Questions:

2min

It’s easy to understand intellectually that there is a difference between the body and the self, but how to realize this and live accordingly?

43min

What is the Gaudiya Vaishnava understanding of how consciousness influences matter?

1h 2min

How important is diksa to progress through the stages of bhakti?

Swami B. V. Tripurari -- Brahma Vimohan Lila & Brahma Stuti, part 2: The Truths the Stories Tell

Archana-siddhi dasi is interviewing devotees about their sadhaka journeys with a backdrop of Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey. Looking at our spiritual quest through the eyes of a hero's journey helps us embrace both the beauty and messiness we encounter on the way. Cultivating this vision helps the spiritual practitioners to accept everything that happens in their lives as favorable to obtaining their ultimate goals in bhakti. The interviews are also a way to help connect our international sanga.

Swami B. V. Tripurari -- Brahma Vimohan Lila, part 1

Swami B. V. Tripurari -- Tirobhava Mahotsava of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarsvati Thakura Prabhupada

Questions:

4min

If devotion is the supreme happiness, why do we hear so many examples of great devotees lamenting about their perceived misfortune?

19min

What does it mean that Sri Krishna did not feel separation from his friends during the Brahma-vimohan-lila because he was close to them in an expanded form that searched for their calves?

26min

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita teaches that Paramatma sanctions the fulfillment of the desires of materialists as well as spiritualists. On what criteria does he do so?

35min

Is the change from Paramatma to Sri Krishna as the deity of one’s heart an overnight thing, or is it something that happens gradually?

39min

Are the twelve forests of Vrindavan related with the twelve gopalas? Is there a special meaning to numbers in Gaudiya Vaishnavism?

45min

Some say that bhakti is vicarious for lay practitioners, meaning that they support the monastics, and the monastics do the bhakti for them. What are your thoughts on this?

54min

Do the priya-narma-sakhas experience vicariously what Sri Krishna experiences in union with Srimati Radharani in the same way that the manjaris experience what Srimati Radharani experiences In union with Sri Krishna?

Archana-siddhi dasi is interviewing devotees about their sadhaka journeys with a backdrop of Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey. Looking at our spiritual quest through the eyes of a hero's journey helps us embrace both the beauty and messiness we encounter on the way. Cultivating this vision helps the spiritual practitioners to accept everything that happens in their lives as favorable to obtaining their ultimate goals in bhakti. The interviews are also a way to help connect our international sanga.

Anucchedas 30–74.4

First Division: Supportive Statements - Anucchedas 30–43

Second Division: Kṛṣṇa Is the Subject

of the Bhāgavata’s Major Dialogue - Anucchedas 44–73

Third and Fourth Divisions: Hermeneutics —

Ṣaṭ-pramāṇa and Ṣaḍ-liṅga - Anucchedas74.1–74.4

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of scriptural texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate comprehension fails and includes the art of understanding and communication.��Now, he begins a new investigation to validate the same conclusion, analysing the subject of the book from the six hermeneutical indicators described in the Jaimini-sūtra:

When direct statement (śruti),3 inferential mark or word meaning (liṅga), sentence or syntactical connection (vākya), context or interdependence (prakaraṇa), position or order of words (sthāna), and name (samākhyā) are present simultaneously, each member is progressively weaker in interpretive force, because of increasing remoteness from the meaning. (Jaimini-sūtra 3.3.14)

In the second chapter of Jiva Dharma, Bhaktivinoda Thakura establishes that Krsna-prema is the nitya-dharma, or the highest potential of the jiva. While doing so, he says some apparently unflattering words about other faith traditions like advaita-vedanta, buddhism, and islam.

As Gaudiya sadhakas in a pluralistic world, how are we to harmonize our faith in krsna-prema being the true nature of the soul with respecting other wisdom traditions?

Mohini dasi, bhakti yoga scholar, will speak on the Mercy of Sri Nityananda Through Song and Sastra.