20050530 || Moscow Nāmahaṭṭa Festival #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Sam. It's Sam. It's Sachin. Very happy to be here again at the winter festival for the non hut and Moscow and Russia. Our community, our family here is very dynamic and we're very happy to see this happy Krishna conscious family. Especially now that the temple project is underway and there's not a facility big enough to house all of the boardings. So I'm grateful for the congregational department of the Moscow temple for organizing this festival. It's important to get together and have association. Now you can see there are so many devotees who are part of the congregation. And so then we can get to meet many of our friends and get an opportunity to associate. It's really important. Just like in Myago, we have our annual festival where the warriors from all over the world they come together and associate. And one time a leader asked that the Silviki expense to help bring people all over the world for the festival. In those days they would say bring a thousand devotees or 500 devotees and each one will spend say thousand dollars. So he brought them and slave 12 problems. If he took them $500,000, he could build a nice temple. In other words, we can't stop eating. And just as eating is important, meeting together with the Vaishnavas is very important. So it's important that we get together regularly. Have some kirkyams, give some honey kapa and associate the seed of your emotional service. Then we have to plant that seed in our heart and we have to water the seed. By hearing and chanting and other practices of devotional service, we securely our seed, our devotional, our plan of devotional service. Then when that plant is watered, it sprouts. The seed sprouts, becomes a small plant and the seed grows and the plant grows and grows and grows the root of the plant and the plant grows and grows and grows higher and higher. So while taking care of this plan, he has to watch out for the Lord has to watch out for the angels are the worst reason is the man alone. Then elephant can go and just pull out the plant with his TR and throw it. So we need to be careful to avoid hearing offensive people who are criticizing of your difficulties. There are some of those that their way of getting followers is to criticize and blaspheme devotees. I think it's possible to include the tires to protect our spiritual plan. We have to build a fence around it should be very strong so that you don't let any male elephants get close to our spiritual realms. I have a Naata group in West Bengal that's On the Bhutan border. And from Bhutan, sometimes while the Muslims come into their village, not only were the animals and pull out the trees, education is only important. So they had to build a trench around the village so that the elephant could not get over. We have to do something like that. Keep a distance away from all this kind of offensive personalities. And one thing that helps is to always associate with favorable devotees. That's where our festivals like this. We hope that everybody here will be very positive. And we have very little association to each other. And we are source of great inspiration. The more that we're united, the stronger we are. There's a verse in the Vedas that says hello. That in Age of Kali, the human being gets strength by unity. When we're united, when we're together, we're strong. Individually, one may be attracted by Maya. It's very important that we have younger sats. And that's why another of the programs that you all have in your congregation is try to make a point, really inquire this with the people care of you better see your progress and help you in a more individual, purposeful way. There are about 30 groups in the Moscow area. And one of the days I was just touring around India and seeing the different groups of some of the temples. Told that how by these small groups their whole congregation has become very enthusiastic. This association gives them more protection. If somebody is feeling some doubts or feeling alone, then the group gives them support and background. Also the groups give an opportunity for devotees to learn practical devotional things. Maybe singing the song. So trying to get the groups to give a little time all their meanings to the teaching of the members. Practical things also. And to give them an association to support them in their spiritual progress. Nothing else is another opportunity to water that spiritual. We have to also watch out for weeds. I was talking to somebody today, told me I used to chance 16 rounds. Now I only chance six. You mean the bodies that used to have good practices and somehow the gradually reduces a little bit. One of the reasons for this kind of reduction is what is called as spiritual leads. Because a weave is a habit that we develop which takes away energy from our spiritual progress. Some of the examples of the kinds of weaves of my development. Getting angry at someone. Sometimes getting angry at someone. And that takes over our mind. Pulling the politics so party politics, divisive activity. Criticizing somebody with somebody else. That we develop habits of breaking some of the principles. Desire for worship and adoration. The Lord is much served. They get responsibilities if they have a service. But if somebody wants a position not to service. So when we see these deviations coming in our consciousness, we got to pull out the wheel from the roof. You may. Your plant may grow very fast or may grow very slow. But you want to make sure that it grows steadily. And if it's growing slow, maybe because of the weeds or fences. That's where association with devotees helps us to understand if we have a weed or not. If we properly water a plant during chanting and practicing our devotional service. Yes, it goes to the 14 planetary systems. Up to the planet of Lord Brahma, to the planet of Lord. Into the spiritual world, the project of the river. And it goes into the mystery. So how many like this flowers and fruits of ecstatic love, your love, in order to get these fruits and flowers. And we have a watery old plant in here. And doing that is easier when we have a good association of the other. And we hope that we get a lot of nice chanting that cleanses the heart. We hope we get enough chanting and people will grow two planetary systems millions of light years right to the spiritual world. Flowers and the fruits of power, aesthetic love and pure love. By being here of our spiritual people. So we are. We are a family which is surviving, although it's favorable. We have many different disciples of different spiritual masters. 20, 30 years. So we heard how Rasta. Now, the older, the lawyers, they help to take care of the younger. Caring for the members of the. I think that's a good thing to do everywhere. Each one teach one. Each one should teach the other. The older devotees teach. The younger devotees form a. A synthesis of synergy and cooperation and unity and divers. Sure, if you have to teach someone else, you have to learn yourself better. So it's a good training to teach. In fact, in our Gurukul and Mayapur, the teachers use the system they have. The older students teach the younger students as a method of training the older students. But it also gives a more comprehensive care and training to the students themselves. I know this is the kind of things that the leaders here of the congregational development here, they're very concerned. They'd like to see. See that all of you get that. Those who need the care get the care. Those who have the ability to give the care and help that they participate in doing that. So that we're in a much more dynamic unity and diversity. He had to spread Krishna consciousness on his own. Not that he didn't try to work with everybody else, but it just said for one reason or another, they didn't like him. Why? Anyway, so when he got disciples, he said that these are sent by. He said how he didn't like to be alone anymore. And he's very happy now they have the association. So like that we also. Sometimes we asking is only also because you're just by yourself with your family. There's a verse in the Ch says that the disciples of Sanyasis, the grass disciples of Sannyasis should also help their spiritual masters preaching Krishna consciousness. They should preach or they should have like house program sponsor some Gita class or Bhagavatam class in their house and right over, you know, homework. And that actually terrifies the house and the household. When we first came to India, there were so many programs that Prabhupada participated where different rehouses would sponsor a program in their house in the 1970s. Now is a good opportunity to do this. As we have more and more devotees and to every householder any so I can have once you once in a year, once in six months. According to their capacity. How they can have future in their home Then gives so much spiritual. Shall we say spiritual enlightenment to have that kind of. One householder told me that sometime in the family they're having disagreements and the atmosphere wasn't so nice in the house. And I suggested having a house program. Then everybody is working together to host a program. And afterwards with the K time everything they all felt that the house has become purified to how many of you have programs in your house? So like this. How many of you have houses that you could have? So many people don't live in houses even if they invite a local bag addiction. I would recommend you try it. It's really sad. This is a process that he was a changed person. Everybody could tell something different. How he was just so devotional. So they asked him what's the reason why it's so different. I got the special mercy of Lord Krishna Yamuna that just produces unlimited flowers. You take the flower out and another will come back city looking for flowers. If you go one place, get as many flowers as you. So in the morning flowers. That's also kind of a. That's called chitter. It's one of the eight forms of being. So was a riches in the past. So then. But whether you have pictures or whether you have the uniform, you still. So then work. He gathered at this house and he told that he there was happen to be a tamal. When he saw the Tama, he was reminded of Krishna. There was a question. He had many trees, right? So one of the trees was a flower tree. Another tree was a small tree to Mayapo lingam for the festival when there's not the fruits. It's not so many fruits in season. In the month of June, July mango season the uni you can get very sweet mango. Problem with for about seven rubles a kilo. So maybe one ruble. Two rubles for one mango. I didn't want. I think angles are worse than. So like had many angles, many different. He had a tonometry which looks like the color of Krishna. And then he told them what happened to him after you got and there in this holy place of Krishna's ancient pastime. While he was chanting his J He saw a boy in the distance playing with hope on the video of the deer. And it just drew his consciousness. And the boy gradually was dancing and coming closer and closer. He had a red sash around his waist. As he got closer, you can see that he has a peacock on his turban. He was wearing a kastuma jewel around his neck. It was Krishna. So where he saw was Krishna. All his heirs were standing on him. The object of his worship had come right before him. Krishna was coming closer and closer, smiling, playing on his was just like eating out with his eyes the glory of Krishna. He couldn't believe how fortunate he was that Krishna just come before him. Krishna came closer and closer to him. Right up in front of him as a little boy. And then Krishna smiled, ran up to him. Is this like exploring rocket ships, fireworks, whatever. And Krishna realizing Krishna, seeing Krishna touching Krishna it's not now he was an extreme separation. His love for Krishna had been fully awakened. So he was telling all the other. You don't know what it's like realizing Krishna, having Krishna having it in your hand. Desirable spirit of God. So that's why I'm like I am now. All I can think about when will I see Krishna? When she gets over. He gives the goodness, but she died. I told him I must just do it. So Lord Shazami and he realized his highest ecstasy of love for Krishna. And he wanted his extreme unlimited mercy is that he wanted to see that everybody get the mercy he wanted you. Previously the mercy and other Yumas was received by very great souls. Now he had promised the greater chariot that he would give the mercy to everyone in the common land. So Lord was giving his mercy in his past lives to very simple people. That's the immediate to salesmen that were selling bananas on the street, to pickers, to fishermen, to all kinds of people that would normally not be very much the candidates for spiritual perfection consciousness to the west he was Carrying this mercy we are the normal candidate to get Krishna consciousness. We're not great philosophers or very great spiritualists. So it's up to you the Pepsi of devotion water so one of the things we use the water is hearing others chanting mother. Now we have a great opportunity of working together to see that the temple for the Lord comes up. It's a great service possibility facility of rejected ground of even existing small facilities. If any of you have time it's a good thing to dedicate so how much time you can give in a week in a month to do so. Sam America Some of the congregations roll the temple in Al were some different services to free the temple of all you to go out and distribute books because they're more expert at that particular but like Krishna says always think about Krishna what can you do? One of the things by constantly engaged in Krishna service throughout the day we get the special mercy of Krishna gives us spiritual intelligence how to get to him the patient. That's sometimes do some temple service. That's one way of getting trained up how to be in the service attitude There's a limitation everybody in the congregation has got of work their studies and their different activities they have to do. So there may be limited time whatever it is every little bit comes we're doing a special program now in India from the congregation which has been living a long time in the other countries in the West. I don't know if you're doing it here. That's prison preaching getting registered with the police and then going to the prison as a chaplain. And for any prisoner who wants to get our guidance then we provide her guidance and provide them some kirtan therapy and also get so the more mature members of the congregation they can help with this kind of presentation are going pre appropriate. There's all kinds of scopes where people still a little bit of time to keep it aside for this kind of all these programs and somehow congregational leaders try to keep track of who's offering this different kind of service or everybody giving us a recognition the kind of service by the that's something that should not be that's a very good service. Only now in Delhi the Tihar jail which has thousands and thousands of prisoners. So now they're doing some special programs there and giving really good responses. There's the devotee in South Indian muslin programs at universities who give courses on stress management personality development. Thank you for watching our videos. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day and don't forget to like and share our channel.