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Devotees in Dallas share stories about Jaya Pataka Swami's life and teaching. They describe his strict guru-disciple relationships, his preaching across the Middle East and Malaysia, and his work building programs in Mayapur despite serious health problems.
That all this team exalted duties are right here in Dallas. Something is happening. All of you are doing some special prayers that we are having this special mercy in Dallas. So Maharaj has been doing amazing services. Actually if I start describing the books he has returned the services he has done. Especially tribal care. How he's going village to village, transforming the whole villages.
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What is this?
RSS RSS guys were so happy that they're saying that after Maharaja started this tribal care program, the conversion stopped.
Come on.
It'S a big thing.
Actually conversion stop in wrong side. The conversion started good side. Dharak Krishna revolves or. And Maharaj has been doing so many other services. The list is unlimited. Maharaj has been taking care of Mayapur also. So many devotees, disciples of Guru Maharaj in Mayapur. They all work under Maharaj. So we are very, very fortunate.
Come close. So more people.
Maharaj is inviting you to come closer. Please come, please.
All the Matajis.
I will. I will give mike to Shival of Abu to continue the glorification of. Can I speak about you? So thank you so much Maharaj for blessing us. We are indebted to you for coming here on this special day. Especially when Guru Mahaj is here. One big Hare Krishna for only as Bhakti. So where is. Please come. You should not leave. He's complete with you only. Come here.
Come this side.
So here is Sita character, Shivala Babu's better half. Behind every successful man there is a Mataji. And here is that Mataji. Okay, Special Jasmine, this is Gurumad Maha. So if you all know it is not easy to preach in the Middle east area. Guru Maharaj, when he used to go to that area also he changes. He does not wear the same saffron, he wears hat the side nowadays it's little better. But in that power, Gurmaj is GBC of that area. So in Dubai and Middle east area also you'll be surprised. We have at least 10,000 plus followers or devotees.
The number approximately.
So 25,000. Can you imagine in the UAE area. So this service started by Prabhu's father and his whole family is fully dedicated. He's the leader for the entire area. And Guru Maharaj is a stop shop for Guru Maharaj. Whenever Guru Maharaj goes anywhere, just he takes detour. At Dubai goes his house. And he's a JPS Seva committee chairman. The family has been serving for ages, decades. So we are very fortunate that Shival is here. Mataji is here. Mataji health is not that good. But still she's giving us her association. So thank you so much. So big har from. I have kept two more seats. But they don't want to sit next to exalted devotees. I requested Malaysian devotees to come and sit here, but they said no.
We'll try to get them later.
We'll start with you.
Okay? Okay.
So now let's hear from Maharaj. We'll hear from Maharaj about Guru Maharaj, his experience. So we can learn from Maharaj how to serve Guru Maharaj and the whole movement.
How many initiated devotees are here? All from Dallas area. Some are from New York also.
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They're from New York, New York. We have many Bangladesh devotees and New York. They have created one ISKCON within iskcon. Another movement something, right? And they have come from there also. Please Prabhu, come here is temple president of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur very dedicated. We have few Brahmacharis in whole country there. So who from here took recently initiation. Recent the initiation ceremony. They're from Dallas.
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Namadaya Nagarakaramatari. Namaste. Namaste. So I'll speak very briefly, okay? Because I was told 1:30 is Prasadam. So I took breakfast accordingly. If you make 2:30, it will be difficult for me. So very briefly. Prabha was telling to speak on spiritual. Master Guru. Guru Tattva. Guru Tattva. Guru is very, very important in our devotional life. We have Guru in different areas in our life. Even if your harmony teacher is a guru also, is not it? Dance teacher is a guru. School guru. So many gurus. But all these gurus they will teach you something. Take dakin and go. Even if you see, if you see Jnana Margis, they have guru but they learn. Guru will teach that you are Bhagavan. So when I become Bhagavan, I don't need Guru. So that is what ganumarga Guru role is. What is Guru's role? Guru will teach you. Then Guru will go to one cave. Disciple will go to one cave. They will not see each other same time. Karma Kanda you do Brahmanas will come, they'll do puja, take Dakina. They go to your house, you go to your house. My point is in different area there is guru. Spiritual life is more important. And in spiritual there as devotional life and devotion life. Guru is a subject matter who can never be separated from disciple. Guru plays role in your life. It could be from previous life. From this then this life, next life. Even in spiritual world also that much important. Guru's role in our life. Of course. Unfortunately in this modern age and modern society Guru disciples relationship looks different practically. But I have seen childhood time that that guru gets so much respect. So much importance in disciples life. Nowadays people they don't understand under account Vedic scriptures. The guru disciple relationship. How they behave with each other. How they lead the lifestyle. Very unique. For example a childhood time. Once I saw Shankaracharya had come to Puri. And he has a disciple. The car ambassador. Car Shankara sitting there. Disciple is sitting on the floor. Disciple cannot sit on the same level like Guru. But it has become impractical in modern age Guru. We have to sit together in airport. In the flight Guru Maharaj myself together. There are many many challenging things that whatever guru said, that's it. You must have heard that description. N where Guru told a disciple what are you eating? He said I beg. I live on begging. Guru said Did I tell you to beg? Oh Guruji. I will not beg anymore. Then after sometime Guru sir what are you eating? I am no more begging. I'm sit one place whenever it comes and put on my plate. I eat that. Did I tell you to eat like that? Sitting there and waiting. Who is putting on my plate? Who is not putting? I'll not do that. And he went. Next time he came. What are eating? You still look very healthy. No, I don't bake. I don't sit. I go to Bhandara in Bhandara 3 for field food. I eat. Did I tell you that to do? Finally he came one day all day. What are you eating? I'm eating when I go. Some people milking cows. I take that milk. That is for cow. How can you milk eat that? Then he came. I am eating only form after come drink the milk. Did I tell you to eat that? Then disciple went. He never come back. Then Guru Ma the spiritual master's wife got very worried. Because that time Guru Kul was staying with the Guru. What happened to our disciple? Please go look for him. Then he went calling her Guru for disciple. Where are you? Where are you? Oh Gurudev. Gurudev I have. I'm here fallen ditch. And Guru rescued. What happened to you? And disciple said. Whatever I was eating. You told that you have not ordered me. So finally he ate some kinds of. You know English. I don't know. They say some some fruits in jungle become blind. So I became blind. So when Guru heard that this disciple has so much strong faith on me. Because so pleased immediately he was a blind man. He became blind materially. The whole spiritual knowledge and Truth, everything revealed to him. He could see everything. So that is what Shastra describes. How disciples attack the instructions of Guru. How gurus are so powerful just by being pleased upon disciples and that everything will reveal to. And where is that relationship? Now we have to argue with Guru Maharaj. Guru Maharaj, he has one decision, we take another decision. Guru Mahaj will vote for one thing, I'll vote for another thing. So in this way, according to the age, according to the situation before, there do no spiritual institutions. You understand Mahapuru's times. There's no institutions. People accept gurus. They stay in their house, they follow, they get together, have festivals. Institutions has come up the point. I'm trying to say though it has become a challenge to maintain that kind of lifestyle. As it has been described in Vedic literature. In order to reach our goal, even practically, that is not there. But emotionally, mentally you have to maintain that mood is very, very important. This is the area we have to try our best. How to balance. We don't understand this importance. Sometimes disciples they think they're so great. They argue with their spiritual master. They put court case against spiritual master. I don't know what they think. Where you will go doing like this. Nobody take it seriously. So that is one big challenge that you have to sin. That is with Guru disciple relationship. Whatever externally, institutionally did according to circumstances. That also has to be very careful with them. Not because you are in any institution circumstance. Internally we should be careful. But externally you should not be careful. That freedom should not be there. Externally should be very, very careful.
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Guru Maharaj is very, very particular also on this. Guru Maharaj is very particular maintaining Guru disciple relationship very strictly. He sometimes points out not to be lose. For example, once one devotee addressed Gaurama Maharaj said Maharaj something Maharaj, you said like this. But what you said he doesn't like to be addressed Maharaj. Disciples should not say Maharaj, how are you? Disciple must address Guru Maharaj. Must address Guru Maharaj. Not Maharaj, how are you? And in meeting we can say Guru Maharaj in Jeevish meeting. I can't say Guru Master told these things. There is my throat. I have to say. Then I have to maintain the decorum. His Holiness said, I have seen when Guru Maharaj he mentions. He has learned this from Gauriamat. That time when you text Guru's name, you have. You should not pronounce Guru's name around scripture. So at all you have to do. Then when you are pronouncing, you have to do like this. His Holiness Prabhupada Krishna Maharaj told like this. That is decoram. And Guru Maharaj has adopted many of these things. And he is very strict on this. Because he understands unless this mood is not maintained, the spiritual devotional knowledge will not migrate, will not be transferred. He always push worshipping Guru deadly worshiping Guru give little flowers. These are the things which maintains the mood like this. There are many, many things that I have learned from Guru Maharaj. How serious he is. Just like he always used to say. For Guru Puja everybody must go offer flower at his feet. Then take some prasadam. Then gradually, gradually number increased so much hundred thousands people harm. Guru Mahaj will the lot of patience. He'll sit for our. But he'll give one khaza to everybody. And everyone will go put flower on his feet. 1 title Guru Maharaj is too much. Now everyone will come to you give flower. So you do like. We should do like this. Then just like your Basa Puja all this you chant your mantra for everyday Guru Puja. Everyday Guru will come, he'll stop all other things. No important business for him. He'll come for Guru Puja. No. And I said that now we should change this system. We should do chant your mantra. And everybody, not everybody communicating. And Guruma said, you see, I have so many disciples. I have only one thing with me that I they can come in contact with me during Guru Puja so that I can give something in his hand. And you want to stop me that also. So he sees the different ways. But externally people oh. He wants very very delicate things. Very delicate things. So when he's judging Gurudev you have to understand from proper perspective. Somebody can say like this, oh, Japan always wants to have Guru Puja. But his purpose is different. How you understand that people criticize Guru Maharaj for wearing garland always for having big vampirels. One day he was challenged jibish body. Why you are wearing big garland like this? And Guru Maharaj said, he quoted from Bhaktira, Samata, Sindhu and verse. And he told whole Jeebishi body that you all should wear garland like this. Bhagavata says Uddhava or somebody saying that's why wearing your prasad garland I will go back to Godhead. My point is Guru Maharaj's consciousness is different. He's wearing sometimes I think the hundreds of garland he put on his neck. Anybody will look tired and fried. But he takes the trouble. And his purpose is different. When you give chance to disciple and he knows what is reason behind it. But Outside people will not understand why he's always wearing garlo. Why big wampers. So that makes our spiritual life very critical. Dangerous. How you take things. Sometimes Gurudev anything does you think in a very negative way. Sometimes anything he'll do, you think positively. And that also arises by the mercy of Guru. If you are sincere, Guru is pleased with you always you will see whatever Guru does in positive way. And if you are not blessed, then you see many things in negative way. So that is the area we have to very very careful. It's very subtle, very difficult to maintain that area also very crucial also. So like there are many, many areas that we have to maintain. Every disciple don't take granted. And I have experienced so many times Guru Maharaj has corrected me in my behavior. Behaving with Guru Maharaj. One more thing. He never speaks directly. He will speak indirectly. You have to be intelligent enough to catch it speaks like this. All scripture speaks like this indirectly. All mourners speaks indirectly. Krishna also speaks indirectly. He doesn't never speaks in in such a way. You will not understand it. Not only you will understand it, you will be bewildered. That is we have Shastra and Krishna speaks also. So these are the crucial areas that where we will fail. So that's why always we need the mercy of Sadhguru Guru. By snapsh that is integral part of our devotional service. Doesn't matter what big service you are doing, what small service you are doing. I see some people very big, big position, big, big management, helping Guru Mahj big way. But our relationship is one way. Sometimes there is simple devotee. They don't take big responsibility, not big contributions. Their attachment to Guru Maharaj is so deep, so deep. Simple service they are doing. I observe them their attachment to their spiritual master and that maintains their devotional life. I am not talking about religious subject matter, not spiritual subject matter. Mainly devotional area. In devotional area is very, very integral and very subtle things that we have to maintain. Wherever whichever situation we are that disciple good relation has to be maintained. There are many areas like this. I have taken already so much time. Just same way a disciple, disciple relationship has to be maintained Also. There is another crucial area that how we should maintain our relationship with the disciples, with the devotees. We have to be very, very careful maintaining. There are many, many things that area also we have to maintain. So that will be nice for us, for our society, for Prabhupada. And about Guru Maharaj. What to speak about Guru Maharaj. Whole world is watching his glories, His Dedication to Srila Prabhupada. What Prabhupada saw in Guru Maharaj young age giving him Sannasi. Giving him the responsibility of such a big project. And ordering him that you initiate how many thousand? 50,000 disciples. So this war is going on. So one higher authority is coming. The challenge what is proof that everybody talking Prabhupada told you 50,000 disciples should initiate. When Guru Maharaj told that devotee name who was hug in front of whom Prabhupada told. So when he said Mayapur I asked that devotee did you hear that Prabhupada told? He said make 50,000 disciples. And he is also very close to Prabhupada. But there's some problem. So now he's not initiating. Then he said yes in the presence Prabhupada told your guru maha initiate 50,000. I should initiate 50,000. But now because I'm not initiating your Guru Maharaj take my quota also. He said 50 for him, 50 for me also. And that is what we are seeing now also we are thinking Guru Maharaj will go up to 50. He crossed that who knows he will reach 1 lakh also 1 day when Guru Maharaj was healthy, he traveling so much. Not spending time in my all GB done very not upset. They're worried why Japita Mah is not staying in Mayapur. Big project, he's traveling or less stroke took place. Then they felt very sad. Some jeepies were crying. I have seen personally so much affection for Guru Maharaj. They're crying and they said now one good thing happened. So my but after stroke also Guruma is traveling so much. We are thinking because Guru Maharaj can reciprocate with people. So number of disciples will reduce. He can't reciprocate, he can't speak. But I think many times that has also increased. Many many things. Miracle things. You can see that what Prabhupada had seen in Guru Maharaj get observed. That's why Prabhupada could dare to give. A 21 year old boy can dare for them 19 he joined 21 years old boy. Young boy who can dare to give a Sanyasi. That's an easy job. Must have that much understanding, conviction. Otherwise he would not say that I gave you the kingdom of God. Now develop it. He empowered Guru Maharaj and we see whole world. When Prabhupada left, what it was and what it is now Prabhupada left. He gave Mayaputtu Guru Maharaj what it was and what it Is now right. And all this is not happening very happily. Lot of things Guru has to go through. The Guru must stick the order of his spiritual master. Any problem happens. Oh, it's too much. I can manage it. Let me go. Oh, I'm so old. I have to do my Sadhana Bhajan. Whole whole life I did management. I'll do. Guru Mahas will not do like that. So their determination is different. Our level is different level. We should remember what we are. Gur Maharaj is what Gur Maharaj is. So there are lot of things like this we should do. Contemplate, meditate very seriously to apply in our life. You cannot imitate Guru Maharaj. But at least you can observe what.
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He is asking. You have been serving Guru Maharaj so many years. What is that keeps you so determined? What is one thing he's saying? But everything Guru Maharaj does, it makes me determined. Everything. Because I spend my time for very initial days. When Guru Mahaj did not have so many disciples, I was always with him. Always with him. Few of us with him. I started his Basa Puja. That time we gave Guru Maharaj what was gift. You know, we gave the gift. We gave one set of black stone plate, plate, cup. In India they do. Because we are poor disciples. And there's another Guru. His disciples are rich. So they're able to give Guru Maharaj white marble, plate and cup. So we poor. We could manage to given black marble, black marble, black, black stone. So that is what was beginning like that. So as you are saying, what impressed me? Everything impressed me. Guruma's whole lifestyle. I am very observative. I observe every aspect of Guru Maharaj's life. In Mayapur. He lived in the room that he's living now. Now he has two rooms upstairs. Vipara is only one room. And he was a guru. He had disciples but scorching rooftop. He had no essay. He did not spend Prabhupada's money so that he can have essay that much hurt. Until we were poor disciples. That time we had one rich foreign disciples. We arranged money. Then we arranged on SC for Guru Maharaj. He did not buy AC for himself. President Prabhupada left planet that time President he took over Prabhupada's car. Guru Mahda, there is no car. Then Guru Maharaj brought me from Maya Bhogan said I had one jeep. But Guru Maharaj has no car. And after a long time then we managed one temple traveler for Guru Maharaj. So it is like this now Guruma's lifestyle is such a lifestyle. You observe lot of things. It's staying in the rooftop. His office has to go to long building. Once we I thought we'll build one building for him. 35 lakhs would be the 2030 receiver. So we made nice design. I bring it to Guru Maharaj. Guru Maharaj. See that he escapes.
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He doesn't want to leave that place Prabhupada gave. Prabhupada gave one room. He doesn't want to leave that now. So like this every aspect. If you really observe and only by Guru Ma's mercy, you can observe him. You can. You can point out a Guru's mercy. You can see the good things in so like this is thousands of things. If you say what one thing man meant. One thing man how rigidly surrendered to Sri Prabhupa with everything he shows how rigidly surrender to s very very important aspect. And to carry on that things. To carry on Prabhupada's order. What difficulty he is going through? You see only physical difficulty. But I see many other difficulties that Guru must go through. That you don't see that that is really very remarkable. Now please hear from. No question. When I was speaking on Guru Maharaj something very interesting came to my mind. So I thought I should speak that. But at the end of that I forgot what I wanted to say. In between I comes very interesting point was coming the how disciples should deal. Oh, I was telling. We have one problem among Guru Maharaj disciples. Because what is happening among Guru Mahar disciples? Most of us are in managerial positions. Guru Maharaj started initiating very early days. That time whoever become Guru, many of them are so many other gurus. They become after Guru Maharaj, right? As a result, many of Guruma's disciples are in managerial force. At one point all qualified people he would put a management. His office is not handled properly. He had no secretary. No good secretary. His disciples managing big big temples, everything. His office is not managed.
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Very so. But now one problem I observe among Guru Mahar disciples that they take this management so seriously. They don't maintain their personal relationship. So what important is that personal relationship has to maintain and management Sec. We are like okay for management. So you can have different opinion. Something like that. But personal conflict should not be there. So that is arising different places. So that is big challenge. So that we should give not only among the leaders, among those they are not leader also in general we should sacrifice everything to maintain personal relationship. Because personal relationship is maintained. Many nice Things will achieve automatically. I may say oh. I have to do good management. That's why I have to come up with this. Now if you maintain good relationship, management will be automatically very good. Among the disciples, in spite of misunderstanding different things that we have to tolerate each other. We have to tolerate each other difference. There's so many other details. Also the tolerance. Tolerance means you beat me. I tolerate. Tolerate means you shout scold me. I tolerate. And another meaning of tolerate is tolerance means you are growing very much. I should tolerate that. But that time sometimes we fell on that also. I tolerate, you shout, scream me beat my tolerant. When you are becoming very prominent. I cannot tolerate that, you understand. So like there are many many subtle areas that we have to analyze. Come up ideas so that we can stay together. Many misunderstandings will take place. Sometimes will come across that we have not done anything wrong. But my God brothers are thinking like this. That also I have to tolerate. I don't become antagonist. I maintain my relationship. Even if it's speaking bad things about me behind me I have tolerate that also maintain my relationship. There are things like this. So now we'll hear from. So we all look upon Srivala Prabhu. Because he's very qualified. Material qualified, spiritually qualified, devotional qualified. Every respects he understands and feel very proud that we have got brothers like such elevated personalities who are so close to Guru Maharaj. And I always praise his father. I'm very impressed. Mahamani Krishna. He is actually the main personality for helping Guru Maharaj to establish preaching in the Middle East. Man of great principle. I have seen him. And one past time I went Prabhupada took me to many Sindhi people. Wherever I was going, people they don't glorify his. They're all glorifying his father. How good he is. I realized first time I saw him in Mayapur just beginning Parikama. Lot of problems are going on. And one time he blasted me for something in management. He is getting down from the boat. There is nobody to give a helping hand. And he blasted me like anything I said wow. He's a strong person. Same time he's very senior to me. Whenever he'll see me, he'll offer obeisances. Prostate ob is that humble personality. He's man of that means he's man of principle. But sometimes get questionable.
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So I think these both sons he has another brother has inherited. Daughter in laws have inherited. And his and his grandsons they have also inherited that quality. So there is very great for our family and to have thank you so much.
That. Thank you very, very much for your wonderful class. Though it was a very short period, I think Maharaj covered some very, very important topics about Guru, about Guru Maharaj. And I think when Maharaj is not here, I'll feel comfortable to actually speak about Guru Maharaj also. Actually, Maharaj spent very early days with Guru maharaj almost in 1977, almost immediately after Srila Prabhupada's passing away, Maharaj joined Originally from Bhubaneswar, Maharaj traveled as Guru Maharaj's servant, traveling with the big tall. Because here Guru Maharaj was not so big at that time, the tall person. But Maharaj was really thin and thinner than what he was now. And Maharaj always used to be traveling around carrying all the luggages, running behind Guru Maharaj because Guru Maharaj is so tall, the speed at which he was walking. Maharaj is always there. Maharaj is. I've also, you know, been in touch and seen Maharaj for a long time and I've been working very closely with Maharaj and Mahavrabhu wanted to come. And actually seeing Maharaj is a lot for us to learn. And I think we are really fortunate to have great personalities. Number one, what to talk and what to glorify about Guru Maharaj, you can just go on. That's the purpose. After a brief few minutes, I wanted to pick up on a few things. And then also in addition to glorifying Guru Maharaj, I just wanted to also make a few mention in such a way that we can all try and see what we can do in service of Guru Maharaj. Now coming to Maharaj. Maharaj is also having the vision that he is drawn from Guru Maharaj to constantly serve and work. Maharaj is also now, you know, 65 years of age or so and he's also constantly moving around the world everywhere. Now he's having a two month trip all over usa. And one very unique program that Maharaj does is something that's wonderful, that's called India Tribal Clare and just the tribal care alone. Maharaj was telling me many years ago when he started it that I'll be able to bring easily 10,000 disciples for Guru Maharaj merely from the tribal care. And the truth is that every year as they have a tribal convention, thousands come out of Sridhar Mayapur and at least a few thousands are getting initiated. Maharaj is also the co gbc for the Middle east area where, you know, we have been preaching and Maharaj has been supporting Guru Maharaj so wonderfully sometimes because they are managerially. They are. They are peers. That means Maharaj is also a GBC member. Guru Maharaj is also a GBC member. And sometimes, as Maharaj was saying, you may have to vote differently, right? Because you have to take your own independent decision. But not once in all these years that I've ever heard anything that is in any way, you know, you know, I'm telling Guru Madha, but he's not doing it. Nothing. Not one aspect that comes negatively. That's the uniqueness of how Maharaj has been handling it. And in fact, if I sometimes say Maharaj in the front of the public, Maharaj will tell me how I should deal with things. So he's also very observant, as Maharaj said, in how we have to deal with things, and simply a wonderful personality. And so coming back to our Guru Maharaj, what to say, and I think we can go on talking and talking and talking about Guru Maharaj. Maharaj brought out some of the very important facets. Guru Maharaj. Everything that Guru Maharaj does can be traced to what the scriptures say. Maharaj just talked about wearing the garland. Maharaj talked about every single aspect of his life and his teachings and his way of doing things. You can trace it to what are the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, the shastras. Once I was in Dubai, Guru Maharaj was there in my house, and one lady came to meet Guru Maharaj. And he didn't come with any servant. So Guru Maharaj said, stay here with me in the room. So I was there with him in the room. And as Guru Maharaj was talking to the lady, I was present. But suddenly, you know, I wanted to do something else. I wanted to just leave the room. Guru Maha said, shivala, stop. Stay there. Sit down. Which I did. Because a sannyasi should never be alone in a room with a lady. However, elder, the lady was elder took Guru Maharaj. But you know, Guru Maharaj follows these aspects so perfectly every aspect of his life. Many things can be relaxed in a person who is like Guru Maharaj, who has had a stroke. He can't walk by himself, he can't go to the toilet by himself, he can't eat by himself. He can say, okay, I tone down on abc. You talk to the servants and you see Guru Maharaj and you see what happens in the room of Guru Maharaj as to how he does every aspect that a devotee should do. You're just observing, even in this condition of health of Guru Maharaj. Guru Maharaj does all of those to the perfection that we can learn from Guru Maharaj as to how to deal with our day to day activities. Day to day, Vedic culture, Bengali culture. Because he is Bengali, many times he has given a lecture how when we all sit together and we eat, one person cannot stand up and go. If you have some real work, then you have to take some water, you know, put that water down, beg of permission from the person, and then you can get up and go. This called the Pankti bhojana. And everybody is sitting together how to deal. What are their tickets? Guru Maharaj knows all these inside out. He knows the etiquettes of the Bengalis. He knows the etiquettes of every culture of India. He knows the etiquette of modern India, modern iskcon. He knows the etiquettes of the modern world. And every aspect that Guru Maharaj does is a lesson for every one of us. The way he walks, the way he talks, the way he. He sings. Just something that we have to watch, observe and learn in Dallas. All of you have a blessing here that is very, very unique. Yes. Many times I've been blessed by having Guru Maharaj in my house. Once there was some problem. He couldn't get to India. He was in Dubai. So six days he stayed in my house. The house becomes complete topsy turtle and you know, topsy turvy means it cleans up the house. But then every one of us have finished. It's like a whole marriage event has happened. And then after that, when Guru Maharaj goes, then you are recovering. It takes one month. But for Guru Maharaj, it's a marriage. Every day he's here and he goes to another place and another place, and for him it's common. It's nothing. But for us, we are. We are very happy. We are blessed. But can I not say it burns us out? No, it doesn't. But it just like sort of takes all the energy in us and it gives us the positive energy for sure. But it does drain quite a lot of what we do. And once he stayed for six days, I thought, what a blessing. Six days. We took him to everybody's house and he had the energy. He said, okay, take me to everybody's house. So schedule an event to everybody. And Guru Maharaj does not see, as Maharaj said, big, small businessman, wealthy person. No, very unique aspect of Guru Maharaj is he will accept as disciples anybody from any background. And he sees them as a soul that he brings to Srila Prabhupada, that he brings to Lord Sri Krishna. That's Very unique aspect of Guru Maharaj, the way he deals with everybody. Now recently, a year ago or so, we had the opportunity of having Guru maharaj for almost 10, 15 days. Wow, that's the longest period. But here you have six weeks and maybe more. It's an opportunity for you. Do what you have to do. Take some time off from your office, bunk office, sick leave, work from home.
Do what?
To try and get as much seva as possible. Because it's a unique opportunity. Even if you invite, whatever you do, you won't get the opportunity. Just comes upon for a particular reason that Guru Maharaj is here to bless you all. Get the maximum benefit about this association. Every one of you keep a diary as to how you met Guru Maharaj. What did he speak on that day, how did he touch now? And Maharaj was saying, guru Maharaj does not speak directly. Many times there'll be two disciples of his who are fighting. But Guru Maharaj, you know, it's like the Lord also, the thief also comes to the Lord and says, oh, the Lord, please bless me that I get enough bony today and I can steal from somebody. And the other person who has the money also praise that all my money is there. The Lord has to please both of them, right? So Gur Maharaj is also somebody like that. Sometimes there are two warring factions that come in from our side. It looks like that's logical. Why is Guru Maharaj so merciful? He is letting somebody go. But Guru Maharaj knows that if he hits the person out, just straight out there, then he knows that that person will lose complete connection to Krishna consciousness sometimes depending on the maturity of the people. He knows how to deal with this situation. And so sometimes we see that he is benevolent, but he knows that when to bring them in, how to correct them, how to deal with situation. Gurmaraj is very. He thinks very deep. Sometimes you ask him a question, many times I have faced it. You ask him a question, you won't get an answer. Sometimes he'll say, I'll think and I'll come back to you. And after some time you will think and he will tell you, that day you asked me this question, you can consider doing like this. Even there you will not say you have to do like this. You may say, you can consider doing like this. And his, his answers are something that you have to think deliberate and then apply in your life. And may not all of us will have the opportunity. You in Dallas have the great opportunity of personally serving your mother in some.
Way or the other.
You're at least bringing some icons for him for being or you're serving in some aspect, you may not be having a direct conversation with Guru Maharaj, but just being present in his in the vicinity of where he is. One Gurmaraj told me Prabhupada indicated and I think somewhere in the Shastra he said that 15 kilometer radius of wherever a devotee comes, that area has been so Guru Maharaj, you and me are right here. Definitely it's purifying us. And Kur Maharaj is a Prabhupada man. He is on the GBC forum Maharaj was talking about. Yes, GBC is a body of administrative. So in the administrative as God brothers also they may pick up on some aspects which will look like battle from an external perspective. But the real thing is they're all interested in serving Srila Prabhupada. So in the process of serving Srila Prabhupada, they try to see which ones and administratively they may be at loggerheads, but their goal is aligned to serv Srila Prabhupada. All the GBC's goal is aligned. So externally it may look like why are they attacking each other, but the way they deal with Srila Prabhupada's movement. And Guru Maharaj is an exemplary person. He's got memory. What do I say? Like an elephant. He's not only big, I won't call like that, but like they also say the elephant is the best swimmer. Gur Maharaj is one of the best swimmers. He can swim across. When he was in shape, he used to swim across the very heavy current of the Ganges and move ahead and save so many people right in that Ganges. But Guru Maharaj has got this capacity to think Prabhupada in every aspect. And so he will think about him. He knows all the rules and regulations of ISKCON because he's seen it all. There are many GBCs who are there, but they don't always attend all the days. No, it's like not being in office for all the meetings. You still get your job done. But Guru Maharaj is there, come what may. Whether he had stroke, whether he's on his exercise or in whatever be the situation, he's there. And we witnessed it once that when Gurmaj was going for the transplant, he went into the transplant, he was smiling. I came out of the transplant and the first question he asked was what happened to that devotee? Is he okay?
Right.
So Guru Maharaj's consciousness is constantly about Srila Prabhupada and Guru Maharaj never lets go. Something small happens in our life. We may say, oh, I had a mild heart problem, I've had this surgery, I'm 60 so I have to now I've done a lot for iskcon. I've done a lot of preaching, I've done so many classes, I've not had enough time with my family. So isn't that enough? Now let's time spend for hazels. No, this is what you have to learn from Guru Maharaj. This is what you have to learn from wonderful devotee like Bhakti Purushottam, Swami Maharaj and you know so many others in ISKCON till the last breath. And what this is what we have to learn from Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada would have said, I have established the GBC done until the last breath. If you see, you all have to see the video called the final lesson. How many of you have seen it? Final lesson. It's on YouTube.
Okay.
On Srila Prabhupada till the last moment, how he was still finishing the unfinished business of translating Srimad Bhagavatam. And Guru Maharaj never lets go. It's 13 years, 15 years since he had a stroke. His last international destination was uae. From UAE he went to GBC meetings in Mumbai and in Mumbai he got a stroke. This was in 2008. And here we are talking about 20, 23. Is he a person that can just travel by himself?
No.
He needs five people, six people to travel with him. He needs to be lifted for every inch that he wants to move. He needs to be fed Prasadam in every aspect. But mentally he doesn't bother. He is not this body. He is proving to us that he is not this body. We all have to realize that. And Guru Maharaj is somebody who, in spite of all of these issues that he has for every other GBC and every other person whom I have also met, Srila Prabhupada disciples, they say, I think your Guru Maharaj should now slow down and stay back in Mayapur. They are talking about, yes, the need for Mayapur. But they also talk about him in terms of he needs some focus to stay back and serve.
Right?
But Gurmar doesn't feel like that. Guru Maharaj travels and many times when I've gone, once I went from Dubai airport, he said, take me straight away to the travel agency and I want to make some changes. Guru Maharaj's passport is this thick. Multiple visas this thick. As soon as his post was taken, an Indian passport for a person of the white body. And he sometimes he calls Maharaj. These people come and say, you know, he's wearing a pant shirt, a big stick says, which place Maharaj is he? Where is the king of which place? People don't understand. Then we go straight away to travel agency. And the travel agency guy thinks, who is he? Birla.
What?
Such a big passport? Around the world. Srila Prabhupada travelled 14 times around the world. Guru Maharaj is just continuing to do it. Srila Prabhupada established the whole of ISKCON in just 12 years. And Guru Maharaj is continuing to travel and still serve Srila Prabhupada movement for more than 50 years.
Right.
Following all that Srila Prabhupada has indicated. And this travel agent person saw that and Guru Maharaj said, I want to. He always had multiple five or six round the world tickets. So he goes to the travel agency and he says, I want this rerouting done. The travel agent there calls for his manager. The manager comes saying, oh sir, I.
Don'T think you can do it.
No, he says, go back, look into this part and you can find it. There's a way of doing it. Then he comes and says, yes sir, yes, we can do it. And that's exactly what he can do. Not only to a travel agent in the material sphere, he does the same in the ISKCON moment in the GBC meetings. As to what Srila Prabhupada said, what he said because he has attended and he has attended in both body, mind and soul, every meeting, not just physically sitting, but mind is somewhere else. He has attended every session. He knows every rule and regulation of ISKCON that is established gradually. And he knows the entire legacy of how things changed every year with some modifications. So he's got it all in him. That's where I'm saying it's like an elephant in terms of memory, in what he does and how he does. And he is constantly encouraging people. I remember very well that, you know, Maharaj was glorifying my father. Yes, my father was a wonderful devotee. And when my father, you know, we got into Krishna consciousness in Dubai and then we had gone back to Chennai and that's where we had the opportunity to meet Guru Maharaj. And the first time we met him, we all took the Bhakti Steps, the Shraddhavan. Me and my father went and my father took me late in the night one day And Guru Maharaj immediately asked my father. So he called out for a secretary and he said, bring the Samskara Patrika. Wondering what is he bringing. So he brings a promissory note. What is that? I promise to chant dash number of rounds every day. So he says, give it to him, both of them. So me and my father get that Patrika from the hands of Guru Maharaj. So both of us look at each other, how many rounds we were chanting already at that time. So let's say we put one round and then the next visit of Guru Maharaj, we become a Sevaka. The next visit of Guru Maharaj, we become a Sadhaka. And then gradually we progress. And then one time in Dubai, we had already come. My father went and told him that I'm looking at going back to Dubai now. Gurmar came and he said, I'm the GPC for that part of the world, so go there and start the program. That's the instruction he gave my father. So my father immediately went back to and he said, whenever I'm passing through, I will come at Dubai. At that time, there was nobody other than my family, my father. But Guru Maharaj used to come visit us transit stop. And that is what has built what we are today. He started off with Bahrain, then he came here to our place. Gradually it started establishing everywhere. And now we have all over the Middle east close to 5,000 initiated devotees. And it's growing, it's growing. So it's nothing but the scale of Bangladesh again. Coming to Bangladesh, how many of you have been to Bangladesh? Some of you are from Bangladesh. So I don't want your hands up. But those who have not been to Bangladesh, I tell you that that is a place that all of us have, have to go. You will see Guru Maharaj Shamatkar right there. Srila Prabhupada never went to Bangladesh, but he ordered Guru Maharaj to go to Bangladesh. And he gave Guru Maharaj some stipend to preach in Bangladesh. And Guru Maharaj used to go to Bangladesh regularly. I've gone to Bangladesh, I think twice, taking a group of people, amazing plays, amazing devotees. But it's all Guru Maharaj, the love that they have for Guru Maharaj. Now I think we have how many thousands, tens of thousands of disciples each time Guru maharaj goes there? 2,000, 3,000 people getting initiated. Please go on. Please eat. Have prashad. You can hear and eat. Don't worry, I won't be diverting. I'd be a little diverted. My nose is blocked. So I don't smell Prashad. I'm still okay now. Just coming back. Another few other points here that I wanted to say that we are fortunate definitely now, whether we are initiated or not, we are fortunate to be in touch with a great person like this, to be inspired by him. And if some of us may be initiated by some other gurus, there's a lot to learn. We can have siksha instructions from Guru Maharaj and we can learn. But if you are connected, if you are aspiring to be connected, shelter to be connected, there is nothing better than progressing. The reason why I am saying is once we got that Krishna Sadhak and then we came to Dubai. And then when Guru Maharaj used to come to Dubai and go back, we used to meet him. He used to stay at our house. We used to serve him. My father, myself, I was not even married at that time. One time at the airport, he stopped and he turned back and with his stick, he was holding his stick like this and he stood like this. He said, when are you three getting initiated? It was odd for a guru to ask the disciples, when are you getting initiated? Next time you come, we will get initiated. You know, even that push, if it needs to be given, Gurmarj is there to give us the push. So let us all think that you all have to not think that your life is all forever. Think that time is short. Yeah. So what does the Shastra say? Aayur harati vaipumsam Ayur harathi. The age is depleted by Pumsa, means human beings. With every rising and the setting of the sun, our lifespan is depleting. Don't think your lifespan depletes every 10 years. Every birthday. No, every day with the rising and the setting of the sun.
So.
Therefore, without wasting Akshana, without wasting a second Uttamashloka vartaya. Apply yourself to the thoughts and the service and the chanting of Uttamashloka. Let us all not think that life is forever. Let us think that we have to progress spiritually very fast. So if some of us are not initiated and the path is to take diksha from Guru Maharaj, don't wait, move ahead. Make sure that you're fast. Don't wait for six years that we did, from Sevak to Sadak to initiation or more. No. Okay. That is the first view that I would like to say here. And Guru Maharaj knows clearly. Plan organizationally, how to set up, what to do, how to tell people. He's very merciful. He gives us a lot of instructions. I'm so called chairman of the JPS Seva Committee. But so many things that Guru Maharaj wants, I don't fulfill. At the speed at which he wants, we don't fulfill. So he tells us various things even before we think he would have already finished it by somebody else if we are slow in doing something. But he's got that, you know, he will ask sometimes he will pull us in. He will ask with respect, what do you do? How shall we do it? So it's very unique. He's an organizational man. He's a Prabhupada man. He knows exactly what to do, how to follow the etiquettes, even though we may be sometimes a disciple. He knows how to, you know, how to. How to deal even with disciples and with every other level of people. And every time you meet, please make a diary, keep a note. What are the unique things you heard, unique things you experienced about Guru Maharaj and Guru Maharaj likes on his Vyasa Puja offering for us to write about. What is the experience we have at Guru Maharaj? Now, experience does not mean what did you talk with Guru Maharaj? What did Guru Maharaj tell you? What did you do? No, how did Guru Maharaj sort of influence you from being within? Let us not see that Guru Maharaj is just outside. Today is in Dallas and tomorrow is in Mayapur. Wherever he is, he is there within. He guides us every day. So Maharaj was talking about how many of us are possibly having this opportunity to. To see Guru Maharaj. But think about the tens of thousands of Bangladeshis and think of so many other people around the world who have never seen Guru Maharaj. They just see him on the day of initiation. They don't even get the beads from Guru Maharaj because, you know, there are 2,000 people to get beats. And Guru Maharaj hand will go, you know, just giving beats out to everybody. And even those people, the faith with which they connect, that is an internal connection that we have. And all of us can have that internal connection with Guru Maharaj. And Guru Maharaj is blessing you all by being here in Dallas. Saroja Madhur, Prabhu, I think you managed to pull Guru Maharaj in here by enticing him in for the treatment. And I've been working very closely with Saroja Madhu, Prabhu for a long time as part of the Seva committee. He's part of the Seva committee for many years now. And there are lots more that we want to do with the help of all of you. And let's all together help each other and see how we can grow in service of Guru Maharaj. Personally, I would also like to say that all of us should be exemplary in our sadhana. All of us should know how to please our local authorities wherever we are work together. Don't have just the concept and the consciousness that I am a disciple of Guru Maharaj. So I have to only deal with Guru Maharaj's disciples. You should know, it's very important specifically that you have to know how to deal with local devotees. And we all should be mature enough as to how to deal with our God brothers or disciples of so many other gurus. And we all should know how to work together for the best of ISKCON as an organization. And at that time, the one upness to say, oh, I am a disciple of so and so, I'm a disciple of so and so should never come. You'll make Guru Maharaj so unhappy by doing that. But we should be very special in doing what we do, doing our sadhana, thinking about what Guru Maharaj wants us to do and do that in a nice way. Guru Maharaj is a pioneer in every aspect, not just Bangladesh. He's a pioneer in the congregational preaching Namahatta that the temples did not recognize at that time. Now Bhakti Purushotta Maharaj said that we have a few devotees from New York. Even when Burke brought Brooklyn had trouble, they said these congregation devotees supported and helped. Congregation is a very, very important aspect. And Guru Maharaj has valued Namahatta congregation right from day one, which most of the others did not recognize and realize. It is large. Iskcon is bigger than the disciples. When Srila Prabhupada was there, all the disciples were in the temple. There were very few outside the temple. Today there is a small percentage in the temple and a large percentage outside. Come what may, it cannot stop the progress of the movement. And Pracha congregation is important. So Guru Maharaj has got a lot of ideas and thoughts. We just read it, apply it. We don't have to innovate. He has done it all for us, right? So please take it and do it. There's Damodar Aarti, There's Intra Dhamod International festivals. Amazing. A few things that I would also like to, you know, impress upon all of you is to from the model that we have in Dubai and we have not a single full time devotee there, but we have a very robust youth program and we have an extremely robust children program. We have 60 classes with 1500 children. Registered in our classes. My wife manages the entire children program and a network. And the children program attracts all their parents. Our whole Dubai Damodesh started with children program. Once you catch hold of children, you're talking to children. The parents are captivated automatically. Even if the parents don't get Krishna consciousness, the children will go home and give them Krishna consciousness. We just had a Shloka. Now what you can do in Dallas. You are from possibly different parts of Dallas. The temple wants everybody to come to the temple. Yes, we should all go there. We should serve the temple. However, when you're there from every nook and corner of Dallas or other parts, every one of us should have a children class going. Call all the neighbors children and the children class composition is 15 minutes of bhajana 15 minutes of shloka and philosophy 15 minutes of games. Last 15 minutes am amazing prashad. However, the mother is good in cooking. When a child goes to somebody else's house, the child eats like her mother. Never gave prasadam to her or him. So this is a combination of what you can do and slowly bring about the culture of Shlokas for children. My father used to teach Shlokas daily. Daily he's compiled 500 important verses from Srimad Bhagavatam. Most of the congregation know all these verses. And we teach regularly children 25 shlokas every year. That's the portion 16 from Bhagavad Gita. 8 from Bhagavatam, 1 or 2 from Chaitanya Chaita Martha. So they know Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Chaitamata. Most of the Indians know Bhagavad Gita. They say Bhagavatam isn't the same. They don't know. So to train and children can learn Shlokas so much more. If Gajendra could chant Shlokas in his elephant body Merely because in the previous Janma he was a devotee chanting the Shlokas of the Lord. Why not us? And went to give to the children Kaumara, Cheret, Prajno Dharma and Bhagavata. Before the age of Kaumara before 5. But really went to give it to them. When to start the children classes? When do you think we should start children classes? Who can tell me now? Quick. What are the times? One year. Okay. Anybody else has any other idea? When should we chant children classes? At the age of five. Anybody else? Yes. So minus one before conception. If the parents are Krishna conscious, the conception is Krishna conscious. When the Child is in the womb. Like Prahlad, like Abhimanyu, like Parikshit in the womb. Pick it up. So we have no limit on when children classes should start. But children classes. If you catch the children young and make it attractive, you become a child. You all want to become young, right? We all want to become young. Yes or no? Come on say really we want to become young. You can become young when you're teaching children classes. You can jump and dance and do a drama with the children and you feel young at heart. So with the elders, they are sober, want etiquette. But with children, all of you use your capabilities. If you know how to dance, if you know how to sing, if you know how to cook, use it all in the service of these children and children become really attracted. That was my father's model of establishing the whole program in the desh. And so we have a robust one. I just want to say that we have one other model. And that model is called Dhrida Bhakti class. This is also children program. But the thousand five hundred children we have, which is still a small part of Dubai, we still have so much to do. 60 classes. We want to expand in the next one or two years to 108 classes. And we still have so much to go. Srila Prabhupada said every town and village. But what we have to do, you know, every building and every colony, that's our responsibility. And that's what Guru Maharaj wants. Also as congregational preaching, the Bhakti Vriksha model, we have to do. But these children that I'm talking about are children of the. Anybody and everybody can come in. But for devotees kids, what do we. Sometimes as parents, we are preaching to others. But we have lost our devotee kids. Yeah. Father and mother busy preaching. Child is playing busy PlayStation video game. Yeah. Or the husband is not being taken care of by the. No. We have to handle our children also very carefully. I'm gone beyond time. We had to get Prabhu to speak for a few minutes, right? Then I should eat.
Okay.
So just wanted to just finish that. We have this special class called the Dabakti. Our devotees kids come in there. We have like 250 such devotee kids. We teach them how to play the harmonium, sing the bhajans, play the murdanga, play the kartala, read Srila Prabhupada's books, give classes. We just had a Kirtan Mela exactly a month ago. It's called BAAL Kirtan Mela you can go to the net and see and 12 hours of kirtan. This is the third year we are doing it completely by children. Harmonium, mrtanga, kartals, everything by the children, a whole group, 12 full hours of kirtan mela that we do. So what I'm saying is there's so much for all of us to do in the service of Guru Maharaj, in the service of iskcon. Let's look at it from that angle to say let us all lend our hands in serving each other. Then the point of how as godbrothers we can deal with each other, work collectively, coordinatively to see how we can serve Guru Maharaj. I have to only say one thing and pass the mantle on to Prabhu. When we went on a tour, spiritual tour to Malaysia once he's no more, unfortunately he was a temple president of Kuala Lumpur and Uttama Chaitanya Prabhu told us that Gurmar, they started a new program for us and we are launching it big. We have good experience doing it now. Last year, we're doing it again this year. What is that? Damodar International Festival. I'm here talking about 15 years ago. And so he gave us a few inputs as to how to do the program. And we were on a tour in Malaysia, many devotees, around 100 devotees. So we came back, we took lessons from them, we modified it, innovated it and we grow. And every year we reach 5000 homes to do Aartis where 1500 children, their parents, so many others, more and more that we do, we do it on that comes from Malaysia. Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur has got a beautiful temple. Simheshwar Prabhu is also part of the seva committee. And so we have many devotees here. Of course we have a grand grand devotee by the name of Mahavaraha Prabhu who is also from Malaysia. Kale. And so I get Sarojay Prabhu to quickly introduce. And let's hear from Prabhu. Prabhu is not only going to speak to you for a few minutes if you like. The sambar today the sambar is also cooked by him. And he is only cooked for 40 people or 50 people today. But I believe he's capable of cooking for 10,000 people.
So actually it's soya curry potato soya curry. How many of you tried that? Did anybody miss that curry? He specially made that and he bought the masala from Malaysia. It's a masala Malaysia Baba brand. I have disclosed the recipe also. So we first time like recently Guru Mahj was in Malaysia. And I got an opportunity to visit Malaysia with Guru Maharaj. And I heard so much about him on the way to Malaysia. And that this Prabhu is amazing. The way he preaches, the way he preaches ministers, the way he brings everybody together, the way he organizes everything. I heard so much. I said I heard so many things like this about so many devotees.
Let's see what it is.
I went there, I was shocked. It was like when you have a wedding. How we do the decoration, the tents, the decor, the dining table. I must tell this in iskcon. I have never seen the setup for VVIP treatment with a proper dining table with, you know, there was a circular balls. You turn and take whatever you want. Amazing variety. Dedicated devotees. We should all learn from him how to serve and how to present. And he did a program.
How many people came in the program?
How many people came in that Jagannath Rajatra? Yeah, total. No total hungry. 2000 people almost were there. And there was right next to a river. And then they next day they had the cruise. So this. And he's been doing service for 30 years. Almost 30 years of service. So three devotees came from Malaysia. So we got to today we're going to hear from one. And please share some ecstasy of Malaysia also with Guru Maharaj.
Today one special thing.
You all actually are having prasadam with Guru Maharaj with Bhakti Prasad. He's having inside, you're having outside. So you're having association of Guru Maharaj giving company to Guru Maharaj having prasadam. And after this we'll try to bring Guru Maharaj here. We'll do Guru Puja and if Bhakti Pushtra Maharaj gives blessings, we can ask more question answers. So today this is an exception. We never did like this giving prasadam when you're sitting there, even the washing for hand washing. We have the wet napkin. So you don't get up, stay there, wait for Gurumajes.
Do you give them a pillow also Prabhu? Later Hare Krishna their devotees Prabhu and Mataji places my respectable. So we heard so many things from His Holiness. He shared with us the importance of worshiping Guru and taking instruction from Guru. And also Srivallabhaprabhu shared what we should do as a disciple to please our Guru Maharaj. And that also will praise Srila Prabhupada in his Khan. Not many devotees will get special instructions from Guru. And particularly Guru gives instruction some devotees and they will execute some Get Vani associations. Some get vapu association, physical association. Some get instruction from the Guru. But as far in we can see. And what Srivalabha Prabhu said when Guru Maharaj was very far fit and very healthy person. He travels. No one can stop him. No one can stop him. He's very dynamic person. He travels. I think Prabhu his name appeared in Wikipedia. That's the person who travels. And that's one Maharaj told me your Guru Maharaj, out of 365 days, 180 days you'll be on the earth. And 180 days it will be on the air. So that's how it travels. I can, if you believe or not in Banjanmastami Guru Maharaj in a three country in one Janmashtami. He's in a three country. I think first he was in Mayapur. And second, if I'm not mistaken, he went to Australia. Then he came to Malaysia for the Janmastami. He covered three countries in one day for Janmasnami. So that much energetic person, very dynamic. We cannot compare with Guru Maharaj. Even though now even he's physically he's not fit. But then the spirit in him very, very strong. Very strong. The memory is very strong. And everything is very strong with Guru Maharaj's strength. Put your strength very, very strong. So Guru Maharaj in Malaysia is what Prabhu mentioned about one of the Damoduru program. It's very important program. He always emphasize on this. Every single Grahasta and everyone can take part in Damodaru program. It's one of the important program. Guru Maharji likes it very much. Then when we started Dhamudura program, what Prabhu has mentioned, Uttama Chaitanya Prabhu started the Damodar program in a small scale. Then this has happened that at Damodar Deepavali Expo there are so many shops. Are there Indian shops during the Deepavali? And there's a pandal stage program. So he arranged with the management that can can I can we get a slot that we can have a Damodara program. So the management agreed. Then they started the Dhammad program. Then everyone showing a lamp spontaneously everyone showing. We had a big poster Damodra on the stage and everyone showing a light. So that's why we started thought it's very good preaching in Malaysia. Indians like it. When you talk philosophy. They may not like it but when they say offer lamb to Krishna on Deepali, they like it. So that's why we that's why we started in Dhammaduru program Malaysia. And then gradually, gradually we penetrate to schools, Tamil schools. We approach the eighth master, the principal. And we'll ask can we have a Dhamodar program in the school. We give them free Bhagavad Gita small books in Tamil edition, in English edition. And we'll make some prasadam also in different, different schools. Some schools are thousand students, some schools are 2,000 students. So like the many schools we we go every year. Then this is a really the result. When we may mention to Guru Maharaj that this many program we did, this many lamp we offered. Guru Maharaj become so excited. They say next year double it. Every time. Whenever we mention this next year double it. So from 50,000 and 1000-002000-00300,000. Like that, we are gradually increasing it. Even during the COVID pandemic, we managed to do 200,000. What we did, we volunteered ourselves. We make the Giwick stick, giving stick and we distribute to the houses. We don't go to the houses, but we give it to them. How many you want, Prabhu? We want 50, 100. Like that. We take all the names we make in the temple. Matajis and Prabhu. Everyone volunteer. We make like the 200,000 sticks. We go deliver them in the house. And so everyone do in the house. During the COVID still will never stopped. Is continued. So like that. Then Guru Mah said what is the next target? So I won half million five hundred thousand. So we are planning and we we're trying our best. We want to reach the half million five hundred thousand whole Malaysia. And during in the COVID that we came out the idea virtual Dharmadura lamp, right? Guru Mahj visit virtually every home, right? This is not something very new. He started that very long, long ago. When Guru Mahj came for Deepavali in Malaysia. Then Guru Maharaj said, I want visit some houses, disciple houses. Let's plan out. So what we did, we prepared the vehicle for Guru Maharaj and many devotees. There's about 10 castes. Everyone stand by. All the Brahmachari and Grahastas, everybody will follow. Guru Maharaj will go first house for a short while. They would do the Pada Puja and they'd give some prasad for Guru Maharaj. And Guru Maharaj we will go to the kitchen straight away to take dosa and all that. And Guru Maharaj will say, let's go. That's it. Halfway we have to leave. We go to the next house. Then we go straight to the kitchen all the devotees. Guru Maharaj will have the family photograph sessions, everything. So we'll take something little pressure. Let's go like that. We covered 50 houses in one day. 50 houses. You can imagine 50 houses in one Deepavali from morning until night. So very exciting program. So she has started this home visiting long ago. Nothing new. But because of the COVID then he's visiting home visit virtually in Malaysia. One way our great success was we did a virtual Dharmadur lamp. And I think Prabhu would have also joined. He gave some talk also on that. We did Malaysia and then we achieved this Malaysia record. A book that 5000 lamp G lamp offered on the one day. So we got a certificate from Malaysia book record. They recognized that we showed a 5000 lamp of key lamp offering. So like that many Guru Mah should raise encourage. And what pleasing Guru Mahj is that as what Prabhu mentioned? It doesn't matter. He can be a Guru Mahj disciple. He can be other guru disciple. We see he's our Ka conscious family. Va kuru. We say Krishna one family. What Prabhupada says I built the house which the whole world can live. So like that we see our is a spiritual family. So it can be wherever we are in any temple. So we work with the devotees, work with the local temple authority. Because that please Guru. When a Guru sees that the disciple having a misunderstanding with the management misunderstanding among the disciples, it becomes very very saddening when the Guru sees the disciple. The guru always want the disciple properly engaged in devotional service. Wherever he is, doesn't matter in any temple. He can do something very solid. You can do something very solid for Guru for the temple. So this is what pleasing the Guru, you know, this is very, very important. So in my thing, I just like to share one of the beautiful nice pastime nectar from Guru Maharaj I had in my life. And we are very fortunate in Malaysia under the leadership of Simeshwar Prabhu, very senior disciple. So he was the temple president those days. We all work under him. And under his guidance we got a lot of opportunity to serve Guru Maharaj personally. Because that time Guru Mahj comes, there's only Brahmacharya in the temple. So we got a lot of chance, opportunity to serve him and everything. Personal service to him that time. And then one time after my initiation then I got my Japa mala. Then so I went to Vrindavan Gurukul the time to do some seva. That was in 1989. So Gurumaj gave me the beats. In 1987, I received the Diksha beats. And in Vrindavan during Guru Puja. Then I lost my chanting beats. Initiation beats. I lost it. Then I just cried to Krishnam Balaram and Radha Shammashunda. What happened? I lost my beads. Then on the next year Guru Maharaj came for a GBC meeting in Vrindavan. Then I didn't get a chance to speak to him. But then I went to his guest house. And then I served prasadam this and that. Because I had some seva in Vrindavan Gurukul. So I can't just leave and go. Then. So Guru Maharaj, after three days he was about to leave. He was going to Delhi airport with Gopal. His Holiness Gopal Krishna Maharaj together. Then I went to Guru Maharaj. Guru Maharaj, I don't have chanting beats. What happened? Well, my initiation beats lost. Guru Maharaj, I need. Can you chant and give it to me? No, I'm leaving to the airport. You're asking me? Then I'm so sad. What to do then Gopal? As soon as Gopal Krishna Maharaj said, Maharaj on the way, you can chant and give it to my disciple. He's coming back next week. That's such a merciful Gopal Krishna Maharaj. Thank you Maharaj. Then Guru Maharaj took the beads. Then he chanted. And then I had a dream in Vrindavan. Then I had to dream that I was standing in a mangalarti. Then Gopal Krishna Maharaj came and tapped me behind. He said, haribo, this is your bits your Guru Maharaj gave. That's in the dream. On the same day. Exactly same day I was in the Guru Puja. The disciple gave and gave me the bits. This is the mercy of Guru Maharaj. I cannot imagine that how I got his mercy. And what happened then? I went back to Malaysia. Then I was traveling Sanketan party that was in East Malaysia. There's another island, Borneo Island, East Malaysia. That's where I'm based to now also we were doing Sankir then. So we left bits in the car in the shopping area. Somebody broke the window glass window. And they stole all our bags. Including chanting bits again. What a incident this happening to me. I thought, Krishna, what is the test? First bits I lost, this is my second bits. How am I going to face a Guru Maharaj again? Then Guru Maharaj came to Kuala Lumpur. Then I came to Kuala Lumpur. Then I'm so scared to speak to Guru Maharaj. I told Shameshwar Prabhupada please you speak to me. Speak to him. Then Shameshwar said wait. When Guru Mahj in the good mood, I'll speak to him. Then I'm just waiting and waiting. So finally what happened? Guru Mahj is going for Radhi Yatra. Then I backed in again. Please help me. I need the pits. Okay, what do you do? You go with Guru Maharaj in his car. You go. Then there's a driver. Prabhu's are driving and Guru Maharaj sitting in front. At the back His Holiness Bhakti Virgin and Swami Maharaj. And I am next to him. So I whispered to Bhakti Insolinas. Bhakti Vijay Maharaj. This is my second bit. I lost it. But I already mentioned him too earlier. I don't have a bit. Please speak to my Guru Maharaj. I'm so scared to speak to him. Please Maharaj help me. Maharaj. His holiness is Bhakti Vijay Mah. He is the president of Malaysia Yatra at the time. So he was so merciful. He said, Maharaj, you know this boy? No chanting beats the Guru Maharaj. Look at me. What do you mean Maharaj? He lost it. He lost his chanting bead. Then he has a Tulasi be brought it. And he asking you to chant again. Then Guru Maharaj showed his hand like that. I gave him the beads. He took the beads. Then he gave me back. This is Mayavati beads. Maharaj. You know why my very beats in that beads. This string is a missing after the eight gopis, right? You must have this string. This is the Principal Gopis, right? 108 Gopis. The eight principal Gopis. We need have a string. But in that bit no string. Then Guruma said this is Mayavadi bits gave me back. So what to do? Then his holiness Bhakti Vijayan Maharaj. He was wearing a garland.
He took out the garland. He took out all the flowers out.
And then took the string. Aribal tie this. Amazing the mercy. I took the string. Then I tied in the bits. And then I cut Gift Guru Maharaj. This is Vaishnava bit. Then he took it, chanted. After one run he slept. The bits is still in his hand. And I just waiting and waiting. Where can I get the bits? And then Gurumaj woke up again. Another second round was chanting. Then he said. Then he told Bhakti Vijayana Maharaj, Kripa Sindhu. He got a double blessing today. Then he gave me the bits.
So.
If I lost this, I should die. This is the mercy of Guru Maharaj, you know, so it's not that easy. But see one Guru Maharaj in these conditions and his mood is all his disciples should help him in his mission. Should assist in his mission as what? Prabhupada mentioned that Prabhupada instructed him 50,000 disciples. But it will be more than that. And then certain hundred thousand small books and big books, all that. That's why every marathon Guru Maharaj pushed the devotees to help him to distribute books. And many instructions Guru Maharaj received from Prabhupada. Many, many instructions. Some of the instruction is shared to the intimate devotees. So any means we can help Guru Maharaj in bhakti, viksha, namahata. So we should do, we should assist in a way. Sometimes the word is what is this? I mean, it's the Sam disciple. I don't even get chance to speak to him. I don't get chance to see him. Sometimes they demotivate themselves. It's not like that. It's not like that. Sometimes the vapu, the physical associations, it's of course for some people it's important serving physically. But the vaani is sometimes more important than the vapu. Like what Prabhupada says. My only qualification is to please my Guru Maharaj. This, this is what Prabhupada said. Prabhupada hardly see his Guru Maharaj only met few times. And then he has to wait for 11 years to get initiation from his Guru Maharaj. Sometimes we get very disappointed. I've been devoted for three, four years. What I'm not getting initiations. So ultimately we should understand we are in this Ka consciousness. It's not for a one day, one year, two years. Prabhupada said, if you make your life your plan to be ka consciousness for 10 years, you will be for 10 years. If you make a plan in your life, you want to be Ka consciousness rested for life. Then you will be in the rest of life be a Ka consciousness. So in that way we need a lot of mercy of Guru Maharaj. So even though we cannot directly serve Guru Maharaj, but through his authority, through his other associates or it's a devotee disciples we can serve through them our Guru Maharaj, through our local temple authority, through other Vaishnavas, we can help our Guru Maharaj. That will please. Many, many years ago, when my mentor, my devotee was very close to me, my senior desire Brahmachari. He the disciple of his Holiness that I am Prabhu Vishnu Maharaj. I myself Srila Guruma disciples. Then I always travel with him for many years, almost 25 years. We are like close partners. We travel to different part of the world, Europe, overseas, all these places. We do a lot of Tamil preaching program. So Guru Maharaj came to Australia. Then. I always have my doubts in my mind because I'm not getting instruction from Guru Maharaj directly. But then I'm traveling with him, my senior Brahmacharya. Then I spoke to Guru Maharaj. Guru Maharaj, I'm not getting any instruction from you that pleasing you. But I'm traveling with this sin in Brahmachari doing a lot of Tamil preaching. And then is that pleasing you, Guru Maharaj I asked. Guru Maharaj said, are you happy? Yes, Gurumaj, I'm happy traveling with him and doing all this Tamil preaching program like that. If you happy with your service, that will please me. Don't worry. And then he met again in Switzerland, in Zurich temple. And then he saw us again. Then Gurumaj asked Kripa Sundu, are you happy preaching? And Gurumaj I'm happy. Gurumaj, keep it up. That make me happy because you're still preaching. So that's Guru Maharaj. How is mercy all about? So we should always take this wonderful opportunity. We are very blessed, very fortunate that Guru Maharaj still in that condition traveling in a different part of the world. Now he's in Dallas. So all of us were very fortunate that we have Guru Mahaj with us. So there's no handlers on his mercy. Grab the mercy, the opportunity to serve and in any means. All right. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada Srila Guru Maharaj. Thank you. When Guru Maharaj we just came here landed two days ago. The moment Guru Mahj Swami in his room, he said, how is coaching Kuching temple? There is Malaysia. Then how's the devotee in Kuching? I said, Guru Mahj, everyone's fine with your blessing. And how is Kuala Lumpur? How things? Okay. Kuala Lumpur is Maharaj with your mercy. Guru Maharaj, everything's happening very good. So thank you. It's still the moment, you see. How is the management? Everything's okay. Thank you. It makes sure everything goes fine. We should not bring problem to Guru. Solve our problem within our problems. Prabhupada says there's always problem in this world. The problem is you, he and me. Otherwise everything's perfect. Very nice. This is what Prabhupada says. The problem is we. So like that the problem even though with us we solve ourselves. Don't Bring it to Guru Give some good news to Guru Maharaj that will encourage him become very strength. He become more fired up the moment he hear the problem with the disciple then he becomes sad why my disciples like this? The moment I give good news to Guru he become more energetized become more such a student spiritually. So that's pleased him so much. Thank you and thank the host Sarvajay, Madhav, Prabhu and Mataji all the devotees hosting us today thank you so much. Wonderful, great service Vaishnava Seva. So this is. Thank you Hare Krishna.
You heard from the seniors There are some brand new newborn initiated babies I know some people are already, you know, recognizing them so I'd like to give the mic to them. Maharaj is coming so Guru Maharaj will be coming shortly is coming shortly so they can share their experience of initiation. This three just got initiated anybody else got initiated before yesterday? 1, 2, 3, 4. We'll see if you get opportunity.
You also come.
Come Maha Prabhu.
Thank you.
So you can hear how they feel after initiation. What is their experience? Experience of initiation we can hear. Who do you want to go first?
You want to go?
Okay.
My name is Prasanna Vishaka Just first time I've seen Guru Maharaj at the temple in Base Puja at the time Hare Krishna first time I have seen Guru Maharaj at the temple in Vyas Puja I don't know first I. I didn't listen any words and any classes but suddenly I got tears from my eyes and just I. I was seeing him continuously but I don't know.
This.
Will happen at the time after that I came here for doing volunteering continuously daily I'm coming to Swabi Mataji's home after that I've seen two, three times Guru Maharaj and he gave me v blessings and I felt really wonderful and I thought I wanted to take initiation from him and also actually I. Before that I was aspiring to Giraj Maharaj and. But just I put email but I. I don't know. I don't. I didn't connect with. With him actually my. One of my aunt she told me about him and I sent email. Physically or mentally I didn't connect with him so I sent email to Giraj Maharaj and after that he. He accepted my request, he sent me email and then I took initiation from Guru Maharaj it was really wonderful. Thank you Hare Krishna everyone my name is Pratiba I'm very nervous to speak here actually a little bit so the very first time I saw Guru Maharaj was in Mayapur Dham in 2018. And when I saw the him there, there was an announcement actually in Mayapur that he is actually giving initiations. I was just about to give my name there. But since I didn't talk to my husband about it, so I didn't take the initiation. And now again I saw guru Maharaj in 2023 in Vyas Puja and I got connected. I was like, he is my Guru Maharaj. That's it for this life and next life and life after life. He is my Guru Maharaj. And I decided on it. And then the process went on and it so happened. I got my deeksha from him. This is my story. Thank you Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna, everyone all glories to Srila Prabhupada. My initiated name is Kamya Rani. So I was really surprised to connect to Guru Maharaj since the day I have seen him. At Dallas Temple on Vyasapuja we got the opportunity of serving all these,008 prasadams. And we were there right in front of the stage and I was like, my heart is just floating in the air. What am I seeing, Gurmaraj? So near, so close. So my heart was like, I don't know what's really happening to me. And I felt like somewhere all the voidness in my heart. Even though I'm following the Krishna consciousness since from the past four years, I'm. I'm still void in my heart. I don't know what it is. I. I cannot explain. This is what. So then after I have seen and I got somehow the opportunity from Sarvajay Prabhuji to cook for the disciples of Maharaj and I felt very happy. Oh my God. I don't want to miss any opportunity to serve. That's my main desire. So whatever way I wanted to connect to Maharaj, I wanted to do something. So cooking for him and being in that group, cooking seva has really made come closer to Maharaj. And I was dedicated myself. Until Guru Maharaj stays here, I want to keep serving him. So when I see that more coming and coming. And once I attended Chetan Chaitamrita Guru Maharaj's class in the evening and that's where I got more connection. I was like, I'm not listening to the class and my heart is somewhere else. He's talking, he's listening. I can see, I can listen. But still I have this so much fighting in myself. I'm literally crying inside, I cannot tell outside. So I said like once with the blessings of Prabhupada and Savage. He is blessing every day. So many devotees, wonderful devotees who are presenting to his class. And I got even the blessings of him, Him. Like when I touched, when he touched it with that spiritual wand, I felt like something is taken away. All my pain, all my suffering, what I am suffering inside, deep down my heart was completely gone. And I couldn't able to share with anybody other than my Guru. And I spoke to her lot of times. Since that day, I couldn't able to sleep at all. I have no sleep in on my eyes. And I was like, I don't know what really happened at that time. And I was telling my husband everything, sharing with my kids, all this is what happened. I don't know. This is something I got connected to him. So that's where everything had led to take initiations. And it's such a wonderful journey and very fast, of course, very quick. But Sadhvi Mataji Sarvajay Prabhuji has helped a lot. And thank you so much Sabajay Prabhuji, Sadhvi Mataji a lot. We are. Yes, yes, yes. So I dedicate my life whenever, wherever, whatever it is I keep serving Guru Maharaj. Whatever he says, I will follow. And definitely I hope I need all the Vaishnava's blessings, all the devotees blessings. Please bless me to every possible way I should commit myself not to miss. I just want this for this life. That's it. I don't know after that Hare Krishna. Thank you everyone.
So I got connected with the Guru Maharaj. I went to India last June July and I went to my hometown Coimbatore. So I. I've been in Dallas for two years and I've been practicing Krishna consciousness since last four years. But I was still searching for a guru. And in Dallas we often have Giriraj Maharaj, His Holiness Giraj Maharaj visiting us or I met His Holiness in the. So I was thinking who should be my Guru. But I had never made any connection. So when I went to India in June July, I was a little bit hesitant because it was my first trip to India after becoming a devotee. So I was like, how will my parents treat me? Will I get any association? Because I've been staying close to temple for a while that I was always surrounded with devotees. So I go hometown and then first day I'm chanting and then I meet a senior Mataji. She sees me. She's been in my apartment for very long. But because she never connects with non devotees Like I was playing with this kid since growing up. But I never knew she was practicing Krishna consciousness. But she saw Shikhaat Tilak and Kantimalaya chanting. She said, come into my house. She showed her deities, beautiful Gauravar Nithya. Then she took me to temple and I saw that Coimbatore has a very big temple. And then fortunately they were celebrating Snaan Yatra and Guru Maharaj Khalil. So I was able to get some service for Guru Maharaj there, twine his clothes to basically serve his servants. So at that time also I did not know much about Guru Maharaj. But when I saw him physically, there was an attraction towards Guru Maharaj. And when I started serving him, I started to read more about Gur Maharaj. And then I understood like whatever health challenges he had, but still he was like jovially meeting devotees, asking them questions, still traveling around very nicely. So then I went to Mayapur in July and then there again I was praying who should be my Guru. And then somehow servants saw me there and they were very happy and they were like, come, let's go meet Guru Maharaj. They took me to meet Guru Maharaj's blessings. And then I used to attend a CC class. And then somehow I was praying to Mahaprabhu. And then I thought, okay, I'm connected or attracted to Guru Maharaj, so why should not I take a shelter? So I asked for a shelter. And Guru Maharaj was so merciful that the day I asked, he gave me shelter. And I've been praying to Radhakalachandji for a long time. My favorite deities are Narasimhadev. So Guru Maharaj was very merciful that he chose to give me initiation on Narasimhaturdashi. So I feel like Radhakalachandi has been most merciful to me this year. Guru Maharaj is very merciful. And also the devotees, it is not possible, possible to get blessings without devotees blessings. So thank you devotees. So Prabhuji wants to know how I got my name. So for my name I think so I had no desire for my name. I just thought whatever name Guru Maharaj wishes. But I think my wife had a desire for my name to be Mahaprabhu. And somehow we did not tell it to Guru Maharaj, but Guru Maharaj, when she shared it with Guru Maharaj, Guru Maharaj said that his super soul had directed him to give me this name, Mahaprabhu Jagadisha Das. So Guru Maharaj even listens, like when we don't even tell it to him. So that's how much he is merciful.
Sa.
Paramakaruna.
Nitai.
Sabaya Bhata Saras Paramakaruna nitai Paramakara Bajabai Chaitan Foreign.
Gata.
Samsari.
Sa.
Ra.
Guru Deva Jaya Guru Deva Jaya Guru Gurudev Guru Keval.
Mo.
Jahar o.
Sa.
Sam Naruto Sa Asad Nama Sarita.
Ra.
Haradaya Namayo Vishnu Padaya Krishna.
Praise.
Sam.
Nagar Nabunitananda Sriyad Sa.
It.
Sam.
God.
That's sad.
So very glad that you're all present today.
So I'm very glad that you are all present today.
You have them having all kind of.
Satsanga and that you have been having all kinds of satsanga.
I see very important devotees spend this lifetime on human beings.
Concerning Krishna, we see that it's very important that devotees spend this lifetime as a human being serving Krishna and.
Sorry, Krishna.
Serving Krishna. We get spiritual bliss.
Every night when I'm here I speak on the Chaitanya pastimes.
Every night while I'm here, I speak on the Chaitanya Lila pastimes.
And.
Lord Chaitanya is Krishna. He came to experience being a devotee and.
Mercy everyone.
And in the mood of Radharani, he's giving out the mercy to everyone.
Last night he read Alart Chaitanya. He miraculously escaped from his room.
Last night we read how Lord Chaitanya he miraculously escaped from his room.
He ended up at the entrance.
He ended up at the entrance of the Jagannath Puri temple.
There he was in an unusual condition.
And there he was in an unusual physical condition.
And he was returned to normal by loud chanting.
And he was returned to normal by loud chanting of the Hare Ka Mahamantra.
He asked, how do I get here?
So then he asked how do I. How did I get here?
Said, I'll tell you everything, come back to your presence.
And Surab Damaraga Swami said, I'll tell you everything, come back to your residence. First.
Ecstasy that he.
So Lord Chitanya, he had come in such ecstasy that he didn't even remember what he did.
So well. Oh yeah.
So we hope that all of you get spiritual bliss.
Because you got love for Krishna.
And so by the mercy of Lord Chaitanya, you can get love of Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada 1973 in London.
Srila Prabhupada in 1973 in London he had his Vyas Puja.
He said that he wanted all his. He has the followers.
He said that he wanted all his Grihasta followers to be Paramahamsas.
He said that.
He said that of the Grihastas. So what to speak of the Sannyasis and Brahmacharis.
Devotees, the Khonos are planning how to extend the Krishna conscious movement.
I'm very grateful that devotees, the couples, they're. They're planning how to expand the Krishna consciousness movement.
Why this way? By thinking how to extend the service of Ka, one can actually be a Paramahamsa.
So in this way, by thinking how to expand the service of Ka, one can become a Paramahamsa.
More people and the material world are planning how they can be materially healthy.
Most people in the material world are planning how they can become materially happy.
So I know all the rushed efforts, but there are some problems.
But despite all the best efforts, there is always some problems.
One Serge Kristoff I can actually be happy.
But if one serves Krishna, they can actually be happy.
That's the secret.
That is the secret.
He is seen by the preaching in the Middle East.
So I'm very grateful to Shiva Lava Prabhu. He's foreseeing the preaching in the Middle East.
Wife Sita Charu and his good wife Sita Charu. She's preaching to the ladies.
She has been preaching to the ladies.
What's up? Having a good life. Have him preaching here in Dallas and.
Also Savage I mad and his good wife have been preaching here in Dallas and also like.
And I'm very grateful all of you are chanting Hare Krishna this way for practicing Bhakti Yoga.
And I'm very grateful to all of you for chanting Hare Krishna and in this way you're practicing Bhakti Yoga.
I thank you very much. This is the secret process. And that's why you are so.
Thank you very much. This is the secret process in this Kali Yuga. Processes. Processes. Secret processes.
Success.
Secret of success in this Kali Yoga.
So.
We hope that all you are reading books, blindness and daily life.
So we hope that all of you are reading Srila Prabhupada's books. And in applying this in your daily lives. Krishna.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Who didn't get a blessing? Gurumaj, they want seconds if you all turn around. Group picture. Group picture. Please come.
Inside. Call everybody from inside also. We'll take a group. No, no.
Stand.
Guru Mahj does not have mask. So everybody please stand back. Please. Without mask, right? So stand back. Everybody please sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down is better. Sit down. Please sit down. If you sit, everybody will come in the picture. Otherwise tall Mataji will cover all other Mataji. Sit.
Please sit.
Guru Mahj will bless you.
Again.
Please sit down. You will have the blessings. Time again. Please sit down. On the count of three everybody is sitting down.
One.
Two.
Three.
What happened?
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Please. Please sit down. Let's all of us sit down. Please come.
Come.
Arvu.
Everybody from inside. Somebody call everybody from inside. Sit. Sit.
Mataji, please sit.
If you sit, everybody will come in the picture. Otherwise you'll cover. Somebody. Please. Please sit down. Please.
I'm also sitting.
Trust me. Please sit down. Please. Please sit down.
Come.
Come.
Let's sit.
Chairman, sit down. Come. Everybody please sit down and say. Everybody. Chai Tanya. Chai Tanya. Don't lift hands.
Hands.
All down. Hands down. Not hands up. Hands down. Okay. Sadi Mataj is here. Okay. Thanu is also here.
Oh wow.
More.
1.
10.
9.
8.
5. 4.
3. 2. Okay. Come.
Come. Come.
Come.
Come.
Come.
Come.
Come.
Come.
Okay.
Come. Come.
Come. The saga never ends.
Come.
Come.
Yeah.
Do not raise your hand. Please do not raise your hand. Guru Maharaj.
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