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 (Hindi) – 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...

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...