YouTube lecture (recorded in Mayapur, India) by Jaya Pataka Swami on Lord Chaitanya’s pastimes, the role of devotional festivals, and community life in the Krishna consciousness movement. The speaker tells anecdotes (a Bengali dowry/bed story about a miser’s poor-quality bed), stresses Lord Chaitanya’s renunciation and public pastimes (including taking sannyas and participation in Rath Yatra/Jagannath Puri), and highlights global ISKCON community connections (devotees from Peru, Bolivia/Cochabamba, and many countries), cultural exchanges, and rituals for deceased relatives (Ganga rites and offerings at Gaya).
Questions this video answers
87 years old.
Cochabamba (Bolivia).
Right here. Prabhupada said what Lord Chaitanya was Inavadin. He had a loving wife, loving mother. He had tolerance. You get everything. That's the only good one. People. Sometimes the wife leaves them. They lose their money. There's arguments at home. The business fails. They think. Let me take some notes. Not because you could just set everything in spring. So they have some higher purpose. You only have a higher purpose before. It's inspired by a lot of headlessness. As a Bengali story told by Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati School. One day he was trying to get his daughter married. So he thought that he'll offer dowry with the daughter. To encourage some young men to accept the hand of his daughter. Protect her for her whole life. They said, anyone who marries my daughter, I will give a free bedroom set. Bed dresser, little table next to the bed. This is quite common in Bengal. For the rich people they give crores of rupees kilos of gold. For the poor people, they get bicycles. They give sewing machines, rickshaws. Bed sets. Start right. You start your new family. You don't have to buy your bed. It's always one of the things you have to buy. So he announced it. Beautiful daughter, get a free bed set. Where are you going to get a deal like that? That's the problem in iskcon. You don't offer power. Be around the world to do. Anyway, this one poor man he married the girl, got the bedside. We didn't realize was the father of the girl was a miser. Know what a miser is?
Spanish.
They call it the country. He made a bed out of junglee wood. Not out of wood stegos or teak wood. But out of some jungle wood. Taken very cheap from the jungle. Not properly. So what happened was. You know what happens when you get lousy wood? It starts to bend. So one night they were sleeping in clams. The bed widened and the whole bed collapsed. And the husband was saying, you know these beds are all artificial. What is the use of this? Better to have a nice mat like you're sitting on. Sleep on the floor on a mat. Closer to nature, closer to the earth. Do you believe it? What is he saying it out of the. He has no choice. Try this phone. Broken bed philosophy. When things don't work out, then they talk about renunciation. Because they don't have any other choice. That wasn't the case with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He had everything. Who leaves Hawaii, who's actually the goddess of fortune, Mother, who is more loving than Mother Satsuki. On material calculation. Nobody in their right mind. It's such a wonderful sight. Thousands, millions of dollars. Chum casing in trouble. 200,000 people knocking at his door. Hello dear Chamkas. Because he promised to deliver the fallen souls. Deliver the fallen souls. So we read alive in the middle ladders. Lord Chaitanya took the sannyas. Residents of Navadid were devastated. They were revived when he saw Medhyam at Shantipur. For 10 days. Lord Shaitanya chanted in dance with them. And they karao adjust to the new reality. We're all going to be with Lord Chaitanya for Rath Yatra Jagannathuri.
Rath Yatra Festival Ki.
Just like here. We meet our devotee friends all over the world. Mayampur Daniel. We go to the Ganges together. Go on Parikrama together. We have some wonderful time. Then if we're really fortunate, we go on safari together. More association. Then we have to go back to our countries. We look forward. We'll meet again. Garath Yah. So that we have our friends from around the world. Lord Chaitanya's devotees. They're always looking forward to going to mid Lord Chaitanya.
Jagannath Puri.
This is the Prabhupada who said we need to have this Maya for festival. One time there was some TV seas and said this festival is too expensive. Those days, 500 people were coming.
Village of America, Europe.
500 tickets. And everybody would give their money to essential funds. You could have a temple building. Prophet said yes. You know, we spend so much prasad money on prasadam. You could just stop eating. Obviously we can't live without eating Prabhupada. He considered coming to Mayapur as essential as needed for our world body. We get to know the leaders. We get to know the devotees. These devotees here so many different parts of the world that each with a wonderful qualities. Hope you get science that needs some of them. Have a loving exchange with noonda wealthy here with the florist Pakta Juanita. When I go to Adelaide, she gives me spray Garden of Carnation flower shop. She supplies flowers for the. What's the name of the navy truck? Rajesham. So like that. So we nice to go inside. Go to Sahain Masha Hapu Regional secretary there Napa Sochi. He does a harida for maze. All the people come out and smile and be shaved from Olivia. He's been devoting for a long time. He's a manager of mature Taya Fear ups behind a parcel Service. He runs the franchise for Bolivia. He's also temple president of Bolivia. Cochabamba center.
Big building. Recently had the mayor all the newspapers. We had a big national festival. He's come here with his whole family. His wife, his he dad Krishna from where he lives in my airport. He's Mieg instructor Mihet. He gives practice. Astrid practice boy bar. The students, they appreciate so much the way he interacted teaching. This year they were kinda. Last year they were spoofing out of a. Sometimes we just talk about the GB series or sanyasis. Today I see there's so many wonderful devotees. Some are new, some are old, some are clean. Somebody sacrifices to spread Krishna consciousness around the world. That's what's so wonderful about this Ka Conscious family. Introduced yesterday. A couple of days ago when we came. Niranjani Zaidas from Peru. He's 87 years old, is head of the library in downtown Peru Lima. How do you make it up the stairways? 87 years old. Must be very strong. You don't know everyone in the room. I know a lot of many of the devotees that are all doing some dedicated service. So it's good to get together. We get to know each other, we get to appreciate. We wanted to show one of the festivals in different parts of the world.
You miss nights.
But our program managers, I talked to.
Them.
They have cultural programs. There's a lot of interesting things going around the world. As I travel around the world, I see so many wonderful all over Europe.
All over the world. Actually.
This is the Ka Conscious movement. We talk about Lord Chaitanya's pastimes. We talk about Krishna's pastimes. There's one word that's used. It's called Nitya Muhotsav. Mahotsav means a festival. Ut means. Comes from the word Uttama. Tama is ignorance. Uttama means transcendental to ignorance. How many would like to transcend all ignorance? So a real transcendental festival is supposed to lift one above. Ignorance means everybody. Maha means a great. A great uplifter bringing everyone above the ignorance into the transcendental consciousness. Mahotsav and Vrindavan. When Krishna would go out to the cowherd boys, it was a daily festival. It's going out, it's coming in. Watch Itanya's pastimes. Also the daily festival. The Lord Chaitanya was divine funded.
And.
He walked around all the big town. The leading scholar of the scholarship city was such a wonderful thing to see. He would be followed by his students. He didn't have to ask anybody for anything. As he would walk by, people would be honored that they could give a gift to him. The cloth merchant was common. Take a fighting clause. I'm a poor Brahmin. I can't afford to write it. It's okay, take it. You walk by a perfume shop. They would offer you some perfume. Can use scented oils. Put out a little sin. Some walked by a flower shop. The flower man came out and offered him a garden. Everyone wanted to do a service. Ishtar's pastime was as a cowherd boy. Lord Chaitanya's pastime. Just as a Brahmana. Brahmanas education, Puja, the dating culture. How her boys, health products, cows, cats, forest views. Amongst the kids. Ramachandra. He was showing Krishna. He was showing God as the Chakra killing demons. Krishna was showing his childhood as a cowboy boy. Lord Chaitanya as a Brahman scholar. So by this way he was capturing all the young students. We try to do college preaching. But we have to get permission from the university. They have a club. Lord Chaitanya. Lord Nimay Pandit was the university. He was the university. He was the head of it. He was the teacher. He was the faculty, everything. He had the greatest Sanskrit tol in bv. The best students over there. This was the wonderful thing. But they were all argumentative students. How to get them to become devotees. Then Lord Chaitanya went to perform Hindi for his father. The ceremony for his deceased father. It's like today we went through the Ganges. We performed some ceremony for deceased relatives. Disciples from.
Here.
Mayapur. Mother Sachi, Satchit, Matan Mat. And one from Russia. What's her name? Shakti. Priya Saki. Priya. Priya Saki. Priya Saki. So there's different things you can do for our deceased relative. One thing is putting the ashes in the Ganges. One thing is to perform Hindi. When you do a shroud ceremony. Offering Krishna Prasad for them. For their departed souls. And one of the things you can do is go to Gaya and offer a special worship.
In Gaya.
On the death anniversary one offers the children. Offers Raat every day, every year. But once, at least once in a lifetime they go to offer kidney at Gaya. 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.
