into French 2025, Mirepoix 2025, France 2025, The Conditioned Soul, maya: gunas, siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers)

28 May 2025 evening – How to clean our heart (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 6:00 PM

– If you dance in front of Thakuraji, Maya-devi will leave you alone. If you do not dance in front of Them, however, Maya-devi will make you dance in front of her instead. – Even spending a moment in the association of a sadhu is very powerful. – Our aim is to attain vraja-prema. – When a sadhaka attains prema, his soul is divided into two. One part serves in gaura-lila and the other in krishna-lila. – Vipralabha has four types: purvaraga, mana, pravasa and prema...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, aprakrita-jnana: transcendental knowledge (knowledge beyond material perception; spiritual understanding revealed by bhakti), maya: gunas

17 Apr 2025 morning – Different Types of Perception, Importance of Nistha and Transcendental Jealousy (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

April 17, 2025 8:21 AM

In the Brahma Samhita Lord Brahma glorifies Vrndavana Dhama, whose opulence is covered by sweetness. Lord Brahma is in the mood of opulence and Srila Vrndavana Cakravarti Pada is in the mood of sweetness. Five types of knowledge: Pratyaksa-jnana – direct perception by the senses; Paroksa-jnana – indirect perception at the Svarga-loka level; Aparoksa-jnana – perception at the brahma-tattva/mukti level; Adoksaja-jnana – perception at the Narayana-tattva level; Aprakrta...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Kashinagar 2025, West Bengal 2025, India 2025, body: gross body, maya: gunas, service: guru-seva

26 Mar 2025 midday – Guru-Nishtha Is Our Everything (Hindi) | Kashinagar, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

March 26, 2025 12:22 PM

The fruit of listening to hari-katha is a taste of the chanting of the holy names. The description of the gross body and the soul. The three gunas of maya. When we do service to Maya, she is never satisfied. We have to do krishna-bhajana. Have guru-nishtha. Guru will take you out of the prison of this material world. The exemplary guru-seva of Arunik and Upamanyu. Ekalavya is the example of incorrect guru-seva. Verse: dhyāna-mūlaṃ guror mūrtiḥ… (Sri Guru Stotra). The story of how a disciple...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Trancoso 2025, Brazil 2025, maya: gunas

22 Jan 2025 evening – Only God can give complete love (English) | Trancoso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 22, 2025 6:00 PM

Mother’s love is the highest. This world is a perverted reflection of a spiritual world. Love in this material world is selfish. You love because you want something. Only Bhagavan can give complete love because He is complete. Dasya-prema, sakhya-prema, vatsalya-prema, madhurya-prema. Material love is not pure because it is contaminated with the three gunas of maya. Verse: ananya-mamatā viṣṇau mamatā prema-saṅgatā… (CC Madhya 23.8). The case where Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja was...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Itajai 2025, Brazil 2025, Morning walks 2025, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), maya: gunas, renunciation: aptakama ((those whose desires are fulfilled), siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers)

09 Jan 2025, morning walk – Prema (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 9, 2025 7:13 AM

Dialogue about prema between the gopis and Krsna. ⁠Categories of prema:Hetu-prema: love with a cause;Ahetu-prema: love without a cause;Aptakama: self-satisfied;Aptarama: fulfills one’s desires;Gurudrohi: offender;Krtajnata: gratitude;Akrtajnata: ingratitude. Krsna tells the gopis that His feelings are not in these categories of prema because He has sahaja-prema: spontaneous love. ⁠It is not perfect to say “I love Gurudeva” because Guru is asraya-tattva and we feel love for visaya-tattva...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Santo Antonio do Pinhal 2024, Brazil 2024, Hera-panchami 2024, anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), jiva: jiva-tattva, maya: gunas

11 Jul 2024 midday – Hera Pancami or Laksmi Vijaya (English) | Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 11, 2024 12:00 PM

Hera means “to seek”, and Pancami means “five days after the Ratha Yatra”. ⁠Detailed description of lila Hera Pancami or Laksmi Vijaya. ⁠Story of the man who received a wrong message after his wife’s death. ⁠Story of the young son of a Hindu woman and a Muslim man, who went to war with his father and then went to see Lord Jagannatha. ⁠Krsna has the mood of Vrndavana and Laksmi has the mood of Vaikuntha, which is why Jaganntha did not take Laksmi on His trip to the Gundica Temple. ⁠About...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Entry level discourses 2024, maya: gunas

27 Jun 2024 evening – Sadhana and Krsna’s Mercy (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 27, 2024 6:14 PM

Human life is very rare. ⁠The spiritual world is clean, tidy and full of sweetness, all rasas are present in Goloka Vrndavana, beyond to maya. ⁠The material world is made up of the three gunas and the three miseries. ⁠Description of is the illusion. ⁠Association with the sadhu awakens faith. ⁠You are fortunate because you have come to Krsna consciousness, Krsna arranged this for you! ⁠Be respectful towards others, otherwise how will you respect Guru and Krsna ⁠Krsna’s beautiful lila...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, bhakti: bhakti-yoga (path of devotion; the practice of connecting with Krishna through devotional service; the process of awakening love for Krishna), maya: gunas

23 Jun 2024 evening – The Lord is Not Different From His Names (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 23, 2024 6:55 PM

0:51:50 – Mahaprabhu said that in every house, in every village, My holy name will be chanted. 0:55:20 – Verse 1 of the Shikshashtaka; Mahaprabhu described everything in detail: first, cleanse the mirror of your heart by constantly chanting the holy names; then all kinds of misfortune will leave your heart; your heart will become like a lotus, blossoming fully like the full moon. 1:03:25 – Krishna told Arjuna: only through Bhakti-yoga can you attain Me; this is nama-sankirtana. 1:05:00 – There...

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