20230921 Question and Answer Session

Nav Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare.

Hare Krishna. Dear devotees, today we will continue with the question and answer session Hare Krishna, can you hear me Hare Krishna? Dear devotees, we'll continue with the question and answer session with his Holiness Jayapataka Swami Srila Guru Maharaj. So we'll proceed. Dear most Guru Maharaj, generally when one is in separation mind is in disturbed state and cannot think straight. Then how is that love in separation and this performing service can be better. Your loving spiritual daughter Shanta Gopi Devidasi Sridha Mayapur it.

Serving Kaja when one.

Is serving Krishna in separation and one.

Feels.

Disturbed and one feels disturbed.

That thinking naturally is something.

That thinking is something naturally which is that's very.

Not normally naturally love and satisfaction that's naturally.

A type of love in separation. So when one is feeling love for.

Krishna and love is abnormal when the.

Love is abnormal and that shows one's affection for Krishna.

For you.

Okay question from okay, question from Ayushi Madhavi Devidasi from Sridhar Mapo. My question is that sometimes in my mind like forcefully some offenses offensive thinking come offensive thinking coming. But I don't think like that because it comes very comes like forcefully. Please instruct me how to overcome from that situation at that time. Krishna. Krishna.

I want one trying to think of.

Krishna when one is trying to think.

Of Krishna in an appropriate manner in an appropriate manner and sometimes inappropriate thoughts come to mind.

But sometimes some inappropriate thoughts come to the mind.

So I'm thinking of Krishna a very positive way.

So by thinking of Krishna in a.

Very positive way, naturally after some time naturally after some time becomes over the.

Mind mind becomes proper. Next, a question from YouTube from an YouTube viewer. How to manage spiritual and material studies. Spiritual life and material studies.

Say oh, very careful and do your studies.

So you see, one has to be very careful when you do your studies.

At the same time don't want to do something.

At the same time we don't want you to do something which.

Is against the spiritual life.

Which is against the spiritual life.

Practicing one day comes all right.

So by practicing one becomes perfect.

I think that we want to use the mind to serve Krishna.

So by thinking that we want we want to use the mind in serving.

Krishna and then naturally we're able to eventually do the right thing.

And naturally one is able to do one is eventually able to do the right thing. Next question from Premeshwari Shri Radha Devi Dasi from the from Facebook. My question is how to remain consistently strong facing the various tests that Krishna sends on Our way. While practicing Ka consciousness, it takes a considerable amount of time to develop the right mood and enthusiasm for performing service. But one negative incident, something against our desire to perform service can demotivate us to a long time. Please guide on how to face all these obstacles.

So in the United States we are something Alzheimer's.

So in the neophyte stage, we are suffering all kinds of tests.

We can overcome those.

But eventually we can overcome those.

We can say.

So I'm glad that you are reaching a stage where you feel you are being successful. What she say? Okay. To be perfect. Okay.

I don't think I'm perfect yet.

I don't think I'm perfect yet.

Tell me what your secret is.

Tell me what your secret is.

I was always trying to be perfect.

I was always trying to be perfect.

What? Even Radarani feels she's not perfect.

Even Radharani feels she's not perfect.

She still has some.

She still have some percentage to go.

You reach those perfect stage.

But you have reached the perfect stage.

I take some time to be perfect.

It takes some time to be perfect.

Otherwise I hear who is here? Correct Race. Stand up.

Who is perfect here? Please stand up. Are you perfect, Mataji?

I am ashamed.

I am ashamed.

How can I be forgiven?

How can I be forgiven? See, day after tomorrow we are having Radhashti. And she's asking, you see, Radharani is very merciful. By being very humble, she will forgive us.

Next.

Next.

Guru Maharaj.

Adhamir Aparad, Kamakurvan, Sapnil Halda.

So he's asking, please give your mercy on this.

He's asking Maharaj, please give your mercy on this fallen soul. Question.

Sometimes.

Sometimes people say, please accept my.

Fallen Pranam.

Fallen Pranam.

My obeisances are like stool.

Somebody said, my obeisances are like stool.

I offer them on my feet. On your feet. I offer them on your feet.

Smell your way senses. This is better. Guru Maharaj, should we expect justice in this world? Question mark.

Then we're lucky.

If we get justice, then we are lucky.

This world, all I do are sources.

So this world doesn't always do what's justice.

Therefore we don't understand her.

Therefore we don't want to stay here. We want to go back to the spiritual world.

Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you.

Who wants to stay here?

By your mercy, no one, Guru Maharaj. By your mercy, nobody wants to stay here. Dear Guru Maharaj. Dear Guru Maharaj. Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. I've been thinking about this a lot. How can we know who is our Ishtadeva? Whenever we remember Krishna should we remember any specific deity or form of the Lord Like Jagannath, Nanda, Priya, Devidasi? So the devotees have Ishtadeva, they have.

A devotee, they have arm of the Lord which they think of.

They have a form of the Lord which they think of.

Here you have a person thinking of the Lord asking who is Mahesha Deva?

Here is a person who's thinking of a form of the Lord and asking who's my Ishtadeva?

I got Sundives Lord Krishna. He's thinking he or she is thinking.

Sometimes one is thinking of Lord Krishna then he or she is thinking who's my Ishtadeva? Maybe that form that you're thinking of is your Ishtadeva.

And Prabhupada asked that which why did he give the deity of Lora?

So sometimes Prabhupada was asked why did he keep the deity of Krishna Balaram in Shivandalan?

Because he said actually the tiger they came and they instructed six Oswamis actually.

Nitai go he told actually Nitaigor they came and instructed the six Goswamis to establish Nitaigor throughout Vrindavan.

But actually they established this 5000 temples and Radhar Krishna actually they established these.

5000 temples all Radhakrishna.

So I wanted to establish.

So I wanted to establish a Prabhupada state. So I wanted to establish Krishna Balaram.

And Nitaigo and Nitaigor.

And Radha Shyam. So I established Nitai, Gore Krishna, Balaram, Radhisham, Jai Krishna.

Behind they had this Sahajas were chanting.

So behind they had the Sahajyas they were chanting so these Sahajyas they were chanting Nitai go Radhe Sham Japu Hare.

Krishna, Hare Ram Prabhupada Hear that every day.

The Srila Prabhupada heard that every day.

Oh I don't really chant.

So why don't we shine Nitai go Radish next Hare Krishna. Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances onto your lotus feet. Wow. I am blessed to have your shelter and seeking your mercy as initiation soon. Guru Maharaj, I have a. I have one question that if someone have not followed the fourth regulatory principle regarding relationship before connecting to Iskcon but after is taking shelter and following all the regulative principles strictly then can he become a full time servant by going to the Brahmacharya Ashram or is it better to be Grahasta for him, what is the possibility of successfully serving the Lord in either ashram? Thank you, Guru Maharaj. Your insignificant servant Anuj.

In the eighth canto.

In the eighth canto of the Srimad.

Bhagavatam in the Palestine of Anjandra.

In the past time of Gajendra Moksha.

Gajendra, he was fighting with a crocodile Gajendra.

He was fighting with the crocodile for a long time. For a long time.

And then he, the animal of the.

So he is the animal of the wild land.

And the crocodile is animal of the water.

And the crocodile is the animal of the water.

He was feeling that he was losing.

So he was feeling that he was.

Losing and he was getting weaker.

And he was getting weaker.

But I don't know. Water. I don't know.

So the crocodile being the animal of the water or water animal, he was getting stronger. So he was getting stronger.

At the end of Friday.

And then Gajendra, he began to pray to Lord Krishna.

So he began to pray and remember the prayer from his previous life.

So he began to pray. He remembered the prayer from his previous life.

That's right. Right.

So in this way he began to pray.

That was saying that Prabhupada said that we can enormous and worse on our previous life.

So in that thing, Srila Prabhupada was saying that if we can remember prayers from our previous life and then we can chant that and then we can.

Chant that and that will help us.

And that will help us to go back to Godhead. Prabhupada said in the Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada.

Said that everybody should be strong and they're right against Maya.

Everybody. That everybody should be strong in their fight against Maya.

And somehow the agenda he was strong in the land.

Somehow Gajendra. He was strong in the land.

But the crocodile was stronger in the water.

But the crocodile was stronger in the water.

Not like that. Everyone is individual, so so like that.

Everyone is an individual.

And then they have a particular individual situation and which are stronger.

They might have a particular individual situation in which they are stronger.

So it doesn't matter. One should stay in one strong position and fight against my own.

But doesn't matter. One should stay in their strong position and fight against Maya.

So one may be stronger.

So one may be stronger as a Grihasta or.

One may be stronger as.

One might be stronger as a Brahmachari.

That's like the water and the land.

That's like the water and the land. So next Question Guru Maharaj.

So that way Gajendra was stronger as a. As a elephant.

In that way Gajendra was stronger as an elephant.

He prayed to the Lord.

And he prayed to the Lord accordingly. All glories to Srila Prabhupada Guru and Guru Goranga. My question. My question is Guru Maharaj, I have only one son studying in 9th class. From childhood he was practicing all devotional service. But now he lost interest even to do chanting also. That's why we can't make our son exemplary. It's also affecting our preaching life. Kindly advise how to make the situation favorable. Your spiritual daughter Suchitra Brajakopi from Sri Vrindavan.

You and your husband can talk to your son.

So you and your husband can talk to your son.

See what he might be.

See what he may be interested in.

And I try to encourage him to do some service in that way.

So. And try to encourage him to do some service in that way. Hare Krishna Guruma, it's 9:30 now.

Oh, all right. 9:30pm all right. It's 9:30pm I'll let you all take us.

I'll let you all to take rest. Tomorrow is the Adivas of Radhashtami Hare Krishna.

In the. It's not so important.

It's not so important that we be in the Brahmacharyashram.

To be in the Brahmacharyashranya. Most of his followers, all his followers.

Were Grashas in Kali Yuga Lord Chaitanya. Almost all of his followers were Grahastas at some point. At some point then.

So as important as that one should be engaged in Krishna service.

What's important is that one should be engaged in Krishna's service. Hare Krishna Sri Sri Radha Mahadavastha Sakibrinda ki Shri Sri Radha Madhavamapur Chandra Ki Shrishi Panchatatwaki Pradnushinga Devaki Srila Prabhupadaki Srila Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaj, his name is Gopi Krishna. Today is his birthday. Guru Maharaj.

Please have Krishna's mercy.

So Gopi Krishna, may you have Krishna's mercy.

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Srimad Bhagam Hare Krishna so tomorrow night there won't be a class in Lotus roof. Gurumaj will be giving class in Adivas ceremony. Most probably we are canceling tomorrow night canceling the class Hare Krishna. So tomorrow night Radha Astami Adivas is there. So Guru Mahaj will be attending the Radhastami Adivas. So we are canceling tomorrow night class on rooftop and Radhastami Morning 7 o' clock Gurumaj will be classic morning class. In the Radhastami Pandalaka we have.

Rohini S. Bhatt 1 Srimad Bhagavadam Padma Kamath 1 Srimad Bhagwatam Uma N. These devotees get a special Narasimha Puja in a few hours from now in Sridham Mayapur. And all of you devotees also bless them by calling out and stay tuned for tomorrow's Radhastami Adiva ceremony. Not here on the rooftop but in the temple. Now please continue to pray for our Guru Maharaj health and offer your second four round Parikram of Tulsi for his health every day without fail please. And let us also pray for his grace Renivas Karuna Prabhu from Andaman whose parents K. Natarajan and G. Manasi for their speedy recovery. And of course our prayers include for all those who are celebrating their anniversaries today for their well being and blissful Krishna consciousness. Please chant along with me. Join me in the prayer. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare thank you very much.