Mahaprabhu brought two books from South India: Brahma-samhita and Krishna-karnamrita, Brahma-samhita is full of tattva-siddhanta and Krishna-karnamrita is full of rasa-siddhanta. Vaidhi-bhakti takes us to Vaikuntha, but raganuga-bhakti can take us to Goloka Vrndvana. The story of Bilvamangala Thakur, the author of Krishna-karnamrita. Explanation of the first verse of Krishna-karnamrita “cintāmaṇir jayati somagirir gurur me…” Vartma-pradarsakha-guru is the one who shows us the path...
bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Sanatana Gosvami, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, ceremony: guru-puja, renunciation, service: krishna-seva, soul: conditioned soul
03 Jul 2023 morning – Disappearance of Srila Sanatana Gosvami (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila Gurudeva BV Vana Maharaja
The vrajavasis become sad, shave their heads, and also do parikrama around Giriraj Govardhana on the disappearance of Srila Sanatana Gosvamipada. True renunciation is attachment to God. The separation of Sanatana Gosvami from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His parikaras. The story of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami’s bhajana-kutir in Radha Kunda. Lila of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami no Radha Kunda: When Radha shaded him with Her veil. The conditioned soul does not want prema-rasa, only vaidhi-bhakti...
2023, Discourses Translated into English 2023, Delhi 2023, India 2023, Sanatana Gosvami, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, ceremony: guru-puja, renunciation, service: krishna-seva, soul: conditioned soul
03 Jul 2023 morning – Disappearance of Srila Sanatana Gosvami (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila Gurudeva BV Vana Maharaja
The vrajavasis become sad, shave their heads, and also do parikrama around Giriraj Govardhana on the disappearance of Srila Sanatana Gosvamipada. True renunciation is attachment to God. The separation of Sanatana Gosvami from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His parikaras. The story of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami’s bhajana-kutir in Radha Kunda. Lila of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami no Radha Kunda: When Radha shaded him with Her veil. The conditioned soul does not want prema-rasa, only vaidhi-bhakti...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Siedelsbrunn 2023, Germany 2023, anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, character quality: lust and anger, karma: previous life, service: guru-seva, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm), uttama-adhikari (highest-class devotees): 3 types of uttama-adhikari (murchita-kashaya; nirdhuta-kashaya; and bhagavata-parsada-deha-prapta)
01 Jun 2023 midday – The Sadhaka and the Spiritual Life (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Krishna gives us sanga and then He turns away, so is this world, the sun rises and sets, the waves of the sea come and go. You can’t even imagine how many countless souls are born and die in this cycle, come and go. When Krishna was here, you were all here. In this path of repeated birth and death, one day the soul attains sadhu-sanga and hari-katha, and then Bhakti-devi manifests in the heart. Sloka: satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido There are different sadhus and different bhakta...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses Translated into French 2023, Mirepoix 2023, France 2023, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, ghosts, liberation, Ramachandra: Rama-nama, vishvasa: faith (firm trust in Krishna; confidence in the process of bhakti)
17 May 2023 morning – Q & A (English) – Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 The importance of vaidhi-bhakti for the novice devotees. Question: What is the significance of applying tilaka, gopi chandana? The material body is a temple of disease. Tilaka in different sampradayas. Ghosts do not come to those who follow the four principles and wear kanthimala, tulasi. If they come, it is only to get liberation through the pure devotees. The places where ghosts usually come. Srila Svami Maharaja’s sayings on Vrindavana and Radha-kunda. Pure sadhus make...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2023, Callus 2023, Spain 2023, Bhajana-rahasya 2023, bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, kamatmika bhakti type: sambhoga-iccha-mayi, samskaras
25 Apr 2023 morning – Sri Bhajana-rahasya (English) – Callus, Spain | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Sadhana and bhajana are not the same. Sadhana-bhakti, bhava-bhakti. Reject jiva-brahma-aikya-jnana, but study tat-padartha-jnana and tvam-padartha-jnana. Committing suicide is aparadha. Shanta-rasa has no mamata and seva is still included in our rasa as it has nishtha. Svakiya mood, parakiya mood Parakiya mood is a sinful activity in the material world. The love of the gopis is aprakrita kama, transcendental lust. Sambandhatmika-bhakti, kamatmika-bhakti. Whatever the gopis do, they do to please...
2023, Discourses in English 2023, Kuala Lumpur 2023, Malaysia 2023, Chorashtaka (Chauragraganya-purushashtaka), bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, Sakshi-gopala, svayamvara
12 Apr 2023 evening – Sakshi-gopala Pastimes (English) – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
-CC Madhya 5: The activities of Sakshi Gopala-Nityananda Prabhu knows all types of sadhus-The story when Sakshi Gopalа acted as a witness in a dispute between two brahmanas-Dvivedi, trivedi, chaturvedi brahmanas-Parashurama and Lakshmana’s dispute at Sita-devi’s svayamvara-The human senses seek to satisfy pleasant feelings-Material and transcendental sounds-The story of how all the subjects of the kingdom, in response to the king’s request to bring milk for the pond, brought water, as...
2023, Discourses in Hindi 2023, Punjab 2023, India 2023, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, lineage: disciplic succession, nirguna: beyond material qualities (transcendental to the modes of material nature; free from material designations), sampradayas: four sampradayas, samskaras
08 Apr 2023 morning – Following the Guidelines of the Scriptures (Hindi) – Punjab, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
PART 1 -Vaidhi-bhakti and raganuga-bhakti.-Raganuga-bhakti is practised when one has samskaras from other lives.-The spontaneous mood that is at the heart of the Vrajavasis is known as raganuga-bhakti.-On the days of Ekadashi, all kinds of sins fall into the five kinds of grains… If you need to eat, you can eat fruit.-Whoever comes to me, I never let him go empty-handed.-Prasada is nirguna, but, we should not honour grain prasada on Ekadashi because that is the scriptural rule and we have to...