Where Do The Ṛtviks Come From?
Just managerially you become Guru, you don’t have to have any spiritual qualification. Just by being the temple president then you are automatically Guru. That’s all, this is just politics.
The Scorned Sleep Peacefully
A brāhmana should always fear homage as if it were poison; and constantly desire to suffer scorn as though he would long for nectar. For he who is scorned may sleep with an easy mind, but the scorner utterly perishes.
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #8
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #8 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070803_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Who is the Saci-suta? Mataji: He is not here. HH BVPS Maharaja: He is not here, I see. That makes it that much easier. [Laughter] I can answer in 5 minutes, and he is not here to complain. [Laughter]
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #7
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #7 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070803_1_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: So we’ll begin with these questions on the varnashrama. So it opens with… Written question: Problem nowadays, how to realize Daivi-varnashrama? HH BVPS Maharaja: It’s a matter of understanding. Only if you understand then you can actually apply. First you hear, then contemplating […]
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #6
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #6 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070802_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Any questions? [Laughter] Prabhu: Let’s take someone, not me, but someone… [Laughter] HH BVPS Maharaja: Okay, just a hypothetical… [Laughter] Some person of the 6 billion, could be any culture, any place, any time…
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #5
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #5 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070802_1_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 So the Vedic culture then begins with the brahmachari ashrama. Brahmachari means is where one is studying actually to understand what is human life. One understands what is transcendence, how is the process of attaining it. Because from there, then any other position that one will […]
Man and Woman Interaction Lecture #2
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #2 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070801_1_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 Holy name, that’s the main principle. Always remember Krishna, then that means, we are always absorbed in Krishna. Absorbed in His name, form, qualities, pastimes. But the other side, never forget Krishna, that means being able to either give up those things that are not useful in […]
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #4
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #4 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070801_3_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Are there any more questions? Prabhu: So this question of being personal, how is it applied amongst devotees… But my feeling is that it’s really the question of… I mean, they are, in reality they are asking, “Who is going to love me?” […]
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #3
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #3 Eger, Hungary https://learn.bhagavatam108.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20070801_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 Can you express love…? If somebody is dealing, you are with someone right now, how do you express your love to them in the future or in the past? Can you do that? You are with them now, you have to express it now, so how […]
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How Kali Attacks the Saṅkīrtana Movement
Kali-rāja knows: you break down restriction, you break down relationships. You break down relationships, people can’t work together. People can’t work together, you cannot have saṅkīrtana.