Today is Giya Jayanti and Mokshada Ekadashi.
Different chapters of Bhagavad-gita are about different types of yoga.
Atma-tattva from Bhagavad-gita.
Anu-chaitanya (jiva) and brihad-chaitanya (God).
Three aspects of the Lord.
Sloka: vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam… (SB 1.2.11).
6 opulences of Bhagavan.
Everyone is enchanted with Krishna’s beauty, His glance, His garments, His flute.
Absorption and greed of the gopis.
Lila: the new bride took darshana of Krishna and went mad.
– A house without hari-katha is a snake hole and a house with hari-katha is Goloka Vrindavana. – Types of brahmacharis. – Govinda resides in the hearts of His devotees. – Virochana on atma-tattva. – Who is happy in this world? – Hiranyagarbha Brahma and Vairaja Brahma. – Guru’s mercy will come to the one who serves his guru without duplicity and hypocrisy. Examples of the animals. – Vapu-seva and vani-seva. Preaching on the internet. – Never...
– A house without hari-katha is a snake hole and a house with hari-katha is Goloka Vrindavana. – Types of brahmacharis. – Govinda resides in the hearts of His devotees. – Virochana on atma-tattva. – Who is happy in this world? – Hiranyagarbha Brahma and Vairaja Brahma. – Guru’s mercy will come to the one who serves his guru without duplicity and hypocrisy. Examples of the animals. – Vapu-seva and vani-seva. Preaching on the internet. – Never...
PART 1 3 kinds of Krishna’s lilas and 3 kinds of dhamas. There is no love in this material world. How to pay off all debts (BG 18.66). The lilas of baby Krishna. Gopis blame Krishna in Kurukshetra. Gopis will give up everything, but not Krishna. Ishvara, prakriti, kala, jiva and karma. Krishna persuades the gopis to meditate on Him, and the gopis are very angry about it. The pink colour of Holi symbolises anuraga, deep attachment. Atma-tattva. What Vrindavana looks like in separation from...
Punya, done over many lifetimes, gives you the opportunity to host a sadhu in your home.
You do not come to a sadhu on your own; you are inspired by Paramatma, who acts on your good fortune and the punya-karma you have accumulated over many lives.
SB 11.14.20.
9 limbs of bhakti.
On body and soul.
Inevitable ageing of the body.
The soul changes bodies like a man changes clothes.
Lila on how Indra got the body of a pig.
We are all servants of Krishna.
Instructions on Ekadashi.Caraíva, Bahia/Brazil
We are all eternal servants of Krsna. Verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’. “All living entities are My integral parts, souls are eternal and transcendental” (Sri Krsna tells Arjuna, in Bhagavad Gita). The soul is invisible to material eyes. By Krsna’s mercy, through the practice of sadhana and bhajana, one can see the form of the soul. The body is the house, and the...
Vedavati left the body with her mystical powers after Ravana touched her. Vedavati returned in rama-lila as Sita-devi (Chaya-Sita, described in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana). Whenever Bhagavan appears, He comes with His parikaras (associates). Vrinda-devi is always serving the Divine Couple to arrange Their meetings, especially at nishanta-lila (the end of the night). Song of the mangala arati: “mangala nishanta-lila mangala udaye”. Bilvamangala Thakura is the perfect sadhaka, that...
Gratitude to devotees for their seva during the festival in Spain.
If we offer something to Krishna, He will sell Himself completely to us.
Atma-tattva.
The process of realising one’s transcendental body.
Processes common to man and animal. Human advantage over animals.
The story of a princess who lost her necklace.
A play about Krishna and a fruit seller.
The lila of Krishna and the fruit seller.