20240306 || Śravaṇa Utsava Class || Śrī Māyāpur, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

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So here from God is requesting all.

Glories.

To show their love by whoever.

So here Srila Prabhupada is requesting all the devotees to show their love by cooperating.

We can understand from these words how it is important to work with each other cooperately.

So we can understand from these words how it is important to work with each other and cooperatively. The secret Srila Prabhupada said is to keep Krishna in the center in the material world. We think this will make me happy, that will make me happy. And what we think never makes us fully happy.

Even if we get some happiness, that's also limited.

Even if we get some happiness, it is limited and it will die out and we will die. Krishna Sangham means so Ka Consciousness means keeping Krishna with the center. Keeping Krishna in the center means we try to satisfy Krishna.

We are attached to pleasing Krishna.

We are attached to pleasing Krishna. Pleasing the Guru. There is a letter to me. This is a letter from Bombay written on 19th December 1972. I am so much happy to okay. This is letter written to his holidays. Jagadha Kumaraj from I am so much happy to hear from you all the good news of our Vayancur Center. Though your liking of engagement, there is not at all an inappropriate attachment. Rather it is your qualification for pleasing your spiritual master. Attachment must be there for Krishna or for Maya. So you have become attached to developing the Mayapur center. That is Krishna's work. So Krishna appreciates very much when his devotee becomes attached to him in this way. Yes. The cooperative spirit of working together without any argument is especially prominent in Mayapur more than other places in India. Therefore, you are successful and the work is going on quickly to completion. That is because all of you working there have become very much attached to the dust from Lord Chaitanya's lotus field. And because you have got such deep personal interest with that engagement of work, you want to see that it is done nicely without any hindrance of selfish motivation. Never mind all kinds of conditions of the material nature. Yoki Mahapoji Chassis. That idea has become prominent for all of you. It is bigger than Maya's idea. Therefore Maya cannot interfere to make you quarrel or other things. But you especially are to take the credit. From the very beginning you wanted that place and you got the land, got money from me. And now you have built the place by your concentration of energy that is wanted. If there is some discrepancy anywhere, some non cooperation fighting or if the work is slow or not to the standard it is to be supposed that the person or persons in charge are not very much attached to Ka that means they will discriminate. My engagement is not good. Others engagement is good like that. They do not know the secret of surrendering to Krishna. Everything is part of Krishna's plan that whatever is meant to be, I am doing that. So let me do it with my full attention to every detail. Let me become absorbed in such service. Never mind what it is but let all other considerations be forgotten. And my only desire is to do the thing best for Krishna's alone Pleasure be mind. Wonderful.

So.

That is advanced stage of understanding devotional service or Krishna consciousness. Thank you very much for your kindly coming to the point.

How can I serve you so many.

Devotees, disciples, they ask me how can I serve you?

Here there are many disciples of my gurus.

Here in my guru there are disciples of many gurus.

And structural during this.

Especially during this festival.

Now let's see here Discern your world. But here Ardhra Lord said the secret.

To serving your Guru is here. It is what Srila Prabhupada says.

Kind of serve reattached to your service as.

Serves the Krishna that is to be attached to your service and service to Krishna.

So that if a guru gives nice direction to serve Krishna then everybody is very happy in that mood.

So if Guru gives right instruction to serve Krishna that everybody is happy in that mood. In Delhi it is so nice that there are so many branches. How many branches?

Everybody is following the destruction of.

Taking.

Up Khrushchev or Chaitanya's servers because everyone.

Is following the instructions of Gopal Krishnamara and taking up Lord Krishna's Lord Chaitanya's service.

So as we are serving our example or draining our soul servers serving works.

So if we are doing our service, distributing books and following the orders that is success.

We should be attached to pleasing girl and Gauranga.

We should be attached to pleasing Guru and Gauranga. The more attached we become, the more likely we will reach the spontaneous platform.

That's how we get our pleasure and.

We'Re part of Krishna that we want to please Krishna. That is how we get our pleasure because we are part Of Krishna. Srila Prabhupada explained, since most people are non devotees, they regularly compete, fight, disagree and war among themselves. For everyone wants to enjoy and satisfy his own senses. Therefore, unless such demons become Ka conscious and are trained to satisfy the senses of the Lord, there can be no question of peace in human society. Chapter 8, text 32.

Wars Democrats on.

The world at the present time there are wars in different parts of the world. Do you not think how to please Krishna?

The anger praise themselves.

They are trying to please themselves.

There are restrained books.

So if you are out trying to distribute books, then you are pleasing Krishna. If you're trying to distribute books and you're not able to do it, then you think okay, let me give it up. Then you are trying to please yourself.

I should learn how someone was doing it right and once I was doing it right.

But if you are Krishna conscious then you'll think, let me try to learn from someone who's doing it right. Maybe I'm not doing it right.

How to encourage devotees and give services.

Ashla Prabhupada was thinking how to encourage devotees to cooperate together. Lord Chaitanya says in the Chaitanya Chaitamrita that there are weeds in devotional service.

We have our own desires.

Prophet says that these deeds come in the form of our own desires and therefore we do not cooperate.

Mah.

Nishijacha means not to follow the regulative principles. You are criticizing and spreading false rumors.

Against our building and.

Means we are envious towards other living entities.

Nisha, I want a nice car. Nice recording.

Oh, I need a nice car. I need a nice tape recorder or something like that.

Puja, why you are not worshiping me?

Puja means why you are worshiping me?

If your desire is not to please Krishna but to have people worship you.

So the desire is not to please Krishna but to have people worship you.

To do your service. Today Sri Sta appreciated.

If you are doing a service to please Krishna, then anyway you will get appreciated.

That is a real Buddha.

That is the real Puja.

But if you want Puja, you don't get it. You'll be frustrated.

But if you want Puja and then you don't get it, then you will feel frustrated. He said in the book that I was translating. Bhakti Siddhanka, Saraswati Chakur.

He said.

People who desire Puja.

And.

Puja is like a straw about people.

He said the people who desire Puja and Pratisha, their desire is like a stool of a faith.

A pig eats, grow so let's throw our pigs.

Eats stew soup. The spoon of a pig is like.

Wow.

I don't need somebody. That's another type of.

So Pratishtha means oh, I want to be a temple president. I want this position, that position that is also described as a being.

And actually if you are a burden service kind you cooperate in your service.

So we want to serve Krishna. So if you are service oriented. If then naturally people will offer you some service.

And they do reason.

How many people do actually come and say I would like to do some service. Please give me some service. Some people come to my office and say, give me any service. I sweep the floor.

A hot sauce.

We have not.

But we have enough sweepers.

Sometimes we need some struggles.

Sometimes we need some specialists who knows computer. But as Prabhupada said, we can always have book distributors.

Nice to have more variety of capabilities.

It would be nice to have more variety of capabilities. The unwanted creepers have been described by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Chakur. He states that if one hears a chance without trying to give up offenses one becomes materially attached to sense gratification. One may also desire freedom from material bondage like the Mayavadis or may become attached to the yoga siddhis and desire wonderful unique powers. If one is attached to wonderful material activities, one is called Siddhi Lobi greedy for material perfection. One may also be victimized by diplomatic or crooked behavior or only associate with women for illicit sex. Others may make a show of devotional service like in Prakrita Sahajiyas. Or one may try to support his philosophy by joining some caste or identifying himself with a certain dynasty creating a monopoly on spiritual at monster.

Was attacked private many times.

Why was there's an attempt to attack him? He was attacked. There's attempt to murder him by the Nithyananda Vamsha and these other nasty people. Dynasty people said that Lord Chaitanya is open to anyone and everyone. This is what AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada applied. He brought ka consciousness to everyone.

And we're grateful that there was a strange disciple who was in prison and he was on death row.

There was a person who was in prison and was on death row. He wanted initiation.

I told him that he had to apply for. If they apply for parent I would initiate.

I told him that if you apply for pardon, I will initiate him.

Because.

He was very detached. So he was thinking that if I die it is Krishna's will.

But he was doing very nice Preaching.

But he was doing very nice preaching.

He was preaching to the inmates as well as for the jailkeepers.

He was preaching to both the inmates and to the jailkeepers.

Happen.

So he applied, he agreed, I initiated him. He applied for murder.

So he agreed I initiated him and.

He applied for parents. He was given pardon and he was.

Given pardon.

Because all the jailers that he's the best prisoner we ever had.

Because all the jailkeepers said he is the best prisoner that you ever had.

From death, life and birth.

Pardoning from death means life imprisonment. But two days ago I heard that he's also been freed now.

So my Krishna was in feeling a worse situation because of me.

Krishnaj so by Krishna's mercy even if you are in the worst situation still you can be Krishna conscience.

And all of us we press up sir Guru Naranga.

So we should always be fixed up in serving Guru and Gauranga and pleasing Krishna we should cooperate to show our love for the Prabhupada. Thus with the support of family tradition one may become a pseudo guru or so called spiritual master.

We have to follow the war.

So obviously we have to follow the four regulatory principles. No meat eating, no intoxication, no gambling, no illicit sex.

So being married is not a lucid sex.

Being married is not a lucid sex.

Just casual sex with someone Someone or right.

But yes, casual sex with someone is illicit sex.

What being married and doing and practicing a household life to please yourself is there's no way of being so if.

You are married and carrying out your household life to please Krishna.

There is one way of being Krishna consciousness.

I saw a drama in Tamil Nadu. A boy and a girl were playing the part of Yamadur.

I tell she was a girl.

I see a girl. I could say that she was a girl but she was very and she played the part of Yamaraja.

And the Jamaru said these Krishna what could you do?

So there are three Yamadhutas.

There are.

Two Yamadutas and they said these Krishna conscious householders what to do?

The wife, she does puja, she wears a bead, she cooks.

This, this. This lady she cooks, she does deity version she does puja, she cooks for the.

The husband is really. He's chanting and doing great.

Her husband is reading Bhagavad Gita the family he's chanting Hare Krishna and doing various emotive services.

What should we do? But we can't take them to hell.

So what should we do? We can't take them to hell.

These people are chanting or worshiping.

These.

People are chanting and worshipping. They should not be taken to me. What should we do there? If you get a vacation, what's the problem?

So you here like to hear young girls some work to do?

Who would like to give Yamaduta some work to do? Who would like to give them away?

How?

But if you use your time, use your energy to make more people Krishna.

So that's what happens when you use your time, when you use your energy to make more people Krishna conscious.

So we have to prove the importance of your operation.

So we hear from Srila Prabhupada the importance of cooperation. This is a letter to Guru Das written from Los Angeles on 22 April 1973. So I would like to hear from you how many men are there in Gundavar and how the project is progressing there now we have got good respect there in India. So you boys manage everything intelligently and responsible. You have all got good intelligence. Now use it to full capacity for Krishna service and cooperate together. That will please me very much. T so next is a letter to Mukunda from Los Angeles on the 15th of December 1973. We want to utilize our land there for raising fl vegetables and grains if possible. So please give up all encouragement and facility, work together cooperatively and develop things wisely there in Kaliyuga we have the tendency to argue. But it is so important to work together cooperatively. So the Prabhupada states in a purport in the 9th canto that as far as Ka consciousness is concerned.

Men, women, Sudras forever, they're all one.

Men, women, Shudras, whatever, they are all one.

So we want everyone.

We want everyone to be Krishna conscious. Then naturally you will come to the highest position.

Also.

Then we can make many people Krishna conscious also.

If you saw the raining of these readings of what we did, how many.

Of you saw the Mahabhishek of the big babies? I got some special realization. These three are Vishudattvas.

But Lord Krishna took the role of his role.

But Lord Krishna took the role of his devotees.

So here the supreme Lord, he took the role of glory.

So here the supreme Lord, he took the role of a devotee.

How great it is to be a devotee.

That means how great it is to be a devotee.

That's the highest perfection.

If you try to please Krishna, if you try to please Lord Chaitarya and Guru, that is the highest perfection. So that was one realization that I had.

And of course.

Of course, wasn't Lord taken here beautiful?

So I'm there it was a great experience for me. Everyone was one way or the other right with other.

So so we could have a great experience for me to see how cooperatively the devotees were pouring the Abhishek water, sweeping the floor and so on. I got another letter. Letter to Jay Matasa and Baba Nanda Bombay 3rd April 1974 as for Panchadravida Swami, I know he is a good preacher and collector. Let him work there for some time and then come back. He is needed in South India and Achutara Gamara is waiting for him. But it will depend on Panchadravina. He can decide himself which part of the family he can best. Wherever better facilities are, we should work. It doesn't matter if it is Gadiya or South India. So please go on all working together in cooperative spirit and do the needful. Then I may be spared taxing my brain over so many matters and I can go on my real work of translation. I will be glad to hear your further progressive report.

To work together in opera Prabhupada is.

Always encouraging us to work together cooperatively. But.

They are pretty well started Theory wants to work somewhere else. They can ask their authorities as a guru.

So here from this letter we also see that a devotee can work anywhere. So it is not that they have to be one place. They can be anywhere else also. But they need take the permission and blessings of their.

Pros and cons to.

Every There are pros and cons to every place.

Running people means one of the varieties of service.

Many people means many varieties of service. In a small place you may get more opportunities. The secret is to serve Lord Krishna and lose order and be co operator. As a guru I may have disciples in different zones.

But I am herself sincerely and tolerably.

But I tell wherever they are to do their service sincerely and cooperatively. As gurus we are not expected to ask our disciples to go somewhere else unless it is life and death.

We want to see the whole world Krishna.

We want to see the whole world Krishna the prophet said in April in my.

He said now we have 10,000 initiating groups.

Now we have 10,000 initiating groups. No, now we have initiated disciples we didn't have. He was speaking figuratively so he can say we have 10,000 initiative gurus.

To 101 lakh.

It increases to 10 lakh or 1 million. 8 lakhs is just lakh. From 10 lakh to 1 crore or tennis lakh say 8 crore.

So that is needed to fulfill what Satan is for Good shot like no, we chanting.

That is required to fulfill Lord Chaitanya's tradition that there will be chanting in every town and village.

So that's frog heart vision.

So that is Prabhupada's vision.

Meanwhile we have 153 gurus.

Meanwhile now we have maybe 150 gurus.

But we want to have talents at least. We are rural or white.

But we need thousands. Every disciple should become a guru. At least for one person.

You are saying that all his followers should eventually gurus.

The Prabhupada says that all his followers should eventually become gurus.

And stop. You don't have to be a hydro, but you can be.

It is not that you have to be high profile. You can be a simple guru.

But you can read in all syllable books, read harassments, read all books and ra.

So you can read all of Srila Prabhupada's books and all of the biographies of Srila Prabhupada. I think it is about 8:30 now.

Two minutes.

Two minutes. Would anyone like to ask any question? Would you like to say Sadhguru, you might.

Just ask me to have anything to say. So after hearing Maharaj's wonderful class, all the classes that have been given at different times, Brother Swami and others, all I can say is that what Srila Prabhupada has given us is.

Beyond understanding.

It's a wonderful international gathering. Devotees and Prabhupada himself. Follow the blending tigers. The collaboration is the key to success.

Thanks.

So everybody continue to cooperate together and we will see this Christian consciousness movement.

Spread all over the world.

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