Jaya Pataka Swami answers questions from devotees in Śrī Māyāpur. He discusses youth programs, shares stories of surviving a stroke, kidney failure, liver failure, and skin cancer, and uses scriptural examples like Rukmini and Krishna to explain how to keep practicing devotion through hardship.
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Any questions?
Are there any questions?
On behalf of Mayapur, I requested all the youths. They can make a program. Two programs in a year. One for leader training and other one whole EIDC youth can come and join the yearly Maha Biplog program.
He is our AIDC chairman now.
He is the EIDC chairman now.
So I think next program we will have next program program here in Mayapur.
Yes, yeah, definitely.
Maybe, maybe we will schedule later and we also invite to join.
Are you agreeing to join their Maha Viblove Maha Mahavi plus program Festival.
Youth festival.
Youth festival.
No objection.
No objection.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know. Magnet is.
Yeah.
Please work out with.
One devotee is here.
They want your plus.
Yeah.
He had a question. Yeah. Meanwhile you can ask a question.
And your Holiness is great inspiration for all our youth, our devotees, even the materialistic people like in this tough health condition. Also you're inspiring us to preach. But same time when in same youth age also by 30 or 20 years also you also cross many health challenges and mental tough everything in their situation. How we can keep policies, motivate and to serve Srila Prabhupada in his mission. And please all Prabhupada disciples, kindly enlighten us.
What challenges, what time?
What challenges?
What challenges.
You can have like health challenges. Yeah, mental tough challenges in different scenario, different situations.
Well, I know some challenges.
Well, I know some challenges.
I had a stroke, I had a kidney failure, liver failure.
I had a stroke, I had a kidney failure, had a liver failure.
I had hilarious. I had skin cancer.
I had various things like skin cancer.
And it's very disturbing that interferes with our service.
It's very disturbing. It interferes with my service.
A couple of weeks, in a month or more I was on all my feet.
So a couple of weeks, even more than month I was off my feet. Off my feet.
So now I still on a wheelchair and I had different problems.
And still on a wheelchair I had different problems.
But it's not wonderful to think a lot. Krishna, Lord talk about Lord Krishna, Lord Saitanya.
But it's so wonderful to think about Krishna. To talk about Lord Krishna and Lord.
Chaitanya well so health challenges are part of this material world Health challenges are.
Part of this material world we don't.
Want to stay in the material world longer than necessary so we don't want.
To stay in the material world longer.
Than necessary but while we're here trying to deliver as many souls as possible.
But while we are here we try to deliver as many souls as possible.
Maday hit Madai on the head with wine bottle.
Madai hit Nitai's head with.
A wine bottle he caused Nitai to.
Weep and he caused Nidai to bleed.
Then he said just because you love.
He said just because you asked me.
To peace that mean I want you.
Of Krishna that doesn't mean that I won't give you love of Krishna.
So kind of what that variety.
Kind.
Of what's your priority?
Always been thinking on Nitaigar or Lord.
Chaitanya so we want always to be thinking of Nitaigur and Lord Chaitanya by.
Reading the tenth candle of Unites Yola Vini daily wrote a letter to Krishna I want you to kidnap me and all that.
You know two days ago I was reading in the 10th Canto how Rukmini Devi she wrote to Krishna I want you to kidnap me in so long.
And then she was worried he didn't see Krishna, didn't say the presentation said maybe I offended Sri La Krishna so.
Maybe she was thinking I didn't see Krishna, I didn't see the messenger maybe I offended Shiva Parvati or anybody.
She went to the Ambiga Durga temple.
Then she went to the Ambiga Durga.
Temple as was the custom in their.
Family as it was the custom in.
Their family and the old married ladies were with her told her to pray.
And the old married lady who were with her told her to pray whatever she wanted most Whatever she wanted most.
And first of all she offered her obedience to amiga to her husband Sriva.
So first of all she offered obeisances and said to Ambika and her husband.
Lord Shiva and her children Kartikeya and.
Ganesh and her children Kartikeya and Ganesh.
Then the lady told her pray over what you want the most and then.
The lady told her pray what do you want the most?
She said I want Krishna, I want Krishna as my husband and she said.
My dear Devi, I want Krishna, I want Krishna as my husband.
Please give me Krishna Please give me Krishna. And when she went out in the temple, she's so beautiful the different kings that drop the reverend.
When she walked out of the temple she saw different kings. And she was so beautiful that they dropped the kings, they dropped their weapons and they fainted.
Then she saw Krishna and then she saw Krishna. And Krishna came up and grabbed her and drove off.
Krishna came up and dragged her and drove home.
She was so happy.
And she was so happy.
Other kings. Hey wait. He just drove out with a windshield.
And the other kings were saying, what are you doing? He just drove off with the princess. All right, so what are we seeing?
It's in 1970s upstairs I had a high fever.
So in 1970s I was upstairs, I had a high fever.
100 Fahrenheit.
104 Fahrenheit or something.
And my whole body was burning.
My whole body was burning.
I listened to Prabhupada lecture on.
And I was listening to Srila Prabhupada's lecture on nature of devotion.
And I felt. I felt so much happiness.
And I felt so much happiness.
I realized my body is burning in pain.
I realized my body is burning in pain.
I know the body but I'm not the body. I am listening to this lecture on lecture of devotion Bhakti Swamrida Chandra and an ecstasy.
I'm listening to this lecture on actor of devotion Bhagpira Samyata Sindhu and this is so much ecstasy.
So we may face some difficulties.
We may face some difficulties, right?
Thais health challenges.
We may face health challenges.
But the more we can think about ka the more we can think about Nitaigoa all these things are incident.
The more we can think about Krishna the more we can think about Nitai. Guru, these things are insignificant.
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