– It is offensive to stand up and walk back and forth during the Harikatha. – Who wants to become a Manjari? Palya Dasi Kori. – Chant the Holy Names with quality; this is more important than quantity. – About the Gandarvas, those who are experts in playing instruments, singing, and dancing, and Srimati Radhika, She who is called Gandarvika because She is the source of all arts. – About the book Radha Hriday Khanda Brahmanda Purana, the section in Brahmanda Purana...
workshops
2022, cooking, samskaras, vaidhi-bhakti, English, Portuguese, Undisclosed, Brazil, Brazil 2022, workshops
27 Feb 2022 morning – Food offering, bathing (English) – Brazil
-Question: What’s the right way to take the dust of the lotus feet of a vaishnava?-Bhakta-pada-dhuli, bhakta-pada-jala, bhakta-bhukta-shesha-Story of a pandita and his not clever servant-In vaidhi-bhakti you are not even allowed to smell what you are cooking, because if you smell it, you are considered to have eaten half of it-Bathing after passing stool and urine-Keep silence in 3 places as much as possible: hari-katha, Thakuraji and kitchen, especially during hari-katha!-Adhunika-samskaras...
2017, anger, avidya, Book: Hari-bhakti-vilasa, envy, four sampradayas, ghee lamp, ghosts, guru-parampara, laziness, Mantra: Klim, offences, sacred thread, spiritual progress, types of sakhis, Universe, vastu-siddhi, Hindi, Undisclosed, Suriname, Suriname 2017, Airport, for beginners, workshops
04 May 2017 – Practical devotional life. How to perform archana (Hindi) – Suriname
Discourse: [By request of the devotees, Shrila Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja gave this special introductory class in Surinam on 2017/05/04 about the process and meaning of archana – worship. He is presenting the history and context of the process of archana to the new devotee not familiar with the ancient Vedic system of worship.]         Success in this process cannot be achieved by following any ‘mechanical methodology’. In order to practice archana in its pure form and awaken pure...