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Sunday Feast Lecture–110508 Causeless And Irresistible

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Monday, April 2nd, 2012 in Audio | Comments (0)

110508 Causeless And Irresistible.mp3 (50 minutes, 34.7 MB)

In this Sunday Feast lecture Srila Janardan Maharaj reveals his personal struggle to understand one aspect of Krishna Consciousness. He is very humble and honest in revealing that he never felt like his service could be “unmotivated and uninterrupted” even though he often spoke the following famous verse from Srimad Bhagavatam (1.2.6):

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokshaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati

“The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.”

Srila Sridhar Maharaj solved his dilemma by explaining to him a wonderful new meaning of that verse. His answer is illuminating and deeply satisfying. In summary, he says that divine service itself is “causeless and irresistible”. Causeless in that it is independent and irresistible like a tsunami.

More Lectures by Srila Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 in Audio | Comments (0)

His Grace Srila Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj is the Sevaite-Acharya of our Santa Cruz Seva Ashram. An expert preacher, he embodies the principles of bhakti-yoga and self-surrender. The following recordings include lectures from Sunday feasts, festival days, preaching programs, and daily classes on the holy scripture Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita. To read his biography click here.

If you are unable to listen to these files on your computer, please send an email to Info@SevaAshram.org. We may be able to send you an audio or mp3 CD in the mail.

Lectures delivered on Festival Days:

110910 Bhaktivinod Thakur Appearance.mp3 (38 minutes, 26.3 MB)

Daily Morning Reading from Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita:

110826 Adi Ch 11 Branches of Lord Nityananda.mp3 (43 Minutes, 29.7 MB)

110829 Adi Ch13 Appearance Lila.mp3 (30 minutes, 20.3 MB)

110830 Adi Ch14 Childhood Lila.mp3 (40 minutes, 30.2 MB)

110901 Adi Ch16 Dig Vijai Pandit.mp3 (58 minutes, 40.4 MB)

Lectures by Sripad Bhakti Sharan Vaishnav Maharaj

Posted by Sushila Devi Dasi on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 in Audio | Comments (0)

Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj’s exciting lectures convey his deep and contagious appreciation for Srila Govinda Maharaj and his teachings. Vaishnav Maharaj’s tone was always very honest and his advice focused on the essential aspects of Bhakti-yoga. Our recordings include Sunday Feast lectures, Saturday Feast lectures at the San Jose Ashram, classes on Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam, and short (1-5 minute) clips from those lectures.

Lectures delivered at the Sunday Feast:

110710 Reciprocating with Gurudev.mp3 (46 minutes, 32.1 MB)

110918 Controlling Anger.mp3 (48 minutes, 33 MB)

110828 Finding Beauty in the Company of Devotees.mp3 (33 minutes, 30.3 MB)

: The beautiful cover of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam by Srila Sridhar Maharaj

Evening Classes on Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam:

Throughout the winter and spring of 2010/2011 Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj gave class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from the holy scripture Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam by Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. Vaishnav Maharaj insisted that everyone in the class would take turns reading the verses. Although various devotees read the particular Sanskrit and Bengali verses, Sripad Vaishnav Maharaj illuminates their meaning and mentions illuminating anecdotes from his early experiences in Krishna Consciousness as well as his long years of personal service to Srila Govinda Maharaj.

Scroll down to download or view a pdf of the text.

File names describe the chapters and verses covered during the class. For example, the first one is on chapter 1 verses 1-37.

110307_PJ_1.1-37.mp3 (71 minutes, 50 MB)

110321 PJ 1.38-2.4.mp3 (47 minutes, 32.3 MB)

110328 PJ 2.22-3.3.mp3 (59 minutes, 40 MB)

110330 PJ 3.4-3.12.mp3 (83 minutes, 56.9 MB) (This one is especially good.)

110406 PJ 3.13-23.mp3 (73 minutes, 50.4 MB)

110414 PJ 3.28-4.7.mp3 (72 minutes, 33.1 MB)

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