Weekly Sanga

Weekly Sanga

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Weekly Sanga episodes

  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 62-63 – June 14, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 62-63


    mahā-mahā-citra-vicitra-geha-
    dvāra-pradeśān atigamya vegāt
    śrīman-mahalla-pravarasya madhye
    prāsāda-vargaiḥ pariṣevitāṅghrim

    prāsādam ekaṁ vividhair mahattā-

    pūrair viśiṣṭaṁ para-sīma-yātaiḥ
    prāpto ’ham āditya-sudhāṁśu-koṭi-
    kāntiṁ mano-locana-vṛtti-coram

    TRANSLATION

    I passed rapidly through many districts, wonderfully splendid, with all kinds of houses and gates, and then I entered the most excellent transcendental neighborhood. There I came to one palace at whose feet many others stood in attendance, a palace distinct, overflowing in greatness, where excellence seemed to reach its highest limit. Radiant like millions of suns and moons, it captured my mind and my eyes.

    57 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 56-57 – June 10, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 56-57


    itthaṁ harṣa-prakarṣeṇot-
    tiṣṭhann upaviśan bhṛśam
    gopure vartamāno ’haṁ
    tair javenaitya pārṣadaiḥ

    antaḥ praveśyamāno yad

    dṛṣṭavān adbhutādbhutam
    vaktuṁ tad dvi-parārdhena
    sahasrāsyo ’pi na kṣamaḥ

    TRANSLATION

    Thus I thrilled with delight as I waited in the gateway to Vaikuṇṭha. I excitedly stood up and sat down, stood up and sat down, till the associates of the Lord returned, rushing back, and escorted me inside. The amazing things I then saw, more wonderful than wonderful, even the thousand-headed Ananta Śeṣa would be unable to describe, even in a lifetime of Brahmā.

    56 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 42-43 – June 7, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 42-43


    tathāpi bhavato brahman
    prapañcāntar-gatasya hi
    prapañca-parivārāntar-
    dṛṣṭi-garbhita-cetasaḥ

    tad-dṛṣṭāntākulenaiva

    tat tat syād bodhitaṁ sukham
    tathety ucyeta yat kiñcit
    tad āgaḥ kṣamatāṁ hariḥ

    TRANSLATION

    Nonetheless, my dear brāhmaṇa, you are a resident of the material world, and your intelligence is confined because you can see only matter. Therefore I say “It is like this” so that by material examples you might understand various things more easily. May Lord Hari forgive this offense.

    59 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 28 – June 3, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 28


    ke ’py ekaśo dvandvaśo ’nye
    yugapad bahuśo ’pare
    pūrva-pūrvādhika-śrīkāḥ
    praviśanti purīṁ prabhoḥ

    TRANSLATION

    Many others came — some alone, others in pairs, and yet others together in larger groups — and all of them, each more splendid than the last, entered the city of the Lord.

    51 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 14 – May 31, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 14


    tad asvī-kṛtya tu svīyaṁ
    govardhana-bhuvaṁ vapuḥ
    teṣāṁ prabhāvatas tādṛg-
    guṇa-rūpādy alambhayam

    TRANSLATION

    But I refused their offer, and instead, by their influence, my own body born in Govardhana assumed qualities and beauty like theirs.

    47 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 10-11 – May 27, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 10-11


    tāvat taiḥ pārṣadair etya
    vaikuṇṭhaṁ netum ātmanaḥ
    yānam āropitaḥ sadyo
    vyutthāyācālayaṁ dṛśau

    sarvam anyādṛśaṁ dṛṣṭvā

    vismitaḥ svasthatāṁ gataḥ
    pārśve ’paśyaṁ purā dṛṣṭāṁs
    tān evātma-priyaṁ-karān

    TRANSLATION

    At that moment the associates of the Lord arrived in an airplane to take me to Vaikuṇṭha. They at once put me on that plane and carried me away, and when I opened my eyes I saw that everything was different. Shocked, I returned to full consciousness and saw them beside me, the same benefactors I had met before.

    1 hr
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184 – May 24, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184


    śrīman-nāma prabhos tasya
    śrī-mūrter apy ati-priyam
    jagad-dhitaṁ sukhopāsyaṁ
    sa-rasaṁ tat-samaṁ na hi

    TRANSLATION

    Dearer to the Lord than even His own beautiful form, His easily worshiped holy name benefits the entire world. Indeed, nothing is as full of nectar as the holy name of the Lord.

    55 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184 – May 20, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184


    śrīman-nāma prabhos tasya
    śrī-mūrter apy ati-priyam
    jagad-dhitaṁ sukhopāsyaṁ
    sa-rasaṁ tat-samaṁ na hi

    TRANSLATION

    Dearer to the Lord than even His own beautiful form, His easily worshiped holy name benefits the entire world. Indeed, nothing is as full of nectar as the holy name of the Lord.

    51 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 168 – May 17, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 168


    vicitra-līlā-rasa-sāgarasya
    prabhor vicitrāt sphuritāt prasādāt
    vicitra-saṅkīrtana-mādhurī sā
    na tu sva-yatnād iti sādhu sidhyet

    TRANSLATION

    The wonderfully varied sweetness of saṅkīrtana emerges only by the mercy shown in various wonderful ways by the Lord, the wonderful ocean of the varied rasas of pastimes. This sweetness one can never truly achieve by one’s own endeavor.

    55 min
  • Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 167 – May 13, 2026

    Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 167


    nāmnāṁ tu saṅkīrtanam ārti-bhārān
    meghaṁ vinā prāvṛṣi cātakānām
    rātrau viyogāt sva-pate rathāṅgī-
    vargasya cākrośana-vat pratīhi

    TRANSLATION

    Like the distressed crying of the cātaka birds on a cloudless day of the rainy season, or the lamenting of a flock of cakravākī birds when parted from their husbands at night, the saṅkīrtana of the Lord’s names arises when one is burdened by too much pain.

    59 min

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