The Transcendental Teachings of HH Bhaktividyā Pūrṇa Svāmī
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          • Brahma Saṁhitā
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          • Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1
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        • Year 3
          • Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 4
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          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 7
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          • Vedānta Sūtra
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          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10
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          • Notes on Bhāgavata
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10
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          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 12
          • Tattva-sandarbha
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        • Year 1
          • Bhāgavata Sandarbha
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          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā
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          • Tattva Sandarbha
        • Year 2
          • Bhāgavata Sandarbha
          • Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya-līlā
          • Paramātmā Sandarbha
          • Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha
          • Lalitā-Mādhava
          • Nātya Śāstra
          • Songs of the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas
        • Year 3
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya-līlā
          • Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha
          • Songs of the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas
      • Cetanopayanam
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The Transcendental Teachings of HH Bhaktividyā Pūrṇa Svāmī
The Transcendental Teachings of HH Bhaktividyā Pūrṇa Svāmī
  • Home
  • About
  • Biography
  • Kīrtanas and Japa
  • Lectures
    • Seminary
      • About Seminary
      • Precursor
        • Introduction to Śāstra-cakṣus by Suhotra Mahārāja
        • Ānvīkṣikī
        • Bhagavad-Gītā Preface, Intro
        • Bhagavad-Gītā SCP
        • Nectar of Devotion Preface SCP
        • Nyāya, Tātparya Liṅga & Daśa-mūla SCP
        • Philosophical Definitions
        • Review of Tātparya-liṅgas
        • Ṣaḍ Darśanam SCP
        • Śrī Śikṣāṣṭakam
        • Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta & Daśa Mūla Tattva
        • Śrī Īśopaniṣad SCP
        • Śrī Īśopaniṣad Thematic Study SCP
        • Tattva Viveka SCP
        • The Vedic literature
      • Śāstra-Cakṣus
        • Year 1
          • Bhagavad-gītā Seriatim
          • Śrī Īśopaniṣad Seriatim
          • Nectar of Devotion Seriatim
          • Nectar of Instruction Seriatim
        • Year 2
          • Bhagavad-gītā Thematic
          • Śrī Īśopaniṣad Thematic
          • Nectar of Devotion Thematic
          • Nectar of Instruction Thematic
        • Year 3
          • Apasampradāyas
          • Bṛhad Manu Śikṣā
          • Jaiva Dharma
          • Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta
          • Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta Selected Readings
          • Ṣad-darśanam
          • Tattva Viveka
      • Darśana-Cakṣus
        • Year 1
          • Brahma Saṁhitā
          • Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 1
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 2
          • Tattva Sandarbha
        • Year 2
          • Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 4
        • Year 3
          • Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 4
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 5
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 6
      • Vedānta-Cakṣus
        • Year 1
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 7
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 8
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 9
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10
          • Vedānta Sūtra
        • Year 2
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10
          • Vedānta Sūtra
        • Year 3
          • Bhāgavatārka Marīci-mālā
          • Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu
          • Notes on Bhāgavata
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 11
          • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 12
          • Tattva-sandarbha
      • Prema-Cakṣus
        • Year 1
          • Bhāgavata Sandarbha
          • Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā
          • Tattva Sandarbha
        • Year 2
          • Bhāgavata Sandarbha
          • Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya-līlā
          • Paramātmā Sandarbha
          • Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha
          • Lalitā-Mādhava
          • Nātya Śāstra
          • Songs of the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas
        • Year 3
          • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya-līlā
          • Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha
          • Songs of the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas
      • Cetanopayanam
        • Puruṣa-sūkta
        • Nyāya-sūtras
        • Sat-Kriyā-Sāra-Dīpikā
    • Audio
      • Astrology, Desires and Free Will Seminar
      • Bhagavad-gītā Lectures Vṛndāvana
      • Bhagavad-gītā Overview
      • Brahmacharya Classes
      • Brahma Saṁhitā
      • Community Development Seminar july 2020
      • Community Development Seminar August 2020
      • Cooperation of Devotees Seminar
      • Deity Worship Seminar Boston
      • Deity Worship Seminar Māyāpur
      • Education for Children, Youth and Newcomers Seminar
      • Family Relationship Seminar Moscow
      • Festival Lectures
      • Gṛhastha Āśrama Lectures
      • Gṛhastha Āśrama Seminar
      • Identifying Our Psychophysical Nature Seminar
      • Interactions of the Mind, Intelligence and False Ego
      • Jaiva Dharma Seminar
      • Lust, Anger and Greed Seminar
      • Mahābhārata Lectures & Seminars
        • Mahābhārata Course
        • Mahābhārata Hungary 2001-2002
        • Mahābhārata for Boys
        • Mahābhārata Seminar 2007
        • Mahābhārata Seminar 2008
      • Manu Saṁhitā Lectures & Seminars
        • Manu Saṁhitā for Ladies
        • Manu Saṁhitā for Men
        • Manu Saṁhitā Overview
        • Manu Saṁhitā Seminar
        • Manu Saṁhitā Śrī Prahlāda
        • Manu Śikṣā Sāra
      • Man Woman Interaction Seminar
      • Miscellaneous lectures
      • Nectar of Devotion Seminar
      • Nectar of Instruction Seminar
      • Pañcarātra Viddhi Seminar
      • Parā-śikṣā Symposium
      • Personal Development and Sādhana
      • Prasādam Seva Seminar
      • Pūjā Seminar
      • Relationship Seminar
      • Saṁskāras
      • Science of Relationships Seminar
      • Śraddhā to Prema Seminar Helsinki
      • Śraddhā to Prema Seminar London
      • Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Lectures
      • Śrīla Prabhupāda Līlāmṛta
      • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Course
      • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 1 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 2 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 4 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 5 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 6 Lectures
        • Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 7 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 8 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 9 Lectures
        • Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 10 Lectures
      • The Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service Seminar
      • The Six Principles of Brahmacharya
      • The Vedic Paradigm Seminar
      • Vaiṣṇava Relationships Seminar
      • Vaiṣṇava Culture and Varṇāśrama
      • Vaiṣṇava Etiquette and Culture
      • Vaiṣṇava Etiquette and Varṇāśrama
      • Varṇāśrama Lectures and Seminars
        • Varṇāśrama-Dharma Seminar Finland
        • Varnasrama Mayapur
        • Varṇāśrama Seminar Māyāpur 1997
        • Varṇāśrama Seminar Māyāpur 1998
        • Varṇāśrama Seminar Māyāpur 1999
        • Varṇāśrama Seminar Latvia
        • Varṇāśrama Seminar Bulgaria
      • Vedānta Psychology Mayapur 2009
      • Vedic Leadership and Management Lectures
        • Vedic Leadership and Management Seminar Māyāpur 2010
        • Vedic leadership and management Seminar – Teachings of Pṛthu Mahārāja – Finland
        • Vedic leadership and management Seminar – Teachings of Parīkṣit Mahārāja – Finland
      • Vedic Literature
      • Vedic Pedagogy
      • Vedic Psychology
    • Videos
      • Deity Worship Seminar Boston Video
  • Topics
    • Deity Worship
    • Leadership and Management
    • Masculine and Feminine Principles
    • Varnāśrama
  • Transcriptions/New App
  • What’s New
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HUSBAND IS ‘GBC,’ WIFE IS ‘TEMPLE PRESIDENT’
Prabhu: In the lectures here as you gave in 1997 you said that the husband should act as a temple president, and the wife as a temple commander. Could you explain? HH BVPS Maharaja: Are you sure? I would have probably said, the husband is like the GBC, the wife
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INFIDELITY IN MARRIAGE
Mataji: If the husband or the wife cannot be faithful to the other, whose fault is this? The fault of both or just one? HH BVPS Maharaja: This is a very dangerous yatra [Laughter]. It can be both. It's very complex, this one, it takes a great amount of maturity
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Are There Avataras of All Species of Life?
Prabhu: When we read in the Bhagavatam that Krishna appears in all species of life to call back the living entities, how to understand this? HH BVPS Maharaja: Means? Oh, okay. Means, we've already seen Him come as a Fish, as a Turtle, as a Boar, like that. So every
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MAN PREACHING TO WOMEN
Prabhu: It often happens that if a man preaches nicely to a woman, to a Mataji, then the Mataji will feel that this man would make a nice husband for me, so how can we avoid this? Not to preach? By not preaching to women, or by preaching in not
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"Being personal means dealing with the actual nature of the other person. What is your relationship with the other person? What is expected of you in that relationship? That's personal. So personal may mean not being nice and chummy, it may be being very firm. Do you understand? So, personal
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"All the good qualities of the world still have no meaning unless they touch Krishna, because where does the quality come from? It comes from Krishna, that's the point. Compassion itself, that quality is Krishna. The forms that can manifest compassion are manifest through his internal potency, then you have
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Upanayanam Yajna
Upanayanam Yajna
Beautiful mantra chanting and address at an Upanayanam (Vedic initiation) ceremony at Sridham Mayapur, May 2002
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"The experience of the mind situated in goodness is far greater than what is experienced in passion and ignorance. In comparison it may not look as great, just like if you run water through some rocks there is a lot of movement, a lot of waves. But if you run
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We are all alone in this world
"There are 7 billion people on the planet, how many are experiencing what we are experiencing? Basically, only us. That's always the thing, we are always thinking, we want to share whatever our happiness is or distress is with others, because only we know what they are, others don't. If
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"Management is an art, it's something that shudras can do very nicely. There are shudras who their art is management, they are very expert, but they can't give shelter to people, they can only manage. So when you see management without shelter, you are dealing with vaishyas or shudras. But
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