About this Event
Love Personified: Kirtan + Wisdom Talk with a Monk
Join us for a journey into heart-centered bliss and divine conscious exploration at Blosm Studio at 12549 28th Ave NE, Seattle, WA on Friday Dec 13th 2024 at 7pm.
Join us for an evening of divine inspiration, featuring soul-stirring kirtan and a heartfelt dharma-talk style lecture with Gurudev, a world-renowned monk and spiritual teacher from India. Immerse yourself in the transcendental vibrations of sacred music and discover timeless insights on the true nature of love with this incredible guide in a wonderful community (sangha). This unique gathering, “Love Personified,” offers a profound opportunity to connect with your inner self, experience the joy of bhakti, and unlock the secrets of this timeless wisdom tradition. All are welcome to this transformative and uplifting event.
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Immerse yourself in the ecstatic and collective immersive experience of Kirtan - a timeless practice coming from the East, of collective call and response mantra chanting and divine song with live musical accompaniments led by Krishna Priya and the Chakora Birds. Let in the sacred vibrations of transcendental mantra from this practice enter your ears and come into your heart, helping you connect with your inner self, open your heart and connect more deeply with Spirit!
Listen to a sample of The Chakora Birds' kirtan here:
After kirtan will be a dharma talk with Gurudev - Srila Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja. These talks are stream of consciousness explorations through a pure and expert medium, exploring ancient mystic wisdom teachings of India to assist you in finding your true nature, opening your heart to the divine and the higher self, elevating your consciousness and bringing lasting peace and joy. Gurudev transmits transcendental knowledge and realization into the heart of the listener through sabda brahma, the Sanskrit term for transcendental sound, which can remove all blockages in the heart preventing one from accessing true divine love and realizing one's eternal nature. It is true Soul Medicine!
Often when we think of love, we think of worldly relationships with friends, families, or partners. In this lecture, Srila Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja will speak on the importance of connecting to true divine love within onself, and one's eternal relationship with Divinity with the timeless practice of bhakti yoga. This practice allows one to experiene true happiness and bliss, release all past life karma, in turn enhance one's ability to truly love and serve all others. Now more than ever, we need this knowledge to cultivate love within our human community.
Srila Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja has spoken in Seattle at incredible venues such as OmCulture, Pranify Yoga, Pike Place Market, the University of Washington, and the Heart Center for Awakening on multiple occassions. Don't miss this special opportunity to attend this special event at Blosm Yoga Studio!
Seekers, yogis, spiritualists and consciousness explorers of all types are welcome. It will give you an immersive experience of love, bliss, connection and inner awakening. Don't miss this opportunity to meet an extraordinary personality. Swami Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja is a life-long practitioner of bhakti yoga, who is constantly immersed in the practice of bhakti yoga -with experienced in nourishing communities all over the world, who will guide you in this beautiful, heartfelt practice of Bhakti.
The event will conclude with vegan & vegetarian refreshments, and time for connecting and meet one another.
This event is by donation at the event. Suggested $10-20 helps go towards studio rental costs, but let no amount be a barrier and please give what you can!
More On Gurudev, Srila BV Vana Maharaja:
Swami Bhaktivedanta Vana Maharaja - is a traveling author, speaker, monk since childhood, and worldwide Guru who has been circumnavigating with world continuously for the past 27+ years. He serves as master teacher and mentor for communities across the globe, all over Central and South America, Europe, Russia, China and India, and now, the USA.
Gurudev is known for his sweetness, humility, endearing humor, deep wisdom, scholarly expertise on Vedic philosophy, and for emitting pure love and compassion for all living beings.
Born in West Bengal, India, Srila Vana Maharaja grew up in a family that was deeply steeped in the practice of Gaudiya Vaisnavism. At age 23, after graduating from the University of Calcutta, he joined the Devananda Gaudiya Math temple and dedicated the next 19 years to study and service there as a brahmachari (student monk) to his Guru.
In 2000, he took sannyas (full renunciation into monkhood) and began traveling the world to give what he learned. Since then, he has traveled to a new city every 1-7 days, spreading the beautiful spiritual teachings of bhakti yoga to many communities, speaking everywhere from yoga studios and community centers, to ashrams and temples, and universities in all corners of the globe.
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www.vanamadhuryamofficial.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
blosm studio, 12549 28th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States
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