rasas: sakhya-bhava

2026, Discourses Translated into English 2026, Navadvipa 2026, India 2026, Navadvipa-parikrama 2026, aparadhas: offenses (obstacles in devotional service; offenses against Krishna, devotees, holy name, dhama and other aspects of bhakti), character quality: duplicity, rasas: sakhya-bhava, Navadvipa-parikrama 2026

25 Feb 2026 evening room – The Glories of Navadvipa-dhama (English translation) – Navadvipa, India

February 25, 2026 6:00 PM

Explanation of how to attain the darsana of Dhama through listening to Harikatha. Quote from Bhaktivinoda Thakura speaking of the mercy of Yogamaya. On the fruits of performing the Parikrama of Navadvipa Dhama. On Gaura-dhama which eliminates past aparadhas (offenses). Reasons to take refuge in Goura-dhama and surrender to Sacinandana Gourahari, destroy our offenses and easily attain the prema of the gopis. How it will be possible to understand the higher prema of Radharani. On understanding...

2026, Discourses in Hindi 2026, Navadvipa 2026, India 2026, Navadvipa-parikrama 2026, aparadhas: offenses (obstacles in devotional service; offenses against Krishna, devotees, holy name, dhama and other aspects of bhakti), character quality: duplicity, rasas: sakhya-bhava, Navadvipa-parikrama 2026

25 Feb 2026 evening room – The Glories of Navadvipa-dhama (Hindi) – Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

February 25, 2026 6:00 PM

Explanation of how to attain the darsana of Dhama through listening to Harikatha. Quote from Bhaktivinoda Thakura speaking of the mercy of Yogamaya. On the fruits of performing the Parikrama of Navadvipa Dhama. On Gaura-dhama which eliminates past aparadhas (offenses). Reasons to take refuge in Goura-dhama and surrender to Sacinandana Gourahari, destroy our offenses and easily attain the prema of the gopis. How it will be possible to understand the higher prema of Radharani. On understanding...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Kuala Lumpur 2025, Malaysia 2025, Upadeshamrita 4, Upadeshamrita 2025, Mahaprabhu’s Travels Through South India, A Disciple Who Said “O Gurudeva Everything I Have Is Yours but Your Lotus Feet Are Mine", ashraya-tattva and vishaya-tattva: two aspects of divine relationship (the abode of love; the object of love), bhaktas: kanishtha-adhikari; madhyama-adhikari; uttama-adhikari, bhakti: definitions of bhakti, questions: how to ask confidential questions to the Guru and the Vaisnavas, rasas: sakhya-bhava

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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17 Sep 2025 morning walk – The Nine Questions of the Gopis to Krishna (English) | Whangarei, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 17, 2025 7:00 AM

The gopis asked Krishna what lust was. The gopis also asked Krishna why He had caused them so much pain by disappearing. The gopis wanted to hear about the different types of prema from Krishna. These types of people never return your love or friendship: atmarama: self-satisfied (Shukadeva Gosvami); aptakama: whose all desires are fulfilled (Janaka Maharaja); guru-drohi/aparadhi: akritajna, ungrateful. Hetu-prema is love with a cause (examples: birds love the forest for its fruits, a woman...

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16 Sep 2025 evening – The Nature of the Soul (English) | Whangarei, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 16, 2025 6:00 PM

– On the difficulties of hearing Harikatha and chanting the Holy Names. – The sabdha-brahma, a transcendental vibration, which enters through the ears and travels to the heart, eliminating anarthas (imperfections). – Quote from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada on the difficulty of hearing Harikatha. – Story of the king who went to the market and saw three dolls with vast differences in price. – The difference between hearing and listening to Harikatha...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Hari-katha at Airports 2025, Discourses with transcripts in English 2021, Discourses with transcripts in English 2025, Freedom from karma, anartha-nivritti: removal of unwanted things (cleansing of the heart; stage of bhakti development), anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), bhajana-kriya: beginning of devotional practices (engagement in bhakti activities; stage after accepting guidance from guru), karma: cycle of birth and death, liberation, Narada Rishi: Narada-Vyasa samvada, rasas: sakhya-bhava, self-realisation, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm), Vedavyasa, Vyasadeva

29 Apr 2025 morning (airport) – End of Karma (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

April 29, 2025 8:26 AM

Explanation about the manifestation of Srimad Bhagavatam. About the end of karma only happening with complete surrender to Guru and Krsna. The Caitanya Caritamrta clarifies that the devotee, upon surrendering to the Guru, begins to be taken care of by Krsna. In Madhurya-Kadambini, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains that, by simply chanting a namabhasa, a stage in which one has not yet reached pure chanting, karma is destroyed. There is a need for a little karma to maintain the body here in...

2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Bhandiravana 2024, Navadvipa 2024, India 2024, Navadvipa-parikrama 2024, rasas: sakhya-bhava, Navadvipa-parikrama 2024

22 Mar 2024 afternoon – The Humor of Mahaprabhu’s Dasya Corresponds to the Gopis’ Radha Dasya (Hindi) – Sri Navadvipa-dhama, India Srila BV Vana Maharaja

March 22, 2024 12:03 PM

PART 1 PART 2 Mahaprabhu is always remembering Radha Krsna’s lilas, smarana, the process of absorbing oneself in asta-kaliya-lila. Mahaprabhu’s dasya mood is not like that of Hanumam, servant of Ramacandra, who is full of opulence and without sweetness. The specialty of sakhya-bhava in Vrndavana is to be full of sweetness. Krsna’s little friends fight, climb on His shoulders, etc. In Jaiva Dharma it is written that in Vrndavana there is no opulence, no guru-budhi. Example: Rati...

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22 Mar 2024 afternoon – The Humor of Mahaprabhu’s Dasya Corresponds to the Gopis’ Radha Dasya (English translation) – Sri Navadvipa-dhama, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

March 22, 2024 12:03 PM

PART 1 PART 2 Mahaprabhu is always remembering Radha Krsna’s lilas, smarana, the process of absorbing oneself in asta-kaliya-lila. Mahaprabhu’s dasya mood is not like that of Hanumam, servant of Ramacandra, who is full of opulence and without sweetness. The specialty of sakhya-bhava in Vrndavana is to be full of sweetness. Krsna’s little friends fight, climb on His shoulders, etc. In Jaiva Dharma it is written that in Vrndavana there is no opulence, no guru-budhi. Example: Rati...

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