The story of how Narada Rishi supposedly conquered lust; his curse by Vishnu; Vedavati appeared as Sita-devi afterwards. Rasa-lila is kama-vijaya lila. Shabari story. Shabari did not give her food remnants to Ramachandra. Description of the rasas and their characteristics Lila on how the turtle, who longed to touch the lotus feet of the Lord, became a boatman who ferried Lord Ramachandra across the river in a rama-lila. Lila on how Lord Ramachandra granted liberation to the stone-embedded soul...
liberation
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Alto Paraiso de Goias 2024, Brazil 2024, disease: diseases, habits: bad habits, liberation, soul: conditioned soul
02 Mar 2024 morning – The Power of the Holy Names (English) – Alto Paraiso, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 2 The acarya founder of our Gaudiya mission is Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada. Preaching without practicing bhajana and sadhana is useless, fruitless. Therefore we must practice and then preach. To defeat the Mayavadi philosophy, one must understand it. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu established the acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva philosophy. The jivas (souls) are eternal, minute, portions of the Lord, and will never be transformed into Brahma. Meaning of BODY (body) in English: b (birth:...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Santiago 2024, Chile 2024, Nityananda-trayodashi 2024, Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai, guru: guru-tattva, liberation
22 Feb 2024 morning – Nityananda Trayodashi (English) – Santiago, Chile | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sloka: utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt tat-tat-karma pravartanāt (Sri Upadesamrta 3). All Scriptures glorify sadhu-sanga. Association with the sadhu happens only when our sukrti is accumulated and mature. Travelling in the cycle of births and deaths, when the time of liberation arrives, we acquire association with the sadhu, serve and develop a taste for harikatha. Krsna-nama is very powerful, why don’t we have a taste for chanting? Without Nityananda’s mercy no one attains Bhakti...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Santiago 2024, Chile 2024, Ramanujacharya, liberation
19 Feb 2024 midday – Disappearance of Ramanujacharya (English) – Santiago, Chile | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Diksa-mantras that are not received from a reliable Sampradaya do not bear fruit. Verse: sampradāya-vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ (Padma Purana). Sri Sampradaya has Laksmi Devi as its origin; Brahma Sampradaya has Brahma as its origin; Rudra Sampradaya has Siva as its origin; and Sanaka Sampradaya has its origins in the Four Kumaras (Sanatana, Sanaka, Sanandana and Sanatkumara). Ramanuja is directly the manifestation of Laksman. Ramanuja corrected his Guru, Yadavacarya, due to the...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Seattle 2024, USA 2024, gopis: nitya-siddha, liberation, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm)
30 Jan 2024 evening – The Glories of unflinching faith in Sri Guru (English) – Seattle, USA
– How the six Gosvamis were absorbed in the worship of their Ishtadeva, Srimati Radhika. – How they performed their sadhana and bhajan. – Katha of Raghunatha Das Gosvami and Bhakari-krishna. – The goal of Gaudiya Vaisnavas, radha-dhasyam. – Our only hope in this Kali-yuga is Gaura-krpa and Nityananda-krpa: we receive this by surrendering at Their lotus feet. – We must take shelter of Navadvip Dhama and Sri Gaurasundara. – Mana re! Kaho na gaura katha...
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Houston 2024, Texas 2024, USA 2024, character quality: duplicity, liberation, renunciation (vairagya)
19 Jan 2024 evening – The Glories of Bhagavan Ramacandra Are Unattainable (Hindi) – Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The main point of Vedic culture comes from Ayodya, a place of liberation, extremely beautiful. Valmiki Rsi has beautifully manifested the Ramayana in Sanskrit. Without studying the Ramayna it is not possible to enter into bhakti. Sita was not kidnapped by Ravana, it was Chaya-Sita in Sita’s shadow, Mahaprabhu gave this evidence. Every syllable of this grantha destroys all sins. Whoever speaks the name of Rama, who is very powerful, obtains liberation. Srila Gurudeva said that by family...
2024, Discourses Translated into English 2024, Houston 2024, Texas 2024, USA 2024, character quality: duplicity, liberation, renunciation (vairagya)
19 Jan 2024 evening – The Glories of Bhagavan Ramacandra Are Unattainable (English translation) – Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The main point of Vedic culture comes from Ayodya, a place of liberation, extremely beautiful. Valmiki Rsi has beautifully manifested the Ramayana in Sanskrit. Without studying the Ramayna it is not possible to enter into bhakti. Sita was not kidnapped by Ravana, it was Chaya-Sita in Sita’s shadow, Mahaprabhu gave this evidence. Every syllable of this grantha destroys all sins. Whoever speaks the name of Rama, who is very powerful, obtains liberation. Srila Gurudeva said that by family...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2024, Tepoztlan 2024, Mexico 2024, ghee lamp, liberation
15 Jan 2024 evening – Why We Are in the Material World (English) – Tepoztlan, Mexico
Verse: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukhaataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha (CC Madhya-lila 20.117). Krsna appears in the world in the form of Sadhu, Guru, Sastra and, in His own original form, to help in the liberation of living entities who are entangled in Maya. To receive the Lord’s mercy it is necessary to be in sadhu-sanga. Verse: sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya (CC Madhya-lila, 22.54). To have sadhu-sanga it is necessary to have sukrti. One can obtain sukrti...