This YouTube video (May 2024) records devotees offering glorification and personal testimonies about His Holiness Jaya Paṭaka Swami during a Vyāsa-pūjā offering in Śrī Maṇḍir, Māyāpur. A primary speaker reads/reflects on Bhagavad-gītā commentary (Visvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura), recounts two major personal transformations beginning circa 1999 connected to educational service in Mayapur (teacher training and leadership courses), and praises Jaya Paṭaka Swami’s resolute guidance — including an instruction to commit five years to a project that led to a decade of service and the development of the Mayapur Institute. The speaker also emphasizes preserving Śrīla Prabhupāda’s disciplic instructions and promotes Srila Prabhupada connect days; the video includes a brief Bengali segment and a standard YouTube closing encouraging subscriptions.
Bhagavad Gita 241 Vivyasi Atmika Buddhihuru Nandana Ahu Shakyanantashtrayo Vivyashayinam. Those who are on this path, a resolute determination, indetermination, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus. The intelligence of those who are irresolute is many branched. And when Prabhupada was reading the commentary of Viswanath Chakrade Thakur on this verse, it really was amazing. It struck him very deeply within the heart and Viswanak Chakra Thakur, I'm just kind of summarizing. He said one should make the order of his spiritual master, one with his heart and soul. And this is exactly what Prabhupada did with Sridhar Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvari Thakur's instructions, you know, preach to the English speaking world. If you ever get money, print books. And you know, he just made it his complete focus in life. And this is what I've also seen with Jaipataka Swami. Just complete focus in his service. No matter what goes on, no matter what challenges he undergoes, what he faces. So that's one very significant point in glorification of His Holiness Jaipataka Swami. One other point that this is in my own personal experience with him. I've gone through major, major paradigm shifts in my consciousness. And the first time that this took place, there's two times I want to mention. This goes back to 1999 and that time I was doing service with the Sri Maipur International School and you know, trying to help them. And I arranged for teacher training courses. We had it in the Vaiava Academy and also leadership management courses. I just thought this would help. And it was kind of remarkable because this was something that we opened to anybody coming in for the Gorpanim festival. And so many devotees wanted to attend both courses. I had to turn away about 70% of the devotees because there wasn't room in the classroom. So it just kind of, wow, this is amazing. I'd had really positive experiences at the Vihe studying Prabhupada's books and the association of devotees. And I started thinking to myself, boy, it seems like Mayapur might be a really good place to get this going. So at that time Hari Sari Prabhu was on the Mayapur Administrative Council. I went and spoke with him and he liked the idea. And we went to Jaipataka Swami. He took me to, he set up a meeting with His Holiness Jaipataka Swami and explained it to him. And Jaipattaka Swami, he really liked the idea, but he said, I want you to do this Janmastami, but under one condition, and that is that you stay with this service for at least five years. And I started thinking about it after we finished the meeting. I said, wow, that means this is going to be a very difficult service. And it was. But I stuck with it for 10 years. But that was. I see a lot of the shakti. And the positive results that came from the development of the Mayapur Institute was in the shakti that Jaipataka Swami gave. It gave to me, gave to the other team members. And, you know, sometimes when I'd be going through a big challenge and that those days, he would go on the morning walks every day, and I go up to him and say, this is what's going on, Marge. What should I do? And he immediately give me a solution remarkable. Then the other. And so I just stayed with it. And it was just so amazing, the service, you know, so blissful, so intense, but also so much reciprocation from Ka and Prabhupada. So I'm deeply have great, deep gratitude for Jaipataka Swami for that one moment of his instruction. And there's another instance. There's a. From Caitanya Shiksha in sanatana Shiksha, the 22nd chapter of Bhagavad Gita of Caitanya Caitramita Madhyalila Caitanya instructs Sanatan Goswami. Was it Sarva city? Sarva City. Sarva. No, Sarvashstra Hoi Avamatra Sadhusanga. No Sadhusanga. What is it? Sadhusanga. Sadhu Sangha Savashastra hoi Lava Mantra, Sadhu Sangha Sava Siri hoi. So just a moment's association with the Sadhu can bring about all success. So I want to tell one other pastime, her experience with Jaipataka Swami that was just unbelievably powerful. And this took place just after the Calcutta Rathayatra. Atul Krishna Prabhu and I went to meet with them. We told them that we have. We're developing a couple courses. And so we went into the conversation, and during the discussion, I brought up a point with Maharaj. I said, depitaka Swami, I'm sure you vividly remember the catastrophic circumstances our movement faced in the first 19 years after RLA Prabhupada's departure. But devotees like your good self, Bhakti Chirruswami, Gopal Krishna Maharaj Radna, Swami Srivaram Swami and others kind of glued our movement back together so that it could go back, could go on in a reasonably stable way. But what will happen to our movement if devotees don't have deeply established within their hearts the foundational Shiksha relationship with Rla Prabhupada and all the senior gurus leave? And I said, it may even be worse than it was. After Srila Prabhupada left, he completely agreed. And then he said very, very emphatically, if we don't do something now, it'll be very difficult to do after we leave. So I've just taken that up heart and soul. You know that instruction that he gave, you know the point he made, I took it as an instruction. So I'm giving everything I can to try and make this Prabhupada network. And then we have our Srila Prabhupada connect days and tomorrow is one of them. So please attend. I think you'll find it very enlivening. There's many sannyasis that will be speaking and so thank you very much. All glories to Jaipataka Swami Hare Krishna.
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