What is your goal? It takes a long time to achieve service to Srimati Radhika because the level is very high. Lila of Visvamitra Rsi asking Dasaratha Maharaja for help. Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti. True absorption is that whose greed makes the devotee incapable of living without Krsna, such are the true vrajavasis. Raganuga and ragatmika sadhakas. Radhika is the svarupa-sakti of Krsna. Cit-sakti, jiva-sakti, maya-sakti. Funny story of the merchant who tells the king that he can...
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2024, Discourses in English 2024, Badger 2024, USA 2024, aparadhas (offences), aparadhas: offenses (obstacles in devotional service; offenses against Krishna, devotees, holy name, dhama and other aspects of bhakti), aparadhas: types, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, character quality: criticism, faith: types
03 Aug 2024 morning – Types of Faith (English) | Badger, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
On Vaisnava suddha sadacara: good Vaisnava behaviour. Bhajana and sadhana are useless for one who commits offences. Only constant hearing of Harikatha can protect us from Maya. On nama-aparadha. In Kali-yuga people’s minds are contaminated by tama-guna, so it is difficult to meditate on the Lord. Even if your pronunciation is bad, the Lord accepts the chanting of the Holy Names anyway in Kali-yuga. The souls of Kali-yuga have innumerable defects and the Lord has invested all His potency...
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...
2024, Discourses in Hindi 2024, Houston 2024, Texas 2024, USA 2024, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anugatya: following in the footsteps (submissive following of devotees; mood of guidance and service), bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, service: cooking
27 Jul 2024 morning – Sadhana-bhakti and Bhava-bhakti (Hindi) | Houston, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About the Bhajana Rahasya Grantha. Bhajana means to serve. The two functions of sadhana-bhakti: to practice to remove the anarthas and to attain the mood of the vrajavasis. Sadhana and bhajana are different things. The first symptom of bhava-bhakti is santi (peace). The instructions that Pariksit Maharaja received from the various classes of sadhus upon learning that he would die after seven days. Sloka: harer nāma harer nāma… (CC Madhya 6.242). Doing seva, bhajana and sadhana without chanting...
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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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30 May 2024 midday – Detailed Description of the Wonderful Service that Radha and the Gopis Do to Krsna (Hindi) – Zoom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Krsna’s curiosity about Radha’s feelings for Him. Krsna takes the form of Gouranga with the skin colour and moods of Radha. If Gouranga had not taken shelter of the Guru’s lotus feet, He would not have been able to taste the sweetness of Radha’s feelings. Mahaprabhu accepts sannyasi, He goes to Jagannatha Puri and there he freed Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya tells Mahaprabhu to meet Raya Ramananda, the governor of Prataparudra Maharaja. The first...
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30 May 2024 midday – Detailed Description of the Wonderful Service that Radha and the Gopis Do to Krsna (English translation) – Zoom | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Krsna’s curiosity about Radha’s feelings for Him. Krsna takes the form of Gouranga with the skin colour and moods of Radha. If Gouranga had not taken shelter of the Guru’s lotus feet, He would not have been able to taste the sweetness of Radha’s feelings. Mahaprabhu accepts sannyasi, He goes to Jagannatha Puri and there he freed Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya tells Mahaprabhu to meet Raya Ramananda, the governor of Prataparudra Maharaja. The first...
2024, Discourses in English 2024, Siedelsbrunn 2024, Germany 2024, Nishanta-lila, Ekadashi-vrata 2024, age: old age, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti
04 May 2024 evening – Ekadasi-tithi (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany| Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Ekadasi-tithi is the mother of suddha-bhakti. How vaidhi-bhakti devotees follow ekadasi. From eight to eighty years of age, everyone must follow ekadasi. The correct way to follow ekadasi. Story of when Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja made several preparations for his spiritual brother on the day of ekadasi. Krsna is our maintainer and our protector. Story of the disciple who pretended to chant the Holy Names so as not to do other sevas. Lila from when Srimati Radhika goes to Nandagaon...