In this episode Bhakti Lalita gives a morning class to the assembled devotees and visitors from Hungary.
In this episode Bhakti Lalita gives a morning class specifically for the visiting devotees departing after a ten day visit.
In this episode of the Hari-katha Podcast Bhakti Lalita Devi glorifies her Grand-Guru Maharaj, the founder of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj.
In this episode of the Hari-katha Podcast Bhakti Lalita Devi is joined with Divya Shakti Didi of the USA to discuss the holy month of Kartik (aka the holy month of Damodar).
In this episode Bhakti Lalita is filmed with Sudarshan Prabhu at his home in Salt Lake City making keifer with traditional keifer grains while on tour of the USA.
Bhakti Lalita speaks on the Six Loving Exchanges,
“Upadeshamrta” verse 4, dadati pratigrhnati guhyam akhyati prchchhatibhunkte bhojayate chaiva sad-vidham priti-laksanam
"Giving and accepting gifts, discussing and enquiring about confidential matters, and giving and partaking of foods are the six characteristics of love."
In this episode Bhakti Lalita talks about the glories of Ratha Yatra and Lord Jagannāthdev.
In this episode Bhakti Lalita reads from "Revealed Truth" chapter 1, and expounds on what is "Amnaya" or "Revealed Truth", in the line of Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj.
In this episode Bhakti Lalita outlines the tree planes of life: Exploitation, Renunciation & Dedication, in the line of thought of Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj.
This episode of the Hari-katha Podcast is dedicated to the disappearance day, "tirobhāva-tithi", of Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj, the spiritual master of Bhakti Lalita Devi. Herein Bhakti Lalita shares and reflects upon His Divine Grace's glories, his pastimes on this earth and his disappearance from this physical world like "the setting sun".
This is the second anniversary episode of the Hari-katha Podcast which began on Gaura-Pūrṇimā in 2023. In this episode Bhakti Lalita begins explaining how Gaura-Pūrṇimā, the divine appearance of Lord Gaurahari, is traditionally celebrated in the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Then Malati Devi Dasi, accompanied by Yuvati on karatals, chants the Bengali verses chanted on Gaura-Pūrṇimā from the Chaitanya-charitāmṛta, Adi-lila 13.89 - 124, thereafter Bhakti Lalita goes through the English translation and offers praise.
In this episode Bhakti Lalita glorifies Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu on His divine appearance day, Nityānanda-trayodashi.
In this episode of the Hari-katha Podcast Bhakti Lalita chants the song Śrī Maṅgala-gītam by Śrī Jayadev Goswāmī from Śrī Gīta-Govinda.
Bhakti Lalita tells three short wisdom fables from Vedic?Bengali culture of India.
This is episode 13 of the Hari-katha Podcast, where Bhakti Lalita answers the following questions from our viewers:
1) Q: I just missed meeting Srila Govinda Maharaj, he left the world right when I arrived to the Math. He left so many qualified representatives I know, but I wanted his connection…
2) Q: It’s not always easy to share and speak such high things as the concepts of our Gurus to the people I come across, I can only share the little that I know and don’t have so much to say. I have a strong desire to preach but my understanding is simple and basic. Do we really need to have very extensive knowledge to speak to others we meet?
3) Q: Sometimes everything is so easy going in spiritual practice and other times I feel like it’s an uphill battle. How do we pace ourselves in both situations?
4) Q: What is the actual nature of Goloka Vrindavan, the land of Radha-Krishna situated at the highest point in the spiritual sky?
5) Q: How can we conceive that nothing is outside of or separate from the Lord?
6) Q: Srila Guru Maharaj said, ‘learn to give ashes’, just go through the learning process and the motions of giving. What does this mean?
7): Q: Actual spiritual attainment and realization seems like an impossibility. There are times I wonder why even bother trying?
8): Q: What do you say to people who still believe in Darwinian evolution? I come across them in school all the time.
9) Q: What is Bhakti, Krishna Consciousness, Gaudiya-Vaishnava culture, Prema Dharma? So many names for the same thing.
This episode is dedicated to the holy appearance day (Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā) of Śrīla Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. Bhakti Lalita offers her heart-felt glorification of His Divine Grace and tells the story of his miraculous birth and pastimes as a youth, as a divine servitor and successor Acharya of his beloved Guru Maharaj and as a Paramahamsa Vaishnava of the highest calibre.
In this episode Bhakti Lalita interviews Sudarshan Prabhu, a lifelong Vaishnava who has a deep understanding of the art of surrender (śaraṇāgati) and lives by it while remaining unencumbered by a modern day busy life raising his family as well as leading a devotional community in America. In this episode Bhakti Lalita and Sudarshan Prabhu discuss the different limbs of surrender, what it means to practically apply and embrace it as the sole means to obtain the topmost end of human life.
Watch and listen to Bhakti Lalita, with Abhiram Prabhu on mrdanga & Yuvati on Karatals, chant the Dāmodarāṣṭakam, an ancient Sanskrit song composed by Satyavrata Muni. Bhakti Lalita tells the backstory and meaning of the song which is chanted daily during the holy month of Damodar (Kartik).
In this episode Bhakti Lalita answers questions sent in by the Hari-katha Podcast viewers:
1.) By following spiritual practices, maintaining religious principals and doing service can we be certain to become realized?
2.) What should we remember as we go about our daily lives?
3.) Is there any confirmation that our spiritual ideals and ultimate goal really exist?
4.) How do we deal with and tolerate all the opposing forces in our environment? Oftentimes it is very difficult to find the solution.
5.) What is one to do when one is constantly being tested? and what if I fail…
6.) If we are ever in a situation where we need to assess other people in our lives than what is the criterion?
7.) What is the way to achieve control of our senses and mind? My mind and senses can be so out of control a lot of the time…
8.) We are all searching for fulfillment but are never satisfied, people end up doing very self-destructive things to numb that unfulfilled void.
9.) What if we just go on, just living our basic lives — eating, sleeping, procreation, defending ourselves -- without any kind of awareness?
10.) Are you at all concerned about the news and current events in the world, like in the USA where you were born and raised?
Join Bhakti Lalita Devi on a tour of the Temple gardens. Make sure to click "details" for the video filmed by award winning cinematographer Devendra Prabhu (Reichert). Enjoy!