Jiva-tattva

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, The Conditioned Soul, body: bodily conception, body: dehatma-buddhi, Krishna: Krishna's flute, Krishna: Krishna's peacock feather, prema: stages, service: krishna-seva, soul: conditioned soul

14 Sep 2025 midday – Bodily Conception Is the Root of Mental Disturbance (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 14, 2025 12:00 PM

Once a year, Lord Jagannatha comes out of His Temple and grants His darsana to all the fallen souls. The minds of the gopis become very disturbed when Krsna goes out to herd, for they cannot tolerate separation from Him. Sneha means love and affection. In Kali-yuga, the conditioned soul has a disturbed mind, fighting within itself or with others because of its bodily conception (dehātmā-buddhiḥ). The thought of being this body and the supreme enjoyer is what disturbs our mind. ⁠The moment we...

2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, Gundicha-marjana Lila, The Conditioned Soul, anarthas: four types, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), anger: krodha (one of the enemies of spiritual life; cause of material bondage), bhaktas: how to respect Vaishnavas, body: bodily conception, character quality: lust and anger, maya: two functions, soul: conditioned soul

14 Sep 2025 morning – Anger and Lust Are Never Satisfied (Hindi) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 14, 2025 7:00 AM

* Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches us how to honor and respect Vaisnavas. * The reason Mahaprabhu collected stones and threw them away from the Gundica Temple. * First, the sadhaka must cleanse his heart. * Lust and anger will never be satisfied, no matter how much we serve them. * The conditioned soul has become a slave to lust and anger, hence wandering in this cycle of repeated birth and death. * The good fortune of associating with a sadhu and following his instructions eliminates lust and...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, Entry level discourses 2025, Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 20.102, Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 22.54, Hitopadesha 25, A Sadhu Who Liberated All the Suffering Souls in the Hell Solely by the Aroma of His Body, Purpose of Human Life, karma: cycle of birth and death, karma: law of karma, liberation

11 Sep 2025 evening – The Meaning of Life (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 11, 2025 6:00 PM

– In Kali-yuga, people only want to enjoy pleasures and it is very difficult for them to sit down to hear Harikatha. – In Kali-yuga, people are completely atheistic; they have no faith in the Lord or in the existence of reincarnation. This atheistic philosophy is completely false. – ⁠On Yamaraja, the law of karma, and Citragupta (Yamaraja’s servant who records all the acts of all human beings). – Scientific discoveries, such as the computer, are discovered because...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, api cet su-duracaro, satam prasangan mama virya-samvido, Bhagavad-gita 9.30, Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.25, Maila Lage Tan Mem, The Conditioned Soul, body: gross body, body: subtle body, book: Bible, character quality: criticism, Kala Krishnadasa, karma: cycle of birth and death, knowledge: jnana and vijnana, sambandha; abhidheya and prayojana, self-realisation, vegetarianism

10 Sep 2025 evening – Do Not Criticise Anyone (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 10, 2025 6:00 PM

– In the Kali Yuga, people do not ask themselves what their lives are for. – Krishna tells Arjuna that all living entities are His part and parcel. – Self-realisation is the best realisation. – Ask yourself: where will you go after you die? – The relationships in this world mean nothing. – We are caught in the cycle of birth and death. We must return to God, as the material world is not our permanent home. – Kapiladeva instructs Devahuti: ‘satāṁ...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Christchurch 2025, New Zealand 2025, The Conditioned Soul, anarthas: liberation from anarthas, anarthas: purification stages (eka-desa-varttini; bahu-desa-varttini; prayiki; purna and atyantiki), anarthas: removal of anarthas, anarthas: unwanted things (obstacles in devotional service; impurities of the heart), body: bodily identification, jiva: forgetting true identity, Krishna: Krishna is the Supreme Enjoyer, liberation, siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm), soul: conditioned soul, spiritual perfection: realisation of siddha-deha

09 Sep 2025 morning – Bodily Identification (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand

September 9, 2025 7:00 AM

– The importance of the sadhaka knowing how to free himself from anarthas (impurities). – On freeing himself from deep attachment to the material body. – The cause of all kinds of disturbances and unhappiness of the conditioned soul. – On forgetting our true identity and turning to Maya. – The practices involved in the process of liberation from anarthas. – Through the practice of bhajana and sadhana, we will forget our bodily identification. – The...

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Delhi 2025, India 2025, Madhurya-rasa, Purpose of Human Life

15 Aug 2025 morning – How to Obtain Eternal Happiness (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

August 15, 2025 6:26 AM

– One of the names of this material world is duniya, which means suffering. – When we experience a small, fleeting material pleasure, like fireworks, we call it happiness. – We remain completely deluded by Maya within the uninterrupted cycle of birth and death. – There is no true happiness in this world, which is the place of suffering. – If we act in the mode of goodness, we can obtain worldly happiness, such as being born into a high family, having wealth, and...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Brighton 2025, United Kingdom 2025, Purpose of Human Life, age: old age

31 Jul 2025 evening – The Human Body and the Service to the Lord (English) | Brighton, UK

July 31, 2025 6:00 PM

The human body is very rare to attain. – Scripture specifies the number of material bodies that exist among the 8,400,000 species of life. Sloka: jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati…(Visnu Purana in CC Madhya-lila 19.138). – The human being was created in the image of the Supreme Lord. – Meaning of the word “body”: birth, old age, disease, Yamaraja (the lord of death). – Ajamila, his son Narayana, the Yamadutas, the Visnudutas, and the power of the Holy...

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...

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