MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #5 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #2 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #4 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #3 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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
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.
It is true, we just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, but what does that mean? How do we apply that as a conditioned soul? That we have to understand. We do chant, that is our main focus, yes. But since we are not satisfied with that, therefore there are other processes.
The whole mood of the vrata is that it’s about Kṛṣṇa, but here it’s just all about their inconvenience of fasting. So better they not fast. They will get more spiritual benefit.
For Kṛṣṇa, spending time with the devotees - that is what is important. Just getting things done, He is already doing that as Paramātmā, and He is not with the devotees, that's why it is considered a lower level.
The neophyte thinks self-centered, because they feel themselves are important. Therefore the Guru's importance is there because the Guru is connected to me. So the neophytes tend to fight over the importance of who is serving their Guru. Because I am serving my Guru, the whole world stops and everybody
"What I am and the reason people come to me, and what you are doing is inconsistent with that. How you are behaving and focusing is consistent with a sādhu who is focused on the Supreme Lord."