ananyāś cintayanto māṁye janāḥ paryupāsateteṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁyoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham (Bhagavad-gītā 9.22). Radha’s lila with the calf. The conditioned soul is like deer and hinds that run after mirages in the desert. The three daily baths of Sri Radha and their meanings. Read the Jaiva Dharma! Radha’s blue clothes are the colour of Krishna’s skin. It is Krsna Himself covering Her body. What a beautiful bhava! All the Gosvamis wrote in the Bengali language. About Advaita...
svarupa-siddhi: realization of one's spiritual identity (attainment of the eternal constitutional position of the soul; perfection of one's true nature)
21 Dec 2023 morning – You Must Study (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
ananyāś cintayanto māṁye janāḥ paryupāsateteṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁyoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham (Bhagavad-gītā 9.22). Radha’s lila with the calf. The conditioned soul is like deer and hinds that run after mirages in the desert. The three daily baths of Sri Radha and their meanings. Read the Jaiva Dharma! Radha’s blue clothes are the colour of Krishna’s skin. It is Krsna Himself covering Her body. What a beautiful bhava! All the Gosvamis wrote in the Bengali language. About Advaita...
14 Aug 2023 morning – Mahaprabhu’s Mood of Separation in the Gambhira (English translation) – Jagannatha Puri, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s lilas in Gambhira as a sannyasi. Mahaprabhu’s 3 stages of consciousness: the internal, the external and the semi-external. Book: Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka, by Raya Ramananda. The external symptoms of Mahaprabhu’s mahabhava. The definitions of prema and kama, and the internal and external symptoms of prema. The definition of atiantik-sraddha. Srimati Radhika glorifies Lord Krishna in the mood of separation. The meaning of going to Gambhira is to talk...
14 Aug 2023 morning – Mahaprabhu’s Mood of Separation in the Gambhira (Hindi) – Jagannatha Puri, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s lilas in Gambhira as a sannyasi. Mahaprabhu’s 3 stages of consciousness: the internal, the external and the semi-external. Book: Jagannatha-vallabha-nataka, by Raya Ramananda. The external symptoms of Mahaprabhu’s mahabhava. The definitions of prema and kama, and the internal and external symptoms of prema. The definition of atiantik-sraddha. Srimati Radhika glorifies Lord Krishna in the mood of separation. The meaning of going to Gambhira is to talk...
22 Apr 2023 morning – Akshaya-tritiya (English) – Kaunas, Lithuania | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 Akshaya means that which is never destroyed; Tritiya means three days of the new moon. Akshaya-Tritiya comes once a year and it is a super auspicious day because you can do all kinds of pious activities without consulting astrologers and there will always be benefits. For example: taking diksha; installing Thakurajis; taking harinama; moving house; getting married; etc. It will always be auspicious. The most auspicious days of the year are: appearance of Ramachandra, Akshaya-tritya...
09 Dec 2022 morning – Laukika-sadbandhu-priti vs Bhagavat-buddhi (English) – United Kingdom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Importance of tattva-siddhanta as a foundation for rasa-siddhanta & how the mind gets fixed by it.-Story of guru-sevak throwing away cabbage levaes one after another seeing nothing in it to signify how jnanis deal with sastras.-Jnanis attain fruits only after they take shelter of bhakti-devi.-Story of a mother who gives her heart to son for his lover.-Transcendental love never manifests in the world with example of gold forming from Jamuna fruits after dropping on a bank & going to...
04 Oct 2022 morning – Svarupa-siddhi & Sweet lila (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Prema-bhakti is bought by greed but not by sukriti.-One has to sit in front of Vraja rasik santa mahatma & has to listen hari-katha then vraja-bhava will come in our heart slowly.-What is greed.-In sadhaka sarira one has to follow vaidhi-bhakti & suddha sadachar.-Pleasing Bhagavan is bhakti.-Importance of following varnashrama-dharma while practising sadhana-bhakti.-About 3 characteristics of greed.-Meaning of Tirtha-pada.-How one advances to madhurya-rasa starting from dasya-rasa...
04 Oct 2022 morning – Svarupa-siddhi & Sweet lila (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-Prema-bhakti is bought by greed but not by sukriti.-One has to sit in front of Vraja rasik santa mahatma & has to listen hari-katha then vraja-bhava will come in our heart slowly.-What is greed.-In sadhaka sarira one has to follow vaidhi-bhakti & suddha sadachar.-Pleasing Bhagavan is bhakti.-Importance of following varnashrama-dharma while practising sadhana-bhakti.-About 3 characteristics of greed.-Meaning of Tirtha-pada.-How one advances to madhurya-rasa starting from dasya-rasa...