MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #7 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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

MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #6 Eger, Hungary https://usercontent.one/wp/bhaktividyapurnaswami.com/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 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.