body: subtle body

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2025, Puebla 2025, Mexico 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Identity of the Soul, Jiva-tattva, body: gross body, body: subtle body, jiva: jiva-tattva, soul: conditioned soul

21 Dec 2025 morning – Jiva-tattva (English) – Puebla, Mexico | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 21, 2025 7:00 AM

* Sanatana Gosvamipada asks Caitanya Mahaprabhu: “Who am I?” * Living entities are integral parts of the Lord. * The difference and similarity between the Lord and the jivas. * The Lord is the Supreme Enjoyer and the jivas enjoy serving the Lord (seva-sukha). * From service to the Lord arises bliss (seva-ananda). * The Lord is also called rasa-ananda, the personification of all rasas. * If any substance manifests, it possesses its intrinsic nature. This nature can also be called its...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Kuala Lumpur 2025, Malaysia 2025, The People Gathered to Pray for Rain but Only One Boy Brought an Umbrella, Shraddha/Faith, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), body: bodily identification, body: subtle body, book: Pranaya-gita, liberation, liberation (mukti): types, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm)

30 Sep 2025 evening – Have Firm Faith (English) – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

September 30, 2025 6:00 PM

– About the Gopi-gita being the heart of Srimati Radhika.– Some very important songs from Srimad-Bhagavatam: Venu-gita; Bhramara-gita; Pranaya-gita; Yugala-gita; Gopi-gita.– Pranaya-gita describes when the gopis hear Krsna’s flute and leave their homes to meet Him on the banks of the Yamuna.– The different melodies for the Gopi-gita, with kanak-manjari-chada being the highest, and their meaning.– About the Yugala-gita and its meaning.– ⁠The Bhramara...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Perth 2025, Australia 2025, sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, Hitopadesha 25, Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.4, Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.23, Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.24, Identity of the Soul, Purpose of Human Life, anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), bhakti: bhakti-yoga (path of devotion; the practice of connecting with Krishna through devotional service; the process of awakening love for Krishna), body: gross body, body: subtle body, character quality: envy, sound: material sound, sound: transcendental sound

25 Sep 2025 evening – Practice Bhakti Yoga (English) | Perth, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 25, 2025 6:00 PM

Yoga Centre, Perth, Australia – On the meaning of the word body. – Within the gross body there is the subtle body formed of mind, intelligence, and false ego; and within the subtle body there is the soul. – The spontaneous nature of the soul is to serve the Lord: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya-lila 108-109). – There are different philosophies, but the best is Bhakti-yoga: bhakti-yogena manasi samyak praṇihite ’male… (SB 1.7.4). – ⁠The word...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, api cet su-duracaro, satam prasangan mama virya-samvido, Bhagavad-gita 9.30, Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.25, Maila Lage Tan Mem, The Conditioned Soul, body: gross body, body: subtle body, book: Bible, character quality: criticism, Kala Krishnadasa, karma: cycle of birth and death, knowledge: jnana and vijnana, sambandha; abhidheya and prayojana, self-realisation, vegetarianism

10 Sep 2025 evening – Do Not Criticise Anyone (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 10, 2025 6:00 PM

– In the Kali Yuga, people do not ask themselves what their lives are for. – Krishna tells Arjuna that all living entities are His part and parcel. – Self-realisation is the best realisation. – Ask yourself: where will you go after you die? – The relationships in this world mean nothing. – We are caught in the cycle of birth and death. We must return to God, as the material world is not our permanent home. – Kapiladeva instructs Devahuti: ‘satāṁ...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Washington 2025, USA 2025, Entry level discourses 2025, body: gross body, body: subtle body, book: Bible, karma: cycle of birth and death, sound: transcendental sound

22 Jul 2025 midday – Questions and Answers (English) | Washington, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

July 22, 2025 12:18 PM

Explanation of our eternal function: service to Krsna. The meaning of GOD, Generator, Operator, Destroyer, and that God is one. Quote from the Bible: “Man was created in the likeness of God,” to understand that we are not the body, but the soul, and that God has form. About the soul and the cause of our identification with the gross body. The subtle body is formed by the mind, intelligence, and the false ego. How to end the cycle of birth and death. About the suffering of the body...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into French 2025, Mirepoix 2025, France 2025, api cet su-duracaro, Bhagavad-gita 9.30, body: gross body, body: subtle body, maya: two functions, samskaras, sleeping: dreams

28 May 2025 morning – Questions and Answers (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 8:05 AM

– Question: Is it true that our soul is sleeping somewhere else? – Two functions of maya: avaranatmika-vritti and vikshepatmika-vritti. – The subtle body (sukshma-sharira) and the gross body (sthula-sharira). – At the stage of bhava-dasha, a sadhaka gives up their gross and subtle bodies, and their atma-sharira manifests. – The soul is very minute: ‘bālāgra-śata-bhāgya-śatadhā kalpitaḥ ca…’ (Shvetashvatara Upanishad 5.9). – You will realise...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, bhava: bhava-siddhi (perfection of bhava; attainment of the stage of bhava-bhakti), body: subtle body, perfection: vastu-siddhi/perfection of the self (attainment of one's eternal spiritual identity; realization of one's true nature), sadhana: sadhana-siddhi, service: vani-seva, service: vapu-seva, siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers), svarupa-siddhi: realization of one's spiritual identity (attainment of the eternal constitutional position of the soul; perfection of one's true nature)

21 Apr 2025 evening – How to Reach Goloka Vrndavana (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

April 21, 2025 7:03 PM

Verse: yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto ’pi… (Gurvastakam 8). Mantra: Dhyana Mulan Guru Murti… The importance of vapu-seva (physical service), vani-seva (preaching) and brhat-mridanga-seva (printing and distribution of books). In transcendental Goloka Vrndavana the bodies are made of three elements: sat, cit and ananda. Song: Sri Sad Gosvami Astakam. Song: Yamuna Puline. Five perfections necessary to reach Goloka Vrndavana: mantra-siddhi, then sadhana-siddhi, svarupa...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Gaia Vrindavana 2025, Viamao 2025, Brazil 2025, body: subtle body, liberation

14 Jan 2025 midday – Behavior of Vaisnavas (English) | Gaia Vrindavana, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

January 14, 2025 12:19 PM

Without a taste for Harikatha and chanting the Holy Names, even following varnasrama-dharma, it will not be enough to free us. Yamaraja gives us a subtle body to be punished for our sins. Knowledge and even birth into a high family are no guarantees for reaching the highest goal. Example of milk, yogurt, butter and ghee: where they all have the same origin, but have different qualities, and consequently different values. Example of the lotus that is born in the mud and yet is very beautiful and...

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