Eternal Position of the Soul

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2025, Igualada 2025, Spain 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Identity of the Soul, Purpose of Human Life, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart)

03 Dec 2025 morning – Our Inherent Nature is to Serve Krishna (English) – Igualada, Spain | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

December 3, 2025 9:48 AM

– There is no need to keep pets or pigs. Otherwise, you will become attached to them, as Bharata Maharaja was to a deer. – Do not assume that Krishna sent you animals to take care of. Krishna does not send you animals; He wants you to perform bhajana and sadhana. – Pravritti-marga is about attachments, and nivritti-marga is about not being attached. – Shuddha-jivatma: your duty is to serve Krishna. – Story of Shivananda Sena and a dog. – The stages of...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Portuguese 2025, Itajai 2025, Brazil 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Identity of the Soul

18 Jun 2025 evening – Mirror of the Heart (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 18, 2025 6:00 PM

•⁠ ⁠8 verses of Shikshashtaka include everything. •⁠ ⁠Jivas coming out of tatastha-shakti. •⁠ ⁠Avaranatmika and vikshepatmika functions of maya. •⁠ ⁠The soul is very minute. Verse: bālāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca… (Shvetashvatara Upanishad 5.9). •⁠ ⁠Verse: are vā atma draṣṭavyaḥ śrotavyaḥ mantavyah nididhyāsitavyah (Brihad-aranyaka-upanisad, 4.5.6). •⁠ ⁠Adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika. •⁠ ⁠The difference between the suffering of the devotees and the non-devotees (example of...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Italian 2025, Bari 2025, Puglia 2025, Italy 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Identity of the Soul

31 May 2025 evening – Dharma (English) | Bari, Puglia, Italy | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 31, 2025 6:00 PM

• The primary meaning of dharma is the intrinsic or essential nature of something. • What is the intrinsic nature of the soul? The spontaneous nature of the soul is to serve Krsna. • Sloka: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya 20. 108-109). • Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura shows respect to all religions, recognizing their different types of relationship with the Lord. • The grantha Sri Brahma Samhita presents evidence of the existence of the transcendental world of...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Zoetermeer 2025, Netherlands 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Purpose of Human Life

14 May 2025 evening – Sanatana-dharma is Available Only to People (Hindi) | Zoetermeer, Netherlands | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 14, 2025 7:43 PM

Sanatana-dharma is about making other people listen to hari-katha.

Animals and people have many things in common — both eat and take care of their offspring — but only human beings can live a spiritual life.

We are born empty-handed and die empty-handed.

The body works when the soul is inside it.

Karma-tattva: Why one person is very rich and the other poor.

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Zoetermeer 2025, Netherlands 2025, Eternal Position of the Soul, Purpose of Human Life

14 May 2025 evening – Sanatana-dharma is Available Only to People (English translation) | Zoetermeer, Netherlands | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 14, 2025 7:43 PM

Sanatana-dharma is about making other people listen to hari-katha.

Animals and people have many things in common — both eat and take care of their offspring — but only human beings can live a spiritual life.

We are born empty-handed and die empty-handed.

The body works when the soul is inside it.

Karma-tattva: Why one person is very rich and the other poor.

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Eternal Position of the Soul

03 May 2025 morning – All Living Beings Are Eternal Servants of Lord Krsna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 3, 2025 7:58 AM

Among innumerable species of living beings, attaining a human form is very rare. God grants us the human body for devotional service (bhajana and sadhana). Living beings are absorbed in 4 activities: eating, sleeping, defending themselves and procreating. The 5 types of manifestation of consciousness: acchadita-cetana, sankucita-cetana, mukulita-cetana, vikasita-cetana and purna-vikasita-cetana. The inherent nature of the soul is to serve Lord Krsna. Srila Gurudeva teaches serving Krsna in a...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Eternal Position of the Soul, liberation, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm)

27 Apr 2025 midday – The True Meaning of Liberation (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

April 27, 2025 12:14 PM

Today is the appearance of Gadadhara Pandita, who is a direct manifestation of Srimati Radharani. Krsna sends Uddhava, His counselor, from Mathura to Vrndavana to pacify the vrajavasis. Uddhava went to Vrndavana, certain that with his scholarship he could pacify the separation that the vrajavasis felt from Krsna. When Uddhava saw the elevated moods in the hearts of the vrajavasis, all his pride was destroyed from his heart. Uddhava failed the entrance exam for the gopis’ university. Krsna...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Eternal Position of the Soul, bhakti: bhakti-lata-bija (seed of bhakti), eternal nature of the soul: svarupa of the jiva (constitutional position; identity as an eternal servant of Krishna)

28 Jun 2024 morning – About Svarupa of the Jiva (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 28, 2024 8:23 AM

0:20:35 – Kathā pierces the heart; relationship with Krishna develops while material attachments break; love means both pain and joy—separation and meeting. Meeting Krishna brings happiness; separation brings tears. Viraha: vi – special, raha – meeting. 0:26:03 – Example: if you lose something valuable, you will always remember it; remembrance is like meeting in the heart. 0:27:05 – Story of Bharata Maharaja and the deer; Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that the next birth depends on what or...

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