Only with the human body can we associate with the sadhu and hear Harikatha. Katha about the three dolls with different values: if we are listening to Harikatha correctly, we will receive its fruit. We must practice what we are hearing in the Harikatha. Without practice, everything will come out the other ear. The primary cause of krsna-bhakti is sadhu-sanga. A moment of association with the sadhu makes it possible to attain the highest perfect goal, but it is necessary to associate with the...
Tulasi-devi
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Perth 2025, Australia 2025, kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah, nirodho ’syanusayanam atmanah saha saktibhih, Bhagavad-gita 7.20, Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.10.6, Brahma-jape Chatur Mukhe, Gurvashtaka, Sri Radha Krishna Pada Kamale Mana, Krishna Grants Liberation, Krishna-tattva, disease: diseases, Lakshmi: Dhana-Lakshmi, liberation (mukti): types, morning: brahma-muhurta, self-realisation, suffering: three types of suffering (adhyatmika; adhidaivika; adhibhautika), Tulasi beads, Tulasi-devi
24 Sep 2025 evening – Sri Krishna Mukunda Grants Mukti (English) | Perth, Australia
– Everyone wants happiness, but often ends up unhappy instead. – Great efforts in this material world lead to insignificant results (for example, a miner who finds a mouse instead of gems). – Dharma, artha and moksha create distress and unhappiness. – Govindadeva requested mukti from his ishtadevi, Durga-devi. – If the demigods can grant anything, they take it from Krishna. – Bad karma and good karma interchange. – Verse: ‘kāmais tais tair hṛta...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2024, Guaruja 2024, Brazil 2024, service: guru-seva, Tulasi-devi
31 Dec 2024 midday – The Subtleties of Moods of Love for the Lord (English) | Guaruja, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 PART 2 PART 1 0:00:00 – Read the book about Ekadashi. Anuradha Didi designed the cover, and Shyamasundara Prabhu compiled the book from lectures. 0:02:38 – Shyamasundara Prabhu speaks. 0:03:20 – If you focus your mind on harinama and hari-katha, then your mind will not run towards various gossips. All of you must write a small book; I request everyone to write books. 0:07:30 – Gurudev inspired everyone to distribute books. One day, someone will read them and...
2023, Discourses Translated into English 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Tulasi-devi
20 Sep 2023 morning – Srimati Radharani’s Three Baths (English tranlslation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Srimati Radhika’s love and affection for Krishna is unique and unparalleled. The ingredients for Srimati Radhika’s bath: aguru, camphor, chandana and kunkuma. Anointing the body with oil. First Radharani’s body is bathed in the nectar of karuna (compassion), then in the nectar of yauvana (youth), and then in the nectar of lustre itself. Garuda and Kaka Bhushundi katha. Cows should always be protected, even if they do not give milk. The ways in which love comes. The...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Tulasi-devi
20 Sep 2023 morning – Srimati Radharani’s Three Baths (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Srimati Radhika’s love and affection for Krishna is unique and unparalleled. The ingredients for Srimati Radhika’s bath: aguru, camphor, chandana and kunkuma. Anointing the body with oil. First Radharani’s body is bathed in the nectar of karuna (compassion), then in the nectar of yauvana (youth), and then in the nectar of lustre itself. Garuda and Kaka Bhushundi katha. Cows should always be protected, even if they do not give milk. The ways in which love comes. The...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses Translated into Chinese 2023, Hong Kong 2023, China 2023, Hong Kong 2023, Tulasi-devi
22 Aug 2023 morning – Spiritual practices to follow in the morning (English) – Hong Kong | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
How to perform ahnika. Everyone has to learn Sri Gurvastakam. Everyone then sing the glorification of Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. We then offer mangala aarti. The process to worship Tulasi-devi. Pray to Thakurji to ask for forgiveness before They take rest. Everyone is to read some shlokas of Srimad Bhagavad-gita, it is a very important grantha in our spiritual life. Everyone has to read the glorification of Srimad Bhagavad-gita, Gita-mahatmiya. Three things are...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Manheim 2023, Germany 2023, Ganga-dashahara 2023, Tulasi-devi
30 May 2023 midday – Ganga-dashahara (English) – Manheim, Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Glorification of Bhagavad-gita destroys sins. How Ganga-devi appeared from the lotus feet of Lord Vamanadeva. The curse of Sagara Maharaja’s sons by Kapiladeva Bhagavan. In Kali-yuga there is a profound concession: while crimes committed in the mind are not counted, pious activities in the mind are counted. Durvasa Rishi’s curse of Ganga-devi (Mandakini). You do not want sadhu’s real mercy, you want only material things. Lord Shiva redirects the powerful flow of the Ganga towards himself...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2023, Callus 2023, Spain 2023, Bhajana-rahasya 2023, bhakti: definitions of bhakti, rasa: rasa-siddhanta, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm), Tulasi-devi
27 Apr 2023 morning – Sri Bhajana-rahasya (English) – Callus, Spain | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
The difference between sadhana and bhajana. From sradha to asakti is called sadhana. After sadhana comes the stages of asakti and bhava. Then slowly the sadhaka begins to realise his eternal form (siddha-deha) and then he can serve Radha and Krsna directly, this is called bhajana. Bhajana means seva-vrtti and the jiva will serve according to his mood: sakhya, vatsalya or madhurya. Bhakti and bhakti-rasa are different. Rasa manifests on the stage of bhava and prema and on the platform of...