Jiva-tattva

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into French 2025, Mirepoix 2025, France 2025, The Conditioned Soul, maya: gunas, siddha-pranali: system of spiritual lineage (process of receiving the identity of one's spiritual form through a lineage of teachers)

28 May 2025 evening – How to clean our heart (English) | Mirepoix, France | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 28, 2025 6:00 PM

– If you dance in front of Thakuraji, Maya-devi will leave you alone. If you do not dance in front of Them, however, Maya-devi will make you dance in front of her instead. – Even spending a moment in the association of a sadhu is very powerful. – Our aim is to attain vraja-prema. – When a sadhaka attains prema, his soul is divided into two. One part serves in gaura-lila and the other in krishna-lila. – Vipralabha has four types: purvaraga, mana, pravasa and prema...

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 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 in English 2025, Hari-katha 2025 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Krishna's Flute, The Conditioned Soul, Krishna: Krishna's flute

04 May 2025 midday – Why we do not listen to Krishna’s flute (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

May 4, 2025 12:29 PM

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...

2024, Discourses in English 2024, Hari-katha 2024 (Undisclosed country), Undisclosed, Devotional Service to Krishna, Purpose of Human Life, service: guru-seva

07 Jun 2024 midday – We Came to This World to Serve Krishna (English) | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

June 7, 2024 12:34 AM

The supreme virtue is forgiveness. Why doesn’t Maya Devi have compassion for us? Our offense is not serving Krsna and wanting to enjoy the material world. You can follow all the rules, but if you don’t serve Krsna, everything is useless. Bhajana Rahasya by Bhaktivinoda Thakura and the process of practicing devotional service to the Lord. Sloka: guru-pādāśraya… (CC Madhya 22.115). 1st step: take shelter at the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master. 2nd step: receive spiritual...

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