The Balabhadra Stotra Kavaca prayers to Baladeva Prabhu offered from the book Garga-samhita (Canto 8, Chapter 12, Verses 4-13) Description of Baladeva Prabhu’s names, qualities, functions and personality. Katha of Baladeva Prabhu killing Denakasura, the demon donkey in Talavana. God is the Supreme Enjoyer and everything in this world belongs to Him. The role of demons. The purport as to why the donkey-like demon was killed. Story of how a donkey was tied without a rope. How the samskaras of...
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11 Aug 2024 evening – Father’s Day (English) | Sao Paolo, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Culture and impressions, samskaras. Respect your parents so you can respect your Guru. Prahlada Maharaja never criticised his father. Every morning, Krsna and Balarama touch the feet of Their parents to ask for blessings. We must not forget Vedic culture. Difference between suras and asuras, deva-bhava and asura-bhava. Mother and father give material teachings to their children, and the Guru grants spiritual teachings. We have seven mothers and five fathers. When your faith is strong, the...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Badger 2024, USA 2024, bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhakti: sadhana-bhakti; bhava-bhakti; prema-bhakti, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, gopis: types, samskaras
01 Aug 2024 evening – How to Develop Spiritual Life in Sadhu-sanga (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhu-sanga and Harikatha are eternal! The devotee accepts what the sadhu says according to his capacity and moves forward. The process must be followed step by step: sadhana-bhakti; bhava-bhakti; prema-bhakti. Radha’s Lila writing a letter to Krsna whose content is Her tears. The different types of gopis: not all of them reveal themselves as manjaris. The forty-nine ingredients that come together in staybhava for the sadhaka to be able to taste love, everything happens step by step...
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20 Jul 2024 evening – Samskaras (Impressions) (English) | Matinhos, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Ceremonies that grant samskaras (impressions). Without samskaras it is not possible to develop spiritual life. The Vedas say that every human being must perform the ceremonies that generate samskaras. There are twelve main ones. Story of Hiranyakasipu and the parrot that sang “om sri visnave namaha”. Impressions from the father and mother are transmitted to the children. Description of some ceremonies (samskaras): of the baby in the mother’s womb, of birth, of the umbilical cord, of the...
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23 Jun 2024 midday – The Step-by-step Path of Devotion (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
00:12:35 – Jagannatha Ashtakam.00:23:45 – Jagannatha is Krishna. Shrila Shukadeva Gosvamipad calls Krishna Tridhishvara.00:27:01 – Krishna possesses inconceivable energy (Achintya-shakti). This means that you cannot understand the Lord with your logic alone; only by Krishna’s mercy can He be understood. Even if you hear 1000 lectures and read 1000 books, you will not understand until the Lord bestows His mercy. There is only one process—effort. Then kripa (grace) will come.00:32:24 – Unshakable...
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15 June 2024 midday – The Wonders of Bhagavan Sri Krsna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sloka: ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas… (Caitanya-matta-manjusa, by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura). Siddhanta from Harivamsa Purana, which provides evidence that Nanda Maharaja’s wife has two names: Devaki and Yasoda. Krsna in different moods in His different abodes, Dvaraka, Mathura and Vrndavana. The example of a perfect grhasta is Lord Ramacandra. About the ninety-six different types of heroes (nayakas) of Bhagavan Sri Krsna. The lilas of Dvaraka, Mathura and Vrndavana, and the...
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28 Mar 2024 evening – Serve Guru and Krsna (Bengali) – Contai, West Bengal, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The aim of life is Goura-bhajana, otherwise we will be serving Maya. This world is full of sorrows, Maya is always applying the three types of miseries. Maya is never happy with our service and she always punishes us severely. When we serve God, Maya liberates us. Story of the sinner who, in hell, told the Yamadutas that they would worship his feet. Everyone, including animals, sleeps, mates, eats and defends themselves. What is the difference between humans and animals? Story of Ajamila...
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28 Mar 2024 evening – Serve Guru and Krsna (English translation) – Contai, West Bengal, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The aim of life is Goura-bhajana, otherwise we will be serving Maya. This world is full of sorrows, Maya is always applying the three types of miseries. Maya is never happy with our service and she always punishes us severely. When we serve God, Maya liberates us. Story of the sinner who, in hell, told the Yamadutas that they would worship his feet. Everyone, including animals, sleeps, mates, eats and defends themselves. What is the difference between humans and animals? Story of Ajamila...