20240228 || Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta Class || Śrī Māyāpur, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day. Don't forget, grab your smartphone and download the Lava Mantra app and stay in touch. Guru Maharaj's message is your advice. The following is a Shri Caitanya Sheikh Shamita class given by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on February 28, 2024 in Sridhar Mayapur, India.

We had co ministry presentation. We were given some presentation on trauma history. Some places they had more cows and bulls. So Calvinistry was saying where are the bulls?

Cows kill cows.

Because when cow gives cows, 40 or 50% would be bulls.

The normal farmers sell off the bulls or give the wools away.

So the normal farmers they would sell out the bulls or give the bulls away. But we want ahimsa milk. We protect our bulbs. So like Maya bull's hair. So he was saying that Mayapur is doing so. The education minister was saying how he has made a summative test for the illiterate devotees or otherwise. If the devotees are there in the movement for 10 years, they can take this test. Bhakti Gunathakur reading his book on Lord Chaitanya Sikshamrita so we'll read a little bit and have some question and answers. Title name is Love of Krishna and its nature. Thus he fixed his mind perfectly engaging Kiddo by linking it in devotional service. Bhakti Yoga without any tinge of materialism. And thus he saw the absolute personality of Godhead along with his external energy which was under full control. Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries. The material miseries of the living entity which are superfluous to him can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this. And therefore the learned Vyasadeva compiles the Vedic literature which is in relation to the supreme truth simply by this Vedic literature which is in relation to the supreme Truth simply by giving oral reception to this Vedic literature. The feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Krishna, the supreme personality of Godhead sprouts up at once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness. Srimadhavatam174 7.

So how does Bhakti Yoga so important?

So how this Bhakti Yoga is so important.

That why practicing devotional Zuriches.

That by practicing devotional service one extinguishes the fear, lamentation.

Illusion, fearfulness all these things are extinguished.

All these things are extinguished. Here it says by oral reception.

Some of our devotees.

Some of the GBCs said that some of our devotees are not so literate.

So.

So they cannot pass all these tests. But Taban Mishragu was saying, even if somebody doesn't know reading and writing, there is an oral test.

My right rim is. It's called paralysis. It's like oral paralyzed.

So in my right hand it's called paralysis, which is like almost paralysis.

Not able to write.

I'm not able to write anymore. So the hand is a little wobbly.

A very sad. But they can give tests orally.

But they said they can give tests orally. Like I did the Bhakti Vaibhav test. I did it with the tape recorder.

The question I answered by tape recorder.

And the questions I answered them by tape recording.

He said, I got Indian bpt.

He said like that people can get books from Indian BPT in plural format. In the Transcend app, you get all the books. There you can hear the book even if you don't know writing for readings. And after that you can give the test by speaking. He was saying there are different ways people can know of Prabhupada books.

People should know Prabhupada books.

I think people should know Prabhupada books. If people are less educated, they can learn about sporadic. It's not that everybody is uneducated.

How many of you are educated?

How many of you are educated?

8 grade.

More than 8th grade.

All women are delivered.

How many are illiterate?

I had one doctor, he said he was illiterate.

I had one doctor, he said he was illiterate.

So you are a doctor.

I asked him, you are a doctor, how can you be illiterate.

Studied?

He said, I studied material things. I got the degrees.

But I never studied spiritual things.

But I never studied spiritual things.

Spiritually, I am illiterate.

Spiritually, I am illiterate. So we want people to read Bhagavad Gita, nectar of devotion, Ishwa Panishad. They should read Prabhupada books.

They know how to read.

Especially if their PhD or doctors, they know how to read. They should leave.

So many. I see that. So my younger disciples, they have already they have more time to read, study.

I see some of my younger disciples, they have more time to read, study. I see some of my younger disciples of age of 25 years, they already got their Bhaktivedanta degree. It's better people use their time of the youth to Study Srila Prabhupada books.

Love for Krishna.

Lord Chaitanya taught us to have love for Krishna.

Appropriate for us.

That's appropriate for us. We can't see Krishna till we develop our pure love. Naturally. If we feel affection, we feel separation. It would be more appropriate.

What is it is the other light. What is love?

It is the nature of love in which one is the Vishaya object of love and the other is ashraya abode of that love. Love has no identity without Vishaya and Ashraya. The heart of the living entity is the ashraya shelter of love. Only Krishna alone is the Vishaya object of love. When full, unalloyed pure love arises, the other secondary aspects of the object of worship such as the Brahman, Bhagavan and Narayana become settled in the form of Sri Krishna. Reading this book fully and as much one discusses about love to that extent, these will become obvious. One who starts a dispute about the name merely by hearing the name, Krishna is deprived of the actual truth. Disputes about the name is futile. The object indicated by the name is the achievement of the living entity.

Object.

Subject, Object. Subject.

In the spiritual world, Krishna is the object of love.

In spiritual world, Krishna is the object of love. Enchanting Japa, doing seva, giving classes. As it was explained, hearing means thinking. Thinking about the class. Then application of the teachings in the class. Krishna is very kind.

He reciprocates with the true devotees.

He reciprocates with his pure devotees.

He taught the pure devotees.

He told the pure devotees who were mentioned in the class.

He told the devil.

He told the gopis that they are his real devotees.

He told them their religious duties.

He told them their religious duties. But they didn't care.

They wanted to serve him.

They wanted to serve him.

So we have action.

They had actual affection for Krishna.

That's why they consider the best of the devotees of Krishna.

That's why they are considered the best of the devotees of Krishna.

Krishna can even go. Krishna cannot even talk them out of it.

Krishna cannot even talk to them.

Talk them out of it.

Talk them out of it. Krishna was trying to say, you should go home. You should do this, do that.

Slow down. Why are you saying all these things?

So they go be scolded. Krishna, why you are saying all these things?

You played your flute. You attracted us here.

You played your flute. You attracted us here. Now you are telling us to go home.

No, not fair.

So it's not fair.

So they had such a love.

So they had such a love.

It's wrong. His Eyes will show.

Krishna is actually self satisfied.

But if the Lord is not reciprocated.

But if devotees love him, why he would not reciprocate? I heard like someone asked Prabhupada, why.

Did Krishna go with other people's wives?

Why did Krishna go with other people's wives? Prabhupada pal asked him, are you married? He said, yes, you have a wife.

Every wife actually belongs to Krishna.

So every wife actually belongs to Krishna.

You take your Krishna's wife, so you.

Have taken Krishna's wife.

That's why we were saying.

That's why we were saying the husband should encourage the wife in Ka consciousness and the wife should encourage the husband in Ka consciousness.

Lord Chaitanya, he was feeling Krishna.

Lord Chaitanya was feeling separation from Krishna.

So there he instructed, we should also feel closer for Krishna.

That's how he told us that we should all feel affection for Krishna. So by separation we can serve Krishna. Srimad Bhagavatam speaks about eternal true religion. The nectar of the past times of Sri Krishna that is described in the Rmad Bhagavatam is directly the truth obtained in trance by Vyasadv the best of the learned personalities. Vyasadeva adopted the simple form of devotional Samadhi on the advice of Narada. Then he saw the form of Lord Sri Krishna and described the nectar of the pastimes of that supreme personality of Godhead Krishna by which the destroyer of grief, illusion and fear of the living entities, that is Bhakti which is free from all designation love arises while hearing or reading the pastimes of Sri Krishna. Due to the differences in the qualifications, the living entities get two types of understanding. These two types of understanding are named Vidvat Pratiti knowledgeable perception and Avidvat pratiti without knowledgeable perception. During the time of Sri Krishna's manifest pastimes that were visible to the material eye, it also expands Vidvad Pratiti in favor of the learned personalities and Avidvat pratiti in favour of those whose intelligence is materialistic. If you desire to understand Vidhvat pratiti and Avidvat pratiti, discuss it with a suitable person who studies well. Satsandarba Bhagwatamrita or Shri Krishna Samhita composed by me. It is impossible to elaborate it in this place. In short, it means that the Pratiti perception which arises under the shelter of Vidya Shakti, the potency of knowledge is Vidhvat pratiti. The Pratiti that arises in the refuge of Avidya ignorance is the Avidvat Pratiti.

This is.

This is the book of Bhakti Min Thakur. Title of the book.

Chaitanya Shiksham.

Chaitanya Shiksham Veta the title of the book. He is getting into some postgraduate studies. Just like you have a high school then you graduate postgraduate. So he's taking one through different understandings of Krishna. So he is. He is saying here those people who saw the manifested pastimes of Krishna on this earth.

Understanding of Krishna.

So some people had a nice understanding.

Of Krishna but some people could not understand.

But some people could not understand. They were seeing all the things from external point of view so they could not understand. So the Sanskrit terms for that is Vidhvat pratiti. Avidvat pratiti.

Well, I think it's the underneath material energy.

For those who think it's under the material energy. Oh Vidhvar Prakiti.

They don't know.

They don't know. We have to see Krishna's past times with transcendental vision. Last night we were reading how we can see Krishna's pastimes through transcendental eyesight. Did you bring your eyes? What I sell? I sell.

Vati from the Irish speakers.

Did you? Krishna.

That's why we do practice run for service. We come up gradually.

So anyways when we practice Ka consciousness gradually we come to a stage where we produce Isab Then we can see Krishna.

I heard this verse today.

So that actually the verse today of Srimad Bhagavatam was related to the friend of Krishna. Uddava.

Was doing Satshadva Krishna.

How Uddhava was Uddava was feeling such separation of Ka. He wanted to stay in the vision of Krishna.

So we have this affection for Krishna. We want to see Krishna. We want to be with him.

So we have this affection for Krishna. We want to see Krishna. We want to be with Krishna. It's like that song by George Harrison. I want to see you. I want to be with you.

So we should all have that desire.

So we should all have that desire. We want to see Krishna so that.

What is here his holy name?

Because here is here his holy name.

His holy name is holy not to the Krishna.

His holy name is not different from Krishna.

By chanting how he is now like hearing the description of Krishna.

So by chanting Hare Krishna by hearing.

The descriptions of Krishna we start awaiting a dormant love of that same purpose.

We start to awaken our dormant love affection for Krishna.

Now this is the magic of serving Krishna.

So this is the magic of serving Krishna.

Our Sharia has so merciful. Now in books it's standing around Krishna.

So our Acharyas, they're so merciful that they have written these books explaining about Ka. Yeah. The title is the knowledgeable perception is essential. All the disputes arise by resorting, resorting to the avidvat pratiti of the pastimes of Sri Krishna. There is no dispute in vidhvat pratiti.

Remember what is avidvat pratiti?

Remember, Remember what is avidvat pratiti? The foolish with a poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord who is playing like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their speculations nor in their words. Only those who render unreserved, uninterrupted, favorable service unto the lotus feet of Lord Krishna, who carries the wheel of the chariot in his hand, can know the Creator of the universe in his glory, power and transcendence. Sriman Bhagavatam 13:37 38. Those who have the desire to attain the ultimate goal, let them quickly attain vidva pratiti. What is the use in understanding unnecessarily by the disputative avigvad pratiti, thus accepting the loss of one's actual benefit.

So what is the use if one is questioning, debating ignorance?

What is the use if one is questioning, debating ignorant?

We cannot understand Ka.

We cannot understand Krishna.

We can't understand.

We cannot understand Him. We understand him by bidvat uninterrupted, unconditional pure devotional service. And Prabhupada was in some conference of Bhagavad Gita. He had his devotees chant. Everybody was clapping their hands, hitting their knees. Prabhupada said that these are pure devotees. Therefore people are enjoying the kirtan. They said we are not pure devotees. He said pure devotees are of different types. They are mango, they're like mango.

Some are ripe, some are green, some.

Are ripe, some are green, but both are mangoes.

So you may be green mango, you.

May be green mango.

Green pure oil.

You may be green pure devotees, but still your pure devotees.

You are not asking Krishna, right? You are not asking Krishna, right?

You are not asking Krishna for anything.

You want to serve him, you want to serve him. You want to be with him.

You want to be with Him.

This is the thing here.

So this is the thing. We want to encourage devotees to hear to chant O Udava. Both knowledge and ignorance, being products of Maya, are expansions of my potency. Both knowledge and ignorance are beginningless and perpetually award liberation and bondage to embodied living beings. O most intelligent Uddava, the living entity called Jiva is part and parcel of me. But due to ignorance, he has been suffering in material bondage since time immemorial. By knowledge, however, he can be liberated. Shimabatam 1111:3 and for so.

Vision choose what we want.

So we can choose what we want.

Knowledge or ignorance.

Knowledge or ignorance.

We are parts of Krishna.

We are parts of Krishna.

We are meant to love Krishna.

We are meant to love Krishna.

And if we are foolish, we stay ignorance.

If we are foolish, we stay ignorant. And we don't understand Krishna.

Lord, we can chant Hare Krishna.

Lord Chaitanya's mission was to chant Hare Krishna. That way people would naturally feel love for Krishna. Normally, this was something very difficult to achieve.

Lord Chaitanya, he gives that very freely.

But Lord Chaitanya, he gives that very freely.

Seeds. They get this realization.

Normally you read that demigods, great Rishis, they get this realization. So somebody was asking Prabhupada, so we were demigods.

Prabhupada said no, you are the mercy of Lord Chaitanya.

You got the mercy of Lord Chaitanya. Any questions? So this is a question. Guru Maharaj. Hare Krishna. Guru Maharaj. I want to serve the Lord. When I don't get services and others get it and they go for service without telling me, I feel hurt. Maybe it's jealousy in my heart because I also want to do the service. But I am so unfortunate that I cannot do anything. How do I serve the Lord? With pure heart.

First.

Of course you can always chant Hare Ka. No one can take that away from you.

If you want to do service.

If you want to do service, we can arrange.

We can tell you who to contact.

We can tell you whom to contact.

For some reason, I don't see why you can't serve.

I don't see why. I don't see why you cannot serve.

But for some reason.

But if for some reason you cannot, you can always chant in here. You can also read Prabhupada books. You can get your degrees. You have bhakti, Saragoma. Okay, second. Second question. How we don't ask Krishna for anything. When some devotees are going through immense miseries.

Of course, each one an individual.

Of course, each one is individual.

It's hard for the answer without knowing the specific.

It's hard for me to answer without knowing the specifics.

Some phrases Krishna puts Fatima.

In some cases, Krishna puts them in difficulties.

As his special mercy.

As his special mercy.

Realize all those material situations are not real.

Well, so how that the situation how that the person realizes that this material situation is not very good.

It's not real love.

It's not real love.

People may be rich, you have sorry friends.

People may be rich, they may have so many friends.

Krishna takes away their money.

But then Krishna takes away their money. Then all the friends leave.

Are there a prayer about it? Fair other friends.

So they are fair weather friends.

Fair.

You have money, they'll be your friends.

You have no money, they are not your friends.

You have no money, they will not be your friends. So see, in the situation, Krishna may put you in different chests.

These are opportunities for us to love Krishna.

Actually they are the opportunities for us to love Krishna.

He is actually our real friend.

He is actually our real friend.

Whether rich, poor, whatever we are, he is always there.

Whether we are rich, poor, whatever we are, he is always there. Whether we are healthy, sick, he is there. And if you read his past times, how he is so nice.

Relates to each devotee.

He relates to each devotee very personally. Last question. This one. Dear Guru Maharaj, There are times in ministry when suddenly nothing pleases us. That previously brought joy and fulfillment. How to live these moments? What is the ministry?

There are sometimes in life.

Maybe there is some error going on. There are times in. Maybe there are times in life when suddenly nothing pleases us. That previously brought joy and fulfillment. How to live these moments?

How to live?

Live.

Live.

Sometimes we are joined some material situation.

Sometimes we are enjoying some material situation. So like someone is our friend or something material.

That's a perverted reflection.

But that's a perverted reflection. Krishna is our real friend.

Our relationship with Krishna, he is there.

When we have a relationship with Krishna, he is there.

Mundane concept.

But maybe we had some mundane friendship and that left us. Maybe when we became impoverished, they lost interest.

And even if you. Because that's all angry. Even if you feel but Ka love me and you thinking about Ka, that also I started.

So Krishna is so amazing that even if you're feeling that Krishna left you. Even that feeling is so amazing.

Like in the eighth verse of a Shiksha Sri.

Like in the eight words of Siksha as to come. Lord Chaitanya says, even if you embrace me or step on me, you are still my Lord.

Not a real love.

That is real love.

Give me money. You are my Lord.

Not like you. Give me money. You are my Lord. Give me a ticket of Bollywood cinema. I love you.

It's not love.

That's not love.

We don't really have love anyway.

In this material world, we don't really have love.

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