Rasa-tattva

2025, Discourses in Bengali 2025, Discourses in Hindi 2025, Sydney 2025, Australia 2025, Rasa-tattva, liberation, rasas: parakiya-rasa and svakiya-rasa, rasas: svakiya-rasa, Srimad-Bhagavatam: parts of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Srimad-Bhagavatam: sambandha; abhidheya and prayojana in Srimad-Bhagavatam

21 Sep 2025 еvening – True Love (Bengali & Hindi) | Sydney, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 21, 2025 6:00 PM

About the Srimad-Bhagavatam: From the 1st to the 9th Canto, the text discusses sambandha-jñana; the 10th Canto presents prayojana; the 11th and 12th Canto discuss abhidheya. Our goal (prayojana) is not to achieve liberation or salvation, but rather krsna-prema, krsna-sambandha, krsna-prayojana. We must first understand material love before we can discuss transcendental love. Srila Gurudeva tells a story about the path of love to explain material love. The love of the material world is not...

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Perth 2025, Australia 2025, Prema-rasa, rasas: parakiya-rasa and svakiya-rasa, rasas: svakiya-rasa, Srimad-Bhagavatam: parts of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Srimad-Bhagavatam: sambandha; abhidheya and prayojana in Srimad-Bhagavatam

21 Sep 2025 evening – True Love (English translation) | Perth, Australia

September 21, 2025 6:00 PM

About the Srimad-Bhagavatam: From the 1st to the 9th Canto, the text discusses sambandha-jñana; the 10th Canto presents prayojana; the 11th and 12th Canto discuss abhidheya. Our goal (prayojana) is not to achieve liberation or salvation, but rather krsna-prema, krsna-sambandha, krsna-prayojana. We must first understand material love before we can discuss transcendental love. Srila Gurudeva tells a story about the path of love to explain material love. The love of the material world is not...

2025, Discourses Translated into English 2025, Sydney 2025, Australia 2025, Prema-rasa, Bharata-varsha: sacred land of India (land where spiritual culture and devotional traditions have flourished)

19 Sep 2025 evening – The Definition of Prema (English translation) | Sydney, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 19, 2025 6:00 PM

In Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila 2.43, we find the definition of prema given by Krsnadasa Kaviraja. Except Krsna, everyone is enjoyee, and Krsna is the enjoyer. Sanatana consists of that which is unchanging and ever-increasing. Krsna’s dharma is to bestow love (prema). Pure love for Krsna is not present in this world. In the Ramayana, the pastime where Sita is abducted, Rama questions whether Hanuman saw Her alive, as Sita cannot bear separation from Rama. Sita sustained Her vital...

2025, Discourses in Bengali 2025, Sydney 2025, Australia 2025, Prema-rasa, Bharata-varsha: sacred land of India (land where spiritual culture and devotional traditions have flourished)

19 Sep 2025 evening – The Definition of Prema (Bengali) | Sydney, Australia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 19, 2025 5:48 PM

In Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila 2.43, we find the definition of prema given by Krsnadasa Kaviraja. Except Krsna, everyone is enjoyee, and Krsna is the enjoyer. Sanatana consists of that which is unchanging and ever-increasing. Krsna’s dharma is to bestow love (prema). Pure love for Krsna is not present in this world. In the Ramayana, the pastime where Sita is abducted, Rama questions whether Hanuman saw Her alive, as Sita cannot bear separation from Rama. Sita sustained Her vital...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Whangarei 2025, New Zealand 2025, na paraye ’ham niravadya-samyujam, Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.32.22, The Gopis Ask Krishna Nine Questions, Morning walks 2025, Gopi-prema, aparadhi: offender (one who commits offenses; one who acts against Krishna, devotees, holy name, dhama and other aspects of bhakti), atmarama: self-satisfied souls (those who are satisfied in the self; liberated persons absorbed in spiritual realization), character qualities: akrtajna (ungratefulness), disciples: guru-drohi, prema: hetu-prema and ahetu-prema, rasas: sakhya-bhava, renunciation: aptakama ((those whose desires are fulfilled), siddha-deha: spiritual body (eternal perfected body for serving Krishna in the spiritual realm), Can Gurudeva in sakhya-bhava help his disciple awaken sthayibhava in madhurya-rasa?

17 Sep 2025 morning walk – The Nine Questions of the Gopis to Krishna (English) | Whangarei, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

September 17, 2025 7:00 AM

The gopis asked Krishna what lust was. The gopis also asked Krishna why He had caused them so much pain by disappearing. The gopis wanted to hear about the different types of prema from Krishna. These types of people never return your love or friendship: atmarama: self-satisfied (Shukadeva Gosvami); aptakama: whose all desires are fulfilled (Janaka Maharaja); guru-drohi/aparadhi: akritajna, ungrateful. Hetu-prema is love with a cause (examples: birds love the forest for its fruits, a woman...

2025, Discourses in English 2025, Brisbane 2025, Australia 2025, Vraja-bhava

28 August 2025 evening – Mahaprabhu, Harikatha and Krsna (English) | Brisbane, Australia

August 28, 2025 6:00 PM

– Srila Gurudeva BV Vana Gosvami Maharaja says he tries to preach throughout the world as Mahaprabhu desired and predicted: pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma… (Caitanya Bhagavata: Antya-khanda 4.126).– Srila Gurudeva BV Narayana Gosvami Maharaja said, “I want to build a Temple in your hearts.” This happens by hearing Harikatha.– Listen to Harikatha from a vraja-rasika devotee.– Song: Anaradhya Radha Padambhoja.– ⁠Kings Sibi and Hariscandra made donations to...

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 Translated into English 2025, Vraja 2025, Vrindavana 2025, India 2025, Parakiya-bhava

08 Aug 2025 morning (room) – The Supremacy of Parakiya-bhava (English translation) | Vrindavana, India

August 8, 2025 7:00 AM

– The more we glorify Vaisnavas, the more we are protected from Maya.– Often, after the appearance of a prominent Vaisnava, many quarrels occur, but it is the specialty of these Vaisnavas to keep everyone together.– The moods: svakīya-bhāva refers to those who are part of the family, and parakīya-bhāva refers to those who are outsiders or who are very close and dear.– Of these two moods, parakīya is better; although it is considered degraded in this material world, it...

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