Making the Home Vṛndāvana: Sat-saṅga, Niṣṭhā and the Glories of Girirāja and Rādhā-kuṇḍa • A Home Becomes Goloka: Blessing the hosts’ family, Gurudeva quotes Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s “je-dina gṛhe bhajana dekhi, gṛhete goloka bhāya” (the day bhajana is seen in the home, that home becomes Goloka). Quoting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (na yatra vaikuṇṭha-kathā-sudhāpagā…), he warns that a house without Hari-kathā and sādhus, however opulent, is like a hole that a rat digs and a...
satam prasangan mama virya-samvido
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21 Sep 2026 morning – The Glories of Sadhu-sanga (English) – Auckland, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– Cit-sakti, jiva-sakti and maya-sakti explained. – The nature of love, Prema, comes from both sides. – Shloka to illustrate that the nature of divine love, prema, is reciprocal: akhila-rasāmṛta-mūrtiḥ… (BRS 1.1.1). – Krishna’s name explained. – Who is truly mad in this world? Krishna-preme-pagal. – The three types of uttam-uttam maha-bhagavat: nirduta; bhagavat-parsad-dehoprapta, and muchita. – Harikatha of Srila Sukadeva Gosvami’s...
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17 Aug 2026 evening – The beautiful Glories of Sadhu-sanga and Holy Names (English) – Lisbon, Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Church XL – It is very rare for a jiva to hear harikatha. – Our life as a drop of water on a lotus petal – Durlabha mānaśo deho illustrates this (S.B. 11.2.29). – Speciality of the human body is to achieve suddha-bhakti. – Tulasi Das tells our fortune to receive Sadhu-sanga by mercy of Lord Ramacandra. – We must relentlessly endeavour for spiritual life, as like the lion hunts the deer. – Pastimes of Mukunda Datta and his son, Raghunandana. – Lord...
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22 Jun 2026 midday – Sadhu-Sanga and Faith Come First (English) – Coventry, UK
House program – Verse: ‘sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya… (CC Madhya 22.54). – Verse: satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ…(Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.25). – Without a faithful saint there is no chance of leaving the material world, for he emanates a transcendental sound, sabda-brahma. – According to the Scriptures, the first instruction is that we should serve and respect our parents. – Mahaprabhu instructed...
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22 Apr 2026 evening – Krishna-katha feeds the souls (English) – Siedelsbrunn, Germany
– Time is very precious. – Dehatma-buddhi (bodily conception) is the root cause of our problems. – Verse: satam prasangan mama virya-samvido…(SB 3.25.25). – The 7th Gosvami Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura fulfilled all the desires of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. – Verse: dadāti pratigṛhṇāti guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati…(Upadeshamrita 4). – Do not ask material questions of a sadhu. You create your own problems and must solve them yourself. – Ask spiritual questions...
2025, Discourses in English 2025, Discourses Translated into Spanish 2025, Tepoztlan 2025, Mexico 2025, satam prasangan mama virya-samvido, Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 22.54, Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.25, Prema-rasa, bhakti: sadhana-bhakti, bhakti: vaidhi-bhakti, liberation, sadhu-sanga: importance
25 Dec 2025 morning – Prema-prayojana (English) – Tepoztlan, Mexico
– Krsna is our sambandha (knowledge of relationship), and prema (love) is prayojana, our highest goal! – Krsna is not our goal, our goal is Krsna-prema! – About the process of sadhana-bhakti: from sraddha to prema. – Paramarthika-sraddha (transcendental faith) and lokikhi-sraddha (material faith, etiquette). – Two types of paramarthika-sraddha: vaidhi-sraddha and raganuga-sraddha. – About raganuga-bhakti and vaidhi-bhakti. – A verse explaining the...
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10 Sep 2025 evening – Do Not Criticise Anyone (English) | Christchurch, New Zealand
– 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...
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07 Jul 2025 evening – The Glories of Bhagavat-Katha (English) | Miami, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
– The glories of listening to Harikatha. – Verse: śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ (SB 1.2.17). – Verse: śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam (SB 7.5.23). – Verse: satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ (SB 3.25.25). – Verse: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ kavibhir īḍitaṁ kalmaṣāpaham (SB 10.31.9). – Verse: na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ (BG 15.6). – Verse: mamottamaśloka-janeṣu...